Matthieu Lelièvre
Matthieu Lelièvre - Crédit photo Elise Vion-Delphin
An experienced art historian and exhibition curator, Matthieu Lelièvre has worked for the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris before joining macLYON first in the role of artistic advisor and then as the museum's collection manager. In addition to group exhibitions, his recent curatorships have showcased the work of Maxwell Alexandre (Casa Encendida, Madrid), Jesper Just, Mary Sibande, Jasmina Cibic, Edi Dubien (macLYON), Thameur Mejri (Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis), and Ugo Schiavi (MBA Orléans). In 2024, he will co-curate the 60th October Salon, the Belgrade Biennale.
What emerges from this year’s edition of Paris Gallery Weekend is the central theme of nature and photography, the visitors will turn into wanderers, taken on a stroll. It is an invitation to become inspired and direct our gaze towards the natural or anthropic environment and to become aware of how we traverse it as it traverses us.
First, we have the joy of rediscovering the work of Daniel Steegman Mangrané in two exhibitions organised with PGW. The exhibition “La pensée férale,” which describes a domesticated species that grows outside of the culture that generated it, will be explored at Esther Schipper through a series of photographs taken at Tijuca National Park, a tropical forest resulting from reforestation. Simultaneously, Mendes Wood DM, shows “Dog Eye”, displaying fragments of a three-hundred-year-old oak tree which has died due to the drought affecting Catalonia, questioning the circumstances of climate degradation by creating an interchange of perspectives between the observer and the observed.
Further west of Paris, Galerie Nathalie Obadia will present a monographic exhibition of Laura Henno titled “Grande Terre”, displaying films and photographs taken in the Comoros archipelago, which seeks to highlight the spatial complexity of these islands while decrypting the societal tensions that permeate them. This transcription of the landscape through photography can also be found in Ilanit Illouz’s exhibition in the new space of Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard. Titled “Sel noir,” the photographer explores the hidden yet strong links that exist between landscapes traversed by civilizations as well as considering her personal family history, which manifests in a poetic and sensitive depiction of landscapes.
Furthermore, “Panchronic Garden” at Galerie Perrotin promises to be an exciting new expedition, resulting from a collaboration between Julian Charrière and scientists, musicians, engineers, and philosophers engaging in the deconstruction of our certainties about the environment. The artist speculates on how we construct the idea of nature.
At Anne-Sarah Bénichou, the artist Laurent Montaron takes visitors on a scientific journey through Greece and Turkey, considering questions about history, technology and modernity.
In a similar realm, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige propose an archeological journey showcasing a new series of tapestries, to be seen at Galerie In Situ-fabienne leclerc in Romainville,
It is not always necessary to travel the world or to travel through time to find one’s own special corner of nature. At Galerie Maria Lund, the painter Didier Boussarie rediscovers a “communal pond”, a landscape which he considers public poetry. Similarly, the Brazilian painter João Trevisan is exhibited at Galerie RX&SLAG with paintings evoking a mental and mysterious journey through the landscapes of his homecountry.
These are just a few names of the journey Paris Gallery Weekend will take us on this spring.
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Esther Schipper
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané , Espagne
"La pensée férale"
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Mendes Wood DM
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané , Espagne
"La pensée férale"
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Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Laura Henno , Mali
"Grande Terre"
Valérie Belin , France
"Lady Stardust"
- Photographie
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Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard
Ilanit Illouz , France
"Sel noir"
- Artistes femmes
- Photographie
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Perrotin
Klara Kristalova , Tchéquie
"Beast"
CARTE BLANCHE
- Carte blanche
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Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou
Laurent Montaron , France
- Artistes femmes
- Photographie
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In Situ - fabienne leclerc
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
"Comme le jour se fait lorsque la nuit s’en va"
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Galerie Maria Lund
Didier Boussarie , France
"Étang communal"
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Galerie RX&SLAG
Pascal Convert , France
"Constellations"
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João Trevisan , Ghana
"Strangers at dawn"
CARTE BLANCHE
- Carte blanche