3 days, 40 galleries, 6 districts and one collective exhibition at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Happening scans the scene :
This artistic tour through Paris meanders from Belleville to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, looping through the Marais and the Palais Royal stretching down to rue Louise Weiss and reaching up to Pantin. The event is divided in two: the monographic exhibitions at the participating galleries themselves and “CHOICES” at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Paris’ School of Fine Arts), where an artist chosen by each gallery is displayed. Alfred Pacquement is to curate this year’s “CHOICES” which will be held at the Palais des Etudes at the heart of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
What to look out for…
Galerie Isabelle Gounod located in Paris’ Marais area is to present the work of Eric Rondepierre at Beaux-Arts, an actor and visual artist whose research centres around cinematographic devices. At the gallery itself one will find Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr who has forged a link between History and the modern world thanks to a Persian tapestry.
Imane Farès gallery in Saint-Germain-des-Prés will invite us to discover photographer and filmmaker Sammy Baloji. Through his series "Congo Far West" (2008), the artist references the Belgian scientific expedition to Katanga from 1898 to 1900. Somewhere between a historical account and an ethnographic dimension, Baloji invites us to take a look at the Colonial period.
Sammy Baloji, Portrait #4 : Groupe d'hommes Warua sur fond d'aquarelle de Dardenne. Série Congo Far West : Retracing Charles Lemaire expedition(2011). Courtesy the artist and Imane Farès.
Galerie Mitterrand in the Marais gives prominence to Gary Webb at Beaux-Arts, an English artist who explores a variety of 3D media. Design objects or sculptures? It is down to the public to decide what they are.
Finally, galerie Olivier Robert in the Marais invites us to discover Julien Beneyton, “the painter of the modern town”!
The participating galleries are as follows: Air de Paris, Art : Concept, Galerie Anne Barrault, Christian Berst art brut, Galerie Thomas Bernard, Cortex Athletico, Crèvecœur, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, gb agency, Galerie Laurent Godin, Isabelle Gounod, Karsten Greve, Bertrand Grimont, Max Hetzler, Eva Hober, Galerie Imane Farès, In Situ-Fabienne Leclerc, Jaeger Bucher, Galerie Jean Fournier, Bernard Jordan, Jousse Entreprise, Galerie Laurent Mueller, Loevenbruck, Galerie Le Minotaure, Galerie Mitterrand, Nathalie Obadia, Odile OUizeman, Alberta Pane, Claudine Papillon, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Almine Rech, Olivier Robert, Thaddaeus Ropac, Galerie de Roussan, Samy Abraham, Natalie Seroussi, Suzanne Tarasieve, Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Jocelyn Wolff, Galerie Zlotowski.
CHOICES
May 29-31
