Joseph Kosuth, a major figure of conceptual art, dialogues with Jacinto Lageira, professor of aesthetics, about the relationship of art to language and philosophy.
This discussion will be followed by a signature by the artist of the Jeu du Dicible, published by Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions.
Joseph Kosuth, born in 1945 in the United States, is one of the main theorists and actors of conceptual art. He reflects on art in its relationship to language and philosophy.
On the occasion of PhotoSaintGermain, the Beaux-Arts de Paris welcomes the artists Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Elsa and Johanna and Agnès Geoffray to discuss the presence of photography in contemporary art.
Never work: the youth of Guy Debord.
Dialogue with Frank Perrin on the occasion of the publication of his essay Guy Debord, Printemps at Louison Editions.
The exhibition will be exceptionally closed on Thursday 10 November 2022 due to the social movements. We will welcome you as usual on the following day. We apologize for this inconvenience.
As part of PhotoSaintGermain, the Beaux-Arts de Paris presents Poltergeists: esprits frappeurs, esprits frappés, a group exhibition of student artists and recent graduates of the school.
The exhibition aims to show the diversity of photographic writing in the current image community. Poltergeists: esprits frappeurs, esprits frappés is thus a metaphor for our fears and desires, a kind of collective unconscious that affects our reading of the world and, in turn, is also affected by our ways of acting.
As the philosopher Michel de Certeau writes, "The mind invents creative forms of resistance to cope with the pressures of modern life, and ghosts are one of them."
Opening on 3 November from 5pm to 9pm
With the artists:
Lara Al-Gubory, Ali Al-Khalidi, Lina Benzerti, Sixtine de Thé, Emma Derieux-Billaud, Clément Erhardy, Nina Fiorentini, Alexis Gavriloff, Manon Gignoux, Valentin Gillet, Rusnė Gocentaitė, Eric Godin, Isabella Hin, Sanggu Kim, Winca Mendy, Martin Poulain, Maryam Pourahmad, Ayako Sakuragi, Colombe Thaller, Alexandra Willis, Alžběta Wolfova, Misha Zavalnyi,
Performances by Margot Bernard and Alexandre Curlet
Thursday 3 November at 6.30 pm and 8 pm
Thursday 10 November at 7pm
Thursday 17 November at 7pm
The REG-ARTS project is a joint project of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the CNRS and the INHA. Its objective is to establish an essential resource for art history, enriched digital access to the registration registers of student painters and sculptors at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris between 1813 and 1968.
The Beaux-Arts de Paris are pleased to welcome with Paris+ by Art Basel the project of Omer Fast and the gallery gb agency within the Sites sector of the modern and contemporary art fair.
The Karla exhibition is built on archetypes in which masks, ghosts and characters tell stories of the past that illuminate the present, time loops between documentary and fiction.
Karla's face, 2020 (video hologram) floats in a room. The real Karla works at filtering offensive images and texts for an internet giant. Her anonymous testimony is replayed by an actress whose face has been scanned to convert each of her expressions and emotions into digital data.
The progressive morphing seems to accompany the fragile construction of the story. Karla, both witness and ghostly presence, tells of her role and her eternal mission to suppress ever more unbearable images. An installation of drawings endlessly replays a self-portrait by Max Beckmann from 1917: copies of copies exhaust the artist's traumatised face, one eye open and the other closed.
Whether they delete or make visible on digital platforms, whether they transgress the boundaries of the living and the dead, Omer Fast's characters provoke systems of power. The artist fictionalises what he sees of our world, its transformations and aspirations. Together, these elements respond to the 16th century sculptures on permanent display in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins and explore the inherently ambiguous nature of concepts such as authenticity, time and reality.
Hélène Janicot, a 5th year student, is the winner of a production grant from Rubis Mécénat in partnership with the church of Saint-Eustache and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. She exhibits a work in three stations installed in the heart of the church. Curated by Audrey Illouz.
Hélène Janicot's project for the church of Saint-Eustache is articulated around three stations. The first one opens the path and tests the force of attraction. The artist pushes an architectural motif emblematic of the Gothic church to the point of purity: the pillars that underlie the collateral and invite elevation. Hélène Janicot redraws the octagonal structure by means of metallic wires. A second station offers a completely different relationship of scale: a transparent slab reveals a hole. Reminiscent of an archaeological dig, the hole also refers to the beginning and the fall of bodies. In the Saint-Louis chapel, she proposes a last station and takes in the concrete the prints of her own kneeling body.
With this first in situ project, the artist approaches the very essence of the place through a series of refined but tense gestures, and invites us to a physical and sensitive experience that puts the body and the mind in motion.
The Pernod Ricard Foundation and the Beaux-Arts de Paris renew their collaboration for 2022-2023. Clédia Fourniau, 2021 graduate, inaugurates the second season of the "L'Avancée" program with her paintings in the heart of the café-library.
Located in the heart of the café-library of the new Pernod Ricard Foundation, l'Avancée is a hanging space dedicated to emerging artists, a way to extend the exhibition space into the living space.
"The eye dances across the canvas, from the center to the sides, caught up in the undulations of a pictorial body that is nonetheless motionless. There is, in each work of Clédia Fourniau, a succession of colored layers that calls to dive into the depth, or rather to go up to its surface, towards the opening on which is superimposed a translucent stratification of resins.
Mirroring, this surface reflects by fragments the body of the observer: subtle setting in abyss of the image which reflects itself - which thinks itself - and which reflects the image which questions it - ourselves -. A reflection which goes until leaving the frame, and taking a new dimension, in that the matter stretches its consistency to leave apparent its margins and redefine new contours... Or how to question, of more beautiful, this "reflexive device" and identity of the support which, like the bottom, often passes unnoticed.
Clédia Fourniau uproots the fundamentals to better understand the components and deployments: the object that makes work, the work that is object, the whole that is art. Thorny reflection, even existential, in the immaterial era of the metaverse and the NFT.
Anne-Laure Peressin, art critic
Pernod Ricard Foundation
1, cours Paul Ricard
75008 Paris
The Cercle Chromatique, the alumni association of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, invites Cyprien Chabert to present his project Le théâtre des formes.
The amphitheater, a place of learning about human morphology, will host a vast wall drawing.
It is a kinesis of vegetal and organic forms that combines performance and the realization of a painting on the scale of architecture, the basis of this work presented as a memory of gesture.
Amphitheater of morphology
14 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6e
On the occasion of the publication of John Giorno's Memoirs by the Editions des Beaux-Arts de Paris, a reading is organized at the Maison de la Poésie in the presence of the artist Ugo Rondinone and Jean-Jacques Lebel, artist and specialist of sound poetry.