Looking for a cultural break? From the Marais to Romainville through République and Buttes-Chaumont, we’ll be your guide for this month’s selection of art exhibits!
Eglė Budvytytė – De sang chaud et de terre
Until February 23rd
“A major Lithuanian artist on the international scene, Eglė Budvytytė presents her first exhibition in France at the Frac Île-de-France, as part of the France-Lituanie season. She explores the overlap between the visual and performing arts. Her practice, which spans song, poetry, video and performance, delves into the persuasive power of collectivity, vulnerability and the fluid relationships between bodies, the public and environments. Encounters and collaboration are central to her work, involving other artists and users of public space and exhibitions. The film is a poetic exploration of intimacy between the land and the body, loosely based on the research around matrilineal societies in the neolithic period by the Lithuanian archelogist Marija Gimbutas.”
Wednesday to Sunday: 2pm-7pm (until 9pm on the first Wednesday of each month) – Free admission
Le Plateau – FRAC Île-de-France
22 rue des Alouettes, 75019 Paris
www.fraciledefrance.com
Jérémie Cosimi – Des soleils et des nuits
October 4th-19th
« Jérémie Cosimi’s new art works, created for his first’s personal exposition at Galerie Les filles du calvaire, unfold a scattered story, made up of wrecks and absences. Without being part of a determined and pompous narrative, it is anchored in an intimate relationship with the subjects represented. The latter often echo short stories or long poems written by the artist, which escape our reading. His intention is not to give us something to read but rather being capable to see. These words implicitly irrigate his approach and inspire gestures that gradually become stages. The photograph captures the composition before the painting transfigures the image. […] The bodies and objects represented come from the artist’s daily life, implicitly relating a lived proximity, without tipping over into autobiography. Transposed through the prism of staging, then painting, they are revealed outside their original context. »
Tuesday: 2:30pm-6:30pm – Wednesday to Saturday: 11am-6:30pm – Free admission
Les filles du calvaire
17 rue des Filles du Calvaire, 75003 Paris
www.fillesducalvaire.com
Maguelone Du Fou – La nuit, le jour
Until October 12th
“It starts at night, then comes the day. It all begins at dusk, when life takes its course, when we rediscover the world, friendship, and the sweetness of life. Then comes the day: a time of languor, lulled by the song of the cicadas. Maguelone draws her Provence, suspended moments, memories, familiar places that she recreates, larger, more beautiful, more intense… “Everything is possible in drawing, the only frontier is imagination”. […] This exhibition is like an ode to the “dolce vita”, where pinks, yellows and blues vibrate in unison in formats that are often large, as if to better immerse oneself in these warm scenes where time seems to have stopped.”
Monday to Saturday: 11am-7pm – Free admission
Slow Galerie
5 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris
www.slowgalerie.com
Emmanuelle Houdart – Piloursine / Grandir / Dessins pour celle qui a peur
October 1st-13th
“Author and illustrator Emmanuelle Houdart has developed a graphic universe that animates the inanimate, hybridizing animals and humans, the marvelous and the monstrous, composing narrative representations in which characters are endowed with symbolic attributes that convey their identity as well as their emotional state. Since 1996, she has published some twenty books, mainly for children. She has also produced illustrations for the adult and children’s press, and led numerous workshops in schools. Emmanuelle Houdart was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Illustration 2016 for Ma mère. This month, the gallery Le Serpent Vert presents originals from Piloursine, Grandir, and the previously unpublished personal series Dessins pour celle qui a peur.”
Tuesday to Sunday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Galerie Le Serpent Vert
4 rue des Guillemites, 75004 Paris
galerieleserpentvert.com
Coller l’oreille aux colimaçons
Until November 3rd
“The fruit of a collaborative process, Coller l’oreille aux colimaçons is a multi-temporal exhibition. The different perspectives of the eleven curators on works from the Frac Île-de-France collection and those of artists who have just graduated from the Beaux-Arts and Arts Décoratifs schools in Paris, are nourished by the philosophical concept of “whirling origin” (developed by philosopher and art historian Walter Benjamin), which considers time no longer as linear, but as being in perpetual motion. Contrary to the idea of a single, fixed point of departure, the origin here is apprehended as a tumultuous flow, enabling a new conception of history in which past, present, and future intermingle.”
Wednesday to Saturday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Les Réserves, Romainville
43 rue de la commune de Paris, 93230 Romainville
www.fraciledefrance.com
Sport en banlieue parisienne
Until December 29th
“The exhibition Sport en banlieue parisienne, in partnership with the FSGT (Fédération sportive et gymnique du travail), invites visitors to consider popular sport and its social practices. Through numerous archives, items, and works of art, the museum presents individual and collective stories, living stories in which sport plays a key role. In this Olympic and Paralympic year, the Musée de l’Histoire Vivante presents a variety of perspectives rather than an exhaustive chronology. Visitors are invited to wander from room to room, from sport to sport, to meet the men and women who have brought popular sport to life, whether amateur or professional, far from the clichés of the suburbs. This exhibition also has an artistic vocation. Thanks to a partnership with the Fonds régional d’art contemporain Île-de-France (FRAC) and commissions to local artists, the museum tour interweaves antique objects and radically contemporary artworks.”
Wednesday to Friday: 2pm-5pm – Saturday & Sunday: 2pm-pm – €5/€4/€0
Musée de l’Histoire vivante
31 boulevard Théophile Sueur, 93100 Montreuil
www.museehistoirevivante.fr
Les Mondes imaginaires
Until December 15th
“The Espace Monte-Christo takes us to a narrative and poetic dimension with its new exhibition. Thanks to a selection of over 50 sculptures by French and international artists, Les Mondes imaginaires (Imaginary Worlds) is an invitation to broaden your horizons through a dreamlike journey designed like a story in several chapters. […] In his immersive installation, La Famille des Hybridus, Jean-François Fourtou, the exhibition’s carte blanche artist, presents over a dozen part-human, part-plant figures illustrating, with poetry and nostalgia, moments in life inspired by the Belle Époque, and projecting an idyllic image of a humanity in symbiosis with nature.”
Wednesday to Sunday: 11am-6:30pm – Free admission
Espace Monte Cristo
9 rue Monte-Cristo, 75020 Paris
fondationvilladatris.fr/espace-monte-cristo
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Illustrations (cropped) :
Artworks featured in the exhibit La nuit, le jour at Slow Galerie
© Maguelone Du Fou
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