VINGT pick of the art openings this week

Text Aran Cravey

Image: Will Cotton, Consuming Folly

With April’s hastening end and May Day fast approaching, Paris sees more of springtime’s long awaited pleasures, including this week’s gallery exhibition openings. Galerie Albert Benamou starts the week out on a revelatory note with today's vernissage for Rêves Party. Comprised of works by artists, Nadine Blandiche, Hervé Ic, Marc Molk, Emile Morel, Florence Obrecht, Franck Rezzak, “Rêves Party” promises to present a journey into a multimedia dreamscape, though with a less than sweet taste of humanity’s imagination.

Galerie Daniel Templon serves up a similar dose of salty and sweet with their simultaneous exhibitions by Will Cotton and Loïc Le Groumellec. A native of Brittany, Le Groumellec creates work that often reflects the somber tone of his region’s mythic past. His minimalist paintings, with their commanding, shadowy presence create the perfect foil for the sugary sweet visions of Will Cotton. Confectioned covered, female nudes lounge seductively over ethereal tuffs of gossamer candy in Cotton’s paintings, bringing to mind both the Rocco (Fragonard and Boucher) and the contemporary  (Currin and Yuskavage). Both artists explore worlds of fantastical realities, with glimpses into the soul that delve beyond the surface.

Deconstruction and dismantling are similarly the theme in the historically rich juxtaposition of works by Daniel Buren and Alberto Giacometti at Galerie Kamel Mennour. Oeuvres Contemporaines: 1964-1966 presents the work of a young Buren, just embarking on his career, with the seasoned master, Giacometti, who was by 1964, in the last two years of his career.

Wrapping up the week after May Day’s festivities is the Kadist Art Foundation exhibition Le Stade des sirens. Created by Etienne Chambau and in collaboration with Vincent Normand, this multi-media, performance event will be held simultaneously with the David Roberts Art Foundation in London and Nomas Foundation in Rome. Chambau’s Sirens aims to explore the crevices left open in the wake of civilization’s cacophony of communication. This week’s offering of evening events brings us a taste of springtime pleasure, spiked with a bitter reminder of the deficiency of our desires.

TUESDAY APRIL 27

EXHIBITION OPENING
Nadine Blandiche, Hervé Ic, Marc Molk, Emile Morel, Florence Obrecht, Franck Rezzak: Reves Party
Vernissage: 7pm
Galerie Albert Benamou 75008


WEDNESDAY APRIL 28

EXHIBITION OPENING
Paul van der Eerden, Henri Jacobs
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Galerie Bernard Jordan 75003


THURSDAY APRIL 29

EXHIBITION OPENING
Will Cotton
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Galerie Daniel Templon 75003


EXHIBITION OPENING
Loïc Le Groumellec
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Galerie Daniel Templon 75003  


EXHIBITION OPENING
Daniel Buren & Alberto Giacometti:
Oeuvres Contemporaines: 1964 -1966
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Galerie Kamel Mennour 75006


EXHIBITION OPENING
Rineke Dijkstra
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Galerie Marian Goodman 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Julien District:
Diagrammes
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Martine Aboucaya 75003
www.martineaboucaya.com

EXHIBITION OPENING
Luca Vitone:
Cendres de Paris
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Galerie Michel Rein 75003


EXHIBITION OPENING
Ariane Michel:
Le Camp
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Galerie Jousse enterprise 75003


FRIDAY APRIL 30

EXHIBITION OPENING
Marc Desgrandchamps:
Fragments d’un modernisme aléatoire
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Galerie Zürcher 75003


EXHIBITION OPENING
Marco Breuer:
Approximatif
Vernissage: 6-8pm
John Tevis Gallery 75003


SATURDAY MAY 1

MAY DAY HOLIDAY

SUNDAY MAY 2

EXHIBITION CLOSING
Etienne Chambaud:
Le Stade des sirènes
Vernissage: 4-8pm
Kadist Art Foundation 75018