Paris: the 6 exhibitions to see in October

The multidisciplinary artist Richard Peduzzi is in the spotlight of a major retrospective organized at the Mobilier national from October 16 to December 31. Designed as a manifesto, the event emphasizes the great diversity of the practices of the man who is at the same time designer, artist, theater and opera decorator and scenographer. In the exhibition we will discover paintings, drawings, models, pieces of furniture, objects and carpets.

Surrealism at the Center Pompidou

This is the exhibition of the moment. Until January 13, 2025, the Pompidou Center celebrates the centenary of the surrealist movement with a major exhibition that is both chronological and thematic. Articulated around the famous Manifesto of surrealism by André Breton, the exhibition combines paintings, drawings, films, photographs and documents which testify to the predominance of the poetic imagination in the movement. This spotlight at the Center Pompidou is also an opportunity to recall the importance of female surrealist artists well beyond their status as muses, and to exhibit their work. While attesting to the global influence of the movement, and focusing on works produced up to 1969 — the official date of the dissolution of the surrealist movement, which was often interrupted, wrongly, in 1940.

From October 2, 2024 to February 2, 2025, the Rodin Museumlocated in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, is hosting a major exhibition which highlights the fraternities between Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, who was responsible for cutting the marbles for his elder. Through 160 works, sculptures of course but also drawings, paintings and photographs, the exhibition weaves links between the works of these two masters of modernity: a common taste for fragments and monumental creations, a fascination for marble, a penchant for the aesthetic of the unfinished…

“Sonia Delaunay, the Simultaneous” at the Zlotowski Gallery

This month and until November 16, 2024, the Zlotowski gallery and the Roger-Viollet galleryboth installed on rue de Seine, present a joint exhibition dedicated to Sonia Delaunay. A corpus of forty original works by the artist will be presented there, in order to highlight the “simultanism” of his work. In the first sense first, since the term refers to a conception of abstraction focused on the interaction of colors, which we find in the work of both Sonia and Robert Delaunay. But it is also a nod to the multidisciplinarity of the practice of Sonia Delaunay who, by abolishing the boundaries between visual art and decorative art, produced fashion drawings, book covers, lithographs, tapestries and even designs of playing cards.

From October 15, the Museum of Decorative Arts explores the theme of intimacy in a vast and rich exhibition. Deploying a corpus of 470 works — paintings, photographs, art, decoration and design objects — the exhibition focuses on the porosity of the boundaries between private and public from the 18th century to the present day. The event thus addresses the themes of the bedroom, toiletry or even the relationship between women and the intimate. We will find in particular photographs by Cartier-Bresson and Nan Goldin, furniture by Gaetano Pesce or the Bouroullec brothers and even content from social networks.

If we mostly know Jackson Pollock for its use of drippingthe Picasso museum has chosen to reveal, this fall, a lesser-known facet of this figure of American expressionism. From October 15, 2024 to January 19, 2025, the museum is organizing the artist’s first French exhibition since 2008 and presents “Jackson Pollock, the early years, 1934-1947”. The opportunity to unveil a rarely exhibited body of work, which bears witness to the young artist’s research and experiments, both stylistically and materially. Among his sources of inspiration, we note regionalism and Mexican muralists, but also the work of the European avant-gardes, led by Pablo Picasso.