La Louvre - Paris by GELiTINs - Exhibition March 1 - April 20, 2008 at the ARC

Opening: February 29, 6pm

The ARC programme for 2008 begins with a real event:
the total takeover of its entire space by GELiTIN and all the extravagant, zany and bohemian individuals, gelatin calls on to contribute to its works.

After GELiTINs flamboyant appearance at the last Biennale di Venezia and their controversial contribution to Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse, they have finally arrived in the city of love to present their show “La Louvre - Paris”.


“La Louvre - Paris” consists of over three thousand works by GELiTIN and their vast and growing entourage. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, knittwork, ...materials ranging from caramel to wool, from cheese to toilet paper.
Classic greek landscapes, portraits, furniture, lamps, jewellery, pottery, a joyously irreverent creation of an enormous, chaotic, proliferating universe, searching for a logic structure.

The exhibition catalogue will be a newspaper serving as a forum with texts by Oleg Kulig, Lawrence Weiner, Jacques Servin, Cerith Wyn Evans, Samuel Beckett, Midori Matsui, Franz West, Liam Gillick, Raymond Pettibon, Christoph Büchel and many more... for only 2 euros

ARC is also proud to announce the presentation of: “gelatins acb”, the big and well worth book about the first 100 years of gelatins works, shows and failures.
“La Louvre - Paris” will be a present for the people of Paris and all art lovers who will travel to see it.

"La Louvre - Paris" by GELiTIN
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
11, avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
Renseignements : 01 53 67 40 00

Bus : lignes 32, 42, 72, 80, 82 et 92
Métro : ligne 9 - Arrêts Alma-Marceau ou Iéna
RER : ligne C - Arrêt Pont de l'Alma

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

An American View: Barbara Ernst Prey at the Mona Bismarck Foundation until January 12, 2008

Drawing from the technical tradition of renowned American artists such as Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper and carrying on their development of a truly American school, Barbara Ernst Prey’s painting is based on European traditions, but moves in its own direction in terms of treatment and subject matter. These paintings evoke the somewhat subtle symbols of the spirit of America and its cultural foundations – a fluttering home-sewn quilt, lingering twilight on the coast of Maine, Adirondack chairs grouped in the family garden, lobster fisherman’s dories at rest – symbols of the deep, cultural spirit which binds the United States. Ask any American. These are images of the soul of the country and its unified dreams, emblems which speak to fifth generation Americans, as well as newly arrived immigrants.

An American View: Barbara Ernst Prey
Until January 12, 2008

Mona Bismarck Foundation
www.monabismarck.org
34 avenue de New York
75116 Paris

Entry free

Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 23 38 88
Email: info@monabismarck.org

Days and Opening Hours
Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:30am to 6:30pm (Closed on holidays)
Metro: Alma-Marceau, Trocadéro
Bus : 72 – 63 – 94

BANG+BANG®from December 01st:midnight to 31st, 2007:11:55pm at Glaz'art

Sexpo ! By Lorenzo: "Bang+Bang® drag us into an exciting place: each image makes us a voyeur / disturbed reader, titillating our latent fetishism. Each piece immerses us in its uncanny peculiarity, and invites us to design our sensational, sensorial world."

Erotic and funny, smart, naughty, Lorenzo's universe will take over the scene for a global performance on Dec. 5th : projection of mini films bang+bang®, A live concert from the bang+bang® 's Original Soundtrack written by Catleya, presentation of the deluxePoster® + cheapPoster®, hot performance of Juliette Dragon and the Filles de Joies (prostitutes). Live de Catleya à l’occasion de la sortie de leur dernier album « Rien ne presse » (RCA). A Live set from Catleya in conjunction with the release of their latest album "Rien ne presse" (RCA). Of course we'll dance together on miss Dragon's dj set.

EXPO BANG+BANG®
from December 01st:midnight to 31st, 2007:11:55pm

Glaz'Art
www.glazart.com
7/15 porte de la Villette
75019 Paris
Tél. 01 40 36 55 65
Fax. 01 40 36 09 50
Free entrance

Hedi Slimane /// Perfect Stranger Until January 5th, 2008

It is not on a podium that the designer Hedi Slimane is making his come-back but at the Galerie Almine Rech in Paris with the exhibition "Hedi Slimane / / / Perfect Stranger."

