ART CITIES:Paris Gallery Night Openings

Benoît Maire’s latest works for his solo exhibition “Nuages et déchets”, are comprising paintings of clouds, a series he initiated in 2011, new sculptures and a series of “wastes”. Benoît Maire, studied art and philosophy, making them encounter in his practice by giving shape to theorical concepts. His works often refers to history, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis or even mathematics and mythology. Info: Galerie Thomas Bernard Cortex Athletico, 13 rue de Arquebusiers, Paris, Duration: 22/10-/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:30-19:00, www.galeriethomasbernard.com

Danh Võ hasn’t had the simplest of lives so far. After being born in Vietnam in 1975, the fall of Saigon meant that he was eventually granted political asylum in Denmark, where he was raised. Conceptually, Võ’s work explores the intersections of personal experience and major historical events, including the impact and mutations of Catholicism as it spread through colonization. This month presents his work in Paris. Info: Galerie Chantal Crousel, 10 rue Charlot, Paris, Duration: 23/10-19/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-13:00 & 14:00-19:00, www.crousel.com/home

A group exhibition with works of three American artists is on exhibition at Galerie Frank Elbaz. Wallace Berman is a visual and assemblage artist, he has been called the “father” of assemblage art and a crucial figure in the history of postwar California art. Will Boone’s paintings tread a fine line between legibility and abstraction, thereby investigating codes of communication, symbiology and subjective meaning. Virginia Overton, her work comprises installation, sculpture and photography, often beginning intuitively as a direct response to her physical presence in a particular space. Info: Galerie Frank Elbaz, 66 rue de Turenne, Paris, Duration: 22/10-28/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.galeriefrankelbaz.com

William Leavitt presents 14 new black ink drawings on paper of objects, scenes, and structures in combination. Each work includes a group of people in conversation, and the things seen are meant to be what is in their thoughts or words. Leavitt’s drawing style is loose and illustrative, and meant to call attention to the physical action of the drawing process. The exhibition’s title, “The Multiplicity”, is partly in response to software engineer Ray Kurzweil’s thesis that computers at some point in the future will surpass humans in their intelligence. This occurrence he calls the “Singularity”. Info: Galerie Frank Elbaz, 66 rue de Turenne, Paris, Duration: 22/10-28/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.galeriefrankelbaz.com

Howard Eliot Hodgkin is a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. His preference was for emotionally charged figurative groupings in which the figures appeared embedded in the matrix of the picture. The often manic humour helped place Hodgkin in the climate of Pop art, although he was not directly associated with the movement. Hodgkin was always concerned to make the picture an object, and from 1970 he worked not on canvas but on assertive wooden supports, such as drawing boards or door frames. His prints are exhibited at the: Galerie Eric Dupont, 138 Rue du Temple, Paris, Duration: 10/10-14-11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00 www.eric-dupont.com

An exhibition celebrating the 10 years of the Galerie Laurent Godin wit works of: Scoli Acosta, Vincent Beaurin, Peter Buggenhout, Hsia-Fei Chang, Claude Closky, Liz Cohen, Delphine Coindet, Marc Couturier, Paul Czerlitzki, Philippe Durand, Sven ‘t Jolle, David Kramer, Gonzalo Lebrija, Marilyn Minter, Marlène Mocquet, Vincent Olinet, Michael Patterson-Carver, Mika Rottenberg, Henrik Samuelsson, Alain Séchas, Haim Steinbach, Gérard Traquandi, Alan Vega, Wang Du, Yarisal & Kublitz. Info: Galerie Laurent Godin, 36 rue Eugène Oudiné, Paris, Duration: 20-25/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.laurentgodin.com

