Nicolas Buffe, studiolo (the vestibule) until January 20th, 2008 at the Maison Rouge

The work of Nicolas Buffe (born in Paris in 1978) refers directly to the grotesque, these wall paintings of the sixteenth century, as well as a personal imaging, often associated with popular culture and his childhood.

For this exhibition at the red house (la maison rouge), Nicolas Buffe will perform a wall drawing in black ink specifically designed for the vestibule. Studiolo refers to rooms of the same name, which during the Renaissance were cleverly ornamented spaces to stimulate the thinking of those who worked there. Like the Duke Federico da Montefeltro's studiolo containing profane and Christians characters according to the humanist taste, Nicolas Buffe draw a studiolo where classical and popular references mix with elegance and irony.

Nicolas Buffe, studiolo (the vestibule)
from December 20th to January 20th, 2008

Maison Rouge
www.lamaisonrouge.org
10, boulevard de la bastille
75012 Paris

Hours : 18h-21h
Closed on January 1st, May 1st an December 25th
T. 01 40 01 08 81
Mail : info@lamaisonrouge.org

Metro : Quai de la Rapée ou Bastille
Free access

X, the library's hell, Eros in solitary confinement

For the general public today, the Library's Hell is understood as a legend, a fantasy, the major territory of prohibition that feeds back all curiosities. But the gap is wide between myth and reality. Therefore the ambition of the exhibition the BnF is dedicating to this obscure part of its collections is to lift the veil on the truth of Hell. One should trace the history, full of surprises, of the constitution of this abstract place, mental - a "symbol", a classification number which refers to the "reserved" consultation - where are collected texts and images deemed contrary to public morality.

The exhibition offers a double journey. One is about history: how this hell was established in the Department of papers and the Department of Prints? How has it changed? The second offers a stroll through the contents of this Hell: What are the books, documents, images that have been classified there? Those routes through literature as they are not usually taught are going to meet an imaginary world where the characters obey all the fantasies of desire, where excess of language becomes pamphleteer and the political discourse, pornographic. This world is a world of anonymity, pseudonym, false addresses, misleading dates, clandestine publishers, closed places, convents, boudoirs, brothels, but also prisons libraries. Writers such as Sade, Apollinaire, Louÿs, Battle and a few other are the forever anonymous actors to the celebration of eroticism and sex between the sixteenth and Twentieth century. A particular attention is given to the first exhibition of pornographic photographies and Japanese prints are exposed as well thanks to the generosity of the first Western art collectors whom made donation to the libray.

The library's hell, Eros in solitary confinement
Frome December 4th until March 2d, 2008 04
Exhibition forbidden to less than 16 years old

Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
http://www.bnf.fr
Site François Mitterrand / Grande Galerie
Quai François-Mauriac
75706 Paris Cedex 13
Tel : 33(0)1 53 79 59 59 (vocal answering machine)

Full fee: 7.00 euros - reduced fee: 5.00 euros

Tuesday - Saturday from 10am to 07pm
Sunday from 01pm to 07pm - Closed monday and bank holidays

Metro : Lines 6 (Quai de la gare),14 et RER C (Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand)
Bus : 89, 62 et 132

In 2008, Andy Warhol would have turned 80 Shadows and other signs of life @ the Chantal Crousel Gallerie

Countless exhibitions have addressed the many facettes of the work of one of the 20th century most genious and influential artists.

For the present exhibition, Chantal Crousel has chosen a specific selection of works, that emphasize the constant presence of the SHADOW, an essential element in the work of Andy Warhol. The shadow that extends the document (subject) into its fiction - that projects the defined into its con-sequence : the infinite. From the start of the artist's process, the shadow is an inseparable actor/factor: the b/w photographs shot in the studio by the artist in search of his model. These still-lives, portraits, will eventually develop into the complex drawings, prints and paintings we know.

The shadow, and other signs of life, are declined here through 96 works:

-b/w composition photographs (Skulls, Hammer and Sickle, Gems, Stuffed Animals, a.o),
Polaroids (Caroline of Monaco) and stitched photographs (Male Nudes),
-stencils, anticipating the "Rorschach" paintings and the "Shadow" paintings and prints,
-graphite drawings (Knittings, Space Fruits, Cells, Hammer and Sickle, a.o.) and eventually their
derivated prints,
-Piss Paintings: urine on gesso on canvas,
-"Shadows II", a set of 6 diamond dust prints (ed. 6/10).

