Schedule: Thu - Sat 12 pm - 8 pm I Sun 12 pm - 7 pm
Location: Grand Palais
Address: 7 avenue Winston Churchill 75008 Paris
Art Brut works, often created on the fringes of society and discovered by chance or through people close to the artists, are today a fundamental part of art history. For 45 years, collector Bruno Decharme has been collecting these creations born outside the official art world. The exhibition Art Brut. In the Intimacy of a Collection at the Centre Pompidou presents over 300 works from his donation to the Musée National d’Art Moderne. Organized like a puzzle, the exhibition explores the variety of themes and perspectives of Art Brut, revealing the incredible creative force of the human spirit outside of convention.
At the Petit Palais in Paris, an exhibition traces more than a century of artists’ portraits and self-portraits, placing the museum’s historical collections in dialogue with the work of a generation of contemporary women artists.
The Opéra Bastille returns to the stage with Ercole Amante, an opera composed in 1707 by the Venetian Antonia Bembo. The production refocuses attention on a singular figure of the European Baroque, a composer and singer who found the space to develop her art at the court of Louis XIV.
Inventor of the mobile, Alexander Calder transformed sculpture into a system of balanced forces, suspended between lightness and rigor. The major Paris exhibition retraces his entire career, focusing on the relationship between movement, space and perception.
A major exhibition at the Louvre brings Michelangelo and Auguste Rodin into dialogue, two sculptors separated by three centuries but united by a shared vision of sculpture as the energy of the human body.
