Posted in Art le 27 February 2017
Art Exhibitions in Paris Spring/Summer 2017
DANIEL BUREN
Until April 2017
Fondation Louis Vuitton
The French contemporary artist Daniel Buren, known for utilizing color and shapes in site specific works, has revamped the Foundation Louis Vuitton. Designed by the architect Frank Gehry, the Foundation was built to hold the collection of modern and contemporary art of Mr Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, and as a center for artistic creation.
ART AFRIQUE, LE NOUVEL ATELIER
From April 26th to August 28th
Fondation Louis Vuitton
This exhibition is composed of works by fifteen iconic artists from the contemporary African art collection of businessman Jean Pigozzi
Fondation Louis Vuitton
8, avenue du Mahatma Gandhi
Bois de Boulogne 75116 Paris
http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/
KAREL APPEL
From February 24th to August 20th
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
The exhibition covers Dutch artist Karel Appel’s entire career, from the CoBrA years to his death in 2006. He is one of the founding members of the CoBrA group, created in Paris in 1948 and self-dissolved in 1951. The group proposed a spontaneous, experimental art that included various practices inspired by Primitivism. They were especially drawn to children's drawings and the art of the mentally disturbed. The sculptures dotted through the exhibition include CoBrA bricolages and enormous baroque installations and are the high point of the exhibition.
DERAIN, BALTHUS & GIACOMETTI
From June 2nd to October 29th
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
This trio of friends have been reunited in this retrospective presenting more than 200 works.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Closed Mondays
Open from 10am to 6pm
Late night Thursday until 10pm
11 av. du Président Wilson 75116 Paris
http://www.mam.paris.fr/en
OLGA-PICASSO
From March 21st to September 3rd
Musée Picasso
The “Olga Picasso” exhibition will shed light on the years that Pablo Picasso spent with his first wife Olga Kokhlova, a ballerina for the Ballets Russes. The exhibition will try to put the production of some of Picasso’s major works between 1917 and 1935 in the perspective of that personal history, mirror of the political and social history of the interwar period.
Musée Picasso
Open from Tuesday to Sunday : 9:30am to 6pm
Closed on Mondays (including Holidays)
5 rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris
http://www.museepicassoparis.fr/
JAMAICA JAMAICA
From April 4th to August 13th
Philharmonie de Paris
Jamaican music is commonly reduced solely to the legendary Bob Marley. But the Kingston ghettos have been the birthplace of all kinds of musical innovation and has set the foundation for all the contemporary urban music styles, bringing words like DJ, sound system, remix, dub and more into today's music vocabulary. The Jamaica Jamaica! exhibition showcases the multiple facets of this history.
Philharmonie de Paris
Closed Mondays
Tuesday – Thursday: 12am to 6pm
Friday: 12am to 10pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10am to 8pm
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr
PRIMITIVE PICASSO
From March 28th to July 23rd
Musée du Quai Branly
What links did Picasso maintain with non-Western arts? This question, frequently addressed, was however avoided by the artist himself for a long time. This exhibition aims to decipher a relationship born of admiration, respect and fear.
Musée du Quai Branly
Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday 11am to 7pm
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am – 9pm
37, quai Branly 75007 Paris
http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/
FREDERIC BAZILLE (1841-1870). THE YOUTH OF IMPRESSIONISM
Until March 5th
Musée d’Orsay
The exhibition invites you to take another look at an artist who, in spite of his early death, was a key figure in the birth of Impressionism. Organized both thematically and chronologically, the sixty paintings are placed amongst Bazille’s contemporaries like Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Fantin-Latour, Guigou, Scholderer and Cézanne.
BEYOND THE STARS. THE MYSTICAL LANDSCAPE FROM MONET TO KANDISKY
March 14th to June 25th
Musée d’Orsay
The exhibition aims to look at the mystical aspect of the Symbolist landscape. The selection of works includes landscapes by Gauguin, Denis, Monet, Hodler, Klimt, Munch and van Gogh, as well as by the leading figures of the Canadian school of the 1920s and 1930s. Thus a dialogue will be created between secular, Catholic and Protestant mystical traditions, and will include the relationship to the natural world before and after the cataclysm of the First World War.