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Paris Gallery, Marian Goodman has invited Christian Boltanski to present his latest work. The exhibition “Faire-part”, uses the entire space of the gallery to deploy two monumental installation on the theme of loss and disappearance. On the ground floor, he has designed a labyrinth of veils suspended from the ceiling and imprinted with barely visible photographs, at the lower level the artist presents a contemplative work composed of a projection and a bed of cut flowers that are allowed to fade and decompose over the course of the exhibition. Info: Faire-part, Marian Goodman Gallery, 79 Rue de Temple, Paris, Duration: 22/10-19/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, http://mariangoodman.com

Raymond Hains is widely regarded as one of the most important and challenging French artists of the second half of the 20th Century. An unclassifiable personality, often associated with Nouveau Réalisme and close to European post-war avant-garde movements Lettrisme and Situationnisme, Raymond Hains is mainly well-known for his torn posters and palissades (board fences) found in the streets, starting in 1949. In collaboration with the Raymond’s Hains estate, the exhibition “Raymond le disert” features major works and presents an exceptional opportunity to discover or rediscover the artist’s development over nearly six decades, beginning with his photographs of war destructions and first abstract photographs from the mid-1940s and concluding with his neon works from the early 2000s, based on the Borromean knots by Lacan. Info: Galerie Max Hetzler, 57 rue du Temple, Paris, Duration: 22/10-21/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.maxhetzler.com

In his solo exhibition Marcos Avila Forero presents his new project “Estenopeicas rurales – Restitutions of the memory”. Since its origins until the contemporary protests, the social civil and armed conflict in Colombia is strongly connected to the needs for viable agrarian policies for the farmer populations. In this context, some regions became the main theatres of peasant struggles, since the historic era of La Violencia until now. In close collaboration with the local population, the artist transformed several families’ farms of these regions, which were or continue to be spaces of revolt, militancy and sometimes clandestinity, into a camera obscura. Every house, as a huge camera, catches on a large scale the cultivated landscapes and the mountains. Info: Estenopeicas rurales – Restitutions of the memory, Dohyang Lee Gallery 73-75, rue Quincampoix, Paris, Duration: 10/10-28/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-13:00 & 14:00-19:00, www.galeriedohyanglee.com

The first solo exhibition in France of Cass Rodrigo is composed of unreleased videos and sculptures with the title “Espaço Liberto”. The title of the exhibition refers to the work of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, who is interested in the “organic line”, the border between the frame and the senior of the work, called in his texts espaço liberto or released space. In the visual metaphors of his videos, sculptures and drawings, the artist points out the materiality of items (through color intensity, texture objects and the brutality of the actions) to find meaning in poetic, political and spiritual, beyond what is obvious and visible in the work. Info: MdM Gallery, 6 Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, Paris, Duration: 17/10-15/12/15, www.mdmgallery.com

The Canadian artist Michel de Broin continues the development of his practice through the derivation of the object and today is proposing the temporary summary of his experiments. Without ever limiting himself to a favorite medium, de Broin delivers, this time, as many cyanotypes (the technique at the origin of photography) as bronzes, and this without knowing any limits since a monumental assembly is found next to a slender linguistic work in this opus Info: La dissipation sur le virage, Galerie Eva Meyer, 5 rue des Haudriettes, Paris, Duration: 23/10-/12/15, Days & Hours: 11:00-19:00, http://galerieevameyer.com

Born in Baia Mare Romania in 1977 and now living and working in Berlin, Adrian Ghenie is currently representing Romania in the 56th Venice Biennale. Brought up in post-Ceausescu Romania, Adrian Ghenie’s work often dwells on the darker moments of post-war European history and the personalities whose actions have defined its course. Collective and personal memories, film stills, images culled from the Internet and art historical references are cut out and fused to make up the fabric of his paintings. Adrian Ghenie speaks of “painting the texture of history” and it is his fascination in recapturing these lost textures that give rise to the artist’s extraordinarily expressive use of paint. The exhibition presents a group of ten new oil paintings in which the “self” takes center stage. Info: Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, 7 rue Debelleyme, Pqris, Duration: 22/10-21/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-19:00, http://ropac.net

Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967), an architect and designer of furniture, worked for many years with his cousin Le Corbusier, particularly through the creation and organization of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture. In the shadows and discretion that suited him, he produced an oeuvre attesting to an original and demanding way of thinking. Between the two men there was a difference in approach. Precisely where Le Corbusier preferred order and organization, Jeanneret had ideas which he himself described as “always a bit anarchic”, and, throughout his life, he cultivated the spirit of an experimenter, for example assembling found materials, the fruit of his observation. Αn exhibition by pieces by Pierre Jeanneret, some of them rare, hailing from the city of Chandigarh. One or two pieces by Le Corbusier, also from Chandigarh, will also be on view at Galerie Philippe Jousse, 18, rue de Seine, Paris, Duration: 23/10-21/11/15, Days & Hours: Mon 14:00-19:00, Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, http://jousse-entreprise.com

In her new exhibition, “Until I Come”, Janaina Tschäpe explores links between eroticism and art. The creative process transforms into a constant quest for climax: the exact instance when the artwork reaches its culmination. The artist translates the intensity of this process as an explosion of colors and energies. The mediums of drawing and painting, which are usually considered distinct, here coexist, interlace, and ultimately fuse with the canvas. Info: Until I Come, Xippas Gallery, 108, Rue Vieille Du Temple, Paris, Duration: 22/10-18/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 10:00-13:00 & 14:00-19:00, Sat 10:00-19:00, www.xippas.com

An exhibition will explore the entire career of Paolo Scheggi, from his famous “Intersuperfici” to his research on language and theatrical and urban performances. The limited body of work of this major artist of the Italian post-war avant-garde, dead at 31, is closely followed by today’s art world. The exhibition includes a reconstruction of Scheggi’s installation at the 1966 Venice Biennale. Info: Curator: Luca Massimo Barbero, Galerie Tornabuoni Art, 16 Avenue Matignon, Paris, Duration: 23/10-22/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:30-18:30, www.tornabuoniart.fr

The solo exhibition of Kapwani Kiwanga, entitled “Continental Shift” is part of the “Afrotunnel” project, currently developed by the artist. It refers to a hypothetic tunnel linking Europe to Africa via the strait of Gibraltar, that has been studied for a number of years but has yet to be realised. Parallel to this exhibition, Gallery Jérôme Poggi presents at FIAC (Secteur Lafayette) a solo show untitled “Flowers for Africa” by Kapwani Kiwanga and publishes an interview with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Info: Gallery Jérôme Poggi, 2 rue Beaubourg, Paris, Duration: 22/10-28/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.galeriepoggi.com

Pierre Clément’s practice articulates around esthetic, cultural and political forms which emerged with Internet. Sampling of forms and materials, Pierre Clément explores their potentialities and the symbolic power of images and manufactured objects: satellite dish, symbol of a certain telecommunication, Plexiglas imbricated with some clay, printed images making the focus on textures (mud, clay). XPO gallery proposes an assembly made by several works produced on this occasion. Each of these works is a subtle composition questioning the sculptural potential of the image. Info: XPO Gallery, 17 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, Paris, Duration: 22/10-12/12/15, Days & Hours: Wed-Sat 14:00-19:00, www.xpogallery.com

In 2003, Andréa Vamos stumbled upon numerous film rolls in a bin. A few years later the artist began a series of artistic experiences in the woods, which then gave birth to art installations where the film rolls and trees were meant to meet and tie together. Andréa Vamos then decided to photograph those interventions in the wood and call the project “Photosynthesis”. The exhibition “… j’y découvre une forêt de feu” reveals for the first time Andréa Vamos’s art installations in a closed space, and displays the entire photographic archives of “Photosynthesis”, as well as some of her poetic texts. Info: Kogan Gallery, 96 bis rue Beaubourg, Paris, Duration: 22/10-19/11/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 11:00-19:00, Sat: 14:00-19:00, www.kogangallery.com