In the field of photography, François Halard occupies a singular place, that of a great interior architecture photographer nourished by a passion for antique and archaeological fragments, 18th-century decors, the abstract and radical paintings of modernity, and the experimental and documentary photography of the 1920s.
Winner of a production grant from Rubis Mécénat in partnership with the church of Saint-Eustache and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Marc Lohner, a 5th year student, is presenting an installation of five strips of fabric suspended in the heart of the church. Curated by Marc Donnadieu.
For the Acheiropoïètes exhibition, a Greek term meaning "not made by the hand of man", Marc Lohner did not attempt to represent the divine, but wanted to reveal what the hand of time, or sometimes involuntarily and voluntarily that of human beings, has left on the walls of the church. To do this, he systematically photographed all the faces of the octagonal limestone blocks that serve as the bases for the church's eighty-two interior pillars, as well as other parts that are less accessible to the eye but still bear the original traces of the building's various construction periods.
After making, sorting and classifying all the images obtained, he printed the most characteristic of them on five strips of translucent linen fabric that he hung between certain pillars, almost twelve metres high. Thanks to subtle effects of perspective, tone on tone and transparency, the photographic skins of the church are superimposed on its natural limestone skins, the pixels of the image on the grains of the stone. In this way, the viewer's gaze is carried away by a double, inverted movement of falling towards the paving on the ground and rising towards the aerial vaults, a constantly renewed coming and going between materiality and immateriality, gravity and lightness, shadow and light...
An evening of debates between artists from the programme "Les apparences", a Twitch and YouTube channel of interviews with contemporary French painters initiated by artist Thomas Lévy-Lasne.
With Henni Alftan, Marion Bataillard, François Boisrond, Jean Claracq, Claire Chesnier, Marc Desgrandchamps, Jean-Charles Eustache, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Maude Maris, Olivier Masmonteil, Marie-Claire Mitout, Simon Pasieka, Nazanin Pouyandeh and Gérard Traquandi.
Juliette Delecour and Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, co-founders of the Atelier Ati association and the ArtMéssiamé residency, which enables artists in Europe and Africa to work together, discuss contemporary African art and the impact of cultural policies with Hajida Jemni, director of the Contemporary Art of Africa and the Diaspora department at the Centre for Applied Research in Contemporary Culture at IESA Arts et Culture. In partnership with Le Cercle Chromatique.
Publisher and director Anaïs Ngbanzo talks to Philo Cohen, artist, archivist, curator and publisher, about Éditions 1989 and her work on composer Julius Eastman.
Gelitin is a collective made up of Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban.
These four artists first met at a summer camp in 1978, where they began to collaborate. The Gelitin collective only officially formed and began exhibiting in 1993. They work and live in Vienna, Austria.
Round-table discussion organised to mark the publication of Une révolution iranienne : Femme, Vie, Liberté, with Odile Burluraux, heritage curator at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, Chahda Chafiq, writer and sociologist, Rachida El Azzouzi, journalist at Mediapart and photographer, Hugo Vitrani, exhibition curator at the Palais de Tokyo and Julien Sirjacq, artist and head of studio at the Beaux-Arts in Paris.
The Beaux-Arts de Paris are pleased to welcome with Paris+ by Art Basel the project by Jessica Warboys and the gallery Gaudel de Stampa (Paris).
The 17th-century chapel of the Beaux-Arts de Paris will host an exhibition by British artist Jessica Warboys, exploring the overlap between man-made culture and nature. Titled ‘THIS TAIL GROWS AMONG RUINS’, it will combine a multichannel video and sound installation with a large collage of unstretched paintings. Warboys makes these by following a unique process: She brushes the canvas with beeswax, immerses it in wild bodies of water, and then sprinkles it with mineral pigments on the shores. In her eponymous video work, the artist stages the journey of a candle through various sites where nature and culture intersect, from the Biblioteca Joanina in Coimbra, Portugal – home to a colony of bats that protect its precious manuscripts from insects – to the pine forest surrounding the Arvo Pärt Center in Laulasmaa, Estonia. The video is accompanied by a soundtrack using the amplified sounds of bats, composed by Morten Norbye Halvorsen. The project is presented by Gaudel de Stampa (Paris).
Practical info
From Tuesday 17 October 2023 to Sunday 22 October 2023 every day from 10am to 7pm Free admission to the exhibition
Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
14 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6