Art with a Latitude Latitudes 2007 – Lands of the World from December 14th, 2007 to January 19th, 2008

The Mairie de Paris hosts at the City Hall from December 14, 2007 to January 19, 2008, the annual artistic meeting "Latitudes", which aims at promoting contemporary creation in French departments and territories.


This year, all latitudes converge in Paris and "Latitudes 2007-Lands of the World" includes new works by artists from lands of the Indian Ocean: South Africa, Comoros, Reunion-Atlantic: Cuba, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, the Dominican Republic, Saint-Pierre, Trinidad-Pacific region: Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, French Polynesia and Amazon: Guyana and Surinam.


Creation is the watchword. Come to be surprise and move and sponosr inventive artists exhibiting works specially created for "Latitudes" in the form of practices as diverse as painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and sound.



Latitudes 2007 – Terres du Monde
Art with a Latitude
from December 14th, 2007 to January 19th, 2008

Hôtel de Ville de Paris
www.paris.fr
Salle des Prévôts, Salon des Tapisseries et Parvis de l'Hôtel de Ville
Metro : Hôtel de Ville

Free access – Access by the Parvis of the l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris,ALBAVIE
From 10am to 07pm

Everyday but Sundays and Bank Hollidays
Closed on December 17-18 2007
Informations : 01 55 25 27 86

Liu Jianhua's Unreal scene (2005-2007) until February 9th 2008 at the Paul Frèches Gallerie

Liu Jianhua (1962-)
Pop modern porcelain to installations – trash accumulations of ready-made objects Liu Jianhua, a visual-craftsman.
Many of his works feature a refinement of form and a glossy sheen in keeping with the Chinese tendency towards glazed surfaces.
By the age of 12, he was learning porcelain-work techniques at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen. Hard on the outside, yet fragile, porcelain is a fitting medium for addressing the dialectics of surface and depth. It is a statement of identity. Several thousand years of history have made porcelain a forerunner to Made in China export products. As used by Liu Jianhua, it becomes a strategic way into the international contemporary art scene, led by the categorizing, exoticism-seeking western world, despite grand speeches on globalisation, in which pluralism, it seems, can have varied meanings.
Liu Jianhua’s use of porcelain, however, is far from systematic. Under the influence of the eighties New Wave, he rejected it in favour of the possibilities of fibreglass sculpture, and in his more recent work Liu Jianhua’s interest has turned to the use of ready-made objects in large-scale accumulation-installations, as in Yiwu Survey (2006).


In December 2007, Liu Jianhua will be presenting a brand new piece created specially for the Paul Frèches Gallery : the “Unreal Scene” installation, which will be exhibited with photographs (2005-2007) of Shanghai becoming a kind of eerie casino…

Unreal scene (2005-2007)
December 7th 2007 – February 9th 2008

Galerie Paul Frèches
WWW.PAULFRECHES.COM
12, rue André Barsacq
75018 Paris

TEL+ 33 (0) 1 53 09 21 12
FAX + 33 (0) 1 53 09 23 22

Metro : Abbesses, line 12 / Anvers, line 2
Bus stop : Chappe or Drevet line Montmartrobus
In Montmartre : just climb the stairways along the Funiculaire
(first street on your left).

Wednesday to Saturday, 2:00 to 7:00 pm, and by appointment,
closed on Bank Holidays.
The gallery will be closed on December 25 to January 2, 2008.

Rooms, Conversations at Le Plateau / FRAC Ile-de-France until February 17th, 2008

Within the framework and the extension of the exhibition "Rooms, Conversations" about our collection, Le Plateau / FRAC France endorsed the initiative of the city of Paris which is celebrating four years of residences at the Recollets convent and the "Cité Internationale des Arts" with the Residents exhibition organized at the Espace Electra.

For the occasion, Fabrice Gygi's Mobile Video, a piece of the collection is installed in the experimental area of the Plateau to host a wide range of videos by many artists who have been in residence in Paris since 2003. As stated in the protocol of the Swiss artist's piece, visitors are invited to freely consult videos of their choice and can thus (re) discover the works of these artists. In parallel, like viewing through many focal length, some of these videos will be presented in the permanent programming.

This exceptional programming - by the quality and the extreme diversity of the artists represented - makes a very wide status on the creation from artists welcomed in Paris during the past four years.

Artists
Fabrice Gygi et dans la programmation vidéo: Sandy Amério, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Emmanuelle Antille, Vasco Araujo, Dafne Boggeri, Botto & Bruno, Xavier Cha, Joseph Dadoune, Johan Grimonprez, Christoph Keller, Hassan Khan, Glenda León, David Maljkovic, Graeme Miller, Sebastian Dias Morales, Ivan Moudov, Julien Prévieux, João Penalva, Jorge Queiroz, Marie Reinert, Mario Rizzi, Lee Show-Chun, Gregg Smith et Lidwen Van de Ven.


Rooms, Conversations
until February 17th, 2008

Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France
http://www.fracidf-leplateau.com
33, rue des Alouettes. 75019 Paris
18h-21h

Metro Jourdain ou Buttes-Chaumont
T. 01 53 19 88 11
Mail: info@fracidf-leplateau.com
Free entrance

XS Paris From December 12th, 2007 to January 05th 2008 at the Ricard Corporate Foundation

With Saâdane Afif, Wilfrid Almendra, Lou Amoravain, Pierre Ardouvin, Sylvie Auvray, Virginie Barré, Lilian Bourgeat, Anne Brégeaut, Laura Brunellière, Roland Cognet, Delphine Coindet, Guillaume Constantin, Thomas David, Marcelline Delbecq, Christophe Duchatelet & Laurent Edeline, Jean-Charles Eustache, Philippe Eydieu, Christelle Familiari, Pauline Fondevila, Marjolaine Gony, Lina Jabbour, Pierre Joseph, Nicolas Lafon, Delphine Laloy, Claude Lévêque, Jacques Malgorn, Pierre Malphettes, Carole Manaranche, Mathieu Mercier, Anita Molinero, Gyan Panchal, Florence Paradeis, Bruno Peinado, Loïc Raguénès, Delphine Rigaud, Gitte Schäfer, Mathieu Sellier, Stéphane Thidet, Rachel Urkowitz, Raphaël Zarka, Edwige Ziarkowski.


The Ricard corporate Foundation welcomes the XS Paris* exhibition from the 12th of December 2007 to January 05th, 2008. Elisabeth Wetterwald, exhibition Commissioner, brought together 42 artists with whom she has a real complicity. As the title of the exhibition suggests, she had conceived this project with an entertaining approach: asking artists to exhibit one or more "small" works, each of them interpreting "smallness" in his own way and in accordance with his work. Two constraints, however: neither models nor object in reduce scale. Most of the works are unpublished.

*XS Paris is the second part of the XS exhibition held at the Space Mica Gallery, in Rennes, from May 11 to June 16, 2007.





XS PARIS
From 12 December 2007 to 05 January 2008

Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
http://www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/
12 rue Boissy d'Anglas
75008 PARIS
T. 33 (0)1 53 30 88 00
F. 33 (0) 1 40 06 90 78

Admission is free from Tuesdays to Saturdays from 11am to 19h except holidays.
Closes December 23, 2007 to 01 January 2008

Subways and parking: Concorde and Madeleine