Agenda // Galerie Polaris
Agenda // Reste du monde
Christian Lhopital
Splendeur et désolation , commissaire : Lóránd HEGYI
Depuis plus de 40 ans, Christian Lhopital (né en 1953) a fait du dessin sa raison d’être.
Son univers poétique, étrange et inquiétant, fascine par la simplicité troublante des dessins.
Dans les séries récentes qu’il montrera au Cabinet d’art graphique du Musée (1er étage), il y a toujours une oscillation entre le foisonnement fécond de son imaginaire et un réel cru dont il est avide, entre le fantastique et le fantasque, le grotesque et le cauchemar redouté. Il pointe du doigt notre part de cruauté, notre désarroi, dans des espaces isolés où tout est en suspens.
Les personnages les plus représentatifs de ses dessins sont des adultes un peu informes et des enfants qui ont tout vu, et s’étonnent encore de trois fois rien et pour qui l’éternité n’a pas de sens : l’enfance des possibles. Par un jeu de regards, Christian Lhopital tisse des fils entre ces êtres regardés et regardants, et nous, spectateurs.
"Splendeur et désolation", terrible état des choses, et de notre condition humaine est le titre d’un ensemble de dessins dans lesquels des papillons, aux formes somptueuses, se délitent et se décomposent.
Plusieurs séries récentes de dessins seront présentées,des grands formats de "Splendeur et désolation" (2012) mais également des œuvres plus petites comme celles de "Hors de lui" (2011) et "Expérience périlleuse" (2012).
L’exposition de Christian Lhopital s’inscrit dans le fort attachement du Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole au dessin contemporain.
Samedi 23 février 2013 > Jeudi 30 mai 2013
Stéphane Couturier
Landmark - The Fields of Photography
curated by John William A. Ewing
Mercredi 13 mars 2013 > Mardi 28 mai 2013
Stéphane Couturier
de sculptura. Blicke in die Dresdner Skulpturensammlung
curated by Martin Hochleitner
Lundi 25 mars 2013 > Lundi 15 juillet 2013
Bouchra Khalili
Cross Borders
Curated by Elisabeth Klotz
Over the course of the “Arab Spring” the region to the south of the Mediterranean is undergoing a state of transformation, the events of which are followed in Europe with great interest, but also with hope and skepticism. With respect to content, the focus of the exhibition “Cross-Border” is on artist’s critical investigation of various thematic aspects of the concept of borders, the attitudes and approaches to borders and strategies of overcoming them. Questions emerge within the context of the exhibition, which adopt a clear position to this issue and elaborate a range of solutions, which treat regionally specific, political or cultural aspects.
The eighteen artists whose works are represented in the exhibition are globally networked. Several of them have spent many years abroad, a number of them currently in foreign countries or else commute between different countries. The exhibition offers a differentiated perspective on the region through the works of the artists, which invite viewers to reevaluate biased perspectives and misinterpretations.
Artists: Arwa Abouon, Lara Baladi, Anna Boghiguian, Yto Barrada, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Diana El Jeiroudi, Rana ElNemr, Reem Ghazzi, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hefuna, Emily Jacir, Amal Kenawy, Bouchra Khalili, Diala Khasawnih, Randa Mirza, Faten Rouissi, Mouna Jemal Siala, Oraib Toukan
Jeudi 4 avril 2013 > Dimanche 15 septembre 2013
Khaled Jarrar
United Nation Revisited
Samedi 20 avril 2013 > Dimanche 4 août 2013
Freizeit Forum Marzahn, Arndt-Bause-Saal / Berlin / Allemagne
Khaled Jarrar
DISOBEDIENCE ARCHIVE (THE REPUBLIC)
After visits to the Van Abbemuseum of Eindhoven, Nottingham Contemporary, Raven Row in London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and the Bildmuseet dof Umeå, Disobedience Archive is presented at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea with a format and concept planned expressly for the Museum. The exhibition-archive explores the links between contemporary art practices, cinema, tactile media and political activism.
The exhibition is realized thanks to the collaboration with Open Care – Servizi per l’Arte, Milan and NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan with the Biennio di Arti Visive e Studi Curatoriali.
