NEWS

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Aleix Plademunt in Société Générale collection.

After the artist’s solo show at Art Paris 09, collection Société Générale, one of France largest corporate collections of contemporary art, have acquired three photographs of the Espectadores series by the young Catalan artist. The project, made in Spain and using the formal approach of the installation, aims to provoke the spectator and question his interventions and transformations on his environment. Soon to be seen on the collection’s (great) site:

site Société Générale collection

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Tali Amitai-Tabib : Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme & White Night ‘09

As part of the « Year of Turkey in France », the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme will hold an important exhibition dedicated to the family of art patrons and bankers of Turkish origin, the Camondos: “ The Splendour of the Camondos, from Constantinople to Paris (1806 – 1945)”. For this exhibition, the museum, with the gracious courtesy of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs / Musée Nissim de Camondo, has commissioned Tali Amitai-Tabib for a series of photographs, aimed to show the artist’s contemporary vision of the house and art collections bequeathed by Moise de Camondo to France.

Exhibition at the Musée d’art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme from October 6th, 2009 until March 7th, 2010

site Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme

site Musée Nissim of Camondo

Tali Amitai-Tabib again ! For the White Night 2009, on October 3rd, the city of Paris, along with the Embassy of Israel, will celebrate the centennial of Tel Aviv. Called “100% Tel Aviv”, the event will comprise two wanderings, one in the Maraios and one in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with one hundred venues exhibiting the works by Tel Aviv-based artists. At the gallery, we will show, for the entire (and white) night, a video by Tali Amitai-Tabib combining her series on Vienna’s concert halls and the performance by a dancer-choreographer in the Tel Aviv Museum’s auditorium.

site nuit blanche

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Jean-Pierre Attal in the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and Issy-les-Moulineaux

Four photographs by Jean-Pierre Attal, from his intra muros series are currently exhibited at the Biennale of contemporary art of Thessalonique. Raising the questions of group inhabitations at the edges of megalopolis, this series also focuses on the notions of individual and collective identities, recurrent throughout the artist’s body of wroks.
Curator: Dorothea Konteletzidou
Exhibition until October 9th, 2009.

site biennale of Thessalonique

This year’s edition of the Biennale of contemporary art of Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, is titled “ mon god, enough with the model”. Jean-Pierre Attal will exhibit there a photograph from his Alveolus series. This project, started in 2008 with a 2nd part to be exhibited at the gallery in November and December 2009, attracts the spectator into the systematic yet individual rhythm of the buildings of offices of La Defense business district (Paris).
Exhibition from September 17th until October 25th, 2009.

site biennale of Issy-les-Moulineaux

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Jérôme Lagarrigue at the Metropolitan Opera of New-York

The French-American artist was invited by the Metropolitan Opera to create a 2,5-meter-high painting for the new production of Tosca by Puccini. An essential element of the scenery in the first act, the work took five months to be completed by the former resident at the Villa Medici (Rome), author of the Boxing and Brokklyntimate series. “His” Toasca will be part of the Met’s art collection.
Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini, season 2009-2010, direction Luc Bondy, scenery Richard Peduzzi.

site Metropolitan Opera of New-York