This art project was originally commissioned by the MUSAC. The Leon's Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain asked the designer to create a set of multimedia documents on the 2007 edition of the Benicassim festival. This rock rendez-vous had gathered last July some of the biggest names in the international arena such as Iggy & The Stooges, Nouvelle Vague, Dinosaur Jr, Amy Winehouse, Cassius, Muse, Unklle ... "Hedi Slimane /// Perfect Stranger" is a video, sound and photography tour in the heart of this festival. An exhibition at MUSAC and a book will follow this first step in the Paris gallery.

Hedi Slimane /// Perfect Stranger
www.hedislimane.com/diary/index.php
from Novembre 29th, 2007 to January 5th, 2008

Galerie Almine Rech
http://www.galeriealminerech.com/
19, rue de Saintonge
75003 Paris

Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 07pm

Métro ; Art et métiers (ligne 3)
Fille du calvaire (ligne 8)
Bus : 96 (Arret Bretagne); 29 (arret rue vieille du temple)

www.hedislimane.com
www.myspace.com/hedislimaneofficial

MAC 2007 130 artists are waiting for you from november 23 to 25, 2007 - Porte de Champerret

For the MAC 2000' 23rd edition, Painters of course, exhibiting by numbers, but also, photographers, video-artists, and instalation creators./
MAC 2000 isn't your average art meeting mixing creation, art and business with various success ( does the art shopping deception rings a bell ?). MAC 2000 is the meeting point for tomorrow's artists.

MAC 2000, the contemporary art event, was created in 1984. Since 2005, Hervé Bourdin, visual artist, but also president of the commission for culture of the regional council for Paris and its suburbs, has taken the lead, generating new dynamics.

An annual event, MAC 2000 takes place at the Espace Champerret in Paris (5000m²), where it introduces 130 professional artists of the day (painting, sculpture, photography, medial art, installation).

A commitee composed of artists, critics and art collectors is in charge of the rigorous selection, seeking emerging talents and new fields of creation.
The artists are present int their booths during the whole event, meeting the public composed of professionals and amateurs.

For its 2007 edition, MAC 2000 is gathering, new talents coming from all over the French regions, yet unknown talents. They will exhibit their innovative works for the first time in Paris. A Black & white gallerie will be in the heart of the exhibition.

n.b. Two musical evenings
Alien Brain Suckers will give MAC 2000 another beat on friday 23rd and Saturday 24th starting at 08pm with their cool blues and rock repertoire.

MAC 2007 - DÉCOUVREUR DE TALENTS
www.mac2000-art.com
from november 23rd to 25th, 2007
Espace Champerret, Hall A
Porte de Champerret
75017 Paris

Acces :
Metro : porte de Champerret (line 3), Louise Michel (Line 3)
Bus : 84, 92, 163, 164

Hours: friday 23rd and Saturday 24th from 10am to 10pm, Sunday 25th from 10am to 08pm
Fees: Full fare 8 euros

MISS VAN - ATAME : SOLO SHOW from Novembre 24th to December 29th, 2007 at the Magda Danysz Gallerie

MissVan has become one of the major street artist. Having shown her work all around the world she stays true to her subject and follow on depicting her slightly autobiographical dolls. In the recent years the flashy colors and imediateness of her paintings have opened up on more emotion, showing the fragility of being provocative. In her biggest solo show of the year, she will explore these mixed feelings...

MISS VAN - ATAME : SOLO SHOW
from Novembre 24th to December 29th, 2007

Magda Danysz Gallerie
www.magda-gallery.com
78, rue Amelot. 750011 Paris
M° Filles du Calvaire
open tuesday through friday from 11am to 7pm and saturday from 2 to 7pm
Contacts T. 01 45 83 38 51
Mail: magda@magda-gallery.com

Free entrance

Ricardo MOSNER "Ubuesque Mosnerian" Until 09 December 2007 at the Galerie Lara Vincy

Under the centenary of the death of Alfred Jarry will be presented the book "King Ubu" illustrated by Ricardo Mosner at Éditions Gallimard


In 1985, Ricardo Mosner participate in the "Bye Bye Mix" exhibition at Gallery Lara Vincy. In 1987 he shows there his sculptures and "staged" in his one-man show "Il creche." 20 years later, in the very same place, and after "1001è" (1989), "Les Pitres du Socle" (1990) and "Cabaret Mosner" (1993), Ricardo Mosner exposes its objects, his bags and in the back room, his new theater of operations under the name "Ubuesque Mosnerian"? he did not find any other title available ("title in progress" was already being used by the artist in 1990 and "Ubu Roi Ahora Mismo" was his first theatrical experience in 1968).