Media Partner La Stampa, Turin.
Lundi 22 avril 2013 > Dimanche 30 juin 2013
Odile Decq
SCULPTRICES
Villa Datris, fondation pour la sculpture contemporaine
Dimanche 28 avril 2013 > Lundi 11 novembre 2013
Odile Decq
SCULPTRICES
Dimanche 28 avril 2013 > Lundi 11 novembre 2013
Villa Datris, fondation pour la sculpture contemporaine / L'Isle sur la Sorgue
Yto Barrada
The 5th Auckland Triennial
The 5th Auckland Triennial opens in May at Auckland Art Gallery and seven additional sites, extending the Triennial’s reach across Auckland. Led by renowned curator Hou Hanru, If you were to live here... includes work by more than 35 New Zealand and international artists, collectives and architects.
Previously curator of major biennials including Lyon, Istanbul, and Guangzhou, Hou has invited artists to respond to the diverse cultural, social, architectural and urban characteristics of Auckland. ‘A triennial,’ he says, ‘is a space for producing new aesthetic forms and social spaces. It is not only an occasion to see art, but an interaction between artists, people and the city to envisage possible futures.’
Vendredi 10 mai 2013 > Jeudi 15 août 2013
Yto Barrada
XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography
This exhibition offers a critical assessment of photography’s influential role in contemporary art through a selection of recent major acquisitions, comprised primarily of multipart and serial works by 19 artists. These works—each of which is being presented at MoMA for the first time—are grounded in diverse photographic traditions, suggesting the creative fertility of the medium from 1960 to today. They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes, such as photograms and photomontages; to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera; to political and documentary engagements with themes of labor history and globalization in the 1980s; to post-appropriative forms of archival and historical reconstitution since 2000. The cross-generational group of 19 international artists features Yto Barrada, Phil Collins, Liz Deschenes, Stan Douglas, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Frank, Paul Graham, Leslie Hewitt, Birgit Jürgenssen, Jürgen Klauke, Bela Kolářová, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dóra Maurer, Oscar Muñoz, Mariah Robertson, Allan Sekula, Stephen Shore, Taryn Simon and Hank Willis Thomas.
Galleries 1–4 open May 10; gallery 5 opens August 23
The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Sarah Meister, Curator, and Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography.
Vendredi 10 mai 2013 > Lundi 6 janvier 2014
Speedy Graphito
NEWWORLDS
Fabien Castanier Gallery today announced that NEWWORLDS, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by renowned contemporary urban
artist, Speedy Graphito, will open on May 11.
Always at the forefront of the cultural landscape, Speedy presents all new work that explores
the mutation and perception of the image. In the age of digital over-consumption, myriad
channels of communication have transformed the planet into a formidable distribution network,
invading the world and our everyday lives on an intimate level. Speedy Graphito will explore
these concepts through a variety of different mediums, from sculptures and paintings to
installations.
This latest exhibition marks Speedy as one of the major figures in urban contemporary art, with
an unparalleled global reach that he has built over the past 30 years. Since the early 1980s, he
has imposed a powerful and innovative style that has captured the attention of the art world. He
hasn’t stopped evolving, always in step with the times by inventing pictorial languages and
codes that are iconoclastic and satirical of society. His works are found in private and public
collections throughout the world – across Europe, Asia, and now, North America.
“This exhibition for Speedy, at every level, is a turning point in his career,” said Castanier,
“NEWWORLDS will be an immersive experience and his most ambitious show to date, one that
reflects his exceptional talent, not only as a painter but as a conceptual artist as well.”
For the past three years, Speedy Graphito has developed a strong presence in the U.S.,
beginning with his first U.S. solo exhibition, Freeway, in Fall 2011 at the Fabien Castanier
Gallery. Since then, he has exhibited at numerous major art fairs, including Scope New York,
Context Art Miami, and the Los Angeles Art Fair. His paintings and sculptures, as well as largescale
installations and murals, have been acquired by private collections across the country and
his influence on the American art market continues to grow.
