After the preview of the documentary "Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes, post punk, cold wave et culture novö en France // 1978 - 1983", that was broadcast on July 3rd at the MK2 Quai de Seine theater, the Point Ephémère devotes a whole week to the birth of this nonconformist culture at the end of the 1970s, with […]
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- July 07, 2014
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The most recent photographs of Portuguese artist Manuela Marques are gathered in an exhibition called "La taille de ce vent est un triangle dans l'eau" (literally "The size of this wind is a triangle in water"), at the Calouste Gulbenkian foundation. Portraits, still lifes and landscapes constitute the major part of the photographer's work. She […]
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- July 04, 2014
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The musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (French Hunting and Nature museum) welcomes the first exhibition of Lin Utzon in France. 350 works of the Danish artist are gathered and show her talent as a photographer, painter, sculptor and drawer. In this show, she reveals her contemplative vision of the world through her […]
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- July 03, 2014
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After a collective exhibition at the cultural center of Biarritz in 2003 with Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, André Masson and other famous painters, Michèle Pilhan, a mysterious portraitist, is now exhibited at the 5 Contemporary gallery, in Paris. She makes deeply modern portraits with remarkable facial expressions. Each work is a proof of the creator's […]
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- July 02, 2014
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In 1789, Guillaume and Alexandre Humboldt were 20 years old. They were part of a generation that enjoyed a great social and geographical mobility. Born in Berlin, they lived in London, Rome, Paris and Vienna. During their many journeys, they were able to meet major intellectual figures of the XIXth century, from Goethe and Chateaubriand […]
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- July 01, 2014
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Thomas Bompard decided to open his own gallery in a private mansion located at number 9, quai Voltaire in Paris. Thus the Galerie Gradiva has replaced the Camoin Demachy gallery, and has been decorated by François Joseph Graf. Its inaugural exhibition mixes periods and artists. Paintings by Pablo Picasso meet László Moholy-Nagy's photograms, and ornamented […]
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- June 30, 2014
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Like every summer, the garden of the Quai Branly museum provides its visitors with a wide range of summer activities. Concerts, workshops, interactive journeys and artistic activities around America, Asia, Oceania and Africa are a good opportunity to share a moment with your family or friends in this green haven designed by Gilles Clément. This […]
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- June 27, 2014
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Thanks to old photographs from the collection of the French school from the Far East, the exhibition "Focus on Vietnam" plunges visitors at the heart of Vietnamese traditions and history. The audience will discover pictures of buildings that no longer exist, archaeological sites, the construction of pagodas and of the first Vietnamese museums. Some watercolors, […]
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- June 26, 2014
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For the first time, the Maillol museum opens Ilya Kabakov's Community Kitchen (La Cuisine Communautaire, in French) to the public. The artist was a major figure of nonconformist art under the USSR totalitarian system in the late 60s. The Russian artist created this "installation", mixing painting, theater and literature, in 1992 for Dina Vierny, a […]
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- June 25, 2014
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Kati Horna is a pioneer in photojournalism. Like many artists in the 1930s, she ran away from Hungarian conflicts and took refuge in Berlin. In 1937, on request of the republican government, she made an album on Spanish civil war. Her photos are a m ix of realistic chronicle and visual experimentation inspired by surrealism. […]
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- June 24, 2014
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