The exhibition Sheer: The diaphanous creations of Yves Saint Laurent is the second chapter of a story that began last summer at the Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais.

For the exhibition’s next stop, in Paris, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris invited the curator Anne Dressen to be its artistic advisor; she will focus on transparency as a chosen artistic expression of Yves Saint Laurent. The exhibition has been designed by the architect Pauline Marchetti, whose work explores the intersection of perception and space.

Drawing on the power inherent in fabric, this new exhibition will explore Yves Saint Laurent’s gaze towards fashion in all its complexity as it relates to the body and the concept of nudity. The forty garments seen in the exhibition include iconic creations that retrace the history of Yves Saint Laurent’s uncovering of the female body, such as the first topless blouse, from the couturier’s spring-summer 1968 collection, baptized the “see-through blouse” by the American press, and the “nude dress,” a black chiffon dress with a belt of ostrich feathers from the following collection. Other rarely-seen creations highlight the couturier’s virtuosity in presenting the silhouette of a powerful and liberated woman. Essential elements of the creative process are also seen in the exhibition: sketches, photographs, patterns on tracing paper, accessories (hats, jewelry, shoes, etc.), as well as a series of drawings by Yves Saint Laurent inspired by the paintings of Goya.

Sheer: The diaphanous creations of Yves Saint Laurent are structured around five thematic sections. The first offers an introduction, exploring several garments made from organza, Cigaline, lace, tulle, and muslin: numerous variations that allowed the couturier to play with different see-through effects. In the following section, the woman’s body is gradually revealed through openwork use of diaphanous fabrics. By using lace and tulle, certain parts of the body are rendered abstract, as if lit by spotlights.

In dialogue with the creations of Yves Saint Laurent, works by modern and contemporary artists are seen throughout the exhibition, including Anne Bourse, Loïe Fuller, and Picabia.

Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
5 Avenue Marceau
75116 Paris
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Vera Molnár (born in Budapest in 1924, and resided in Paris from 1947 until her death on 7 December 2023 at the age of 99) was a pioneer of digital art. 

Her works, sustained by a knowledge of the psychology of shapes and the laws of vision, designed in a constructivist approach around 1947, became artistic interrogations of perspective. As a cybernetician and computer scientist, Molnár established what she called an "imaginary machine" in the 1960s, before becoming the first artist in France (1968) to produce digital drawings using a computer connected to a plotter. Up until the mid-90s, she engaged in a systematic exploration of families of forms, showcasing their mutations while usually prioritizing iteration and seriality.

Photo: Adagp, Paris, 2023 - Centre Pompidou / Dist. Rmn-Gp

Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou
75004 Paris

Contact: P : +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33
www.centrepompidou.fr

Design and Sport have always interacted and fed into one another. Design plays a key role in the history of sport and increases athletic capacities. Designers draw on materials, sports ergonomics, and esthetics to support athletes in their quest for increasingly outstanding sporting performances.

To mark the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Musée du Luxembourg is organizing an exhibition on the future of design and sport. Part of the Olympiade Culturelle program, Match explores the role of design in the progress of sport and the ties forged between these two fields, as well as potential developments. The exhibition also looks at how the sporting world has continued to inspire top designers, and vice-versa, in sectors including the automotive and ready-to-wear industries.

Chief Curator & Exhibition Design: Konstantin Grcic

Photo: Hermès

Musée du Luxembourg
19 Rue de Vaugirard
75006 Paris

Contact: museeduluxembourg.fr

150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. “Hungry for independence”, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley, and Cézanne finally decided to free themselves from the rules by holding their exhibition, outside official channels: impressionism was born. To celebrate this anniversary, Musée d’Orsay presents some 130 works bringing a fresh eye to bear on this key date, regarded as the day that launched the avant-gardes.

Photo: Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant, 1872

Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
75007 Paris
P : +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14

More info:: www.musee-orsay.fr

For his new personal exhibition titled “Atelier Wonderland” at Galerie kreo, Jaime Hayon presents a unique collection of vases, chandeliers, tables, and mirrors. Mediterranean-inspired vases and chandeliers are adorned with expressive faces and oversized handles. Each ceramic, meticulously painted by Hayon, illustrates his multidisciplinary approach, transcending the boundaries of art and design.

Also presented are walnut tables that resonate with the artist's characteristic curves and large mirrors, both precious and playful, made on the island of Murano in Venice, in the great tradition of Venetian mirrors, cut and engraved. and enhanced with colored decorations.

