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19/1/2009

Three Exhibitions

Jeu de Paume, Paris

Robert Frank, a Foreign Look - Paris / The Americans
Curated by Ute Eskildsen and Marta Gili

In his work Robert Frank (American, born in Switzerland in 1924) has developed a dialogue between photography and poetry, literature and painting, and created a language that both conveys subjective experience and continues the heritage of documentary photography.

One of the highlights of his abundant production of photographs and films is a legendary book of photographs, The Americans (published in France in 1958). In the early 1950s, when living in New York, Frank also produced a series of images of Paris, his vision sharpened by his distance from Europe.

This exhibition proposes a dialogue between a selection of photographs of Paris, chosen by Robert Frank and Ute Eskildsen (presented at the Museum Folkwang in Essen) and the complete ensemble of photographs from The Americans, loaned for the occasion by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris). Extending the two photographic series, Paris and The Americans, this exhibition offers a selection of his movies, both in the exhibition — Pull My Daisy (1959, 28 minutes); True Story (2004, 30 minutes) and in a special programme shown in the Auditorium.

Curator: Ute Eskildsen, curator of the photography department at the Museum Folkwang, and Marta Gili, director of Jeu de Paume.
In partnership with A Nous, Blast, de l'air, evene.fr, Fip

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Sophie Ristelhueber
Curated by the artist with Marta Gili

Sophie Ristelhueber (born 1949) lives in Paris, where she studied literature and worked as a journalist before deciding to devote herself to photography. For more than twenty years now, she has been working on the notion of the territory and its history, by paying special attention to ruins and the traces left by man in places devastated by war. Working far from conventional photojournalism, she focuses on revealing events and the marks of history, both on bodies and on landscapes. She reveals the wounds and scars that are the physical chronicle of trauma.

In this, her first major exhibition in France, Jeu de Paume will present a number of her series – “Beirut,” “Vulaines,” “Fact,” "Eleven Blowups" together with two new films, one of them specially conceived for the show.

Curated by the artist with Marta Gili, director of Jeu de Paume
In partnership with A Nous, De l'Air, evene.fr, Libération and Paris Première

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Mario García Torres : "Il aurait bien pu le promettre aussi"
Satellite programme - second edition proposed by María Inés Rodríguez

Born in the mid-1970s, Mexican artist Mario García Torres revisits the history of conceptual art. This being a movement that asserted the primacy of the idea over its implementation, sometimes all that remains of conceptual “works” are sketches and documents. Mario García Torres likes to trace the origins of certain pieces in order to question the nature of art and explore a history whose protagonists include John Baldessari, Sol LeWitt and Robert Barry.

Mario García Torres was one of the revelations of the last Venice Biennale.

With the support of the Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques, the SRE (Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores) and the Instituto de Mexico (Paris). In collaboration with the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris.
In partnership with Art Press, Evene.fr, Mouvement and Nova

Image: Robert Frank, Paris 1949 - 1952.

Jeu de Paume
Place de la Concorde 1, Paris
Tuesday: 12:00 - 21:00
Wednesday - Friday: 12:00 - 19:00
Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 - 19:00
Closed Monday

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