Mike BOUCHET: CANBURGER opening at the Galerie Vallois on January 24th

"Bite my buns, swallow my meat. Taste the fire in the cave."

Preview and Opening night at the Galerie Vallois on January 24th from 06pm

The next Mike Bouchet's exhibition at the Galerie Vallois, "CANBURGER" consist of 10000 hamburgers canned specially for the occasion. Having worked directly with a canning meat company in Germany, the artist has developed a canned hamburger with a two years shelf life. The meat caught between two buns, already topped with ketchup and mustard, is packaged in a box with a lid for easy opening.



The "CANBURGER" is the starting point for a more comprehensive research on important matters relating to the consumption of hamburgers. In a style called "Internationalist", Bouchet has made sculptures and paintings that raise some profound questions about the production and consumption of food in today's world, from fast food to boxed military rations, through American survivalist movement. While hyper-hamburger large paintings push the food fetishism limits to its most grotesque, the bronze hyper-hamburger sculpture (and the sparkling boxes of hamburger) pushes the trend of what could be called a "materiality show " at the edge of the genre.


As with other works of his, Bouchet reproduces the marketing strategies: in the oldest food market in Paris - les Enfants Rouges -, samples of "CANBURGER" have been offered as free samplers during the month of December. In line with previous projects like "carpe DENIM" and in an even more extreme way, with an appropriating and yet lucid humour, "CANBURGER" then confronts the viewer with the insolent materiality of the works and the tactics of an all-entertainment society, led by Media and advertising.

Mike BOUCHET : Canburger
25 January 25th - March 1st 2008

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
www.galerie-vallois.com
36 rue de seine
75006 Paris
T +33 1 46 34 61 07
F +33 1 43 25 18 80

Monday - Saturday
10.30 am - 1 pm / 2 pm - 7 pm

Nicolas Buffe, studiolo (the vestibule) Opening Thursday December 20th, 2008

Opening with the artist on Thursday December 20th, 2008 from 06pm to 09pm, Free access

The work of Nicolas Buffe (born in Paris in 1978) refers directly to the grotesque, these wall paintings of the sixteenth century, as well as a personal imaging, often associated with popular culture and his childhood.

For this exhibition at the red house (la maison rouge), Nicolas Buffe will perform a wall drawing in black ink specifically designed for the vestibule. Studiolo refers to rooms of the same name, which during the Renaissance were cleverly ornamented spaces to stimulate the thinking of those who worked there. Like the Duke Federico da Montefeltro's studiolo containing profane and Christians characters according to the humanist taste, Nicolas Buffe draw a studiolo where classical and popular references mix with elegance and irony.

Nicolas Buffe, studiolo (the vestibule)
from December 20th to January 20th

Maison Rouge
www.lamaisonrouge.org
10, boulevard de la bastille
75012 Paris

Hours : 18h-21h
Closed on January 1st, May 1st an December 25th
T. 01 40 01 08 81
Mail : info@lamaisonrouge.org

Metro : Quai de la Rapée ou Bastille
Free access

Daniel Arsham's Playground Opening on Saturday December 15th at the E. Perrotin Gallerie

Opening on Saturday December 15th, 2007


Since his recent collaboration with Merce Cunningham, Daniel Arsham has been thinking a great deal about accidents.
In this, Arsham's first new exhibition in Paris the GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN Art Spaces is transformed with bespoke works that deal with the idea of a unique event multiplied. The large front window serves as an impromptu stage displaying the aftermath of an accident; a visual exposé of Cunningham's renowned ‘chance operations'.
The exhibit also includes a new sculptural installation, drawings and one small, hard-to-find piece that is well worth the hunt.


Arsham is concerned with the battle between the organic and the imposed synthetic. His work toys with preconceptions of boundaries drawn between nature and architecture by the very buildings themselves.
Arsham's collaborative work with Merce Cunningham featured in "eyeSpace" which was performed last week at the théatre de la ville.

"Playground" de Daniel Arsham
from December 15th, 2007 to January 12th, 2008

GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN
http://www.galerieperrotin.com
76, rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
Tel : 01 42 16 79 79
Fax : 01 42 16 79 74
Mail : info-paris@galerieperrotin.com

Tuesday-Saturday 11am-07pm

Anonymous Sculptures , Industrial Objets Opening at 50soixante70

Opening Saturday December 15th, 2007 from 03pm to 08pm



"Anonymous Sculptures , Industrial Objets" at 50soixante70

50soixante70
16 rue Cafarelli
75003 Paris
tel.: 06 71 62 60 88
Open Tuesday to Friday from 02pm to 07:30pm, Saturday from 11am to 07:30pm
Metro : Temple ou Filles du Calvaire

Tarmacs Photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand - Opening Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Opening Thursday, December 13th, 2007


Tarmacs - Photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Galerie Louis Carré & Cie
http://www.louiscarre.fr
10, avenue de Messine
Paris 8ème
Tel : 01 45 62 57 07
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 12h30 noon and from 02pm to 06pm
Mondays from 02pm to 06:30pm

Free entrance

The Disclosed Hammam Mediterranean Hammams , from Damas to Marseille - Opening December 18th, 2007