Vous verrez donc sur les étagères : des plâtres fildeferrés, des pièces inanimées en conversation télépathique, des controverses boisées, las maquinas inutiles et d’autres saloperies célestes. You will therefore see on the shelves: the wireded plasters, inanimate pieces in telepathic conversation, controversy wooded, the unnecessary maquinas and other celestial filths. Drafts, cuts, the completed and the unfinished, as well as some rebel dolls will share the floor, perhaps. The thing-book, handuspainted manuscripts, logomaniac inventories and other foggy souvenirs will be knee to knee, shoulder to shoulder in displays. The year 2007 is the centenary of the death of Alfred Jarry. On this occasion, Ricardo Mosner illustrates Ubu Roi at Éditions Gallimard. The book as well as a few originals will be presented at the gallery.
And merdre etc.…

Quelques repères biographiques :
Ricardo Mosner est né à Buenos Aires. Dès la fin des années 60 il expose et organise des performances et happenings. Entre 1970 et 1980, il crée et joue une vingtaine de spectacles picturaux avec sa troupe Le Théâtre en Poudre. Peintre, sculpteur et graveur il a participé à de nombreuses expositions collectives dont : la Biennale de Paris, la Triennale des Amériques, la Biennale de Sculpture aux Pays-Bas, les Ateliers de l’ARC au Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, l’Amérique Latine au Grand-Palais, les Murs Peints au Centre Georges Pompidou…

Some biographical milestones:
Ricardo Mosner was born in Buenos Aires. By the late 60's he exhibited and organizes performances and happenings. Between 1970 and 1980, he created and played about twenty shows pictorial with his troupe "Theater in Powder". A painter, sculptor and engraver, it has participated in numerous group exhibitions including: the Biennale de Paris, the Triennial of the Americas, the Sculpture Biennial in the Netherlands, the ARC workshops at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Latin America Grand, Painted Walls at the Georges Pompidou Center…

Ricardo MOSNER / "Ubuesque Mosnerian"
(OBJETS - SATCHELS- PAPERS)
Until 08/12/2007

Galerie Lara Vincy
www.lara-vincy.com
47 rue de Seine
75006 Paris

From Kuroda to Foujita Japanese painters in Paris at MCJP until Saturday, January 26, 2008

During the Meiji era (1868-1912), Japan renovation began. Artists are beginning to become familiar with new technologies, including oil painting. Drifting away from the pictorial tradition of the archipelago, these "Western-style" painters therefore increasingly traveled to Europe, particularly Paris, frantically studying modern painting. They'll play a crucial role in the modernization of Japanese art. This exhibition covers half a century of Western-style painting (yôga) in Japan. More than 50 paintings are presented, masterpieces by a dozen artists who stayed in Paris. A rare opportunity to discover these painters who still enjoy a huge reputation in Japan but are rather unknown in France, with the exception of Foujita.

The exhibition consists of four sections :

The meeting between Raphael Collin and Seiki Kuroda

On his first visit to France from 1884 to 1893, Kuroda Seiki studied oil painting with the academic painter Raphael Collin. This meeting has been crucial for the development of yôga painting in Japan. Displayed side by side, the works of both artists stress the considerable influence of the french painter on Kuroda. Upon his return to Japan, Kuroda took over as head of the department of Western painting at the Fine Art Academy in Tokyo. It allowed him to introduce not only the pictorial techniques of the Western academic, but also the enlighted style of naturalism represented by the Impressionists.

Japanese painters at the 1900's Paris Universal Exhibition

Over a century ago, Seiki Kuroda, Chû Asai, Eisaku Wada and Takeji Fujishima works were already shown in Paris, on the occasion of the 1900's Paris Universal Exhibition. The exhibition was a shock to these Japanese artists. Some of them took this opportunity to settle in France and create. Changes occurred then gradually in their styles: Kuroda looked toward Impressionism; his pupil Wada refined his academic style; Fujishima claimed an oriental aesthetic sense ; Asai for its part, shifted away from oil and headed towards decorative arts.

