Olivier Blanckart's work focuses on three areas: activism, sculpture and photography. A self-taught, committed citizen, the artist first came to prominence through his provocative actions: "Jean-Michel", a homeless artist who begs and stinks; virulent leaflets in galleries and museums; a slogan banner on the Centre Pompidou: "Art against AIDS is useless: wear condoms!
A SCULPTOR, he has developed a unique technique using poor packaging materials (scotch tape, kraft paper, cardboard) and reinterprets iconic scenes from pop culture and the media: sculptural ensembles 66 67 in scotch tape, often monumental in scale, in the legacy of Pop Art and Arte Povera - the political side of "academic" historical sculpture and of satirical caricature and sculpture, at their most "impure".
PHOTOGRAPHE enfin, il mène un travail d’autoportraits comiques où il se représente « en » Coluche, Merkel, Poussin, Courbet, Mélenchon... Des grands écarts esthétiques qu’Olivier Blanckart, qui se définit comme « artiste total », assume : « l’œuvre d'un·e artiste est tout ce qu'un·e artiste fait ». C’est autour de cet esprit de CURIOSITÉ universel, accueillant, alerte, « allumé », expérimentateur et têtu, qu’Olivier Blanckart entend accueillir dans son atelier.
Présent dans les collections publiques françaises et étrangères, il a été nominé au Prix Marcel Duchamp. Il a bénéficié de plusieurs expositions personnelles : Blois, MAMCO Genève, Dole ; et collectives : Carambolages au Grand-Palais (2016) ; Rencontres Internationales de la photo d’Arles, Images Vevey, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (2018), Le rêve d’être artiste, musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille (2019).
The General History of Art courses at the Beaux-arts de Paris in the 2nd and 3rd years are accessible to a limited group of free listeners from outside the School. These courses allow you to acquire a certain number of fundamentals to navigate art history with confidence.
A School where the most venerable artists such as Watteau or Matisse were trained but also the most modern such as Brancusi, Amrita Sher-Gill, or César or the most contemporary such as Neil Beloufa, Stéphane Thidet or Farah Atassi.
« 1/2 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐄 𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐓 », diplôme avec les félicitations du jury de Jullian Swhen Manuel James Dos Anjos Marques (James Dosa), diplômé 2025, atelier Stéphane Calais. Crédit photo © Léonard Berthou
« Opéra de poche », diplôme de François Grange, diplômé 2025, atelier Isabelle Cornaro. Crédit photo © William Basseux
Diplôme de Joséphine Loembe-Sauthat, diplômée 2025, atelier Julien Creuzet. Crédit photo © Droits réservés
"WIND OF FORTUNE", diplôme avec les félicitations du jury de Ladji Diaby, diplômé 2025, Atelier Guillaume Paris, Crédit photo © William Basseux
« 1/2 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐄 𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐓 », diplôme avec les félicitations du jury de Jullian Swhen Manuel James Dos Anjos Marques (James Dosa), diplômé 2025, atelier Stéphane Calais. Crédit photo © Léonard Berthou
« Opéra de poche », diplôme de François Grange, diplômé 2025, atelier Isabelle Cornaro. Crédit photo © William Basseux
Diplôme de Joséphine Loembe-Sauthat, diplômée 2025, atelier Julien Creuzet. Crédit photo © Droits réservés
"WIND OF FORTUNE", diplôme avec les félicitations du jury de Ladji Diaby, diplômé 2025, Atelier Guillaume Paris, Crédit photo © William Basseux
2025 « Silence Is Speaking », diplôme de Chia Huang @chiahuang_eyes, étudiante en 5e année Ateliers Clément Cogitore et Valérie Jouve
