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Paris Design Week 2015
Past: September 5 → 12, 2015
For eight days, Paris Design Week invites French and international professionals and the general public to discover the best showcases of design in Paris, while the leading talents in the discipline gather in the now! le Off exhibition.
Event
Design
Multiple venues
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ON/OFF — Une exposition-scène de Xavier Veilhan
Past: May 29 → August 23, 2014
Galerie des Galeries, a venue dedicated to a cross-disciplinary approach to today’s creative arts, is exploring the synergy between contemporary art and music. Guest artist Xavier Veilhan present an exhibition area that operates in two different modes: “ON” and “OFF”.
Installation, performance, sound - music
La Galerie des Galeries
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Jean-Paul Lespagnard — Till We drop
Past: January 30 → April 19, 2014
Jean-Paul Lespagnard invites visitors to explore his creative process. Drawing from the identically titled 2014 collection, shown in September of 2013 in Paris, this exhibition evokes the exuberance of life at Mexico’s giant Mayan Riviera hotels and expresses the artist’s take on this artificial paradise, a world steeped in euphoria, sin and freedom.
Installation, photography, sculpture
La Galerie des Galeries
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La Tyrannie des Objets
Past: October 16, 2013 → January 4, 2014
Artists and designers find themselves imagining indomitable objects that cast a critical light on rational, constraining or downright authoritarian production patterns. David Dubois’ scenography underlines this shifting power relation between objects and their owners.
Ceramic, design, installation...
La Galerie des Galeries
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In a Sentimental Mood
Past: May 28 → August 24, 2013
Named after the song by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, the “ In a Sentimental Mood ” exhibition offers a journey through every facet of love. Gathering the work of eight artists from different generations and backgrounds, the exhibition conceived by Vanessa Desclaux explores the experience of love in its universality as well as ultimate singularity.
Installation, performance, photography...
La Galerie des Galeries
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Carte blanche à Henrik Vibskov — Neck Plus Ultra
Past: February 27 → May 4, 2013
Henrik Vibskov is a Danish fashion designer. With a poetic, playful and strange tone, he introduces us to what inspires and influences him and pulls us into his universe. With striking colours and geometrical shapes the artist offers a multimedia exhibition making use of sight, sound and touch.
Installation, lithography / engraving, sculpture...
La Galerie des Galeries
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1912-2012: Chroniques d’un parcours créatif — 100 ans de la Coupole
Past: October 16, 2012 → January 26, 2013
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the construction of its Dome, Galeries Lafayette have decided to celebrate this monument of the Boulevard Haussmann, a symbol of Art Nouveau architecture, by staging unusual events in tune with the life of the department store from 16 October 2012.
Architecture, design, film...
La Galerie des Galeries
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Comme un ananas — Une carte blanche de Philippe Katerine
Past: April 4 → July 7, 2012
While known especially as a singer, Katerine also works in other domains : film, dance, the visual arts… For this aspect of his career and for the total artist that he is, the Galerie des Galeries invited him present his first art show, in a kind of journey of initiation, through which the visitor passes as through a mental, sensory and musical world.
Collage, drawing, graphic design...
La Galerie des Galeries
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Into The Woods — Une exposition de Daria de Beauvais
Past: January 26 → March 17, 2012
Between contemporary romanticism and a gloomy minimalism, “Into the Woods” offers visitors an enigmatic aesthetic experience. Dreamed up as a walk in the woods, the show limns a phantasmagoric mental landscape through the work of eleven women artists.
Installation, painting, photography...
La Galerie des Galeries
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Antidote 7
Past: October 6, 2011 → January 7, 2012
For this seventh installment of the Antidote exhibition series at the Galerie des Galeries, Guillaume Houzé wanted to highlight the graphic artist Jean-Marc Ballée. In the gallery space, small concentrations of works takes shape, encouraging a range of cross-references between pieces by artists like Michel Blazy, Ugo Rondinone and Pierre-Olivier Arnaud.
Drawing, installation, new media...
La Galerie des Galeries
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Hymne à la joie — Une exposition de Claude Lévêque, sur une invitation d’agnès b
Past: June 21 → August 20, 2011
Cet été, la Galerie des Galeries invite la styliste agnès b. et lui donne carte blanche pour réaliser une exposition. Face à ce champ libre, agnès b. a choisi de faire appel à l’artiste français de renommée internationale Claude Lévêque. Celui-ci présente une installation inédite, réalisée in-situ.
Installation, mixed media
La Galerie des Galeries
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Cover Girl
Past: January 27 → March 19, 2011
For over fifty years fashion photography has redefined the canons of female beauty again and again. One of the most widely shared visual cultures in the world, the province of advertising and fashion magazines, this particular art of the portrait has always had an impact to one degree or another on contemporary art.
Collage, photography, mixed media
La Galerie des Galeries
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Space for Fantasy
Past: March 25 → May 22, 2010
“Space for Fantasy” joins the worlds of five artists, Henrik Vibskov, Jerszy Seymour, Manish Arora, Vincent Olinet and Thomas Lélu. All of these artists share a natural tendency to push back the confines of their artistic domains and ground their imagination and vision of fantasy and humor in the very heart of the day-to-day world.
Installation, painting, sculpture
La Galerie des Galeries
09 Paris 9
09 Paris 9
Chaussée d'Antin – La Fayette
Opéra
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