PORTRAITS BY CEZANNE
From June 13th to September 24th
Musée d’Orsay
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painted almost 200 portraits during his career. The exhibition will explore the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cézanne's portraiture.
Musée d’Orsay
1, rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007 Paris
Open everyday except Mondays from 9.30am to 6pm
Late night on Thursdays until 9.45pm
Last tickets sold at 5pm (9pm Thursdays)
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
L’ESPRIT FRANCAIS, COUNTERCULTURES, 1969-1989
Until May 21st
La Maison rouge
Through some sixty artists and over seven hundred works and documents, spanning newspapers, flyers, posters, and extracts from films, videos and television shows, it purposely looks to other creative «genres» than those generally in the spotlight of contemporary art. Themes of sexualities, militancy, dandyism and violence run through the exhibition, which is structured as chapters. The focus of these chapters includes alternative education and sabotage of the French identity.
La Maison Rouge
Open everyday except Mondays and Tuesday from 11am to 7pm
Late night opening Thursday until 9pm
10 boulevard de la bastille 75012 Paris
http://www.lamaisonrouge.org/
100 MASTERPIECES OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARAB ARTS – THE BARJEEL COLLECTION
Until July 2nd
Institut du monde arabe
The Barjeel Collection will be presented for the first time in France. With a selection of over ninety work of arts, this exhibition retraces the history of Arab art since the second half of the twentieth century. Installations, photographs, paintings, and figurative and abstract works.
TREASURE OF ISLAM IN AFRICA FROM TIMBUKTU TO ZANZIBAR
Until July 30th
Institut du monde arabe
Discover the processes by which Islam was appropriated and transmitted by African people. The show covers Morocco, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali and other nations, tracing thirteen centuries of history through art, architecture and rituals seen in more than 300 traditional and contemporary works.
Institut du monde arabe
Open every day except Mondays from 10am to 6pm
Until 7pm Saturdays and Sundays
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris
www.imarabe.org
CY TWOMBLY
Until April 24th
Centre Georges Pompidou
This major retrospective of American artist Cy Twombly is organized around three major cycles: Nine Discourses on Commodus (1963), Fifty Days at Iliam (1978) and Coronation of Sesostris (2000). It covers the artist’s entire career in a chronological circuit of some 140 paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
JOSEF KOUDELKA – LA FABRIQUE D’EXILS
Until May 22nd
Centre Georges Pompidou
Josef Koudelka’s “Exile” book remains one of the most powerful documents of the spiritual and physical state of exile ever published. These photographs were mostly taken during Koudelka's many years of wandering through Europe and the United States since leaving his native Czechoslovakia after the Russian’s invasion. Josef Koudelka decided to present to the Centre Pompidou all 75 of the Exils photographs. This exhibition presents some of the most representative images from that series together with a number of previously unpublished pictures printed for the occasion.
DAVID HOCKNEY
From June 21st to October 23rd
Centre George Pompidou
For his 80th birthday and after the Tate, an important retrospective of David Hockney’s original work with nearly 160 works will be coming to the Pompidou, nearly 20 years after his first Paris debut there.
Centre Georges Pompidou
Open every day, except Tuesdays from 11am to 10 pm
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris
https ://www.centrepompidou.fr/en
JARDINS - GARDENS
From March 15th to July 24th
Grand Palais
This exhibition with an assembly of painting, sculptures, photographs, drawings, films is neither a comprehensive history of garden art, nor a catalogue with any aspirations to being exhaustive. It seeks to defend the garden as an art form and its creators as artists. In the words of Foucault: “The garden is the smallest part of the world and the whole world at the same time.”
RODIN: THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
From March 22nd to July 31st
Grand Palais
The exhibition reveals Rodin’s creative universe, his relationship with his audience and the way in which sculptors have appropriated his style. Featuring over 200 of Rodin’s works, it also includes sculptures and drawings by Bourdelle, Brancusi, Picasso, Matisse, Giacometti, Beuys, Baselitz and Gormley, shedding new light on this giant of sculpture.