2025 « Heu... par contre j'ai jamais dit que j'étais sympa en fait », diplôme de Zoé Chataignon, étudiante en 5e année Atelier Julien Sirjacq © Droits réservés
2025 « Au bord des choses », diplôme d'Eugenie Didier, étudiante en 5e année Atelier Tim Eitel © William Basseux
2025 « A+A & BAL 55555 », diplôme d'Armand Koestinger, étudiant en 5e année Ateliers Emmanuelle Huynh et Julien Prévieux © William Basseux
2025 « 4 FERS EN L’AIR », diplôme de Emily Koffi Brou, étudiante en 3e année Atelier Tatiana Trouvé / Chloé Quenum © Jöel Amissa
2025 « La pierrre des trois communes », diplôme d'Henri Chetaille, étudiant en 3e année Ateliers Michel Blazy et Alvaro Urbano / Petrit Halilaj © William Basseux
2024 Diplôme de Libo Wei, diplômé félicité 2025, Ateliers Tatiana Trouvé, Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano © JinYong Lian
2024 Diplôme de Jinyong Lian, étudiante en 5ème année, Atelier Guillaume Paris © Ugo Casubolo Ferro
2024 Diplôme de Circé Cherry Lac, étudiante de 3ème année, Ateliers Emmanuelle Huynh et Mimosa Échard © Ange Forsakh
2024 Diplôme de Yassin Bouzid, étudiant de 3ème année, Atelier Julien Creuzet © Droits réservés
2025, Vue de l'exposition Chère Melpomène au Palais des Beaux-Arts © Aurélien Molle
2024 Diplôme d'Alexandra Willis, étudiante en 3ème année, Atelier Dove Allouche © Rusne Gocentaité
Félicités 2025 – Adbelhak Benallou @abdelhakbenallou – © Aurélien Molle
Félicités 2025 – Libo Wei @wei.libo – © Aurélien Molle
Félicités 2025 – Sergiy Petlyuk @petlyuk.art – © Aurélien Molle
Pierre Alferi – ça vous regarde – © Succession Pierre Alferi
2024 Diplôme d’Antoine Conde @antoineconde_, diplômé 2024, Atelier Marie José Burki © Ugo Casubolo Ferro
2024 Diplôme d’Esther Imard @estherimard, diplômée 2024, Atelier Bruno Perramant © Ugo Casubolo Ferro
2024 Diplôme de Mia Brenguier @miabrenguier, diplômée 2024, Atelier Hicham Berrada © Tony Manzano
2024 Workshop - Ateliers Emmanuelle Huynh et Julien Prévieux (Crédit photo : Beaux-Arts de Paris)
2024 Diplôme de William Letto @letowill, diplômé 2024, Ateliers Dove Allouche et Fabrice Vannier © Ugo Casubolo Ferro
2024 Diplôme d'Abdelhak Benallou @abdelhakbenallou, étudiant en 5e année Atelier Stéphane Calais (Crédit photo : Ugo Ferro)
2024 𝒯𝓇ℴ𝓅𝒽𝓎 𝒲𝒾𝒻ℯ diplôme de Ninon Enea @ninonenea, étudiante en 5e année Ateliers Halilaj – Urbano et Julien Sirjacq (Crédit photo : Ugo Ferro)
2024 "Il y a dans ma panse coincé, le nom du père et du fils", diplôme de Sarah Banongo @afa.sayn, étudiante en 3e année Atelier Julien Creuzet (Crédit photo @matt.math)
2024 "Se souvient-on d’un nuage", diplôme d'Elias Loudiyi de l'atelier Oliver Blanckart
2024 "Fréquences d'êtres", diplôme de Hajar Satari de l'atelier Isabelle Cornaro
2024 Diplôme de Rusnė Gocentaite de l'atelier Dove Allouche (Crédit photo : Alex Willis)
2024 Diplôme d'Adèle Bertrand de l'atelier Tatiana Trouvé
2023 Diplôme de Mathilde Shaub de l'atelier Mimosa Echard (crédit photo : droits réservés)
2023 Diplôme d’Olivier Lépront de l'atelier Nina Childress (Crédit photo : Pierre Mérigot)
2023 Diplôme diplôme d’Elyoun Auvray de l'atelier Hicham Berrada (Crédit photo : Aurélia Casse)
2023 Diplôme de Tristan Chevillard de l'atelier Djamel Tatah (Crédit photo : Aurélia Casse)
Thursday 29 October 2020
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Amphi des Loges
14 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris
A round table discussion on the collective projects initiated by the artists of the photogram project and the exhibition Dust: the plates of the present at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (October 19, 2020 - March 1, 2021), co-founded by artist Thomas Fougeirol and artist/curator Jo-ey Tang.
