Here is a pick of art shows this week in Paris featuring artists such as van Gogh, Monet, José María Sicilia, Louise Bourgeois, Josh Sperling, Edgar Degas, César Baldaccini, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Blouin ArtInfo curates some of the must-visit art shows for its readers.“Dutch artists in Paris, 1789-1914” at Petit PalaisFebruary 6- May 13, 2018This exhibition highlights the extensive artistic and aesthetic exchanges between Dutch and French painters from the reign of Napoleon to the beginning of the 20th century. From traditional flower paintings to the aesthetic ruptures of modernity, the show includes work by artists like Jongkind, Van Gogh, Géricault, David, Corot, Millet, Boudin, Cézanne, Monet, Signac, Picasso, Ary Scheffer, Van Dongen or Mondrian.www.petitpalais.paris“Sheila Hicks: Lines of life” at Centre PompidouFebruary 7- April 30, 2018Centre Pompidou presents artworks by the American artist Sheila Hicks (b. 1934). The artist is the heir to both a Modernist spirit that holds the distinctions between fine art, decoration and design and a textile practice that has its roots in pre-Columbian America. Since the late 1950s, Hicks has been producing work exceptionally difficult to categorize. Knotting, wrapping, folding, twisting and stacking wool, linen and cotton: these are only some of the techniques and materials that have seen her undermine conventional artistic categories. This exhibition brings together pieces representing her whole career: a vast, vibrant and vital installation, pulsing with form and color.www.centrepompidou.fr“José María Sicilia: Phasma” at Galerie Chantal CrouselRunning through March 3, 2018Galerie Chantal Crousel presents “Phasma,” the eighth solo exhibition of Spanish artist José María Sicilia (b. 1954, Madrid, Spain). The exhibition showcases artworks of abstract paintings from the La Locura del ver (The Madness of seeing / 2015-2016) series. Simultaneously, the artist also presents Phasma (2017), a series of latest drawings and poems, created in Japan, which deals with the feeling of suicide, life struggle and ephemerality.www.crousel.com“Eugène Leroy: Intérieurs” at Galerie Nathalie ObadiaRunning through March 17, 2018Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents artist Eugène Leroy’s (1910-2000) exhibition “Intérieurs.” Curated by another artist Sarkis Zabunyan (b. 1938, Istanbul), this exhibition gathers a selection of about 40 pieces of artwork. Sarkis curated this show to confront his own creations with the master’s work he considers absolutely essential. The exhibition tackles the notion of accumulation, which takes up different forms in the work of the two artists.www.nathalieobadia.com“Pierre et Gilles: Le temps imaginair” at Galerie TemplonRunning through March 10, 2018Galerie Templon presents Pierre et Gilles with a new show called “Le temps imaginaire.” The exhibition is constructed as a journey through the artists’ universe, a highly complex world as underlined by the recent retrospective in Brussels and Le Havre. The Pierre et Gilles world is enchanting but haunted by recent events.www.templon.com“Real and Imaginary Depictions of the Orient: a Matter of Gazes” at Louvre MuseumRunning through April 2, 2018This exhibition revitalizes the presentation of works in the museum. In collaboration with The Lilian Thuram Foundation: Education against Racism and the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, this show presents an unprecedented display of the museum collection dedicated to the ‘Orient’, as understood by Delacroix, and its depiction. The exhibition highlights the close links between artistic representations and the contemporary history, between artworks and the issues at stake in our world.www.louvre.fr“Louise Bourgeois: Editions” at Galerie Karsten GreveRunning through February 24, 2018Galerie Karsten Greve presents the artworks by Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in an exhibition titled “Editions.” The show includes more than 50 items: single engravings, portfolios and illustrated books from the late 1980s up until 2009. The exhibition displays selected works, engravings on fabric as well as drypoints, aquatints, and lithographs on paper that Bourgeois often enhanced with drawings.www.galerie-karsten-greve.com“Josh Sperling: Chasing Rainbows” at PerrotinRunning through February 24, 2018With “Chasing Rainbows,” artist Josh Sperling (b. 1984, New York) presents his artwork for the first time at the gallery. The exhibition brings together a number of new works by the New York-based artist. The show includes composites — or shaped canvases and plywood panels — a series of monochrome canvas reliefs, and a large-scale installation. Influenced by Frank Stella and his shaped canvases, Sperling’s dynamic clusters of brightly colored forms leave little space to distinguish between painting and sculpture, image and object. In this exhibition, Sperling’s work resembles another American abstractionist, Ellsworth Kelly, whose signature hard-edge shapes took near-sculptural forms, in his later works.www.perrotin.com‘Picasso 1932’ at Musée PicassoRunning through February 11, 2018The show brings together works created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the year 1932. In 1932, after 30 years of work, Picasso felt the need to document his work by dating his paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings on a day to day basis - an approach that is linked to his ability to preserve the traces of his works. The show accounts for this complete year in the life of Picasso, through the chronological presentation of his works and its archives.www.museepicassoparis.fr/‘Degas, Danse, Dessin. A Tribute to Degas with Paul Valéry’ at Musée d'OrsayRunning through February 25, 2018The exhibition pays tribute to French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) on the centenary year of his death, with a display of lesser-known works by his compatriot Paul Valéry (1871-1945) - celebrating their friendship of more than 20 years. Valéry was a writer, poet, and philosopher, and the show is based on the extracts from his essays and Degas’s graphic works, paintings and sculptures, offering an insight into Degas’s interest in dance and horseracing. The show features archival documents including Degas’s numerous drawings and Valéry’s notebooks, demonstrating the creative inspiration behind these two luminaries’ practice, as well revealing moments of their social interaction.http://www.musee-orsay.fr/‘Dada Africa, Non-Western Sources and Influences’ at Musée de l’OrangerieRunning through February 19, 2018Dada, a prolific and subversive art movement, first emerged in Zurich during the First World War, and then spread to centers such as Berlin, Paris and New York. Through new works – sound poems, collage, and performance – the artists rejected the traditional values of civilization, while appropriating the cultural and artistic forms of non-western cultures such as Africa, Oceania and America. The Musée de l’Orangerie is presenting an exhibition on these exchanges with African, American Indian and Asian works alongside those of the Dadaists - Hanna Höch, Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Marcel Janco, Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray and Picabia, among others.www.musee-orangerie.fr/en‘Constance Guisset Design, Actio!’ at Musée des Arts DécoratifsRunning through March 11, 2018The show is a retrospective of scenographer and designer Constance Guisset’s (b.1976) work for the past 10 years. The exhibition invites the viewers into the designer’s world where her wide-ranging fields are showcased through the creations on display. The show is an experience divided into two sections. The first will highlight Guisset’s scenographic creations and the second section will shed light on her creative processes through her key designs and recent works.www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/enClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibitions.
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