Vendredi 10 mai 2013 > Mardi 11 juin 2013
Castanier Gallery Los ANgeles / Los Angeles
Clémence Van Lunen
Clémence Van Lunen
Musee Royal de Mariemont
Samedi 18 mai 2013 > Dimanche 1er septembre 2013
Speedy Graphito
Speedy Graphito
Speedy Graphito,reconnu comme l’un des pionniers du mouvement “Street’Art” français, a choisi de prendre le lieu à contre-pied, présentant dans le parc du Moulin des œuvres faisant référence à l’espace urbain et déclinant dans la salle d’exposition une série de paysages.
Samedi 18 mai 2013 > Dimanche 15 septembre 2013
Laure Tixier
Arsenic et belles dentelles Le fil dans l'art contemporain
Samedi 25 mai 2013 > Samedi 29 juin 2013
Espace culturel Maurice Utrillo / Place Jean Jaurès / 93380 PIERREFITTE-SUR-SEINE
Khaled Jarrar
International Documentary Film Festival 2013
The documentary reveals the daring attempts of men, women and Palestinian children to sneak past the Separation Wall in Jerusalem. They aren’t traffickers or smugglers, some are broken families, people who work or pray on the other side of the border. They all take the risk of being discovered or even breaking their legs while trying."We will continue crossing even if they build a thousand walls”, says one of the protagonists.
Jeudi 30 mai 2013 > Samedi 1er juin 2013
Bouchra Khalili
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico - 55 th Biennale de Venezia
Curated by Massimiliano Gioni
The 55th International Art Exhibition titled Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), curated by Massimiliano Gioni
will be laid out in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale forming a single itinerary, with works spanning over the past century alongside several new commissions .
“Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) is a show about obsessions and about the transformative power of the imagination; the exhibition opens in the Central Pavilion with a presentation of Carl Gustav Jung’s Red Book” – Gioni continues. “In the vast halls of the Arsenale the exhibition is organized as a progression from natural to artificial forms, following the typical layout of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of curiosities. Just like Auriti’s Palace, these baroque proto-museums brought together man-made and natural wonders to construct visual compendia of the world through a science of elective affinities and magical sympathies. This associative process of knowledge, through its heterogeneous ordering of objects and images, draws interesting parallels between the wunderkammer and today’s culture of hyper-connectivity.”
Through the many examples of artworks and figurative expressions on view, including films, photographs, videos, bestiaries, labyrinths, performances and installations, “The Encyclopedic Palace emerges as an elaborate but fragile construction, a mental architecture that is as fantastical as it is delirious. After all – says Gioni – the biennale model itself is based on the impossible desire to concentrate the infinite worlds of contemporary art in a single place: a task that now seems as dizzyingly absurd as Auriti’s dream.”
Samedi 1er juin 2013 > Dimanche 24 novembre 2013
Matthias Bruggmann
FALSEFAKES - 50JPG
L’exposition centrale des 50JPG interroge la qualité documentaire de la photographie. Il est certain que nous partageons la conviction que la production d’images optiques fonctionne toujours comme témoignage de notre monde tangible. Cette croyance du XIXème siècle, scientifique et positiviste, est ébranlée dans les sociétés capitalistes contemporaines par la déréalisation de nos vies et la spectacularisation de l’information. Et les artistes y participent en renversant les codes photographiques, tels Jeff Wall ou Matthias Bruggmann
Mercredi 5 juin 2013 > Dimanche 28 juillet 2013
Stéphane Couturier
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013
Stéphane Couturier a créé en 2010 une série de grands formats intitulée Melting Point – Avignon donnant à voir la métamorphose des lieux d’Avignon, de monuments patrimoniaux aux salles de spectacle, de la répétition à la représentation.
Lundi 1er juillet 2013 > Dimanche 22 septembre 2013
Stéphane Couturier
Triennale Aïchi
the new Triennale of Aïchi is curated by
Lewis Biggs Born in 1952. Biggs was the Director of Tate Liverpool from 1990 to 2000.
Fumihiko Sumitomo
Born in 1971. Sumitomo is one of the curators of the Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2012, ‘Mixed Bathing World’.
and Shihoko Iida
Born in 1975. Iida was involved in the opening of Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from 1998 and has held position as Curator until 2009.
Samedi 10 août 2013 > Samedi 23 novembre 2013
