Corps et Âmes (Pinault Collection)
Emma LaVigne (Ed.)
Pinault Collection & Éditions Dilecta, 2025
€45,00
With works by Georg Baselitz, Ali Cherri, Arthur Jafa, Duane Hanson, Philip Guston, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Kerry James Marshall, Marlene Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, David Hammons, Antonio Oba, Mira Schor, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Michael Armitage, Richard Avedon… From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, from Georg Baselitz to Michael Armitage, from Ana Mendieta to Miriam Cahn, from Philip Guston to Marlene Dumas, from David Hammons to Kerry James Marshall, from Kudzanai-Violet Hwami to Mira Schor, from Arthur Jafa to Deana Lawson, the exhibition “Body and Souls” explores, through the works of some twenty artists from the Pinault Collection, the importance of the body in contemporary thought. In the matrix curves of the Bourse de Commerce, these bodies form a choreography, a multiplied round. Like Ceremony of Us by the American choreographer Anna Halprin in 1969, a piece conceived after the racial riots in the United States where, for the first time, black and white bodies danced together, this journey through the Pinault Collection in the collection quickly invites the visitor-spectator to rediscover in turn, in the words of Jacques Rancière, the “possession of his integral vital energies.” Freed from any mimetic shackles, the body, whether photographed, sculpted, drawn, filmed or painted, constantly reinvents itself, giving art an essential organicity allowing it, like an umbilical cord, to take the pulse of the human soul. Art seizes energies, the vital flows of thought and inner life, to invite a sensitive and humanist experience of otherness. Forms are transformed, freeing themselves from figuration to grasp, retain, and allow the soul and consciousness to surface. It is no longer simply a matter of painting bodies but of embodying the forces that flow through them, of making visible what is buried, invisible, of illuminating the shadows of history—particularly those of colonial heritage, uprooting, and exile. In addition to thematic essays developing the exhibition’s theme, notes highlight the works richly reproduced in the catalog. IN FRANS!
ISBN: 9782373722215