“Atelier Wonderland” reflects the fluidity of Jaime Hayon’s artistic expression, brilliantly merging his passion for traditional crafts and his exploration of new forms, and painting.

Galerie kreo
31 Rue Dauphine
75006 Paris

Contact: www.galeriekreo.com/

To celebrate the centenary of the artist’s birth, “Ellsworth Kelly. Shapes and Colors, 1949-2015” will be the first exhibition in France to offer a broad overview of the work of this significant artist of the second half of the 20th century - both in terms of its chronology and in terms of the media on display. Organized with Glenstone Museum (Potomac, Maryland) and in collaboration with the Ellsworth Kelly Studio, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works: paintings and sculptures as well as drawings, photographs, and collages. The exhibition has been supported by loans from international institutions (the Art Institute of Chicago, Kröller-Müller Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and Whitney Museum) as well as private collections.

Fondation Louis Vuitton
8 Av. du Mahatma Gandhi
75116 Paris

More info:: P : +33 (0)1 40 69 96 00
contact@fondationlouisvuitton.fr
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

Fondation Louis Vuitton, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Smk-Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (National Gallery of Denmark) hosts the exhibition “Matisse: The Red Studio”, focusing on the genesis and history of this famous 1911 masterpiece, one of The Museum of Modern Art’s iconic works since its acquisition in 1949. The large canvas depicts the artist’s studio filled with his paintings and sculptures, furniture, and decorative objects. This exhibition reunites the artworks shown in The Red Studio for the first time since they left Matisse’s studio in Issy-les-Moulineaux. The presentation also includes archival material and related paintings and drawings.

The core of the exhibition features The Red Studio alongside the surviving six paintings, three sculptures, and one ceramic depicted in it. Created between 1898 and 1911, these objects range from familiar paintings, such as Young Sailor (II) (1906) - which will be exhibited in France for the first time in 31 years, to lesser-known works, such as Corsica, The Old Mill (1898), and objects whose locations have only recently been discovered. Three of these paintings, Bathers (1907), Le Luxe (II) (1907-08), and Nude with a White Scarf (1909), belong to Smk as part of a significant collection of Matisse’s works, while the artist’s 1907 ceramic plate, depicted in the foreground, comes from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

Photo: The Atelier rouge by Henri Matisse

Fondation Louis Vuitton
8 Av. du Mahatma Gandhi
75116 Paris

More info:: P : +33 (0)1 40 69 96 00
contact@fondationlouisvuitton.fr
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents Matthew Barney’s first institutional exhibition in France for over 10 years. Visitors will discover the American artist’s latest video installation, Secondary, alongside new works created especially for the occasion.

Filmed in Matthew Barney’s sculpture studio in Long Island City, New York, US, where it was shown for the first time in spring 2023, Secondary is a five-channel video installation set within the context of an American football field. For sixty minutes, eleven performers, mainly dancers and movement artists with older bodies, including the artist, abstract the action that takes place on the field.

The plot of Secondary revolves around the memory of an accident that occurred during a professional football game on August 12, 1978, where Jack Tatum, a defensive back for the Oakland Raiders, delivered an open-field hit on Darryl Stingley, a wide receiver for the New England Patriots. Stingley was left paralyzed. Rebroadcast over and over in sports media, this tragic event would remain seared in the minds of football fans and the young Barney, himself a youth league quarterback at the time.

This new work demonstrates the complex superposition of real violence and its representation, as well as celebration, through sports entertainment. It examines the game and affiliated culture through a unique movement vocabulary developed collaboratively with the cast of performers, including movement director David Thomson, and Barney. The result is a highly physical, bodily study that focuses on every element of the game: training drills, pre-game rituals, moments of impact, and slow-motion replays.

Fondation Cartier
261 Boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris

Contact: www.fondationcartier.com

Artists: Aryuna Tardis, Kudii, Tanguy Bourhis, Elia Capitoli, Gianni Lee, Etienne Boissier, Francisco Tavoni, Ryan Keeley, Jade Gattoni, Forces Unseen, Penelope Pantelias, Alehsy Lambo, Bader, Echo Seireeni, Tibo 3000, Dakou, Ola Tokunboh Badiru, Lauren Smith, Infrastructure Studio, Olta, Bader.

Balcony Paris
78 Bd. Beaumarchais
75011 Paris