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.
In Paname, Bilal Hamdad turns the city into a suspended stage, filled with anonymous figures and silent urban spaces. His large-scale paintings converse with art history in an emotional, poetic narrative about metropolitan solitude.
An exhibition that is a journey through drawings and fanzines that tell the story of a punk and disillusioned America. With his caustic and ironic style, Pettibon dismantles myths and cultural icons, transforming art into a visual pamphlet.
The Louvre presents a major retrospective on Jacques-Louis David in the Hall Napoléon. More than one hundred works recount the painter of the Revolution and of Napoleon, who turned painting into a political language.
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.
