On the occasion of the exhibition "Inhabiting the interstices, Beirut, the artists and the city" at the Michel Journiac gallery of the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, round table with the two curators of the exhibition, Françoise Docquiert and Nayla Tamraz, and some of the artists of the exhibition: Nadim Asfar, Sirine Fattouh, Mireille Kassar, Marwan Moujaes and Maha Yammine
Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator and art critic. He directs Radicants, a "curatorial cooperative" that will begin in 2022. He founded and co-directed the Palais de Tokyo from 1999 to 2006, before becoming Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at the Tate Britain in 2007, and leading the creation of the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev. In 2010, he was called upon to head the Ministry of Culture's Department of Inspection for Artistic Creation and then directed several cultural institutions until 2021.
The taste of the ugly
French-British fashion journalist Alice Pfeiffer talks with Alain Berland on the occasion of the publication of her essay Le goût du moche (The taste of the ugly) published by Flammarion.
This essay, in the form of a personal account, touches on what is foreign about loving what does not fit into the norms of good taste.
Is ugly a new trend? Is it a simple pleasure to displease that to display the ugly on oneself? Could the ugly be a political, radical gesture, an act of resistance in an ultra-filtered virtual world?
Private Christmas sale at the Beaux-Arts bookshop in Paris
From Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th December 2021
Books, posters, prints, postcards, gift items at exceptional prices.
Among the latest publications: Memoirs of John Giorno, Baalbek, Le grand voyage au Liban, Félicités 2022 - Pour en finir encore, Les Louanges de Raban Maur, Eva Jospin, dessins pour un jardin, Respirer l'ombre de Giuseppe Penone, 1081 Peintures de Nina Childress...
Private Christmas Sale at the Fine Arts Bookshop in Paris
From Thursday 9 to Saturday 18 December 2021
Books, posters, prints, postcards, gift items at exceptional prices.
Among the latest releases: Breathing in the shadow by Giuseppe Penone, Patrick Faigenbaum's coloring album, 1081 Paintings by Nina Childress, Reflection on color by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Humor! by Georges Wolinski...
In order to pay tribute to Huang Yong Ping who passed away in October 2019 and on the occasion of the exhibition Is Paris Burning? 2019 by Huang Yong Ping and Shen Yuan, an exceptional round table is organized by the gallery kamel mennour and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Historians and curators Marcella Lista and Florian Ebner talk with Christian Joschke, art historian and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, on the occasion of the publication of Formations en mouvement, which gathers the writings of the artist and director Hito Steyerl, published by the Centre Pompidou.
The art of loving
Emmanuel Mouret is a director and actor. He graduated from the FEMIS in 1998 and directed his first feature film, Laissons Lucie faire in 2000. Since then, he has directed 9 other films and has been an actor in 8 of them. His latest film Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait was nominated for the 2021 Césars in the categories of best original screenplay, best direction and best film.
With the support of Société Générale
Be unreadable
Roxanne Maillet questions the text, its formatting and its reading as a collective practice as well as in a "feminist dyke" perspective. Her work manifests itself in the form of reading groups, books, typographies, T-shirts...
Art historians Arnauld Pierre and Pascal Rousseau discuss the publication of the reference work L'Abstraction, published by Citadelles et Mazenod.
The emergence of abstraction at the beginning of the 20th century led to a total paradigm shift. This book aims to retrace the epic of these works that emancipate themselves from reality and the major rupture they provoke in the history of art.