Yasui and Umehara, two painters from Kyôto

In the early twentieth century, Sôtarô Yasui and Ryûzaburô Umehara completed their painting training in Paris. Both were from Kyoto, a city steeped in ancient traditions. Amazed by the works of Renoir, Umehara embarked on a brightly colored style, in search of a daring originality. Yasui gradually mastered the technics of drawing, influenced by Pissarro then Cezanne. Together they'd create a purely Japanese occidentalized painting style.

Foujita and the Japanese painters in Paris during the interwar

Since 1918, the Japanese flocked again in France. Among them, five painters presented in this section are enthusiastic about their stay in the capital, tossed up in the whirlwind of avant-garde movements: Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism ... The best known is Tsuguharu Foujita (Leonard), emblematic of the Ecole de Paris. Vlaminck having strongly criticized his academic style, Yûzô Saeki moved towards representations of the slums of Paris. Hanjirô Sakamoto prefered to paint a landscape whose great modernity reveals a very personal style. Abandoning the academic style, Zenzaburô Kojima invented in the 20's a daring decorative style, "the merger between Western subject and Oriental spirit." Taro Okamoto marvels at the work of Picasso, joined the Abstraction - Création group before joining the surrealists. Upon their return they will have to face a problem peculiar to Japanese painters: translating Japanese identity to Western style.

From Kuroda to Foujita - Japanese painters in Paris
From Wednesday, October 24, 2007 to Saturday, January 26, 2008

Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
www.mcjp.asso.fr
101 bis, quai Branly 75740 Paris Cedex 15
Tel: 01 44 37 95 00
Fax : 01 44 37 95 15

Tuesday to Saturday from 12 to 19 pm / Nocturne Thursday to 20h Closed holidays / Annual closure of Dec. 23 to Jan. 3
Admission 6 € / Reduced 4 € / Free for members MCJP, children under the age of 12
Tour group (20 people maximum) by reservation only (with or without Speaker)

Organization National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, Maison de la culture of Japan in Paris (Foundation of Japan), Association for the MCJP
With the assistance of The Society for International Cultural Exchange
With the support of Japan Airlines

N.B. During the exhibition at De Kuroda Foujita, you can go see the murals that adorn the House of the Japan International City University by Foujita, exceptionally open to the public. Horses and The arrival of Westerners in Japan, Heads - work done by Foujita in 1929, it was recently restored

House of Japan - International City University of Paris
From Oct. 24 to Jan. 26, Thursdays and Fridays from 14 to 18h
Closed on 27, 28 December 2007-3, January 4, 2008
Free entrance

Maison du Japon - Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
7c, bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
Du 24 octobre au 26 janvier, les jeudis et vendredis de 14h à 18h
Fermé les 27, 28 décembre 2007 - 3, 4 janvier 2008
Entrée libre

Last chance - GUILLAUME BRESSON at the Galerie LACEN until November 4th, 2007

It was only a week ago that I discovered Guillaume Bresson's work for the first time at "Slick 07" and I was so impressed and seduced by his mature approach to modern painting that I decided to present his latest exhibition at Gallerie Lacen despite the fact that it is nearly finished. The mix between classical composition of urban landscapes and the "clair-obscur" impeccable technique combined to the darkness and the violence of the situation it represents is just stunning.


Like Le Caravage with mythical heroes in his own times, Bresson seems to be the voice of a forgotten surburban youth, fighting to create their own heroes in parking lots and empty halls. In a two tone and over-contrasted environment, Bresson re-invent the "Historical" painting style where gladiators are fighting choregraphic battles in black & white. Fight club energy and adrenalin are pumping through his work.
Well, I guess you got my point, I love is work and I'm looking forward discovering his new work which seems to be more colourful.

GUILLAUME BRESSON
Until November 4th, 2007

Galerie LACEN
http://www.lacengalerie.com/
57 rue de bretagne
75003 Paris
Tél +33 1 76 56 34 39
Fax +33 1 42 77 34 39
Tuesday-Saturday 11am to 07pm
info@lacengalerie.com