Reflexions Masterclass, founded in 2002 by Giorgia Fiorio, is an international research laboratory dedicated to visual representation in general and to contemporary photography in particular.
The Louvre invites Wim Delvoye to intervene at various locations within the museum and nearby: in the galleries of the Department of Decorative Arts, under the Pyramid, and in the Tuileries gardens.
Yvon Lambert confirmed he would donate his collection to the State for permanent conservation in Avignon. To celebrate the event, the museum will present the masterpieces of the Lambert Collection throughout the summer, conserved in Avignon, but rarely presented within the Hôtel de Caumont rooms.
This volume presents a general selection of over forty paintings by El Greco from the most famous museums around the world. At the same time, the young artists’ exploration of the paintings and visual spheres of the exceptional Spanish painter are discussed, opening up a fascinating view of the battle for Modernism.
In June 2012, Joana Vasconcelos will be representing contemporary art at Versailles.
Palazzo Grassi presents exhibitions of contemporary art through works of the François Pinault Collection.
Using previously unpublished archive documents, the authors trace the history of the commanderies of the Champagne region, which were some of the earliest in France. They describe the daily lives of the Templars, with their simultaneous activities as soldiers, merchants, artisans and farmers.
In honor of the major traveling retrospective (2011-2012) devoted to the remarkable career of Gerhard Richter, the Louvre, as a partner of this event, exhibits about a hundred works on paper as well as the artist’s Two Sculptures for a Room by Palermo in the Mollien rooms of the Department of Prints and Drawings.
Paul Rebeyrolle (1926-2005) has gained recognition as one of the foremost twentieth-century French painters.
The first retrospective exhibition in France devoted to one of the founding movements of post-war architecture, from Italy, "La Tendenza, Italian Architectures, 1965-1985" presents a selection of over 250 drawings, models, photographs, paintings and films, as well as a rich documentation.
Exhibition album "1917" shown at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (26 May to 24 September 2012).
La présente monographie, consacrée à une version de La Méduse que les plus éminents spécialistes du Caravage s'accordent à reconnaître comme une oeuvre autographe, retrace le parcours de cette reconnaissance récente.
The definitive book on contemporary sustainable design and architecture from around the world
A comprehensive monograph documenting the entire career to date of Ronan Bouroullec (b.1971) and his brother Erwan (b.1976), who took the design world by storm with their first joint projects in the late 1990s and have continued to produce exceptional designs ever since.
Laurent Grasso has conceived his exhibition at Jeu de Paume around the recurring concerns of his work, in which the relation to time and temporality becomes uncertain, as is the origin of the objects he creates.
Critical catalogue of the complete paintings and ceramics of Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1956). Since the monographs on Vlaminck by Maurice Genevoix (1954) and Marcel Sauvage (1956), which both appeared during the artist's lifetime, no reference work has been published on the painter.
This first retrospective exhibition, showing approximately 120 vintage prints, aims to introduce the public to the life and work of this emigrant and “Berliner by choice”, a convinced cosmopolitan and the “Grande Dame” of Dutch photography.
Turner, Monet, Twombly makes a powerful case for a relationship between three of the world’s greatest artists: English Romantic J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926), and American abstract painter Cy Twombly (1928–2011).
Published specifically for MONUMENTA 2012, this book includes most of the sketches, preparatory drawings and plans, designed by Daniel Buren for MONUMENTA.
Every year, Monumenta invites an internationally-renowned contemporary artist to produce a monumental work for display in the Grand Palais. Dniel Buren, one of France's greatest artists, will be rising to this challenge during the fith Monumenta event.
Exhibition album "Gerhard Richter, Panorama" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (June 6 - September 24, 2012).
A guide book to Versailles with beautifull photos and clear explanations on major masterpieces of the Palace.
This exhibition features a selection of the famous American photographer Elliott Erwitt’s images. Included are his witty recordings of dogs as well as his rarely shown, stunning, vintages.
This exhibition catalogue provides in-depth knowledge and a rich iconography of Anri Sala's original installation for the Centre Pompidou.
Exhibition catalogue of the 3rd edition of the contemporary art triennial exhibition in Paris : Triennale Intense proxility (from April 20 to August 26, 2012).
Exhibition guidebook to the 3rd edition of the contemporary art triennial exhibition in Paris.
Exhibition album "Matisse pair and sets" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (7 march - 8 june 2012).
The Bivouac exhibition and present catalogue set out the works and research produced by the designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec -born respectively in 1971 and 1976-over the last fifteen years.
Exhibition catalogue "Crumb – from the underground to Genesis" shown at the Paris Museum of Modern Art (until 19th August 2012).
Previously hunting lands, the gardens of Versailles became the symbol of refinement and perfection thanks to the talent of André Le Nôtre, gardener to Louis XIV.
The Musée d’Art Moderne of Saint-Etienne Métropole organizes from February 25th till May 28th, 2012 an exhibition dedicated to the work of Jan Fabre concentrating on his Bic ballpoint pen works.
Exhibition catalogue "State of the art photography " shown at the NRW-Forum in Dusseldorf, Germany (4 FEB- 6 MAY 2012).
First major retrospective of Robert Combas, who declares: "MY PAINTING, IT’S ROCK’N’ROLL".
Exhibition catalogue "Joel-Peter Witkin, Heaven or Hell" shown at the BNF, site Richelieu, Paris (March 27 - July 1st, 2012).
Since 1975, the Louvre has had in its collection a luminous painting by Thomas Cole (1801-1848), "The Cross in the Wilderness", which is the culmination of his quest to portray a certain type of American landscape - the wilderness, the mythical archetype of grandiose and unspoiled nature.
Art Spiegelman is a rare, radical artist with an evolving, protean graphic style. His images reveal a mastery of composition and, through the variety of his projects, a sense of staging and storytelling that make the most of the comics medium.
Official album of the exhibition "Degas and the nude" shown at the musée d'Orsay, Paris (13 march - 1st july, 2012).
The first comprehensive monograph on this key figure in China’s burgeoning art scene
In the seventeenth century, at the height on France’s success and prestige, André Charles Boulle gave birth to a new aesthetics, combining a level of a refinement and a virtuosity of execution that were unique in the world.
For his solo exhibition Man should try to avoid contact with alien forms presented at the Art Center in Vassivière from November 13th, 2011 to May 6th, 2012, Shimabuku has conceived a book with the designer Hattori Kazunari which includes a conversation between Shimabuku and Chiara Parisi and a text by Pierre Joseph..
For this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies, the Fondation Beyeler has gathered an extraordinary selection of Bonnard's paintings from institutions and private collections around the world, compiling an ideal introduction to Bonnard's life-affirming vision.
Although closely associated with Pop Art and California, where he has lived for much of his life, the forthcoming exhibition and accompanying catalogue redefine David Hockney RA as an important painter of the English countryside. The exhibition David Hockney RA, A Bigger Picture presents, for the first time, his recent landscape paintings of the Yorkshire...
Exposition thématique autour de Coco Chanel: imaginaire, abstraction et liberté, se mêlent pour construire ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui la "Culture Chanel" qui va bien au delà du monde de la mode.
Bilingual Frennch / English. Dialogue between Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Constance Rubini.
Nicholas Hilliards portrait miniatures opens a remarkable window on to the highest levels of English society in the later years of the sixteenth and the early years of the seventeenth centuries.