Last-Minute Summer Exhibitions in Paris
Looking for a last-minute getaway? We've got you covered with our favourite exhibitions currently showing in Paris...
By
Shin Hui Lee
August 21, 2023
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
Make sure to collect your Yamos on the gowithYamo app with each exhibition you visit!
Summer is usually a time for us to abandon our everyday worries, indulge in the decadence of festivals and garden parties and surrender to the all-consuming delirium of the high heat. With the season now drawing to a close, what better time to squeeze in one last city break to jolt us back to our senses?
Here, we round up four must-see exhibitions in Paris that offer us much-needed inspiration as we usher in the colder months.
Avant L’Orage at Bourse de Commerce
Against the backdrop of our ongoing climate crisis, Avant L’orage calls upon fifteen artists to transform the interior of the Bourse de Commerce into an affecting journey from darkness to light. Incorporating a range of both new and emblematic installations from the Pinault Collection, each seeks to expose the precariousness of our ecosystems and the fragility of our existence.
Frank Bowling’s large-scale cartography Texas, Louise envelops us upon entry with its ravishing swaths of orange, pink and purple. Forming part of the Guyanese-British artist’s ‘Map Painting’ series, we are encouraged to contemplate the way in which our identities morph in the face of emphatic geo-political forces.
As we move into the nucleus of the exhibition, we encounter Tacita Dean’s new film diptych Geography Biography. Presented as two four-metre-high vertical projections rotating inside a specially designed concrete pavilion, they emit images from her life and career, giving rise to serendipitous juxtapositions and collapsing the experience of time into itself.
Other highlights include Cy Twombly’s ten-part Coronation of Sesostris- depicting a mutant solar cycle, the radiant sun-god Ra is transformed into a mythical boat, its journey reminding us of the inherently cyclical nature of life and matter. Elsewhere, the illusion of Hicham Berrada’s aquatic landscape Présage serves as a striking foreshadowing of the toxic, uninhabitable world to come if we do not move to incorrupt our behaviours.
Taken together, these works highlight the often-unseen frailty that binds us- the self-infliction of decay a process that can only begin and end with us.
Avant L’Orage is showing at Bourse de Commerce until 11th September.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion at Jeu de Paume
Jeu de Paume presents the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Horvat since his passing in 2020. Featuring an array of original prints and documents, the exhibition charts the first 15 years of his career as a photographer from 1950-1965.
For most of us who know Horvat for his fashion photography, there is plenty to feast our eyes on; having developed distinct photojournalistic, street-style sensibilities, he turned to the realm of fashion at the suggestion of Jardin des Modes artistic director Jacques Moutin. Eschewing convention, he insisted on working with small-format cameras, in natural environments and with models who wore minimal make-up and abstained from over-the-top poses. Here, as we come up close with iconic images of Anna Karina raising her glass triumphantly in a Chanel cocktail dress and Carol Lobravico at Café de Flore in head-to-toe haute couture for Harper’s Bazaar, we cannot help but be struck by their elegant simplicity even decades on.
Yet the most enthralling aspect of the exhibition comes in the form of Horvat’s photographic essay for Revue. Embarking on a world tour to capture twelve non-European cities, he began to take on an intuitive, sensual and utterly uninhibited gaze. From department stores in Tokyo to hypnotisms in Rio de Janeiro, he unmasked the solitude of bodies within the hectic throes of society, inducing an almost hallucinatory vision of the world as we know it. These vintage prints which have largely been unseen until now, shed light on what is perhaps Horvat’s most intimate work.
Frank Horvat: Paris, the World, Fashion is showing at Jeu de Paume until 17th September.
Over the Rainbow constitutes an extensive survey of more than 500 works chronicling and celebrating LGBTQIA+ culture over the past two centuries. Encompassing cinema, photography and literature, the exhibition seeks not just to challenge antiquated concepts of gender and sexuality, but also to foreground the fight for identification, recognition and above all self-determination. As curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov details, “the exhibition proposes a succession of significant moments of the social and cultural history of sexualities and a constellation of works having as common point to affirm, each in its own way, what the homophobic representation denigrates.”.
George Platt Lynes’ nudes are delightful, his flair for lighting and posing enabling him to capture idealised male forms, their perfect musculature emulating the classic beauty codes present in traditional sculpture. Later in the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Carhaix’s prints also seize our attention. Having met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence group in the 1980s, he followed them as they organised militant initiatives and sporting events to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Brimming with vibrant colours, these prints convey an impossibly candid glimpse into the urgency and magnitude of the time.
Over the Rainbow is showing at Centre Pompidou until 13th November.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses at Le Bal
Born in Antwerp in 1941, Harry Gruyaert is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary colour photography. For the first time ever, Le Bal brings together 80 of his period prints made between 1974-1996 using the Cibachrome process.
From Cairo to Moscow to Las Vegas, each of Gruyaert’s snapshots possesses a depth and richness of colour that transcends the frame, bleeding into the very present. The reds of women’s handbags and high-heels are somehow as intense as the deep blues of the skies above. In Gruyaert’s words, “Colour is a way of sculpting what I see. Colour does not illustrate a subject or the scene I am photographing, it is a value in itself. It is even the emotion of the photograph”. In this way, whether it be scenes of railway stations, pedestrian crossings or hotel rooftop pools, he always manages to cast an extraordinary eye upon the ordinary.
As we gaze at his human subjects- often situated at the edge or obscured by their surroundings- we confront life’s unknowable, transient essence and in turn come to terms with our inability to ever truly grasp the lives of others. The beauty of Gruyaert’s work ultimately lies in the tender reconciliation of such moments of fear and acceptance.
Harry Gruyaert: La Part des Choses is showing at Le Bal until 24th September.
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