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.
Three centuries after Greuze’s birth, the Petit Palais pays tribute to the painter with a retrospective focused on childhood. Around one hundred works reveal a fragile and emotional world, filled with tenderness and unease. An exploration of eighteenth-century childhood through art, philosophy, and society.
The Musée d’Orsay presents Point de départ, an exhibition devoted to Bridget Riley that explores the origins of her visual language. The influence of Georges Seurat and the birth of Op Art are placed in dialogue through works and preparatory studies.
The Jeu de Paume is dedicating a major retrospective to Martin Parr, featuring 180 photographs that reveal, with sharp irony, the paradoxes of contemporary society. Consumption, tourism, and inequality emerge as symptoms of a world in crisis.
A major retrospective in Paris brings Philip Guston back into focus, the artist who left abstraction behind to confront the political and social traumas of the 1970s through irony and grotesque imagery. His satirical drawings and figurative paintings reveal the courage to turn painting into a tool of critique and resistance.
