Jean-Charles de Quillacq — A Real Boy — Beaux-Arts de Paris Palais des Beaux-Arts — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: October 14 → 20, 2024

The Beaux-Arts de Paris are delighted to be co-hosting a project by Jean-Charles De Quillacq and the Galerie Marcelle Alix (Paris) with Art Basel Paris. The exuberant 17th-century setting of the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins could not offer a better setting for Jean-Charles de Quillacq’s sculptures. Pieces of bread, cigarette butts and car coolant share the space with the museum’s permanent works and several organic forms, stretched or at rest, lying on polystyrene supports that retain traces of their manufacture.

Vue de l’exposition Jean-Charles de Quillacq, A Real Boy aux Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2024 © Aurélien Mole

Jean-Charles de Quillacq’s research focuses on the body and its representations, its materials and interactions, and its social organisation. Half-naked mannequins with polyurethane crotches moulded into jeans, chemical reconstitutions of the artist’s own sweat, these representations act as metaphors for the ambiguous and unstable nature of capitalism.

From Monday 14 October 2024 to Sunday 20 October 2024 every day from 10am to 7pm — Free admission to the exhibition — Chapelle des Petits-Augustins — 14, rue Bonaparte, Paris 75006