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

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

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

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

Chan Ky-Yut... Visible Voices at the Cernuschi Museum until December 30th, 2007

The Cernuschi Museum goes back to its tradition of openness to contemporary paintings and present the work of the Sino-Canadian painter Chan Ky-Yut(Chen Jieyi), born in Canton in 1940 and based in Canada since the 1970's.

In the fusion of gesture and spirit, Shan Ky-Yut creates a new pictorial form, and performs a dazzling symbiosis between traditional Chinese painting and current contemporary painting. With ink, color and paper, he renew a significant relationship with his origins, and, in the wake of past years in the West, he deepens the color. His work as a creator, nor figurative, not abstract, painted a nameless universe, fleeting, and only a few formal benchmarks reveal the origin proper to Chinese aesthetics.
One of the original slopes of Chan Ky-Yut's labor emanates from his collaboration with poets and writers, like Paul Eluard, Claire and Yvan Goll, Michel Butor, Andrée Chédid, Jean Simeon, Lorand Gaspar, Adonis, Salah Stétié and Francois Cheng Arrabal for France, as well as many writers of international fame. As a poet himself, the singularity of his books and artist manuscripts, animated by a more intimate production, revives the poetry, painting and calligraphy trilogy, emblematic of pictorial creation from ancient China.

From childhood Shan Ky-Yut learn calligraphy with his grandfather and it begins in late adolescence studying classical Chinese. In this vein, he learns the ways of Tao, Confucius and Buddha.

Chan Ky-Yut... Voix visibles (Visible Voices)
From September 20 to December 30, 2007.

Musée Cernuschi, musée des arts de l’Asie de la Ville de Paris
www.cernuschi.paris.fr
7 avenue Vélasquez
75008 Paris
Tel : 01.53.96.21.50

Hours : from 10am to 06pm
Metro : Villiers

ART SHOPPING at the LOUVRE's CARROUSEL October 27 & 28th, 2007

No need to be filthy rich to become a contemporary art collector! Enough with the lame stamps or mini cars collection, you now can afford to become a serious art amateur... Art Shopping breaks down the "for the rich and famous only" art ghetto and create the first really open art show in the world @ le Louvre's Carrousel with, for less than 5000€, your personal ticket to the world of contemporary art collectors.

Over a hundred artists and galleries are displaying their best work and most up-to-date creations.

Good to know! For any purchase of an art piece your admission ticket will be reimboursed !

ART SHOPPING SHOW
Carrousel du Louvre - Paris
99, Rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris – Ile de France
Opens from :10:00am to 06:00pm – admission fee:5 euros (money back atfer first purchase).
Ticket reservation: France Billet and Fnac.com
Tel : 33 (0)1 46 02 61 51
Web + infos :
www.salon-artshopping.com
Metro : Louvre-Rivoli (line 1)

Arcimboldo at the Luxembourg museum Until January 13th, 2008

Famous for his composite heads made up of a combination of plants, fruits, animals and other elements, Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593) remains something of a mystery.

The exhibition presents one hundred works. In addition to the well-known composite heads on loan from private collections and museums around the world, an important group of paintings (including numerous portraits on view for the first time), tapestries, and drawings pay tribute to the extent of the artist's extraordinary pictorial universe, unequalled in allegorical and formal richness. Other works, including objects originating from the famous Hapsburg Kunstkammer and illustrated works directly connected with the artist, shed light on the socio-cultural context of the period and the Hapsburg court, thus heightening one's understanding of Arcimboldo's work.

His most notable masterpiece is without a doubt his PORTRAIT OF RUDOLPH II depicted as Vertumnus (Greek god of harvest and abundance) dated 1591 used for the exhibition poster.

Under the curatorship of Dr. Sylvia Ferino, curator of Italian Renaissance Painting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the exhibition was co-organized by the Musée du Luxembourg and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, where it will be presented from until 1 June 2008.


Musée du Luxembourg
www.museeduluxembourg.fr
19, Rue Vaugirard
75006 Paris Map
Tel : 01 42 34 25 95
Fax : 01 53 01 38 80

Dates and opening hours :
Reservation (with France Billet)
Du 15/09/07 au 31/01/08 from 11:00am till 22:00pm : Monday, Friday, Saturday
Du 15/09/07 au 31/01/08 from 11:00am till 19:00pm : Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Metro :
Ligne 4 : stations Saint Sulpice, Odéon
Ligne 12 : station Rennes
RER B : station Luxembourg, sortie Jardin du Luxembourg

Autobus :
58, 84, 89, arrêts Musée du Luxembourg ou Sénat

Velib’ :
26 rue Guynemer ; 74 rue de Vaugirard ; 34 rue Condé

Parcs de stationnement :
Place Saint-Sulpice et Marché Saint-Germain

Admission :
until 31/01/2008 Fee: 13.20 €