Kandinsky retrospective 24 avril 2009
Posted by webmaster in : Culture,News , 1 comment so farThe Centre Pompidou, at a walking distance from our hotels in Saint Germain des Prés (the Artus Hotel, the Hôtel de Buci and the Madison Hotel), presents a major retrospective of the work of one of the 20th century’s key figure, Vassili Kandinsky.
This exhibition was assembled jointly by the Centre Pompidou, the Städtische Galerie in Lebachhaus in Munich and the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, which holds the largest collections of the artist’s work.
It brings together some hundred of Kandinsky finished paintings, particularly the Impressions and the Improvisations. It offers a unique chance to look through the eye of this artist born in Moscow in 1866, who died in France in 1944.
During his lifetime, Kandinsky experienced two of the high spots of creation of the 20th century: the Blue Rider in Munich before the First World War and the Bauhaus at Weimar and Dessau in the inter-war period.
The Paris exhibition shows how the artist phases out depicting reality in favour of abstraction. Kandinsky explained that, from his point of view, painting had to cause on the soul the same sensations than music.
Let’s experience these feelings with the Hôtels Maurice Hurand!
Practical informations:
From 8th April to 10th August 2009.
Open everyday except Tuesdays, from 11am to 11pm.
Centre Georges Pompidou – Place Georges Pompidou – 75004 Paris
Metro: Rambuteau (11), Hôtel de Ville (1, 11), Châtelet (1, 4, 7, 11, 14, A, B, D) / Bus : 21, 29, 38, 47, 58, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 81, 85, 96
Henri Cartier-Bresson à vue d’oeil 18 avril 2009
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A l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance d’Henri Cartier-Bresson, la Maison Européenne de la Photographie propose un parcours de 320 clichés réunis autour de deux grands thèmes : Paris et les Européens.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-fondateur de l’agence Magnum et pionnier du photojournalisme, est parfois désigné comme « l’oeil du XXème siècle » du fait de sa longévité (95 ans).
Les photographies sélectionnées pour cette exposition incarnent le concept définit par HCB : « l’instant décisif », qui suspend le moment dans une éternité. Elles illustrent à la fois un style et une pratique. Elles incarnent ce moment parfait, transcendant, qui mélange émotion et regard acéré. Selon HCB, photographier, c’est dans un même instant et une fraction de seconde reconnaître un fait et l’organisation rigoureuse de formes perçues visuellement qui expriment et signifient ce fait.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5/7 rue de Fourcy – 75004 Paris
Métro Saint Paul (ligne 1) ou Pont Marie (ligne 7) / Bus : 67, 69, 76 ou 96
Du 15 avril au 30 août 2009. Ouvert du Mercredi au Dimanche, de 11h à 20h.
Warhol’s Wide World at the Grand Palais 17 avril 2009
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Take advantage of your stay in one of our Parisian hotels to discover a unique exhibition: a selection of works of the “Pope of Pop”, Andy Warhol.
A gallery of 250 portraits painted and photographed by Andy Warhol at The Factory, his studio in New York, is presented at the Grand Palais until July 13th. In 1962, Andy Warhol painted the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor, and reinterpreted the Mona Lisa.
From 1967 to his death, in 1987, he produced commissioned portraits of dozens of personalities, famous or obscure. Artists, film and rock stars, collectors and art dealers, politicians, fashion designers, businessmen and jet-setters… All of them were gleaming through Warhol’s genius. With this cycle, Warhol depicts an entire society and invents a new form of artistic production, almost mass produced. From the early 1970s, Warhol developed a systematic process: he made up his models, photographed them with a Big Shot Polaroid, and finally painted and silk screened the portraits.
The selection of portraits is here presented by themes focusing on Warhol’s series: Self Portraits, Screen Tests, Mao, Dollars, Disasters and The Last Supper, which situate them in a retrospective view of his production.
With the aim of recreating the effect of the principle of repetition which Warhol had in mind when he painted them, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais is presenting, for the first time, this large set of paintings which constitutes an unprecedented archive in the history of painting and photography.
“All my portraits have to be the same size, so they’ll all fit together and make one big painting called Portraits of Society. That’s a good idea, isn’t it? Maybe the Metropolitan Museum would want it someday.” – Andy Warhol
Useful informations
Opening hours: everyday except Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Thurdays to 8 p.m.)
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
Métro : Champs Elysées Clemenceau or Frankin Roosevelt (1, 9, 13) / Bus : 28, 32, 42, 49, 72, 73, 80
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One Image may hide an other… 15 avril 2009
Posted by webmaster in : Culture,News,Zoom , 1 comment so farDuring your stay in Hotel Bourgogne and Montana, do not forget to stop to the Grand Palais for this surprising exhibition, with a double meaning.
Arcimboldo-Dali-Raetz
This unique exhibition play with perspectives and optical illusions which has already fascinated artists.
Playing on the ambiguity of double images, which change with the observer’s point of view, many painters have covered their tracks and introduced several meanings, often hidden, in images that can be read in multiple ways. This double meaning allows painters to transmiss their opinion concerning political subjects, religious or sexual connotations.
After a rigourous selection of process, you will discover more than 250 works.
National Galleries of the Grand Palais-Champs Elysées
Métro : lignes 1, 9, 13 / Stations : Franklin-D.-Roosevelt, Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau