For the Domaine Pommery, Régis Durand has made a selection of spectacular installations, archive images and projections evoking late night openings at the Printemps de Septembre. The works featured have all left lasting memories with Nathalie and Paul-François Vranken.

Press opening: Tuesday 14 September 2010

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Dominique Perrault was appointed as Curator of the French Pavilion for the 12th Venice International Biennale of Architecture. By selecting as his theme and entitling his project METROPOLIS ?, Dominique Perrault offers an examination and view that establish and nourish the genesis of the Metropolis in the 21st century. 

Astrid Rappel / astrid@claudinecolin.com

Curated by Jérôme Sans

Zhang Huan is one of China's best-known performance and conceptual artists. He is also known for his shocking and absurd photographs and images. For his solo show at the UCCA, Zhang Huan will exhibit remains of the train which crashed during the 5.12 Earthquake in Sichuan and stretch it over the whole Big Hall exhibition space.

Christelle Maureau / christelle@claudinecolin.com 

The Rencontres d'Arles - Photography is the only leading festival on an international scale to address every audience. Each year, between 50 and 60 exhibitions are held in various heritage sites in the city of Arles, in the Camargue region, one of the most favoured destinations in the South of France.
The opening fortnight will take place from the 3 – 13 July: with exhibitions to visit, symposiums, portfolio reviews, evenings in the théâtre antique and much more.

Exhibitions will be open throughout the summer until the 19 September.

Press conference in  Paris: Thursday 25 March 
Press conference in Arles : Thursday 1 April 

Albane Champey
albane@claudinecolin.com

Du 27 juin au 31 octobre 2010, la Fondation Maeght présente une rétrospective exceptionnelle de l’oeuvre d’Alberto Giacometti.

Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966, réunira à la fois les chefs-d’oeuvres les plus connus de l’artiste, parmi lesquelsles bronzes : L’Homme qui marche, Le Chien, Le Chat. Seront

également exposés des peintures, des plâtres et des dessins, prêtés par de grands musées nationaux et internationaux ou par des collections privées.

The Maison Jean Cocteau is an important expression of the artist’s tastes and private life, now offering the public, after five years of preparation, a perfect reconstitution of the bedroom, office, and main sitting room, which notably contains a masterly canvas by Christian Bérard. The renovations, led by architect François Magendie and the team of Dominique Païni-Nathalie Crinière (who organised the Jean Cocteau exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in 2003), also allow for the display of a selection of drawings from the Cocteau estate, which includes, in addition to the best of Cocteau, works by Picasso, Warhol, Modigliani, Buffet, Blanche, Man Ray...

Sandrine Mahaut / sandrine@claudinecolin.com

The 6th European Night of Museums will take place on Saturday 15 May 2010.

This event, created in 2005 by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, is the chance for French and European museums to unite every audience for an exceptional nocturnal event, and allow the largest number of people to discover their museums and their collections in a novel way and free of charge.

Each year the event attracts a larger audience and includes an ever growing number of museums, and equally more and more participating countries, thus contributing to the construction of a cultural Europe.

La Nuit européenne des musées is organised by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the « direction générale des patrimoines » / the « services des musées de France (SMF) » and the regional directions of cultural affairs (DRAC) with the cooperation of the Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN). It benefits from the support of Neuflize OBC and Neuflize Vie. This event will be placed, as with the previous editions, under the high patronage of the Secrétaire Général du Conseil de l’Europe, of UNESCO, and will benefit once again from the connection with the « Journée internationale des musées » (International Museums Day) of the ICOM (Conseil international des musées), thus confirming the european and international dimension of this event.