The Beaux-Arts de Paris are delighted to be co-hosting a project by Jean-Charles De Quillacq and the Galerie Marcelle Alix (Paris) with Art Basel Paris.
The exuberant 17th-century setting of the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins could not offer a better setting for Jean-Charles de Quillacq's sculptures. Pieces of bread, cigarette butts and car coolant share the space with the museum's permanent works and several organic forms, stretched or at rest, lying on polystyrene supports that retain traces of their manufacture. Jean-Charles de Quillacq's research focuses on the body and its representations, its materials and interactions, and its social organisation. Half-naked mannequins with polyurethane crotches moulded into jeans, chemical reconstitutions of the artist's own sweat, these representations act as metaphors for the ambiguous and unstable nature of capitalism.
Practical info
From Tuesday 15 October 2023 to Sunday 20 October 2024 every day from 10am to 7pm
Free admission to the exhibition
Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
14 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6
Photo credits : Exhibition view ‘Des corps, des écritures. Regards sur l'art d'aujourd'hui’, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 2021. photo : Aurélien Mole Titre oeuvre : Alexa, 2021
Courtesy : Marcelle Alix, Paris
