Month: July 2023

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Our Ecology will feature four chapters of diverse expression courtesy of an impressive lineup of international artists, from historical works to a number commissioned especially for the exhibition.

Above all, the title Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living asks who we are, and to whom the Earth’s environment belongs, and the exhibition urges us to think about environmental problems and other issues not only from an anthropocentric perspective, but also by looking at the Earth’s multiple ecologies from a broader, more comprehensive standpoint. This sustainable exhibition, designed to reduce the use of transport to a minimum by reusing and recycling as many resources as possible, will make the Mori Art Museum a place to contemplate how contemporary art and artists have to date engaged with environmental issues, and how they can continue to do so in the future.

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A look back at 20 years of work in an introspective (rather than retrospective) exhibition featuring recent paintings, photographs, installations, music and works by friends, all of which contribute to forming a portrait of the artist, but also of an era.

With works by Ismaïl Bahri, Louidgi Beltrame, Davide Bertocchi, Loïc Blairon, Jean-Luc Blanc, Lilian Bourgeat, Julien Carreyn, Nina Childress, Isabelle Cornaro, Monique Deregibus, Adélaïde Feriot, Mark Geffriaud, Guillaume Janot, Pierre Joseph, Shawn Lee, Géraldine Longueville, Didier Marcel, Laurent Millet, Laurent Montaron, Ange Petit, Jean-Marie Perdrix, Loïc Raguénès, Clément Rodzielski, Sarah Tritz, Pierre Vadi, Xavier Veilhan…

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Companions of our daydreams, stones, older than life, have exerted on humans a fascination of which each of us shares the experience: a collection, a launch, an admiring contemplation. Poets and artists of all periods of art have testified to the profound inflections that these silent presences have had on their creations.

The great surrealist writer Roger Caillois, some remarkable examples from whose collection of minerals constitute the prologue of this exhibition, was able to describe this insistent relationship: ‘more than once, I have thought that it was appropriate to look at stones as a kind of poem.’ Accompanied by the writer’s prose, the exhibition is the novel of this continuous frequentation that reveals how these minerals occupy a decisive position between the caprice of nature and the work of art.

The Stories of stones exhibition presented at the Villa Medici has benefited from loans from more than 70 institutions and brings together nearly 200 works, from the oldest terrestrial mineral dating back 4.4 billion years to the latest mineral created, Sentimentite, by the contemporary artist Agnieszka Kurant. The route unfolds in ten exhibition rooms and continues in the ancient reservoir of the Villa Medici, in the apartments of Cardinal Ferdinand de Medici and in the Balthus workshop.

Curators: Jean de Loisy & Sam Stourdzé

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Group show.

The work of the participating artists all directly or indirectly addresses the themes of home, domesticity, and family life, with all its happy (and tricky) implications. And the exhibition’s title, Home Is Where You’re Happy, is borrowed from a song written by Charles Manson, whose childhood home was anything but happy, and who eventually founded his own murderous “Family.” Thematically linked through an array of dialogues, the artworks become representatives of all the psychodynamic processes, fantasies, and memories still haunting Haus Mödrath

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The exhibition “Je ne suis pas ce que tu vois de moi” (I am not what you see of me) focuses on different approaches to the body, identity and gender. Starting with an installation by Ashley Hans Scheirl and Jakob Lena Knebl, the exhibition takes up discursive approaches and highlights several expressions of the body and gender negotiated outside the frameworks imposed by heteronormative and heterosexist societies.

Among the artists exhibiting: Marina Abramović, Kader Attia, Romain Bernini, Jonny Briggs, Michael Ray Charles, Nina Childress, Tracey Emin, Nina Mae Fowler, Nan Goldin, Oda Jaune, Lebohang Kganye, Phumzile Khanyile, Jakob Lena Knebl, Senzeni Marasela, Roghayeh Najdi, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Valérie Oka, Amadou Sanogo, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Sandy Skoglund, Mircea Suciu, Jeanne Vicérial, Bri Williams, Philemona Williamson…

Her Hare consists of new and existing ceramic work in the Studio Gallery, and two large tapestry works in the Link Gallery; M.A.Z.E. and Soft Divider.

The title of the exhibition speaks to Achaintre’s interest in language, and the potential for misunderstanding and alternative viewpoints to arise from written, verbal or visual communication, especially as they cross cultural and linguistic boundaries. Connected to this is an interest in the subjectivity of meaning and the capacity of storytelling to reframe an object or place.

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