Thursday 22 October 2020
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Amphithéâtre des Loges
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
To be followed live: Artist, art critic and founder of the Ars Technica association in Paris, Piero Gilardi talks with Valérie da Costa, art historian, art critic and teacher.
This dialogue between the artist Piero Gilardi and Valérie da Costa, a specialist in Italian art, is an opportunity to look back on the artistic, theoretical and political career of one of the leading figures in Italian art of the 1960s.
From thursday 10 june 2021 to sunday 18 july 2021
Wed. to Sun. 1pm - 7pm (wed. evening schedule 9pm)
Palais des Beaux-Arts (salle Foch)
13 quai Malaquais, 75006 Paris
Major figure on the African artistic scene, Sammy Baloji has been invited by the Festival d'Automne à Paris and Beaux-Arts de Paris, as part of the Africa 2020 season, to present his first solo exhibition in a Parisian institution. Resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2019, he presents the results of his research on the political, religious and commercial exchanges that took place between the Kongo kingdom, Portugal and the Vatican as early as the 16th century.
The exhibition brings together two groups of works: a set of drawings and objects made from motifs borrowed from Kongo fabrics, and a selection of tapestries that are part of famous Indian hangings.
Whether by the artist's hand or simply borrowed, these works bear witness to the complexity of a history of exchanges, transactions and exploitation. They show the contextual and institutional effects of a narrative written by Europe and which has in turn treated these works as tools of diplomacy, works of art, ethnographic artefacts or simple decorative elements.
Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo). He lives and works between Lubumbashi and Brussels. He graduated in Information and Communication Sciences from the University of Lubumbashi and the Haute École des Arts du Rhin. Since September 2019, he has been conducting a PhD research in art at Sint Lucas Antwerpen entitled "Contemporary Kasala and Lukasa: towards a Reconfiguration of Identity and Geopolitics". He was a resident of the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Medici, in 2019-2020.
Over the past ten years, numerous monographic exhibitions have been devoted to his work: Lund Konsthall and Aarhus Kunsthal (2020), Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg (2019), Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2018), Museumcultuur Strombeek (2018), The Power Plant, Toronto and WIELS, Brussels (2016-2017). He has recently participated in several major international events: Sydney Biennial (2020), Documenta 14 (Cassel/Athens, 2017), Lyon Biennial (2015), Venice Biennial (2015).
The exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris is the result of a collective work in which participated:
Lucrezia Cippitelli, art historian, for documentary research on the Italian collections; Anne Lafont, art historian, author of an essay on the contextualization of these tapestries; Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, scenographer, for research and development work around the staging of the exhibition; Inès Di Folco and Elena Valtcheva, for the interpretation of Kongo fabrics on canvas; Cécile Fromont, Associate Professor of Art History at Yale University in the United States and 2020-2021 resident at the Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris // Lighting, Lionel Spycher and William Lambert // Editing, Artcomposit // Exhibition produced by the Festival d'Automne à Paris // In collaboration with the Beaux-Arts de Paris // Event organized as part of the Africa 2020 Season with the support of its Patrons' Committee made up of : Fondation Gilbert et Rose-Marie Chagoury, Orange, Total Foundation, Axian, Groupe Sipromad, JCDecaux, Pernod Ricard, Sanofi, Société Générale, VINCI, CFAO, ENGIE, Thales, Thomson Broadcast and Veolia // With the help of the Cité internationale des arts // With the support of Sylvie Winckler // In partnership with France Culture
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The ticket office in charge invites each visitor coming to discover an exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris to choose his or her entrance ticket from among 3 proposed rates: 2 €, 5 € or 10 €. Contribute according to your means, your passion and your desire for commitment!
