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[Last days] The exhibition will be closed to the public on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 and January 1, 2025.

From David to Delacroix, Cézanne to Matisse, Ellsworth Kelly to Gina Pane and Hélène Delprat, Souvenirs de jeunesse is a journey back in time over two centuries, from 1780 to 1980, during which the Beaux-Arts de Paris welcomed tens of thousands of aspiring artists.

Through more than 260 works and documents, the exhibition adopts the point of view of youth, that of young men and women on the threshold of their artistic vocation.

In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles have joined forces to organise an exhibition entitled Situations de l'image, presented in different areas of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Paris-based artist and researcher Dana-Fiona Armour won the inaugural Sigg Art Prize on 18 October for the integration of artificial intelligence into art for her interactive video installation, ‘Alvinella Ophis’.

Born in 1988 in Willich, Germany, Dana-Fiona Armour graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019.

Defining herself as an artist-researcher, Dana-Fiona Armour aims to transcend the boundaries between matter and species, acting as an interpreter between humanity and other living beings.

Composition of the jury:

For over two hundred years, the Beaux-Arts de Paris site has devoted a vast complex of buildings - some dating back to the seventeenth century - to the teaching of art and architecture: a place of creation and freedom without equal in the world.

In this book, Anne Debarre and Maxime Decommer, teachers and researchers at the ‘Architecture, Culture, Society’ laboratory at the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, bring together the architectural and educational dimensions of this exceptional site, exploring the evolution of the buildings and their uses.

For Marc Couturier, ‘to draw is to dwell in grace. To draw is to reveal, to walk, to draw is to breathe, to survey lines, it is an exercise in humility and freedom’. Hervé Chandès, extract from the preface.

Born in 1946 in Mirbeau-sur-Bèze (Côte d'or), Marc Couturier lives and works in Paris.

Viewpoint visit with Hélène Delprat, artist, and Valérie Sonnier, artist and teacher at the Beaux-Arts.

Hélène Delprat is an artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and a former studio head. Her polymorphous practice explores the human condition, life and death. Her work encompasses painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, theatre and installation, combining references to literature, cinema, history and philosophy. Hélène Delprat is represented by the galleries Christophe Gaillard and Hauser & Wirth, Paris.

The Reg-Arts database aims to contribute to the renewal of the history of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, which has recently benefited from the development of studies devoted to the history of the teaching of artistic creation and developments in art history research.

Meeting and signing of Marc Couturier's work

Round-table discussion, hanging of drawings and signing of the book dedicated to Marc Couturier, Les personnes, les animaux et les choses , published by Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions.

Performances

Lisa Lecuivre and Simon Deterre, Un chef d'atelier: ‘Tous les ans on se trompe’ (‘Every year we make a mistake’)

Artist Peng Zuqiang, winner of the Art Explora residency at the Cité des Arts, is interested in the emotional resonance of stories, bodies and language. His work includes films, videos and installations.

Théo Mercier is as much a sculptor as he is a director. By turns explorer, collector, curator and artist, his work lies at the crossroads of anthropology, geopolitics, tourism and landscape.