FROM THE GREAT MUGHALS TO THE MAHARAJAS: Jewels from the Al Thani collection
From March 29th to June 5th
Grand Palais
The exhibition presents the evolution of taste and technique in India’s jewellery over five centuries and the major developments in its jewelry traditions. Over two hundred and fifty exceptional pieces from the Al Thani Collection, together with major works on loan from prestigious institutions and private collections will be on display.
Grand Palais
3, avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008 Paris
Open everyday from 10am to 8pm, except tuesdays
Late opening Wednesday, Friday and Saturday until 10pm
http://www.grandpalais.fr
PISSARRO IN ERAGNY
From March 16th to July 9th
Musée du Luxembourg
This exhibition concentrates on the final two decades of the Pissarro’s life, when he settled in the village of Eragny. He developed a kind of utopia that can be seen in both his painting and his political commitment. The exhibition includes not only moving landscapes of this pseudo farm, resolutely rustic and productive, which Pissarro immortalized through the seasons, but also paintings representing a multitude of personalities, painted in the studio and featuring the pastoral surroundings of Eragny.
Musée du Luxembourg
Everyday from 10am to 7pm
Late night on Monday until 10pm
19 rue de Vaugirard 75006 Paris
http://museeduluxembourg.fr/
KIEFER RODIN
From March 14th to October 22nd
Musée Rodin
To mark the centenary of the death of Auguste Rodin, the museum is cooperating with contemporary artists and is giving carte blanche to the German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.
Musée Rodin
79, rue de Varenne 75007 Paris
Open every day except Mondays from 10am to 5:45pm
Late opening on Wednesdays 8:45pm
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/
FROM ZURBARAN TO ROTHKO - Alicia Koplowitz Collection
From March 3rd to July 10th
Musée Jacquemart-André
This exhibition pays tribute to one of the most prolific collectors of our time with a selection of fifty-three works that retrace her tastes bringing together numerous masterpieces from some of the world’s greatest artists. The Old and Modern Masters feature heavily in her collection, fostering a dialogue of sorts across the centuries: antique sculptures and paintings by Zurbarán, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi and Goya can be seen alongside paintings and drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Van Dongen, Modigliani, Schiele, de Staël, Freud, Rothko and Barceló, as well as sculptures by Giacometti, Bourgeois and Richier.
Musée Jacquemart-André
158, boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris
Open every day 10am to 6pm
Late opening Monday until 8:30pm
http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com
PISSARRO "LE PREMIER DES IMPRESSIONNISTES " " THE FIRST IMPRESSIONIST"
From February 23rd to July 2nd
Musée Marmottan Monet
This exhibition includes 75 of the most magnificent masterpieces of the Danish-French impressionist Camille Pissarro (1871-1903).
Musée Marmottan Monet
2 rue Louis Boilly
75016 Paris
Open everyday except Monday 10 am to 6 pm
Late opening Thursdays until 8 pm
http://www.marmottan.fr/
VERMEER AND THE MASTERS OF GENRE PAINTING
Until May 22
Musée du Louvre
The exhibition presents Vermeer’s great masterpieces and those of his contemporaries. It brings to light Vermeer’s membership of a network of painters specializing in the depiction of everyday life while admiring, inspiring, and vying with each other.
Louvre
Closed Tuesdays
Open from 9am to 6pm, late opening on Wednesdays and Fridays until 10pm
http://www.louvre.fr
21 RUE LA BOETIE
From March 2nd to July 23rd
Musée Maillol
The exhibition "21 Rue La Boétie" retraces the remarkable story of Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959), one of the most influential art dealers in the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition brings together some sixty or so Modern masterpieces, some of which have never before been shown in France (from Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Marie Laurencin…)
Musée Maillol
Open everyday from 10 :30am to 6 :30pm
Late opening Fridays until 9:30pm
59-61 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris
www.museemaillol.com