ART WEEKS:Paris Gallery Weekend 2019

Paris Gallery Weekend aims to make better known the dynamism and diversity of the Parisian art scene. The 2019 edition is characterized by the renewed participation of galleries from previous editions and major newcomers, a tailored program for international collectors, a large volunteer program insuring a more informative visitors experience, a series of openings, meetings with artists, performances, concerts, conferences, debates, brunches, drink receptions as well as the support of leading public and private institutions.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac at the Paris Marais space present the first solo exhibition of Donald Judd’s work in France for 20 years. This new exhibition marks the first collaboration with the Judd Foundation, represented by the gallery since November 2018. Highlights include a series of aluminium wall-mounted works from 1991, a monumental ‘progression’ work of over 6 metres long, and a selection of works on paper and woodcuts. The works on view have been featured in exhibitions of major institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Dia Beacon, New York and the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin presents “The Seeming Endless Path of Memory”, Imran Qureshi. Highlights include a painting of 12 panels with a gradation from red to gold, a 10-metre long scroll with watercolours, new canvases with a sculptural quality and a series of his iconic contemporary miniature paintings.

Perrotin Paris present a solo show of Bernard Frize featuring a wide range of paintings, this exhibition marks 25 years of collaboration between the artist and Perrotin gallery. Also Perrotin presents a new solo exhibition of Jean-Michel Othoniel. For his Paris show, the artist presents a new body of work, including monumental sculptures and large-scale installations created with his now iconic module, the mirror brick. The bricks allow the artist to go further in the creation of large scale artworks such as his Big Wave. Othoniel creates pieces that go beyond the idea of sculpture to become real glass and metal architectures like walls, roads, grottos and agoras. Works of that scale allow people to enter them and to experiment these spaces of freedom.

Guillaume Bresson maks his return in Paris with his fourth exhibition at Galerie Nathalie Obadia. The painter was noticed at the beginning of his practice during the exhibition Dynasty at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2010, as he uses pictorial techniques inherited from the Renaissance, which he applies to battle scenes in parking lots and outskirt towns. He returns now with a series of ambiguous paintings, which echo tensions over a more and more globalized contemporary world: migrations, sexual inequalities, class struggles…

VNH Gallery presents  the solo exhibition by German artist Candida Höfer, which comprises a selection of new photographs taken at the end of 2017 and beginning 2018 in the French capital. Next to her pictures of theatres, libraries or empty churches which she sublimes through an effort of the Dusseldorf school’s characteristic objectivity and distanciation, her smaller formats, abstract and rarely shown, will be presented in an unprecedented dialogue.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot transforms the underground space of Xippas Paris into a mysterious place, both a shadowy cave and a ghostly nightclub. Inspired by the belief that the audio-visual technique would have the power to connect to the afterlife, the exhibition plunges the visitor into a destabilizing zone, inhabited by abstract patterns. In the upper space of the Gallery the group exhibition “Echoing Trees” questions the cyclical rhythm of existence, with its periods of abundance and austerity.

For Paris Gallery Week-end’s 6th edition, Anne-Sarah Bénichou invites Bernar Venet for an exhibition on the notion of «line» , encouraging a dialogue with the artists of the gallery. For the occasion, Marion Baruch, Julien Discrit, Chourouk Hriech and Valérie Mréjen are going to conceive new works in relation with the theme. Wall drawings, sculptures, narrative works will be confronted to Bernar Venet’s work. Venet will present historical pieces of the 60’s but also contemporary works and a performance especially conceived for the space.

Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery has chosen to bring together Katrien de Blauwer and Katinka Lampe. Two artists who share a certain conception of intimacy, an experimental practice of painting and the use of photography. To support and create her painted collages, Katrien de Blauwer finds her inspiration from her childhood memories. «Love me Tender», also the title of the exhibition, resonates from collages to pictures. By its persistent absence, the masculine figure is nevertheless central. All that remains is its attributes: its cars, its borrowed routes and the elegance of the women encountered; all seen through the fantasies of a girl.

Jousse Entreprise gallery present a dialogue exhibition between the works of Jennifer Caubet and Eva Nielsen. Embarked upon more than a year ago, the project develops around formal and discursive relations between Eva Nielsen’s silkscreened paintings and Jennifer Caubet’s sculptural installations which fill the gallery.

Simultaneously, Paris Gallery Weekend is implementing a vast public program that includes:

1. A larger number of guided tours within galleries, particularly those targeting companies, partners and Friends of Museums, including those in English.
2. A renewed partnership with SMARTIFY, a global platform for the discovery and sharing of art that instantly identifies, and explains, exhibited artworks.
3. Family friendly visits organized by the association ART KIDS Paris with a simple and fun educational approach.
4. A large-scale initiative involving the participation of volunteering students who will be present in galleries to welcome and inform visitors.
5. The rerun of the successful «PGW Treasure Hunt» which allows a winner to be offered a €2,000 voucher for the acquisition of a work of art in one of the participating galleries.

Participating Galleries: Applicat-Prazan, Backslash, Galerie Anne Barrault , Ceysson & Bénétière, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Galerie Thomas Bernard, christian berst art brut, Ségolène Brossette Galerie, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Galerie Danysz, Les Filles du Calvaire, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Galerie Le Minotaure, gb agency, Galerie Karsten Greve, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Galerie Eva Hober, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Galerie Jousse Entreprise, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Galerie Lelong & Co., Loeve&Co, Magnin-A, Galerie Mitterrand, mor charpentier, Galerie Eric Mouchet, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Galerie Alberta Pane, Galerie Papillon, Perrotin, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Galerie Catherine Putman, Rabouan Moussion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Galerie Laure Roynette, Galerie RX, galerie Sator, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Templon, Tornabuoni Art, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Galerie Vallois, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, VNH Gallery, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff , Xippas Paris and Galerie Zlotowski.

Info: Paris Gallery Weedend, Duration 17-19/5/19, http://parisgalleryweekend.com