Paris in 8 Art exhibitions

We always miss an exhibition in Paris, it's a bit like fate, abundance obliges. At the very beginning of December, it's the event Chiharu Shiota still in assembly at Grand Palace which we missed by a few days. But there is still time to vibrate with the dreaminess that the Japanese weave and, at the same time, drape with her red threads. Like to see these other exhibitions.

Orsay Museum: dare men, only men

We are perhaps not in control of our look, the theme “Caillebotte. Painting men” orients him somewhat… But it wakes him up. He stings him. The painter, good genius of the impressioniststracked the real, the new. In short… the opposite!

He saw it in the pieceworker, the sportsman, the contemplative, pensive man, the passerby, these masculinities in the toilet, these others carried away by melancholy. And we are amazed by this immersion of another kind in his work.

Vuitton Foundation:and lip pop

It's energy in bars and the Kiss Cool effect lasts for hours after wandering between the 150 pieces, paintings, collages, sculptures, multimedia reliefs of Tom Wesselmann. The American who died twenty years ago left a biting ironic Art on his time. The exhibition casually slips it into a little history of pop art made up of 70 works by artists – including the Geneva visual artist Sylvie Fleury – who have flirted or are still flirting with this reading of the 20th century^e century. It becomes essential for anyone in Paris!

Commerce Exchange: lat Arte Povera Stock Exchange

It dates from the 2012 retrospective at the Kunstmuseum in Basel on this age of the simple, of the true carried by the radicality of a group of Italians and a few others. And it is not because in Lausanne, thanks to gallery owner Alice Pauliwe know one of them well, Giuseppe Penone, that we have the measure of the diffuse inventiveness of this squadron of artists. It is first seen under the dome of the Stock Exchange in the blink of an eye, which can seem confusing. But it's bold. The rest is less so, made up of small chapels, we lose a little of the crazy enthusiasm of Arte Povera.

Louvre Museum: pcrazier than you imagine

All sins are in the nature of this learned stripping of the “Figures of the Fool”. We are at the Louvre, there is a lot to see in an art historians' exhibition made up of multiple sources and resources, but with a relevant question. “Are the madmen of yesterday those of today?”, she is the guide between these grotesques, these lustful people, these anguished people, these possessed people or these very good-natured people! If the works range from the Middle Ages to the Romantics, the answer to the question could not be more contemporary…

Museum of Modern Art: latomic age

Are we going, are we not going? Let's say it, the atomic age is not the best leader for an exhibition! Except that this is also what we ask of a museum institution, to be in phase. And seen through that of the Museum of Modern Art, this age becomes – we dare not… fascinating – but significant.

The mystical or conceptual escapes of some, the explosion of forms of others, the biases like neutrality, the fear of science like its use for artistic purposes… the exploration is ample, endless. No deadline!

Three Swiss in Paris

The Grand Prix of the Academy of Fine Arts is not free! Bernard Tschumi learned it in the same phone call which announced to him that he was the 2024 recipient. He comes with an exhibition to… think about. If he had to make a selection in his workhis sketches, his archives, his models, the Vaudois architect had no difficulty in bringing them together under the same allegiance. “Poetics” says the title, the exhibition demonstrates its foundations.

We are always a little at home in the Art Deco walls of this 14th century mansion.^e district which alone are worth the detour. But right now, it's really mandatory! With the unprecedented meeting of works by the painter of silence Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) and the sculptor of balances Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), one could almost hear their thoughts exchanging. And we experience a moment of grace there.

We often change the world with Julian Charrièreand yet, we never leave ours. The Vaudois visual artist whose work is also presented until April 20 at Arken Museum in Denmark scrutinizes it and feels it, he explores it and renders it in its fragilities as well as in its beauty. Passing the black curtain of this solo exhibition, we tread on an earth that trembles, that rumbles. We feel observed, we observe. We want to touch. We are touched!

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Florence Millioud joined the cultural section in 2011 out of a passion for people of culture, after having covered local politics and economics since 1994. An art historian, she collaborates in the writing of exhibition catalogs and monographic works on artists.More info

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