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Jim Hodges - Love, etc

Written 30 January

Wednesday 14 October, 11:00
Centre Pompidou, 75004 [map]
Jim Hodges

A recognised artist on the American scene, Jim Hodges presents around sixty of his works to the Museum.

Born in 1957 in Washington State, since the end of the 1980s, Hodges has developed radical and original work. He deals with fragility, temporality, love and death by employing and being inspired by the vocabulary of nature. The result is simple, beautiful and expressive.

His very contrasting work can be minimalist, reflected in the sobriety of some of his pieces, but it can also be Baroque, reflected in the exuberance of his work, the richness of the materials used and the stunning, iridescent colours that he employs. The artist explores modest materials like paper, fabric flowers and pastilles of colour, as much as more sophisticated materials like gold leaf. His works, influenced by nature and literature, but also by spirituality, combine these materials with the meticulous precision of collage work, sewing, assembling and cutting out. Hodges expresses his original vision of a world marked as much by beauty and joie de vivre as by illness and death.



What: Jim Hodges
When: Wednesday 14 October, 11:00
Where: Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou 75004 [map]
Transport: Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, Châtelet-Les Halles
Cost: 9-12EUR
Phone: 01 44 78 12 33
Web: www.centrepompidou.fr


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