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

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

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

Americans in New York Nov. 24, 2007 - Jan. 12, 2008 at the Michel Rein Gallerie

Once upon a time in America and again, once upon a time, America is eternally back as if Nietzsche was presiding over its destiny. In the contemporary landscape, the American city remains an emblematic place, at the crossroad of all kinds of encounters and attempts, a true barometre of financial and artistic activity.New York is not the capital of the USA but it is without any doubt the centre of contemporary art in the world. There is no avoiding New York, and it is unlikely it will ever lose its place in spite of what people from the outside may wish. In the metropolis, artists are coming from all parts of the world, from all corners of the USA, and emulation is what breathes energy into the New York art scene. In nowadays context one has to admit that the forces of globalisation that can be found in the art world too, paradoxically offer a wide berth to opposing cultural horizons. It is said that New York is not America, but America needs New York for its global existence. This is what this small show will try to demonstrate through a few slices of today’s art steeped in identity.

MATTHEW DAY JACKSON
Born 1974 in Panorama City (California), lives in Brooklyn, New-York.
Matthew Day Jackson's work takes the form of antimonuments that turn a critical eye on our cultural icons to address the romanticization of America's past, current political events. Inspired by the Russian Constructivist notion of "art for the proletariat", Jackson employs materials scavenged from his past, his studio, and culture at large as well as imagery culled from American history, Native American mythology, and art history. Each element, whether material or symbolic, carries a significance at once personal and universal. When brought together, they create a narrative structure that illuminates the artist's belief in the redemptive possibilities of seemingly outdated ideals.

MARC GANZGLASS
Born 1973 in Washington D.C, lives in Brooklyn, New-York.
Marc Ganzglass will present his installation "Meteorite Inclusions". Working at the Kohler plumbing manufacturing facility in Kohler, Wisconsin; I collaborated with factory chemists and technicians to embed iron fragments from the Sikhote Alin Meteorite (Siberia 1947) within a limited production run of Kohler cast iron drinking fountains. Marc Ganzglass "Meteorite Inclusions" embodies two divergent histories of iron, one story of iron formed in space and the other of iron developed here on earth, a social material. This work continues his investigation into the sublime ironies of material and industry. Its subtle, conceptual elegance immediately suggests a play on Duchamp's Urinal.

JILL MAGID
Born 1973 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, lives in New-York.
A graduate of MIT, Jill Magid was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam. She has had solo shows in various institutions around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2003), Tate Liverpool (2004), the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2005), Sparwasser, Berlin (2007) and the Centre D’Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona (2007). To realize “Auto Portrait Pending”, Jill Magid signs a contract with a company to become a diamond when she dies. The contract specifies the agreement for her transformation and the details of her eventual diamond. Upon her death, the diamond will be created from the carbon†of her cremated remains. It will have a round cut, weigh one carat, and be set in a gold ring setting. Until the diamond's creation, the empty ring setting, the corporate contract, the artist’s preamble, and the Beneficiary Contract constitute the artwork. Auto Portrait Pending awaits a Beneficiary.

LAUREL NAKADATE
Born 1975, lives in New-York.
“More of an exhibitionist than Madonna during one of her showcases and even more fakely innocent than Britney Spears in her “Oops I did it again” video clip, Laurel Nakadate has been exploring the stereotypes of her Asian-American feminine identity, ever since she graduated from Yale. She uses her Lolita-like body (despite her thirty years old of age) to emphasize the fantasies of the average male viewer, in a quite humorous fashion: she enters random men’s houses (in general, balding, paunchy bachelors who made a pass at her on the street) to dance with them to one of Britney’s tunes or she wears her Guide attire to have them sing a birthday song for her. In the video-based work “I Want to Be the One to Walk in the Sun” (2006), she travels across truckers’ America, from New-Orleans’ kinky hotels to Iowa’s gas stations, and confronts her Lolita character to landscapes (pole-dancing in an empty parking lot), average Americans and several animals (dressed as a French maid, she films a dog taking her leg for a mate).” Isabelle Alfonsi in « 02 », fall 2007

MIKA ROTTENBERG
Born 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, lives in New-York
Mika Rottenberg creates, in her fixed or animated images, scenes and situations in which her characters play a sociological and fantasy-like theater which draws from the iconography of the fair. Her works present as a result a wunderkabinett in which labor, immigrants and especially women personify an American reality that is barely disguised. Mika Rottenberg received her MFA from Columbia University in 2004. In 2005, her video installation “Tropical Breeze” was included in “Greater New York” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. “Mary's Cherries” (video installation, 2004) was included in “New Works/New Acquisitions” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and “Dough” (Oslo version) was included in “Uncertain States of America” at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. “Americans in New York” will be her first show in Paris.

Americans in New York, curated by Ami Barak
with: Matthew Day Jackson, Marc Ganzglass, Jill Magid, Laurel Nakadate, Mika Rottenberg
Exhibition dates: Nov. 24, 2007-Jan. 12, 2008

Michel Rein Gallerie
www.michelrein.com
42 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
tel: 33 1 42 72 68 13
fax: 33 1 42 72 81 94

Metro : Saint-Paul
Hours : 04 pm - 09pm
Mail: galerie@michelrein.com

Free entrance