In this month of October which is particularly busy with exhibitions, this week is particularly boastful with several openings of large retrospectives. At the cartel, we discover both a great panorama of pop art, an American myth at the Picasso museum, and one of the highest prices in contemporary art for a free solo show. Bonus: we have given you some works to see in the open air and for the eye.
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &… at the Louis Vuitton Foundation
If we associate pop art with the 60s (it was officially born in 1957), it is in reality much broader than that and this exhibition will prove it to you. Around a core of 150 paintings and works by Tom Wesselmann, pioneer of the genre, the Vuitton Foundation has brought together more than 35 artists and 70 works covering a century of crazy creations. From Marcel Duchamp or Meret Oppenheim in the 1940s to Jeff Koons or Ai Weiwei today via Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton or Sylvie Fleury, this retrospective based on popopop shows that the diversion of the codes of the time and the mass consumption remains an overflowing source of inspiration.
When ? from October 16, 2024 to February 24, 2025.
Or ? Louis Vuitton Foundation, 8 avenue du Mahatma-Gandhi, Paris 16th.
Takashi Murakami at the Perrotin gallery
One of the biggest names in contemporary art is back in the capital. Eighteen months after covering the Gagosian gallery at Le Bourget with disproportionate frescoes (our interview carried out on this occasion), the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami arrives from October 15 to November 23 with a brand new free personal exhibition, this time at Perrotin gallery rue Matignon. A retrospective which will once again celebrate the key motifs of the Murakami galaxy, populated with avatars in psychotropic pastel shades, for an atmosphere that is both futuristic and kitsch. On the picture rails, we will come across his famous octopus, presented to the family, his pandas under LSD, a self-portrait representing him with his missing doggo as well as a more abstract rainbow canvas. Happy fishing!
When ? From October 15 to November 23, 2024.
Or ? 2 bis avenue Matignon, Paris 8th.
Jackson Pollock: the early years (1934-1947), at the Picasso Museum
Did you know? Before dripping and action painting, Jackson Pollock was already painting and was passionate about primitive art, Picasso and Mexican muralists. A period of surreal and powerful works but less known to the general public that this exhibition aims to bring back to light. It brings together around a hundred works from the Museum of Modern Art and the MET in New York, the Center Pompidou, the Tate and the Stedelijk Museum in order to better understand the career of this legendary artist.
When ? from October 15, 2024 to January 19, 2025.
Or ? Picasso Museum, 5 rue de Thorigny, Paris 3rd.
About Art Basel’s open-air works to view for free
For three days, from October 18 to 20, the Grand Palais reopens its doors to the general public to reveal the cream of contemporary art – even if access requires paying 44 euros! This major meeting of prestigious galleries also extends into the open air, in front of some of the capital’s most emblematic monuments. And good news: exterior access is completely free. follow the leader !