Most of these works have been rarely - if at all - exhibited.!

Chantal Crousel thanks Joel Wachs, Vincent Fremont, Tim Hunt and the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for their precious assistance.!

At the occasion of the exhibition, a book documenting the works, accompanied by an essay by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh: "Anniversary Notes for Andy Warhol", will be published by the Galerie Chantal Crousel / Walther König Verlag.

Please note the galley will be open by appointment from to December 26 to January 02, 2008

Andy Warhol, Shadows and other signs of life
December 15, 2007 - January 19, 2008

GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL
http://www.crousel.com
10, rue Charlot, 75003 Paris
Tuesday-Saturday 11am-01pm, 02pm-07pm

T +33 1 42 77 38 87
F +33 1 42 77 59 00
galerie@crousel.com

Masterpieces of the Ganges delta Collections from the Bangladesh museums26 december, 2007 - 31 March, 2008

Bangladesh possesses an immensely important cultural heritage, this arising from the fact that the eastern half of Bengal has been one of the cultural richest regions of the Indian world; a vision far from the catastrophic one that the western world often tends to favour. The region is associated with the art of the Pala and Sena dynasties (8th – 13th century).

Archaeological study has however revealed vestiges that are more ancient like the Mahasthan site which stands on what used to be Pundravardhana, and goes back to the Maurya and Sunga periods (3rd – 1st century BC). It has also revealed vestiges from the Gupta period (4th – 6th century). Pundravardhana-Mahasthan is, to this day, the oldest Indian city known to be in the east. But Bangladesh also harbours the oldest Buddhist monastery of the Indian world, Paharpur, which has now been listed on the UNESCO’s list of protected monuments.
Sculptures of a impressive dimension have been recently unearthed: a bronze Buddha measuring 1,3 metres in Paharpur in 1982, a Gupta Buddha (from Sarnath) sculpted on both sides at Mahasthan in 1992, a bronze Vajrasattva, 1,40 metres in height, at Mainamati in 1995, and finally an Avalokitesvara found on the same site of the same material and size.
These pieces have rarely been published and will be leaving Bangladesh for the first time for the exhibition. To this one must add the fact that Bangladesh has a Muslim majority as compared to the Indian west Bengal, and consequently the Islamic heritage is original and of special interest.


The objective of this exhibition is to show for the first time outside of Bangladesh, the unbelievably rich and complex heritage of this country. Benefiting from recent archaeological research helps us to show works from the Maurya period and go on until the 19th century. And thus we will retrace history whilst emphasising on a certain number of major sites. As a matter of fact, one of the characteristics of this heritage is that a lot of the pieces are well documented and enable us to situate the same in their precise historical and artistic context. The four great religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Islam that determine the history of Bangladesh will be duly represented.

The lenders are all government institutions:
- The Bangladesh National Museum at Dhaka, under the Ministry of Culture
- The site museums under the directorate of Archaeology and thus the Ministry of Culture.
- Mahasthan Archaeological Museum
- Mainamati Archaeological Museum
- Paharpur Archaeological Museum

The Varendra Research Museum at Rajshahi, under the University of Rajshahi and thus depending on the Ministry of National Education, it is the oldest museum in Bangladesh.

Masterpieces of Ganges delta

Collections from the Bangladesh museums
26 december, 2007 - 31 March, 2008

Masterpieces of Ganges delta
Collections from the Bangladesh museums
November 21st, 2007 - March 3rd, 2008

MUSEE NATIONAL DES ARTS ASIATIQUES GUIMET
www.museeguimet.fr
6, place d'Iéna
entrée du musée 19, avenue d'Iéna / entrée du Panthéon bouddhique
75116 PARIS

telephone number: 01 56 52 53 00
fax: 01 56 52 53 54
mail: josy.torlet@guimet.fr

Metro: Iéna
RER: Pont de l'Alma
Bus: 22, 30, 32, 63, 82

The Musée Guimet presents one of the leading collections of Asian art and civilisations in Europe, taking you on a journey through Korea, China and Japan...

Explore the museum’s major Chinese collection, which features some 20,000 objects reflecting seven thousand years of Asian art. Fascinating too, the Indian section relates, among other things, different chapters drawn from the Buddhist legend. Not far from the museum, visitors to the Panthéon Bouddhique can enjoy the peaceful natural surroundings of the Japanese garden and experience a tea ceremony, one of the most refined aspects of the Japanese lifestyle.