The Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Cité de la Ceramique - Sèvres et Limoges sign a two-year partnership in order to develop a dialogue around ceramic arts and to support students and young artists of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. This partnership will promote the dissemination of works and the transmission of excellent know-how.
Born in 1979, Alexis Bertrand is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. He has been designing scenography for exhibitions, shows and artworks since 2005. He has worked with institutions including ZKM (Karlsruhe), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and Lafayette Anticipation (Paris), as well as with artists such as Camille Henrot and Évariste Richer.
He also works regularly with Xavier Veilhan on projects for works, exhibitions and shows. They co-signed Vårbergs Jättar (The Giants of Vårberg), a work commissioned by the City of Stockholm, and recently the show Tout l'univers, premiered in November 2023 at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes.
Bruno Perramant's work is elusive. Defining painting as a counter-image and choosing his allies, as a true strategist, from the side of literature, philosophy, cinema, dance and the entire history of painting, he never lets go of reality, pierced by poetry . His singular use of the polyptych and his investment in the depth of color make his polyphonic propositions a true thought experiment and an enlargement of the scintillating substance of the world.
After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Brest, Quimper and Avignon, he lived in Marseille, Tokyo, New York, Paris... while regularly sailing on various oceans. He has been exhibited in numerous museums such as the Center Pompidou, the Kunshalle in Vienna, the Schirn kunshalle in Frankfurt, the GEM Gemeenntemuseum in The Hague, the Benaki Museum in Athens, the Muhka in Antwerp, the museums of Shanghai, Canton and Beijing, as well as the MAC/VAL in Ivry sur Seine, the Frac Auvergne, the Frac Alsace, the Collège des Bernardins in Paris… and various European galleries including the InSitu Fabienne Leclerc gallery in Paris. He stayed at the Villa Médicis in 2007-2008 and is preparing a project with the writer Yannick Haenel at the Delacroix museum in 2024
Fascinated by the city, Valérie Jouve captures its characters, their behaviors and captures the spaces that our projections build on and for the city. The question of the treatment of space is at the heart of the subject: it is a question of understanding how the figure, human or otherwise, gives presence and meaning to what surrounds it. His cinematographic practice begins with the film Grand Littoral (2001), then comes Time is working (2006), Repérages (2009), Traversée (2011) and Porte d’Aubervilliers (2022). His films, his exhibitions and his books are crossings of territory, stories of our stories as men and women. The images are constructed independently, archived then activated during the various demonstrations of his work. Valérie Jouve likes to build urbanities that could be nourished by multitudes of living elements, human and non-human.
She has been working for five years between the city and the countryside to question the links that nourish each other. She has collaborated with architects on various photographic commissions concerning architecture and the city. Since 2017, she has collaborated in an urban anthropology research laboratory, the LAA.
Isabelle Cornaro is an artist, curator and teacher. Her work has been shown at the Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris), the Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard (Paris) and the Ludwig Museum (Koblenz) in 2021, as well as at the Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) as part of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021. In recent years, she has had solo exhibitions in numerous international public and private institutions such as the MRAC (Sérignan, 2018), the Fondation Hermès (Brussels, 2016), the South London Gallery (London, 2015), the M-Museum (Leuven, 2014), La><art (Los Angeles, 2014), the Kunsthalle Bern (2013), the CNAC-Le Magasin (Grenoble, 2012), and the Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2009). His work has also been shown in group exhibitions, including Stories of Almost Everyone (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2018), Une brève histoire du futur (Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2015), Archeo (Highline, NYC, 2014), Beware Wet Paint (ICA, London, 2014), One Torino (Palazzo Cavour, Turin, 2013), Decorum (MAMVP, Paris, 2013), la Triennale de Paris (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012), Vide-poche (Sculpture Center, NYC, 2011).
In 2023, his work will be the subject of a new monograph published by JRP Éditions, with texts by Cécile Debray, Clément Dirié, Fabrice Stroun and Tim Griffin; and in 2024, of a solo exhibition at the Fondazione Giuliani in Rome.
Michel Blazy works with materials and living things. Favouring humble materials, generally taken from his everyday life, he presents free, evolving proposals that assert the passage of time. Whether it's his early experiments with lenses, his walls that peel or his fountains of moss, his works celebrate the mutations of matter and leave room for chance and the unpredictable. Always a humorous and poetic critic of contemporary consumerism, he questions the status of the work of art and proposes an alternative that reconciles the artificial and the natural, technology and the living world.
His work can be found in a number of public collections. Recent exhibitions include Six pieds sur terre, Le portique, Le Havre (2022); Multiverse, La Loge, Brussels (2019); We Were The Robots, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, (2019); Viva Arte Viva, Venice Biennale (2017); Living Room II, Maison Hermès, Tokyo (2016).
Romain Bernini's pictorial work is imbued with questions about colour and space, mythology and popular culture. Whether in lush, enigmatic landscapes, masked or disguised figures, or strange, indeterminate zones, his works reveal a world on the margins, marked by a history that combines utopias and rituals.
A resident of the Villa Médicis in Rome in 2010-2011, he has taken part in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad, including: Immortelle (MO. CO, Montpellier, 2023), Them (Suzanne Tarasieve gallery, Paris, 2022) la Profonde Alliance (le Parvis, Centre d'art Tarbes, 2021), Expended Minds (HdM gallery Pékin-Londres, 2020), Eldorama (Lille 3000, 2019), Les Enfants du Paradis (Musée des Beaux-arts de Tourcoing, 2019), Blue Bird (Daegu Art Factory, South Korea, 2022), Tristes tropiques (1905 Art Space, Shenyang, China 2021) and Creating Worlds (Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea, 2017).
In partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the "Troubles, Dissidence and Aesthetics" Chair
and the Festival d'Automne à Paris, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Delegation in France and the Jerk Off Festival.
For this new edition, the Échelle Humaine festival is letting itself be swept along by the movements of artists, researchers, students and the general public, who are taking over Lafayette Anticipations and revealing its spaces of play, porosities and mutations.
From Saturday 16 September 2023 to Sunday 17 September 2023
10:30am - 6:00pm
Beaux-Arts de Paris
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
The Beaux-Arts de Paris are opening the doors of their listed buildings, which are usually closed to the public.
Crédit photo : Adrien Thibault
Crédit photo : Jean-Baptiste Monteil
It was with deep sadness that we learned of the death of Pierre Alferi, an immense writer, poet and beloved teacher at the Beaux-Arts in Paris.
We shall miss him.
Our thoughts are with all those who loved him.
