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

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

Chaïm Soutine at the Pinacothèque de Paris until January 27, 2008

It was while studying Soutine’s portrait by Modigliani that Marc Restellini decided to put on this exhibition. In that sublime portrait, he discovered that the handsome Italian endowed Soutine, as discreetly as possible, with a religious symbolism by painting him with his left hand carrying out the Cohen’s benediction, that family of High priests in the Temple of Jerusalem. This deliberately secretive detail revealed an out-of-the common personality that might have escaped everyone but which Modigliani nonetheless wanted to immortalize, as though to confer a mystical dimension on Soutine.

This exhibition will show a brilliant artist, an inquisitor of souls and minds, through approximately 80 paintings, most of which are totally re-discovered works, exhibited for the very first time. Many canvases were restored for this occasion. The ensemble comes from the most important private collections as well as from international museums: French, Japanese, Swiss and American.

Through his use of portraiture, Soutine examined the personalities of his chosen sitters. He showed up their quintessential characteristics, and drew out of each of them what no other artist had perceived. He was quite rightly described as an Expressionist, and was the only one to have represented that movement in France, whereas it was the very basis of all the developing movements, be it in Germany and in Austria at the same period. A true visionary, he transcended reality to transform it into an imaginary representation about a century ahead of his time. On the cusp of several movements still in their infancy, he based his art on the most classical and the most illustrious of his fore-runners (Rembrandt, Courbet, Corot, Cézanne….) to become the major precursor of the greatest contemporary artists from Pollock to De Kooning. He was a reference for all of the Cobra movement, as well as for Bacon, whose pictorial powerfulness descends directly from Soutine.

Today the Pinacothèque de Paris wants to throw a new light on the works by this essential artist from the start of the 20th century, thanks to loans shown for the first and, quite probably, the last time.

Chaïm Soutine at the Pinacothèque de Paris
until January 27, 2008

Pinacothèque de Paris
http://www.pinacotheque.com/expoAVP.fr.html
28 Place de la Madeleine
75008 Paris

The Pinacothèque de Paris is open every day from 10.30 AM to 6 PM
On Tuesday December 25 , and January 1st, open between 2 PM to 6 PM.
The ticket office closes at 5.15 PM

Full rate : 9 euros
Reduced rate (on presentation of a document) : 7 euros
Between 12 and 25 years old, students, job seekers (documents less than a year
old),Large families, cardholders of Améthyste and Emeraude, Maison des artistes,
priority card holders for handicapped people
Free (on presentation of a document)
for the under –12s, journalists, ICOM, RMI and old age pensioners, Conference
Guides and teachers with a group reservation, invalid cardholders.
Group rates : 8,50 euros per person including the rental of the audiophone
(mandatory). Groups between 7 to 25 persons.

Metro :
Stop : Madeleine
Ligne 8 : Balard - Créteil Préfecture
Ligne 12 : Mairie d’Issy - Porte de la Chapelle
Ligne 14 : Saint Lazare - Olympiades
Bus : Stops : Madeleine et Madeleine – Vignon
Autobus 42 : Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou – Gare du Nord
Autobus 52 : Parc de Saint Cloud - Opéra Stop : Madeleine
Autobus 24 : Gare Saint Lazare - Ecole Vétérinaire de Maisons–Alfort
Autobus 84 : Porte de Champerret – Panthéon
Autobus 94 : Levallois Louison Bobet - Gare Montparnasse
Parking: Madeleine Tronchet Vinci, Rue Chauveau-Lagarde, Rue Caumartin

Playback at the ARC/Paris MoMa until January 06th, 2008

Playback is an exhibition showcasing more than 50 off rhythm and exciting music videos directed by contemporary artists
in the last 20 years.
Playback is also a scenography anchored in our daily lives: at the gym, in a karaoke, in a home-cinema, at the hi-fi store…
Playback finally offers an exclusive program of concerts, performances, films projections and even a hair brush contest ...

A video from the Opening


Artist roster: Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, Cory Arcangel, assume vivid astro focus, Charles Atlas, Alex Bag, Judith Barry, Sadie Benning, Johanna Billing, Michael Bell-Smith, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Black Leotard Front, Rebecca Bournigault, Robert Breer, Olaf Breuning, Buckle Bunnies, Miguel Calderon, Cao Fei, Antoine Catala, Roberto Cuoghi, Brice Dellsperger, Devo, Eric Duyckaerts, Robert Frank, Mario Garcia Torres, Rodney Graham, Daniel Guzmán, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Karl Holmqvist, Jonathan Horowitz, i could never be a dancer, Derek Jarman, Susi Jirkuff, Tomoki Kakitani, Richard Kern, The Kingpins, Thomas Lélu & JD, Christelle Lheureux, Kalup Linzy, Jacques Lizène & Daniel Dutrieux, Lydia Lunch, Las Malas Amistades, Paul McCarthy, Jill Miller, Melvin Moti, Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau, Melik Ohanian, Tony Oursler, Paper Rad, Cécile Paris, Martin Parr, Ara Peterson, Maroussia Rebecq & Mathieu Danet, The Residents, Michael Roy, Kati Rule, Joanna Rytel, Wilhelm Sasnal, Susan Smith-Pinelo, Sonic Youth, Georgina Starr, Los Super Elegantes, Jimi Tenor, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jean-Luc Verna, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Wyldfile, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES...

Playback
Until January 06th, 2008

ARC/Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
www.myspace.com/playback_arc
11 avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris

Tel. : 01 53 67 40 00
metro : Iéna
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 06pm
Late night on Thursday until 10pm

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