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From wednesday 3 february 2021 to sunday 21 march 2021
Online February 3, 2021
L'atlas
latlas.beauxartsparis.fr
Exhibition to be found on latlas.beauxartsparis.fr, the virtual gallery of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, with an exclusive interview of the artist Jean Bedez and the curator Emmanuelle Brugerolles.
Due to the latest government regulations the exhibition Jean Bedez, De Sphaera Mundi is not open to the public at the moment. For the moment, it is open by appointment only to professionals in the strictest respect of sanitary conditions.
The exhibition “De sphaera mundi – Sur la sphère du monde” is an opportunity to present a set of new works by the artist, including an eponymous series made in 2019, as well as three exceptional works created for the occasion. It offers a cosmic exploration revisiting myths, in resonance with the Beaux-Arts de Paris collections.
Jean Bedez's graphite mine drawings offer representations of the contemporary world that function as modern allegories: between political and religious power, entertainment culture or the role of the citizen, they explore the relations of domination in our societies.
The series of drawings “De Sphaera mundi” confronts 12th century planispheres from Gerard of Cremona's The Theory of the Planets with images of a comet observed by the space probe Rosetta; medieval cartographies are telescoped to the latest space technology. The three large drawings are inspired by a sculpture by Michelangelo, dated around 1530 and very damaged by time, representing the battle of Hercules against Cacus. In the works of Jean Bedez, the great Hercules, making Cacus bite the dust, becomes dust himself again. His right arm, the very one that holds his fetish weapon, has disappeared. Ruin wins him, light and darkness clash into a chaotic landscape. It is this damaged, fragile Heracles that Jean Bedez evokes, at least his mediocre aptitude to reach us intact, faithful to himself, the owner without concession of the incredible power which had fallen to him. But mythology is not the only business of the artist, each motif echoes an alchemical, astrophysical, political, poetic, esoteric reality. This is what his works show, the details of an infinite cosmogony and labyrinth that is only at its beginnings.
Graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2001, Jean Bedez was awarded the Lucien Quintard artistic prize for painting, in 1999, at the Stanislas academy in Nancy for a conceptual graphic work questioning the notion of autograph work and the relationship to Time. Both a sculptor and a draftsman, he has exhibited at the CRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Suzanne Tarasiève Gallery, Albert Baronian Gallery, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Palais de Tokyo.
Hercule et Cacus
De Sphaera Mundi
De Sphaera Mundi
From friday 18 september 2020 to saturday 14 november 2020
wed. & sat. 2pm-6pm sun. 12pm-6pm
Château de Rentilly
1 rue de l'Etang, 77600 Bussy-Saint-Martin
Masterpieces from the Beaux-Arts de Paris collection and contemporary art works.
An exhibition designed by Beaux-Arts de Paris new department "Exhibition-related careers". "Exhibition-related careers" is a new professionalization program, offered to 3rd year students of Beaux-Arts de Paris, designed in partnership with Palais de Tokyo.
Frac Île-de-france, the castle / Cultural Park of Rentilly - Michel Chartier
Jean-Michel Alberola, Ismaïl Bahri, Evgen Bavcar, Hicham Berrada, Christian Boltanski, Xavier Boussiron, Flora Bouteille, Pierre Louis Deseine, Jean Baptiste Désoria, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Nina Galdino, Matthias Garcia, Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, Théodore Géricault, Francisco de Goya, Graham Gussin, Lucien Hervé, Hans Holbein the Younger, Pierre Huyghe, Claire Isorni, Ann-Veronica Janssens, Christian Lhopital, Marc Lochner, Antoine Marquis, Bernhard Martin, Romain Moncet, Damien Moulierac, Alicia Paz, Benoît Pype, Valentin Ranger, Hugues Reip, Bettina Samson, Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty, Alain Séchas, Valérie Sonnier, Victor Yudaev, Tereza Zelenková...
