ART CITIES:Paris, Bibelot-Summer Show
In the Victorian era a new category of objects has come in to being, the category designated by the word “bibelot”, whose meaning has evolved to encompass a wide range of goods, ranging from mass produced trinkets to priceless collector’s items. It’s widespread presence signals, at least hypothetically, that luxury goods have become available of the middle and working class.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Callisto Mc Nulty’s Archive
As Callisto Mc Nulty notes “Bibelots are usually precious for they owners but in our era are at the bottom of the class of images. Could their apparent lack of function, to cause so much contempt?” The group exhibition “Bibelot-Summer Show” that is on presentation at Wendy Galerie in Paris, through the work of 35 artists, explores what usually goes unnoticed, to question this “background noise” that envelops us but to widen the field of bibelot. The artworks are interacting with common conceptual axis the bibelot and the narrative unfolds from the walls in space revealing to the viewer, through the different artistic media, the different parameters that each artist has for that particular subject. Through a beautified object of the past, we see sensuality, sarcasm, romance, or even the hardness it may contain. Participating Artists: Arthur Aillaud, Nastasia Alberti, Joan Ayrton, Éric Bauer, Clément Blanchet, Eva Tourtoglou Bony, Mathilde Denize, Anne Destival, Juliette Dominati, Sylvie Fajfrowska, Naomi Fleischer, Sacha Floch Poliakoff, Max Gagnaire, Sacha Golemanas, Matthieu Gounelle, Aurélia Jaubert, Diafara Kane, Tom Kaniok, Adrien Lécuru, François Mendras, Silvana Mc Nulty, Martin Mc Nulty, Callisto Mc Nulty, Joël Person, Aurel Porté, Clément Roche, Alexandra Roussopoulos, Paul Roussopoulos, Anne Sedel, Régis Sénéque, Romain Taieb, Agnés Thurnauer, Bruno Vanderaert, Ėgide Viloux and Yuna Wang.
Info: Curator: Callisto Mc Nulty and Éric Bauer, Wendy Galerie, 33 rue de Grenelle, Paris, 29/6-1/7/18, Days & Hours: 15:00-19:00
