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Stan Douglas, Nobuyoshi Araki, Charles Ray: what does the Pinault Collection have in store for this year?
Recently invested by the prestigious Pinault Collection in the Halles district of Paris, the Bourse de Commerce has just announced the continuation of its program after its inaugural exhibitions. Between installations by Nobuyoshi Araki, Stan Douglas and an exhibition by Charles Ray, it will continue to assert itself as a stronghold of contemporary art.
After the monumental success of the Bourse de Commerce since its reopening in Paris last May, businessman François Pinault intends to continue his momentum. In parallel with the inaugural exhibition, on view until January 2022, bringing together big names in contemporary art such as Miriam Cahn, David Hammons, Cindy Sherman, the artistic institution offers to discover two new installations within its walls from December 8. Already exhibited during the inaugural exhibition, the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, born in 1940, will present a series of a hundred black and white photographs from 1993 entitled For Robert Frank, in honor of the great American photographer of the twentieth century. The frontality of these erotic clichés– explicit and uncompromising – mixes with the views of Tokyo, drawing over the course of the shots the daily life of a man oscillating between desire and loss.
Meanwhile, in the basement of the Bourse de Commerce, the film Luanda-Kinshasa by Canadian Stan Douglas, which lasts more than 6 hours, will run on a loop. Returning to the African roots of the New York music scene of the seventies, the work by the photographer and filmmaker born in 1960 reproduces identically the famous recording studio of the Columbia Record when we saw the greatest names in the history of contemporary music parade daily, from Aretha Franklin to Miles Davis. Filmed in 2013, this fictional recording with a vintage aesthetic fascinates with the musical cross-fertilization and virtuosity of the musicians. In parallel with these two installations, the Bourse de Commerce will offer a cycle of meetings called Expologie in its auditorium, dedicated to emblematic exhibitions of contemporary art. An eclectic program that will also bring together concerts and screenings, such as the musical Kiss of death, which associates the rapper Lala&ce with the Argentinian choreographer Cecilia Bengolea.
A rich program that will be completed from February 2022 by a large-scale exhibition. After more than two years of collaboration, the Centre Pompidou and the Pinault Collection will unveil an exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce dedicated to the artist Charles Ray, born in 1953 in Chicago, whose figurative steel sculptures painted in white are destabilizing by their realism and monumental size. An icon of contemporary art, the sculptor is also a close friend of François Pinault: the billionaire has installed one of his flagship pieces, Boy with Frog – depicting a naked young boy lifting a frog – in front of Punta della Dogana, one of the billionaire’s Venetian exhibition spaces. On the occasion of this first monograph in France of the American artist, the Bourse de Commerce will present 17 of his sculptures throughout the circular building. As for the spaces in Venice, the Palazzo Grassi will host an exhibition by the South African painter Marlene Dumas at the end of March, while the exhibition of the American Bruce Nauman is still to be visited at the Punta della Dogana until the end of November 2022.
New program from December 8 at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris 1st.
In parallel with this Parisian program, the Pinault Collection is currently offering a monographic exhibition in Venice, at the Punta della Dogana, in tribute to the American artist Bruce Nauman, close to minimal art in the sixties and now a key figure on the international art scene. The exhibition entitled ‘Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies’ presents a set of essential works by the artist such as the video installation Walk with Contrapposto but also new productions, exhibited for the first time in Europe. By unfolding certain themes dear to Bruce Nauman – such as sound experimentation, the involvement of bodies through performances – the immersive journey of the exhibition invites the visitor to put his own body and his senses into play. As for the Palazzo Gazzi, which has been hosting the exhibitions of the Pinault Collection since 2006, this year presents a monograph on the painter Marlène Dumas, originally from South Africa, bringing together a hundred works – paintings and drawings – produced in 1984 with the help of stolen images, scrutinized that she reinterprets.
A rich off-site program: Bruce Nauman and Marlène Dumas in Venice
In parallel with this Parisian program, the Pinault Collection is currently offering in Venice, at the Punta della Dogana, a monographic exhibition in tribute to the great American artist Bruce Nauman, close to minimal art in the sixties and now a key figure on the international art scene. The exhibition entitled ‘Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies’ presents a set of the artist’s essential works such as the video installation Walk with Contrapposto but also new productions, exhibited for the first time in Europe. By unfolding certain themes dear to Bruce Nauman – such as sound experimentation, the involvement of bodies through performances – the immersive journey of the exhibition invites the visitor to put his own body and his senses into play. As for the Palazzo Gazzi, which has been hosting the exhibitions of the Pinault Collection since 2006, this year a monograph of the painter Marlène Dumas, originally from South Africa, bringing together a hundred works – paintings and drawings – produced in 1984 using stolen images, scrutinized that she reinterpreted in his own paintings.
