What’s up in Paris during ARTPARIS?
ARTPARIS 2009 – Modern + Contemporary Art Fair19 – 23 March, 2009
Grand Palais Champs Elysées – Avenue Winston Churchill 75008 Paris – www.artparis.fr
Upcoming on March 19th, ARTPARIS will be kicking off its eleventh edition, inviting international collectors, professionals and lovers of art from the world of art to visit the more than one hundred galleries which will be brought together under the majestic dome of the Grand Palais through March 23rd, 2009.
115 of the most dynamic galleries of modern and contemporary art currently active on the international art market they will offer a vast panorama of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries as represented through a range of media from painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, installation and performance.
ALEXANDER CALDER- Les Années Parisiennes (1926-1933)
18 March – 20 July, 2009
Centre Pompidou - Place Georges-Pompidou – 75191 Paris cedex 04 – www.cnac-gp.fr
A “transatlantic” artist, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is well known here for the large mobiles and stabiles of painted metal to be seen in French cities and parks. As well as presenting outstanding pieces, the exhibition offers an opportunity to witness the original state of works conceived in terms of motion and equilibrium but now condemned to immobility by the exactions of time or by the death of their creator and animator, these being here accompanied by films such as Jean Painlevé’s and photographs such as Brassaï’s, in which they are shown being operated by Calder himself.
ROBERT FRANK, a Foreign Look – Paris & the Americans
20 January – 22 March, 2009
Jeu de Paume - 1, place de la Concorde – 75008 Paris www.jeudepaume.org
In his work Robert Frank (American, born in Switzerland in 1924) has developed a dialogue between photography and poetry, literature and painting, and created a language that both conveys subjective experience and continues the heritage of documentary photography.
WARHOL’S WIDE WORLD
18 March – 13 July, 2009
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais – Champs Elysées
3, avenue du Général Eisenhower 75008 Paris – www.rmn.fr
From 1967 on, Andy Warhol took on many portrait commissions of celebrities and unknown figures. For almost 30 years, these works have themselves formed a flattering portrait of a world obsessed with appearances. A selection of 250 works is presented in various themes: self-portraits, Screen Tests, Mao, Dollars, Catastrophes, Last Supper, etc. enabling the exhibition to open with a retrospective view.
LEAVING RODIN BEHIND , SCULPTURE IN PARIS 1905-1914
10 March – 31 May 2009
Musée d’Orsay 1, rue de la Légion d’Honneur 75007 Paris www.musee-orsay.fr
As the 20th century dawned, Rodin reigned supreme in the world of sculpture. In France and elsewhere, new generations were seeking to free themselves from his influence.
This exhibition, featuring creative artists from all over Europe, will show how experiments into anti-Rodin volumes were appearing in the work of classical artists — Maillol, Bernard, Lehmbruck — as well as in the work of avant-garde sculptors — Duchamp-Villon, Archipenko, Brancusi.
WARHOL TV
18 February – 3 May, 2009
Fondation Antoine de Galbert 10, boulevard de la Bastille 75012 Paris www.lamaisonrouge.org
Warhol TV looks at a hitherto little-studied aspect of the work of this leading 20th-century artist, who was open to all the forms of expression available in his lifetime, and who left his mark on American televisual creation in the 1970s and 1980s.
SONIA RYKIEL EXHIBITION
24 November – 19 April, 2009
Musées des Arts Décoratifs 107, rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris www.artsdecoratifs.com
This first retrospective of the couturière’s work, marking the 40th anniversary of her fashion house, is composed of clothes, fashion photographs (Sarah Moon, Isserman) and fashion show videos. If Sonia Rykiel’s designs have withstood the test of time so well, this is because it they embraced their era so completely…
