This year, the
Palais des Arts is celebrating its
20th anniversary ... and for this event it hosts part of the private
collections of the François Pinault Foundation.
Do you know
François Pinault ? He is THE
famous Breton billionaire. Autodidact, art lover… and football fan ... He is the main sponsor of the foot ball team
Stade Rennais.
So for its 20th birthday, Dinard has decided to expose the collections of this man… who usually shows them in
Venice, yes, in Italy.
About
60 works by
thirty artists * ...
Qui a peur des artistes ? Who is afraid of artists?
Not me, except when I look at the picture, it reminds me of Verdun (horrible battle of the 1st World War wtih thousands of deads), the soldier buried standing (alive?) ...
But everyone sees what he wants :
I thought it was a commercial for Hunger in Africa ... someone said...
Annoying the poster? And the title?
What is art done for?
- To have fun ? (123 points)
- To ask questions ? (54321 points)
– To understand the world ? (393 points)
– To criticize it ? (3131 points)
– To be nice (333 points)
- To mess around ? (731 points)
- Do nothing ? (34536 points) -
- To laugh and have fun (0.333333333333)
- To be moral ? (321 points)
- To be green ? (369 points)
- What else ?
- To share (4.50 euros full price, the show last year was free)
If your score is 3 points or more, go ahead!
The exhibition shows contemporary art :
portraits, contemporary art paintings, photography, photo-collages, drawings, video, sculpture, abstract works ... All art forms are represented ... Each room has a title ...for example-
War Consumption Revolt.
Well, not easy to give my opinion. Jeff Wall bothers with the photo showing the ambush in Afghanistan. Further it is even more violent (the video ...). It is the same artist
Adel Abdessemed who made the funny pictures on the opposite wall!
The most famous :
la nona hora ((the ninth hour is the name for the prayer that is recited at the ninth hour of the day, usually around 3PM to commemorate the moment when Christ died on the Cross) by Maurizio Cattelan. The most famous or the one everybody talked about ? Write your comment for that work !
And next to it, nobody screamed at
Damien Hirst, the greens don’t like contemporary art ? But I do not know anything about insects ...
In short, everyone has his reading and interpretation ... Make your own opinion ... because as François Pinault said and I translate :
... The art has led me to wonder more. To keep my eyes open on the world and its evolutions, to be more attentive to the change of the world ...
This summer, if you don’t have time to visit the
Palazzo Grazzi museum or the new one at Punta della Dogana (Venice, Italy), where the rest of the collections are, or if you missed the exhibition in Moscow (a certain state of world), go to ... Dinard from 14 June to 13 September from 11 am to 19 pm and night (21h) on Friday.
Pictures are not allowed...
* Josef Albers, Dan Flavin, Agnes Martin, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Lee Ufans, Pierre Soulages, Charles Matton, Takashi Murakami, Paul McCarthy, Yan Pei-Ming Martial Raysse, Ed Ruscha, Adel Abdessemed, Andreas Gursky, Barbara Kruger , Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Jiechang Yang, Chen Zhen. Subodh Gupta, Mike Kelley, Bharti Kher, Takashi Murakami, Julie Mehretu, Luc Tuymans, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Fryer, Damien Hirst, Claude Lêvêque, Yan Pei-Ming, Andres Serrano. Subodh Gupta, Mike Kelley, Bharti Kher, Takashi Murakami, Julie Mehretu, Luc Tuymans, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Fryer, Damien Hirst, Claude Lévêque, Yan Pei-Ming, Andres Serrano.