Mitterrand
Cosmic Landscapes
Group show
Mitterrand presents “Cosmic Landscapes”, an exhibition that explores the links between the cosmos, perception, and immateriality, in resonance with the complex thought developed by Edgar Morin.
Bringing together works by Yves Klein, Lita Albuquerque, and Jack Goldstein, the exhibition explores the connections between the cosmos, perception, and invisible phenomena.
Through his exploration of immateriality, void, and invisible energy, Yves Klein opens up a total perceptual field, notably embodied by the IKB blue, which transcends the materiality of the work to become experience.
His practice, situated at the intersection of body, matter, and cosmos, resonates deeply with Morin’s principles of complex thought, where reality unfolds simultaneously as a physical, symbolic, and perceptual phenomenon.
Lita Albuquerque’s works extend this reflection into a cosmological and systemic dimension. By articulating art, science, geography, and memory, her practice highlights the relationships between Earth and the cosmos. Her projects, such as Stellar Axis, express an interdisciplinary vision of the world, fully aligned with Morin’s idea of interconnected knowledge and systems.
At the other end of this constellation, Jack Goldstein’s works introduce phenomena of intensity and rupture. His images of lightning, eruptions, and extreme events reveal brief yet powerful manifestations of invisible forces. Between quasi-scientific precision and spectacular dimension, they embody the irruption of disorder within a system, revealing the unstable and unpredictable dynamics that run through reality.
By bringing these three artists together, “Cosmic Landscapes” proposes a journey from the cosmos to the event, from the global to the perceptual. The exhibition thus outlines a vision of the world shaped by relationships, tensions, and transformations.
The gallery
Founded in 1988 by Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand and now presided over by Edward Mitterrand, Mitterrand gallery operates from two Paris locations: at 95 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in a 1932 building whose spaces were redesigned in October 2024 by Belgian architect Bernard Dubois, and at 79 rue du Temple, in a 17th-century hôtel particulier in the Marais district.
Initially dedicated to contemporary sculpture, the gallery gradually expanded its program to include works by historical artists active from the 1950s onward.
Since its creation, Mitterrand gallery has championed the work of French artists and those based in France such as Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Agustín Cárdenas, and Marta Pan, as well as international artists including Edi Hila, Allan McCollum, Tony Oursler, and Peter Kogler. It also works closely with the estates of Dennis Oppenheim, Francisco Sobrino, and Keith Sonnier to offer new perspectives on their legacies.
The gallery has always been committed to promoting works that are essential to our understanding of contemporary art. In recent years, it has incorporated into its program younger artists from diverse backgrounds and geographies, such as Wallen Mapondera, Katja Schenker, and Raphaël Zarka, reflecting the diversity and rich complexity of 21st-century creative processes. These new collaborations have fostered a dynamic intergenerational dialogue, highlighting the many paradoxes of a world that is both interconnected and fractured.
Gallery artists
Sergio Camargo Estate, Agustín Cárdenas Estate, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Niki De Saint Phalle Foundation, Edi Hila, Peter Kogler, Claude Lalanne, François-Xavier Lalanne, Wallen Mapondera, Allan McCollum, Dennis Oppenheim Estate, Tony Oursler, Marta Pan Foundation, Anne et Patrick Poirier, Katja Schenker, Francisco Sobrino Estate, Keith Sonnier Estate, Mark Di Suvero, Rob Wynne, Raphaël Zarka
