Art & Exhibitions
Must-See Art Guide: Paris
This week's guide includes Pierre Bonnard, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, and more.
Judith Probst
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The City of Love, Paris, is also the city of art, attracting both artists and art lovers for centuries. When you think about Paris, one of the first things that comes to mind is the Louvre. This institution was the world’s most visited art museum in 2013, and is home to the famous Mona Lisa. This month, the Art Paris Art Fair is bringing together 140 galleries from 20 countries at the Grand Palais, showing modern and contemporary art, including photography, design, and art books. The Grand Palais, built for the Universal Exposition in 1900, will also be featuring an exhibition of the famous Spanish Baroque painter Velázquez during the fair.
Many Parisian galleries are featuring Asian art this month. Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, with other locations in Cologne and St. Moritz, is showing oil-on-canvas paintings by Chinese landscape painter Qiu Shihua in his first solo exhibition in France for almost 10 years. Works on Japanese paper by Takehiko Sugawara can be seen in his solo exhibition at Galerie Tamenaga, which has recently begun showing the work of Contemporary Japanese artists. And Galerie LOFT is featuring a Chinese artist in the exhibition “Liu Xin Tao ‘Cameria Obscura.”
France would not be France without French artists. 15 selected prints by the American/French artist Louise Bourgeois are on view at Galerie Lelong Paris. This Tuesday, a retrospective of artist Pierre Bonnard opened at the Musée d’Orsay that sheds new light on Post-Impressionism, and features more than 80 works. The exhibition will later travel to Madrid and San Francisco. Photography is also highlighted in Paris. Contemporary photographs by the young French artist Claire Adelfang that “deal with the place of architecture as a trace of human activity in spite of the paradoxical absence of any humans in it” are presented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
Enjoy springtime on the Seine, climb La Tour Eiffel, and experience the artsy atmosphere on the streets of Paris!
Exhibition: “AMERICAN PAINTERS IN PARIS”
When: January 20–March 20, 2015
Where: Galerie Diane De Polignac, 16 rue de Lille, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Daniel Buren – Au fur et à mesure, travaux in situ et situés”
When: January 24–March 21, 2015
Where: Galerie Kamel Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André des Arts, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe ‘Minutes to Go’”
When: February 6–March 21, 2015
Where: Galerie Mitterrand, 79 rue du Temple, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Louise Bourgeois – Estampes” and “Etel Adnan – Peintures”
When: February 12–March 28, 2015
Where: Galerie Lelong Paris, 13 rue de Téhéran, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Qiu Shihua: Calme”
When: January 16–March 21, 2015
Where: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, 5 rue Debelleyme, Paris, France
Art Fair: “Art Paris Art Fair”
When: March 26–29, 2015
Where: Grand Palais, Avenue du Général Eisenhower, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Takehiko Sugawara”
When: March 19–April 9, 2015
Where: Galerie Tamenaga, 18 avenue Matignon, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Claire Adelfang – Le Hameau de la Reine” and “Nick Oberthaler – Pièce Dérivée”
When: March 18–April 18, 2015
Where: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 7 rue Debelleyme, Paris, France
Exhibition: “GOLD!”
When: March 20–April 18, 2015
Where: Galerie Agnès Monplaisir, 8 bis rue Jacques Callot, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Liu Xin Tao ‘Cameria Obscura’”
When: March 19–May 16, 2015
Where: Galerie LOFT, 3 bis rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Bruce Nauman’”
When: March 14–June 21, 2015
Where: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 261, boulevard Raspail, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Velázquez’”
When: March 25–July 13, 2015
Where: Grand Palais, 3, avenue du Général Eisenhower, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Pierre Bonnard. Painting Arcadia’”
When: March 17–July 19, 2015
Where: Musée d’Orsay, 1, rue de la Légion d’Honneur, Paris, France
Exhibition: “Yves Saint Laurent 1971”
When: March 19–July 19, 2015
Where: Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent, 3 rue Léonce Reynaud, Paris, France
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