An unprecedented mise en abîme of art... This is what artist Laurence Aëgerter is proposing in the collections of the Petit Palais with her very first monograph, entitled Ici mieux qu'en face. The exhibition opens on October 6, 2020 and runs until February 28, 2021. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the various masterpieces on display in the museum's various galleries, on which she"casts her sensitive, poetic eye".
In all, some fifty works will be on view, all distilled within the museum's spaces, amidst the collections, and even in the garden, thus inventing"disturbing and stimulating vis-à-vis". Photography, tapestry, ceramics, installations... All these media find their place at the Petit Palais, echoing various other works and proposing an unprecedented escape, between illusion and reality, on the principle of the mirror or trompe-l'oeil.
An unexpected journey that begins with a mirror, engraved with "ici mieux qu'en face", a sort of"metaphor for double and escape, themes dear to the artist", and continues"through several centuries of art history", offering"another reading of the museum, blowing a wind of freedom". Another must-see work is Confetti, made up of 58,038 photographs from his telephone, each reduced to the size of a confetti. In short, a poetic exhibition for all lovers of contemporary art. Shall we go?
Location
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris 8
Prices
Free
Official website
www.petitpalais.paris.fr
More information
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm. Free admission.
