8/10/2007
Two wxhibitions
Concorde, Paris
Steichen. Une epopee photographique
Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was one of the most prolific and influential photographers of the 20th century. This is the first European retrospective of his work and features 450 vintage prints plus a selection of documents.
He produced portraits, landscapes, still lifes and nudes, and demonstrated his talent photographing fashion, dance, theatre, flowers and commercial images, as well as in war and aerial photography. With Alfred Stieglitz he helped set up the Photo-Secession group and the journal Camera Work. In 1923, Condé Nast were sufficiently impressed by his pictorialist photos to make him art director of Vogue and Vanity Fair.
Steichen became one of the leading figures of modernism. He also served as photography curator at New York's MoMA, where he organised the famous exhibition The Family of Man. This show began touring internationally in 1955 and attracted over 11 million visitors worldwide. It was the crowning event of Steichen's career.
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A Voyage to the Middle of Time. Group show
Curated by Fabienne Fulcheri
Ultralab™ is a fairly mysterious group of artists, doubtless created in Paris in August 2000. Keen to experiment with a new form of artistic, economic and political autonomy, its members seem to work at the borderlines between art, science and communications. They regularly invite collaborators from various disciplines to participate in their projects.
For the 'L'ile de Paradis (version 1.15)', exhibition, which is part of the 'Terrains de jeux' series devised by Fabienne Fulchéri, Ultralab™ created, in its own words, an 'automatic, random and dysfunctional generator of island utopias'. This vast multimedia installation takes visitors into a Jeu de Paume that has been recreated in the style of a video game setting, full of references taken from the history of ideas, literature, art and B movies, scattered throughout the space like so many small neuronal bombs.
Image by Edward Steichen
Opening 9 october 2007
Concorde
Place de la Concorde, 1 Paris