In the fall of 2026, the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris will dedicate an exhibition to a recent acquisition, *A Hot Afternoon* by Gina Pane (1977). Of Italian origin and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, this artist is one of the leading figures in body art. She creates performances that she calls “actions,” which give rise to visual compositions, or “constatations

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As part of the national initiative “La classe, l’œuvre!”, organised by the Ministries of Culture and National Education, a Year 9 class from Paul Langevin Secondary School in Alfortville will be offering guided tours to visitors at the “Des mots et des mondes” exhibition for the duration of an afternoon. 

The pupils selected works by six artists: Claude Closky, Lou le Forban, Maëlle Lucas le Garrec, Cléopatra Gones, Camille Soualem and Clarisse Pillard.

6.30pm | PERFORMANCE

Anon, Hors-Série de Journal, performance (2024), 55 minutes
Simon Asencio, Matthieu Blond, Fredrik Floen
Lobby, Palais des Beaux-Arts

This performance is the result of a dialogue between two projects: *Journal*, an oral and gestural journal initiated by the choreographer Matthieu Blond, and the research project *Quire Whidsune* on medieval poetic and theatrical forms led by the artist Simon Asencio. This collaboration aims to develop a choreographic reconstruction of Virginia Woolf’s essay *Anon*.

A staged reading by Tristan Garcia, accompanied by Agnès Gayraud.

Tristan Garcia, accompanied for the occasion by the vocals and electric guitar of La Féline (Agnès Gayraud), will give a reading from his short story, "Front Haut" (Âmes, Gallimard, 2019). It is a brief epic tale of a Neanderthal woman betrayed by a human.

Tristan Garcia, a lecturer at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, has published works on theory and novels. His latest book is *Vie contre vie* (Gallimard, 2021).

The exhibition at the Cabinet des Dessins et Estampes - Jean Bonna in Beaux-Arts de Paris focuses on Michelangelo to explore the concepts of influence and transmission.


Michelangelo holds a special place in the pantheon of great artists: his work, unanimously admired and based on unprecedented originality, resists those who seek to find perfection in it. 

The result of a series of discussions on the growing role of poetry in contemporary artistic practices, the exhibition Des mots et des mondes considers writing as a plastic material in its own right.


Faced with a constant flow of information, artists do not seek to say more, but to say things differently, through sensitive, unique and contextualised forms. Words then become vectors of personal or collective emancipation, embodied in assemblages, positionings, semantic shifts and resolutely poetic reconfigurations.

Felicità 2025 presents the 24 artists who obtained their diplôme national supérieur d'arts plastiques from Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors from the jury, chaired by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, curator of the exhibition. 
 

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