Critics debate two exhibitions: “Arte Povera” at the Bourse du Commerce and “The Atomic Age” at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris.
“The Atomic Age” at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris
The Museum of Modern Art in Paris offers to revisit the history of modernity in the 20th century through the imagination of the atom. The exhibition invites the public to explore the artistic representations sparked by the scientific discovery of the atom and its applications, in particular the nuclear bomb whose devastating consequences changed the destiny of humanity.
By bringing together nearly 250 works (paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and installations), as well as often unpublished documentation, the exhibition shows, for the first time in a French institution, the very different positions taken by artists in the face of scientific advances and the controversies they give rise to. Dealing with a subject that is more topical than ever, it is part of the museum’s desire to echo contemporary cultural and societal concerns.
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The Atomic Age – Artists put to the test of history is open to visitors from October 11, 2024 to February 9, 2025 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. The exhibition catalog is published by Editions Paris Musée. The exhibition is curated by Julia Garimorth, chief curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and Maria Stavrinaki, professor of contemporary art history at the University of Lausanne.
“Arte Povera” at the Bourse du Commerce
Although it is today considered an artistic movement, the actors of Arte Povera*,* refusing to play the game of assigning an identity, to let themselves be locked into a definition, reject the qualification of movement to prefer that of attitude. Be an artist Poor Artit is to adopt a behavior which consists of challenging the cultural industry and more broadly the consumer society, according to a strategy designed on the guerrilla model.
The Pinault Collection presents at the Bourse de Commerce in October 2024 a major exhibition dedicated to Arte Povera, designed by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Between heritage and influence, the exhibition covers more than 250 historical, contemporary works and works from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s. This exhibition aims to shed light on both the Italian birth and the international influence of this movement, through the works of the thirteen main protagonists of Arte Povera.
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The exhibition is open to visitors from October 9, 2024 to January 20, 2025 at the Bourse du Commerce. Its catalog is published by Dilecta and available in bookstores. The exhibition is curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an internationally recognized specialist in the Italian artistic movement.
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