Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

The new exhibition of modern and contemporary art from the Cultural Institute Bernard Magrez will cross male and female points of view about beauty. It will highlight the contradictions generated by the confrontation of twenty art works from the private collection of Bernard Magrez, including works by Miquel Barceló, Valérie Belin, Marie Bovo, Bernard Buffet, Mauricio Cattelan, Chiharu Shiota, Philippe Cognée, Latifa Echakhch, Michel François, Dan Hays, Camille Henrot, Benoit Maire, Boris Mikhailov,
Jean-Michel Othoniel, Paola Pivi, Sam Taylor-Wood, Vincent Van Gogh, and Xavier Veilhan.

Samya Ramdane : samya@claudinecolin.com

Tamara Marie : tamara@claudinecolin.com

On the occasion of Lille3000’s new season dedicated to the theme “Fantastic”, the Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (LaM), will present a new exhibition on the urban myths of the Interwar period. “The Magic City” will present four myths, reflecting the fantasies and fears produced by the western world and many modern artists such as Victor Brauner, Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Stella, photographers such as Raoul Hausmann, André Kertész and cinematographers such as René Clair, Fritz Lang and John Huston.

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com

This video program offers a selection of five Croat artists, from several generations (Dalibor Martinis, Igor Grubić, Andreja Kulunčić, David Maljković and Renata Poljak) working with films and videos, embodying different aspects of the Croat contemporary art scene, as part of the Festival d’Automne and ‘‘Croatie, la voici".

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

This exhibition, curated by Patrick Amine, shows the work of Italian artist Gianni Colosimo. Young and adult visitors are invited to appropriate the works by reinterpreting emblematic works of art from the 20th and 21th centuries by artists such as Sol LeWitt, Jan Fabre, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren… The exhibition looks like a « tale » in which visitors approach art with the eyes of a child and discover important themes addressed by artists working nowadays.

Samya Ramdane : samya@claudinecolin.com

The Artists Libraries are a new program for which each term, Palais de Tokyo invites an artist to exhibit the implicit connection of his mental universe. Ryan Gander’s « Esperluette » inaugurates these Bibliothèques d’artiste. The title of the exhibition designates the logogram « & », a written form attached to the coordinating conjunction «and», interlinking several concepts in a single relation, a fundamental principle in the work of the artist. The main installation,  « Ampersand », is a gigantic and closed white cube. Only a little opening permits the visitors to see furtively some objects displayed on a treadmill.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

Palais de Tokyo welcomes Fabrice Hyber (b.1961), one of the most inventive and influent artists of his generation. Seduced by the new spaces of Palais de Tokyo, Hyber takes them over and creates « a reformatting place, with two ways in: one is active, the other contemplative ». Thanks to an overhanging environment, putting old and recent works in perspective, the artist reorganizes the parameters of the world. These totally new constructions, like deconstructed logics, cause new habits to appear. Starting with an exploded and imploded world, Fabrice Hyber, creates a new universe through prototypes and drawings.

From the idleness to the artwork, from the reverie to the object, from moving to embezzlement, from hesitations to fulfilments, the exhibition Letting the Imagination Drift (Les dérives de l’imaginaire) brings visitors into the heart of the creative act. To shed light on these movements of the mind, a few individuals crop up during the exhibition circuit, mixing contemporary artists and old masters, documents and artworks.

For over twenty years, Printemps de Septembre has acted as a platform for contemporary creativity through its dynamic programme of exhibitions, events, film and radio as well as educational initiatives. This contemporary art festival is now established as one of the leading events of the cultural calendar in France. The theme for the 2012 edition of Printemps de Septembre is History Belongs to Me. Placed under the artistic direction of Paul Ardenne, historian and art critic, this edition gathers around forty artists who work individually on the question of history today.

Valentine Dolla / valentine@claudinecolin.com

Dans le cadre de la saison Croate qui comptera à l’automne une quarantaine de manifestations à Paris, douze œuvres – essentiellement en bronze - de l'artiste croate Ivan Mestrovic seront présentées dans la cour d’honneur du musée Rodin.