In reference to the famous theme cabaret installed at the end of the 19th century in Montmartre, which deployed its parodic and funereal atmosphere by playing with a sulphureous irony of macabre situations, Frac Île-de-France and Communauté d'Agglomération de Marne et Gondoire present, at Château de Rentilly, "Le Cabaret du Néant", an exhibition designed by Beaux-Arts de Paris new department "Exhibition-related careers", which associates contemporary artists with masterpieces of Beaux-Arts de Paris collection.
From the tragic to the parodic, depending on the evolution of society and its morals, religious convictions as well as scientific discoveries, the subject "remember that you are going to die" runs through art and literature. Since the famous macabre dances appeared in the 15th century, it has never ceased to challenge the public and creators, while undergoing profound transformations. Contemporary to the famous "Cabaret du Néant" installed in 1892 on Boulevard de Clichy (18th arrondissement), which gives the exhibition its title, the notion of nothingness has another interpretation, another vision of the same abyss, no less terrible but plastically reversed; that which, in the wake of Mallarmé, leads us to consider human life as "vain forms of matter (…) necessarily rushing into the dream that it knows not to be (…) and proclaiming, before the Nothing that is the truth, these glorious lies!". According to Mallarmé, the role of the port, and therefore the art, consists in drawing man out of this "Nothing", as it from the bottom of a shipwreck, through the supreme game of creation.
Frac île-de-france, the castle
Rentilly Cultural Park - Michel Chartier
1, rue de l'Étang
77600 Bussy-Saint-Martin
T +33 (0)1 60 35 46 72
fraciledefrance.com
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From wednesday 19 may 2021 to sunday 18 july 2021
wed. to sun. 1pm - 7pm
Cabinet de dessins Jean Bonna
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
Admission without prior reservation
Death, Eros, Gothic, natural powers or exoticism... Romanticism takes hold of these themes and explores the mysteries of human life. Through about thirty of its most beautiful sheets, using various techniques such as graphite, pen or watercolor, the exhibition highlights the richness of Romantic drawing and presents works by Géricault, Delacroix, Victor Hugo and Scheffer.
It was between 1815 and 1850 that Romantic drawing reached its apogee in an artistic context full of vitality. The Beaux-Arts de Paris intends to sketch its specificities - extravagance, lyricism, despair and excessiveness - through works from its collection, most of which are unpublished.
Attracted by faraway journeys, heroic scenes, and the spectacle of nature, the romantic artists forged a new fantastic and audacious universe that appealed to passionate collectors, some of whom donated their drawings to the Beaux-Arts de Paris: His de la Salle (1867), Edouard Gatteaux (1883) and Alfred Armand (1908).
For this exhibition, the Beaux-Arts de Paris unveils part of this collection, first thoughts but also finished works executed in techniques as varied as graphite, pen and watercolor.
Thanks to the generosity of the association Le Cabinet des amateurs de dessins de l'École des Beaux-Arts, but also with the help of the Heritage Fund of the Ministry of Culture, the Beaux-Arts de Paris has been able to acquire major works from this period, such as Six Horses in Freedom by Horace Vernet, The Conversion of Saint Paul and A Woman on Horseback as an Amazon in Front of a Landscape by Eugène Delacroix, Victor Hugo's Château de Corbus, Eugène Isabey's L'orage en mer, Célestin Nanteuil's Ballade de Léonore, Théodore Chassériau's Etude de femme relever sa chevelure et de mendiante tient son enfant and more recently Eberhard le larmoyeur and Ossian évoquer les fantômes sur les bords du Lora by Ary Scheffer.
Curator : Emmanuelle Brugerolles
A publication accompanies the exhibition.
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