Sur la route de Jack Kerouac : L'épopée, de l'écrit à l'écran3

until August 19 2012 - Musée des lettres et manuscrits

CRUMB
De l'Underground à la Genèse3

until August 19 2012 - Musée d'Art Moderne

The Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris presents a premiere retrospective exhibit on one of the greatest illustrators of the past fifty years: Robert Crumb. One of the pioneers of Underground comics, he represents a mythical figure in American counter-culture. His satirical stories tear down moral constraints and provide a sharp critique of society, its shadows and absurdities.

Have a look to the Exhibition vidéo just below:

Wim Delvoye
Rorschach2

May 12 / June 16 2012 - Galerie Perrotin

Galerie Perrotin presents Wim Delvoye's third solo show entitled Rorschach at the Gallery, echoing the exhibition at Le Louvre - from 31 May to 17 September 2012.

Wim Delvoye has developed an art that offers a reinterpretation of artworks of the past while laying down a lucid and amused glance at contemporary society. He explores art history, Gothic cathedrals and sculptures of the 19th century, from Bosch and Brueghel to Warhol, simultaneously revealing the beauty of daily objects. With a Baroque gesture between homage and irreverence, he appropriates and deforms the motifs that inspire him.

A new series of bronze sculptures, of which some can also be seen au Louvre mirroring themselves, reiterating the principle of Rorschach plates, reactivate the mythological figures of Auguste Moreau and Jean de Bologne. Others writhe in an attempt to reach the sky, like the neo-Gothic steeple “Suppo", in twisted golden bronze. A monumental inox steel version of this will be mounted at Le Louvre until 3 December 2012.

In bed with Invader3

until May 31 2012 - Paris

Lek & Sowat
Mausolé, résidence artistique sauvage3

until May 31 2012 - Paris

On August 12, 2010, Lek and Sowat found an abandoned supermarket in the north of Paris. For a year, in the greatest of secrets, both artists continuously wandered in this 430,000 sq ft monument to paint murals and organize an illegal artistic residency, inviting forty French graffiti artists to collaborate, from the first to the last generation of the graffiti movement. Together they built a Mausoleum, a temple dedicated to their disappearing underground culture, slowly being replaced by street art and its global pop aesthetics.