Art Paris Fair, The World According to Pierre Huet, Brancusi Retrospective…Our 5 Cultural Must-Sees

Brancusi, the inventor of modern sculpture at the Center Pompidou

In 1995, the Center Georges Pompidou presented the first ever retrospective in France of the work of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). Twenty years later, the museum is at it again with a tribute to the father of modern sculpture. In addition to sculptures (about 120), photographs, drawings, films, archives, workshop tools and furniture will also be exhibited. Remember that the seminary has been one of the treasures of the Center Pompidou since it was bequeathed to the French state in 1957. It is the matrix of this exhibition where we will see, among other masterpieces: The sleeping muse (1910) or: Princess (1915-1916), The bird in space (until 1941) orendless column (before 1928)… Under no circumstances should it be missed.

Brancusifrom March 27 to 1^eh July 2024, centrepompidou.fr

Art Paris, capital of art in spring

Guillaume Piens, a very dynamic directorART Paris has this year’s faith. 136 galleries have been carefully selected from 300 applications for the “Olympic Fair”, including 42 new trendsetters in contemporary art. Two topics on the menu. A look at the contemporary French scene by curator Eric de Chassi, exhales Fragile utopias in a period marked by doubts (Yto Barada, Vera Molnar, Rafael Zarka, etc.). Arts and Crafts, entrusted curator Nicholas Tremblay, shows how artists invest in craft know-how, ceramics, glass, tapestry. (Sheila Hicks, Danielle Dewar and Gregory Gickel, Jeanne Viserial…) Medal Art Paris always at the forefront? Answer on April 4 at the Grand Palais Ephémère.

Art ParisFrom April 4 to 7, 2024, artparis.com

Pierre Hugues transforms the Pointe de la Douane

Pierre Hugues received carte blanche for his new exhibition at the Punta della Dogana in Venice (Pinault Collection). He plunged it into darkness, where the performers, in golden masks, idioms, emerge bearing a new language. The mask being one of the narrative threads of the installation because Liminal2024, the work of the same name, which is the matrix of this exhibition for the film human mask 2014, where a monkey wears a girl mask at a restaurant near Fukushima Zoodram 6, in an aquarium where a hermit crab pulls its head/mask in agreementSleeping muse by Brancusi. This lair in the dark is a place of transition with its human and non-human creatures mutating, hybridizing and growing stronger. Welcome to the enigmatic, poetic, metaphysical underworld of Pierre Huguet.

Pierre Huguet, Liminal, until November 24, 2024, pinaultcollection.com

A beautiful book with the writers’ faces and hands in the photos

Jean Rollin, Françoise Sagan, Philippe Sollers, Annie Ernot, Patrick Modiano, Salman Rushdie, Marie Ndiaye, Alberto Moravia, Nancy Huston… From them we know their works, sometimes their faces. But not quite their hands, this essential instrument, the extension of their brains, where these sentences are born, conveying worlds as bright as they are secret. Photographer Hanna Asulin, who has been documenting her passion for literature for thirty years, had a great idea to focus on the language of the hands of the masters of writing. 150 agreed to give him their hands, which speak of happiness as well as suffering, the wear and tear of time as well as elegance. From Elie Wiesel’s almost childlike hands to Serge Rezvani’s trial-stained ones, a whole truth is revealed. A sensitive and generous foreword by Jerome Garcin invites us to take gentle steps into this beautiful book.

Faces and hands, 150 portraits of writers. Hannah Assouline, foreword by Jerome Garcin, editions Herscher, 27 euros, 320 p.

The sorceress healing album by Marie Bastide

Marie Bastide is a successful singer and songwriter One day in the wrong place from Calogero, how You go Julien Clerk, the miracle by Celine Dion, awarded Victoire de la Musique… She who also wrote for Angunn, Florent Pagny and Louane made her 2020 fortune as a performer. do you want to be alive opus was followed this week by the release of the album Remedy, ten beautiful compositions with music by Carla Bruni, Julien Clerc and Florent Marche. Poetry, dreams, power, energy are the key words of this sunny album, where each song is connected to a chakra and heals the wound of the soul. The dosage is simple: listen to it on repeat.

The sorceressBy Marie Bastide Released March 29, 2024 Fish wonder/Kuroneka