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Textile art is experiencing a spectacular revival in Japan today. Reflecting this vitality, this travelling exhibition presents the work of 30 Japanese artists who exploit the infinite possibilities provided when working with fibres.
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Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
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After having mixed art and wine in a collection of works which were at the very least intelligent and subversive, the artist has now placed at the centre of his approach his intuition of a reconciliation between the geometric forms of minimalist art and the most commonplace cheese-forms on market stalls.
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Galerie Laurent Mueller
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If the world of symbols and artifice traditionally distinguishes man from animal, Robin Meier revisits this evolutionary criterion in order to study and explore it.
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Galerie Laurent Mueller
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An embroidered lace, constructed on a framework which we are ever trying to unravel. Claudia Huidobro recalls this flesh which remains unseen. Not only that of pin-ups, objects of masculine fantasies, but also that which persists when the body exists outside of the frame.
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Les filles du calvaire Gallery
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A trace of the personal seems to be shielded from the resonances in each of these images composed by Benjamin Mouly. Individually, in isolation, they profit from the interstices that they make appear between them, having the effect of enduring fragments.
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Les filles du calvaire Gallery
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Bernard Moninot’s work enters into none of the great expressive categories. It belongs to the domain of drawing: but drawing with an enlarged scope.
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Jean Fournier Gallery
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The Derouillon gallery presents the first exhibition of Californian artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt in Paris. With an iconography mixing elements of sub-culture and a perverted advertising imagery, he points out a crazy society, drunk on itself, trapped by its own desires.
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Galerie Derouillon
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On the occasion of the sixth edition of its Nouveau festival, the Pompidou centre is transforming into a vast play area! A dozen young performers from the École supérieure d’art d’Avignon will fill the South gallery and the piazza in order to revisit, in 31 performances, the legacy of the Fluxus movement.
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Performance
Centre Georges Pompidou
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For its 10th season, the popular university of the musée du quai Branly began a new long-term cycle on Childhood, in order to better understand this crucial period of life through original approaches, be it that of Freud, a soft toy or of literature.
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Lecture
Musée du quai Branly
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In 1925, the PH lamp was presented for the first time at the Paris universal exhibition. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of this icon, Thomas Dickson, author of Danish Design, tells us the story of the lamp and its creator, the Danish architect Poul Henningsen.
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Le Bicolore
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6:30 PM → 8 PM
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Lecture
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(French only) Les furoshiki sont des carrés de tissus que les japonais utilisent depuis des siècles pour emballer toutes sortes d’objets : vêtements, livres, bouteilles, cadeaux. *Hiroko Watanabe*, commissaire de l’exposition Fiber Futures, retracera l’histoire du _furoshiki_, expliquera son importance dans la culture de l’époque Edo (1603-1868) et nous pré…
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
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José Pedro Croft has the habit of diverting everyday objects from their original function. The visual, plastic and poetic dimensions of his objects are mixed in his work, producing the sensation of a precarious balance between stability and instability which, according to the artist, ‘reflects the transitory aspect of the universe’.
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Bernard Bouche Gallery
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Francis Affergan is one of the most original French anthropologists. His work incorporates three rarely united dimensions: anthropology, philosophy and poetry. He is one of the leading specialists in Martinique.
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Lecture
Musée du quai Branly
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7 PM
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Lecture
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A Jamie Fobert conference on Tuesday 12 May at 7pm at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal 21, boulevard Morland — 75004, Paris. Reservation by mail: mail@galerie-architecture.fr.
La Galerie d’Architecture
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