ART
William Eggleston / Beatriz Milhazes |
Written 28 June |
Sunday 05 April, 11:00Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 75014 [map]
For the last three years, American photographer
William Eggleston has photographed the city of Paris as part of a commission for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Taken throughout different seasons, these new images by one of the fathers of color photography portray the local and the cosmopolitan, the glamorous and the gritty, the everyday and the extraordinary.
This exhibition also provides an exceptional occasion to bring together William Eggleston’s distinctive pictures and his recent paintings, an unknown aspect of his work that has never before been presented to the public.
Beatriz Milhazes is one of the most celebrated Brazilian visual artists today. Offering an overview of her work over the past decade, the exhibition brings together a selection of large format paintings as well as a monumental collage created especially for the show.
The Fondation Cartier has also commissioned two installations from the artist for the building’s glass façades. Using motifs made of translucent or opaque adhesive vinyl, these striking installations play with natural light to create a powerful visual dialogue with the architecture of Jean Nouvel and the surrounding garden.
