10 EXHIBITIONS TO SEE DURING FIAC 2016

By Crash redaction

HERE IS OUR SELECTION OF THE 10 EXHIBITIONS TO SEE DURING FIAC IN PARIS

image above: Josephine Meckseper, Water Raining, 2016, © Josephine Meckseper. Photography by Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

La clinique du monde by Wang Du at Galerie Laurent Godin

Wang Du, Galerie Laurent Godin

Artist Wang Du reveals La clinique du monde, an exhibition gathering various works, about the current world. Wang Du raises a parallel between our world and medicine. He sees the world as a sick patient, whom we couldn’t cure. Through his creations, the artist discloses a tortured world, balanced between war and crisis. A society that finally becomes unbearable to watch.

La clinique du monde, Galerie Laurent Godin, 36 bis rue Eugène Oudiné 75013 Paris, from October 15 to December 17 / www.laurentgodin.com

Icons of Modern Art, the Shchukin collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton

Georges Braque (1882-1963, France) Le Château de la Roche-Guyon, 1909, oil on canvas, 92×73 cm, Musée d’Etat des Beaux-Arts Pouchkine, Moscou, N° d’inventaire 3258, © ADAGP, Paris 2016

From October 22, Fondation Louis Vuitton presents an exhibition that pays tribute to one of the greatest patrons of 20th century art: Sergueï Shchukin. His comprehensive collection of French modern art is still little known in Europe, so the exhibition curated by Anne Baldassari aims at broaden its crucial influence to the European audience. The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Hermitage Museum and the Pushkin Museum. Overall 130 masterpieces from Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modern masters are gathered in the spaces of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, which promises to be a grand success.

From October 22 to February 20 at Fondation Louis Vuitton / www.fondationlouisvuitton.com

Avedon’s France, Old World, New Look at Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Catherine Deneuve, Los Angeles, September 1968, Richard Avedon

This exhibition unveils Richard Avedon’s innovative work. Through his pictures, the photographer shows his vision of France as well as his most beautiful portraits he did for Egoïste (Marguerite Duras, Françoise Sagan or Isabelle Adjani). The exhibition, organized with the support of Roederer, also reveals pictures of his work with the photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue. A wonderful journey through a pioneering career, and the occasion to re-discover his deepest inspirations.

Avedon’s France, Old World, New Look, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Quai François Mauriac 75013 Paris, from October 18 to February 26 / www.bnf.fr

Toute Première Fois at 22 Visconti

DANIEL BUREN, Photo-souvenir – Affichage sauvage, travail in situ, Paris, avril 1968. Détail © DB-ADAGP Paris

In October, 22 Visconti is hosting “Toute première fois,” an exhibition curated by Francesca Napoli and Armelle Leturcq, co-founder of Crash magazine. It began with two ideas. The first: to go where no one ever goes. The second: to show what few have the pleasure of seeing. The pair of curators have brought together some forty international artists, representing every generation, around an original theme: to present a major piece that embodies a “first time ever” in their career as an artist. An exhibition which presents the artistic work of established artists like Daniel Buren, Julio Le Parc, Christo, Gianni Motti or Jimmie Durham and a new generation represented by Apolonia Sokol, Enrique Ramirez and None Futbol Club.

Toute Première Fois, 22 Visconti, 22 rue Visconti 75006 Paris, from October 16 to 31

Hans-Peter Feldmann at Galerie des Galeries

High heels, 45 pairs of shoes Courtesy of the artist and Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin © Jan Windszus, ADAGP, Paris 2016

The Galerie des Galeries exhibition is a large representation of the most emblematic works of German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann. Since the beginning of his career, he has been exploring the mysteries of daily life collecting numerous pictures and objects. A personal and sensory journey that reveals the genius mind of one of the greatest artists of his generation.

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Galerie des Galeries, 40 Boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris, from October 14 to January 21 / www.galeriedesgaleries.com

La Gravedad by Enrique Ramírez at Galerie Michel Rein

Enrique Ramírez, LA GRAVEDAD, 2016, Michel Rein, Paris. Courtesy the artist and Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels

Chilean artist Enrique Ramírez is back at Galerie Michel Rein for an hypnotic show. His artistic work is deep, inspired by the Chilean and South American political history. He depicts a humanity which is unable to learn from the mistakes of the past. A profound artistic reflexion based on the idea of gravity that makes us think.

La Gravedad, Galerie Michel Rein, 42 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris, from October 20 to December 17 / www.michelrein.com

Josephine Meckseper at Gagosian Gallery

Josephine Meckseper, Water Raining, 2016, © Josephine Meckseper. Photography by Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

German-born, New York-based artist Josephine Meckseper presents her first Paris solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery. Partly inspired by Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project, she displays a polymorphic installation in the gallery’s vitrine, visible for the bystanders to contemplate. In a similar spirit, Meckeseper associates elements from art history and tokens of our contemporary consumer society in a space where mirrors reflects banal objects, paintings that recall the teared-up affiches of Jacques Villeglé, and placing the outside street as an active influencer of this universe. With this installation, Meckseper creates an immersive dimension that reflect on the mechanisms of capitalism, from its realities to its paradoxes.

From October 19 to December 21 at Gagosian Gallery, 4 rue de Ponthieu / www.gagosian.com

Glass Works by Robert Wilson at Galerie Downtown

Robert Wilson © Marie-Clérin / Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour

Galerie Downtown presents a selection of Robert Wilson’s glass works, which the artist developed over almost ten years from 1994 to 2003 at Marseille’s Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts Plastiques. Wilson is known for having influenced generations in various fields or art (beyond theatre, the discipline he is most known for), still his passion for glass and ceramics may not be underestimated. The exhibition is the perfect occasion to discover the artist’s approach, his findings and groundbreaking results: in a field where nothing is left to chance, Robert Wilson manages to inject the vital element of freedom, and finds a balance that gave birth to the timeless glass works displayed in the spaces of the gallery.

Glass Works from October 21 to November 6 at Galerie Downtown, 18 rue de Seine 75008 Paris / www.galeriedowntown.com

Felicità at Beaux-Arts de Paris

Joël Degbo, Caddie dans le fossé, oil on canvas, 2016

The Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts presents its annual exhibition featuring the works of this year’s young artists who graduated with distinction. Constituted by Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Nicolas Bourriaud, the jury selected the graduates with one objective: to make sure to highlight their personal processes, leading to the creation of their own, personal universes. 33 graduates are represented with one watchword: singularity, and the plurality of such. The exhibition gives the perfect occasion to take the pulse of the art of tomorrow.

Felicità, from October 18 to November 20 at Beaux-Arts de Paris / www.beauxartsparis.com

Le Nouveau monde industriel at Galleria Continua

Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, the exhibition gathers the works of an emerging generation of contemporary artists in France like Bianca Argimon, Eléonore False, Arthur Fléchard, Io Burgard, and more. The project is connected to Les Moulins’ industrial past, and references one of Charles Fourier’s books, which gave its name to the exhibition.

From October 16 to December 24 at Galleria Continua Les Moulins / www.galleriacontinua.com