Choices
Collectors Week-end
The gallery participates in the 3rd edition of CHOICES Collectors Weekend which will be held in Paris on May 21 and 22, 2016. During 2 days, CHOICES proposes a journey through nearly 40 Parisian galleries and a collective exhibition which will be held this year at the Palais de Tokyo.
After Nicolas Bourriaud and Alfred Pacquement for the first two editions, Laurent Le Bon and Emilie Bouvard (respectively President and Curator in charge of contemporary art at the Picasso Museum) have agreed to share their views on a selection of works proposed by the galleries. This atypical curating, in an institutional venue as emblematic as the Palais de Tokyo, aims to highlight contemporary creation on the Parisian scene.
We will present a group of works by Franco Bellucci.
A frequent participant to the Blu Cammello workshop in Livorno, Bellucci was first discovered by artist Riccardo Bargellini. The hybrid sculptures he produces are made up of heterogeneous objects whose fates are inexorably linked, observed sometimes through the prism of their transitional, fetishist or apotropaic value.
Present in the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Pompidou) and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, his works have been shown in several major exhibitions, notably at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
“These works are endowed with a symbolic power that many ‘professional’ artists are incapable of achieving. “(P. Dagen, Le Monde)