ART
Koos Breukel, Fabien Chalon, Karl Lagerfeld, Kimiko Yoshida |
Written 30 January |
Sunday 03 October, 11:00Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 75004 [map]Koos Breukel, Fabien Chalon, Karl Lagerfeld, Kimiko Yoshida
How do you renew portraiture, so intimately related to photography today? "To scrutinize and try to work out the person in the character, as has been, historically, the ambition of those who try to reveal the truth of the subject, whether psychological, social or political."
Koos Breukel has created a gallery of portraits over the past twenty years whose main virtue illustrate resistance: Breukel photographs people because he wants to find out if they have suffered some form of injury or pain as a result of setbacks in their lives, and if they have managed to come to terms with these.
Artist,
Fabien Chalon reveals, in his first major exhibition, his dreamlike and poetic universe. Created at the beginning with limited means, no electricity, no video screen, his machine sculptures have become more sophisticated over the years, but the spirit that animates them - an invitation to travel in the imagination - has not changed. Fabien Chalon captures our attention with considerable ingenuity. Magic tricks are linked together to bring us to what he calls "moments of disjunction" or "sacred moments" at this ultimate point where reality fades into surprise and wonder.
The
Karl Lagerfield exhibition brings together for the first time in Paris an important set of photographs. Practicing photography since 1987, Lagerfield involved himself in many photo shoots for advertising and for most major international magazines.
There are also personal shots of Lagerfield's travels and his wanderings in Paris. The exhibition is organised into two parts, one dealing with strong themes in the course of the photographer’s life, such as portraiture, fashion, landscape or architecture, the second deals with his more experimental and innovative work.
"The photograph is part of my life. It closes the circle of my artistic and professional preoccupations. I do not see life without its vision. I look at the fashion world with the eye of the camera."
The quasi-monochromatic self-portraits of
Kimiko Yoshida, large-format squares of subtle light, are his signature works. His art is very contemporary in its reflections on voluntary servitude, gender stereotypes and heredity determinism.
"Art is a delicate operation for transposition, a diligent fight against the state of things. Being where I do not think, disappearing from where I think I am, that’s what is important."
| What: | Koos Breukel, Fabien Chalon, Karl Lagerfeld, Kimiko Yoshida |
| When: | Sunday 03 October, 11:00 |
| Where: | Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5/7 rue de Fourcy 75004 [map] |
| Transport: | Saint Paul / Pont Marie |
| Cost: | 4-7EUR |
| Phone: | 01 44 78 75 00 |
| Email: | skulczewski@mep-fr.org |
| Web: | www.mep-fr.org |
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