Opening December 18th, 2007 from 06:30pm to 09pm


The Disclosed Hammam - Mediterranean Hammams, from Damas to Marseille


Photographs by Anna Puig Rosado and Pascal Meunier

Centre Iris
http://www.centre-iris.fr
238, rue Saint Martin
75003 Paris
Téléphone : 01 48 87 06 09
Entrée libre

XS Paris Opening Tuesday, December 11th at the Ricard Corporate Foundation

Opening Tuesday, December 11th at the Ricard Corporate Foundation from 05 pm
Download the invitation here

With Saâdane Afif, Wilfrid Almendra, Lou Amoravain, Pierre Ardouvin, Sylvie Auvray, Virginie Barré, Lilian Bourgeat, Anne Brégeaut, Laura Brunellière, Roland Cognet, Delphine Coindet, Guillaume Constantin, Thomas David, Marcelline Delbecq, Christophe Duchatelet & Laurent Edeline, Jean-Charles Eustache, Philippe Eydieu, Christelle Familiari, Pauline Fondevila, Marjolaine Gony, Lina Jabbour, Pierre Joseph, Nicolas Lafon, Delphine Laloy, Claude Lévêque, Jacques Malgorn, Pierre Malphettes, Carole Manaranche, Mathieu Mercier, Anita Molinero, Gyan Panchal, Florence Paradeis, Bruno Peinado, Loïc Raguénès, Delphine Rigaud, Gitte Schäfer, Mathieu Sellier, Stéphane Thidet, Rachel Urkowitz, Raphaël Zarka, Edwige Ziarkowski.


The Ricard corporate Foundation welcomes the XS Paris* exhibition from the 12th of December 2007 to January 05th, 2008. Elisabeth Wetterwald, exhibition Commissioner, brought together 42 artists with whom she has a real complicity. As the title of the exhibition suggests, she had conceived this project with an entertaining approach: asking artists to exhibit one or more "small" works, each of them interpreting "smallness" in his own way and in accordance with his work. Two constraints, however: neither models nor object in reduce scale. Most of the works are unpublished.

*XS Paris is the second part of the XS exhibition held at the Space Mica Gallery, in Rennes, from May 11 to June 16, 2007.





XS PARIS
From 12 December 2007 to 05 January 2008

Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
http://www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/
12 rue Boissy d'Anglas
75008 PARIS
T. 33 (0)1 53 30 88 00
F. 33 (0) 1 40 06 90 78

Admission is free from Tuesdays to Saturdays from 11am to 19h except holidays.
Closes December 23, 2007 to 01 January 2008

Subways and parking: Concorde and Madeleine

RINEKE DIJKSTRA:"Park Portraits" Reception Friday December 07th 2007

Reception Friday December 07th 2007, 06-08 pm at the Marian Goodman Gallerie

Following a fantastic traveling retrospective of her work, Rineke Dijkstra has recently unveiled her latest project - a new series of portraits of young people photographed, in city parks of the world, in which the artist's lens majestically captures life and the nuances of timeless rites of passage, and of identity, in medias res, an updated, modern album of magical woodland creatures. 'Park portraits', on show at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris, include images of schoolchildren and adolescents engaged in the rituals of their daily life, whether it be playing, socialising, resting, thinking, in city parks in Europe, China and the United States.

It's interesting that of all the portraits, varied as they are in focus and expression, not a single one is in what is known as a 'portrait' format. Using the lush framework of traditional landscape in a seemingly offhand manner echoes part of the sense of Dijkstra's latest images of youth - the natural and inevitable merging of two subjects, both personal and universal, which are in a state of constant change, and for which there is a longstanding artistic fascination to converse with and overturn. Writing about the park portraits in a Dutch daily newspaper during the time of the Stedelijk show, Kees Keijer wrote: 'Dijkstra let go of her former austerity and photographed four young people in Amsterdam during a "Dejeuner sur l'herbe anno 2005". Again the work is frontal, but now the pose is relaxed. The surroundings in Dijkstra's work used to be extremely sober; now, candy wrappings and empty soft drink bottles are lying about. A gaping rucksack zipper offers a nearly symbolic perspective on a different reality: one of homework, commitments and expectations for the future. But they don't want to think about that just now'.

The new body of work is slightly more playful than Dijkstra's previous, rather more austere series documenting the rites of passage of adolescence and childhood, from the 'Beach Portraits' of 1992, to the video installation 'Buzzclub/Mysterworld' (1996-1997), the 'Tiergarten Series' (1998-2000), 'Israeli soldiers' (1999-2000), and the single-subject portraits in serial transition: 'Almerisa' (1994-2005), 'Shany' (2001-2003) and 'Olivier' (2000-2003). In 'Park portraits', the portrait seems to shape the subject's possession of their own identity, now performing for us in a new, uncontrollable theatre of characters, safe in the comfort of their favorite spot.

Rineke Dijkstra. Park Portraits
December 07th,2007 to January 19th,

Marian Goodman Gallerie
http://www.mariangoodman.com/mg/paris.html
79, rue du Temple
75003 Paris

Metro Rambuteau
Free entrance 18h-20h

T. 01 48 04 70 52
Mail: parisgallery@mariangoodman.com