Acacias Art Center - "You are my petrol" Exhibition
Acacias Art Center by Mazarine is pleased to welcome You are My Petrol, My Drive, My Dream, My Exhaust an exhibition by Laure Prouvost. FIAC 2018.
You are My Petrol, My Drive, My Dream, My Exhaust was born from a collaboration between curator Martha Kirszenbaum and the artist Laure Prouvost, selected to represent France at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Laure Prouvost's immersive films, installations, drawings and wallpapers, combining the representation of desire, onirism and a fantasized description of nature, jeopardize our relationship to language and understanding through the intrication of complex narratives and surrealist moments that feed her unusual approach to the conventions of cinema and image.
The artist gives particular importance to language and its representation, and brilliantly masters this way of playing with words.
It strives to make visible the unimportant objects, those that the consumer system that governs our daily lives has left behind: residues, rubbish, broken or dysfunctional objects, unloved. You Are My Petrol, My Drive, My Dream, My Exhaust reveals the two sides of the same coin, through a diptych of videos that were presented through a resin-based installation, objects such as relics, a motorcycle, an LED or a vodka bar evoking the two environments, one rural and French, the other urban and American.
Reiffers Art Initiatives is a foundation created to support young contemporary creation and cultural diversity.
Reiffers Art Initiatives’ mission is to support France’s new art scene and give it international visibility. It finances and gives exposure to thirty emerging artists every year, who will influence tomorrow’s contemporary art scene.
Numéro - "Mondino Numéro 20 ans" Exhibition
The Acacias Art Center hosted the Mondino Numéro 20th anniversary exhibition.
In July 2019, we transformed the Acacias Art Center into a photo studio to unveil Jean-Baptiste Mondino’s prolific creativity in 100 images. Over the years, the artist, a lifelong friend of *Numéro*, immortalized some of the most influential personalities. The photographer cultivates a keen curiosity for his contemporaries, musicians and actors. With a genuine desire to reveal their singular energy, Mondino transcends reality into images.
Nourished by his love of music, from rock to hip-hop, his images reflect the many facets and cultures of our time.
Mondino Numéro exhibition book - July 2019.
Jean-Baptiste Mondino immortalized some of the most influential personalities. Many of his photos ౼ including Prince, Madonna, Vanessa Paradis, Björk, Karl Lagerfeld, Johnny Depp, Lou Doillon and Rocco Siffredi ౼ have become iconic.
Publisher: Acacias Art Center by Mazarine
Contributors: Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Paul-Emmanuel Reiffers and Babeth Djian
Information: 2019 publication, hardcover, 172 pages, in French and English. Dimensions: 28.3 x 2 x 36.3 cm
Unique prints from the exhibition and the book are available in the numero.com virtual gallery.
The photographer, known for his sense of humor, also has a deep appreciation for fashion, as a bellwether of the times.
Numéro 248
Numéro 248 of October 2024
Available on shop.numero.com
Issue 248 “Mode” of October 2024 features: fashion series by Brigitte Niedermair, Txema Yeste, Szilveszter Makó, Julien Vallon, Bjarne x Takata, Bruno + Nico and Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello.
Also in this issue: Argentine singer Nathy Peluso confesses the inspirations behind her music, a crossroads of genres - R'n'B, salsa, cumba - which is revealed here in a fashion series photographed by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello; as well as French actress Noémie Merlant, who starred in the film Emmanuelle before releasing her first feature film Les Femmes au Balcon.
Numéro 248 takes a look at pop angel Pierre de Maere, crowned Male Revelation at the 2023 Victoires de la musique awards; and also at the new fashion guard to watch at the LVMH awards, which this year honored designers Hodakova and Duran Lantink.
Also in this issue: an interview with José Martinez, director of dance at the Paris Opéra; a meeting with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the Thai filmmaker to whom the Centre Pompidou is devoting a major retrospective; the artist Marisol, a pop art figure highlighted by the Fondation Louis Vuitton this autumn; design nuggets at PAD London; director Chantal Akerman's exhibition-event at the Jeu de Paume; young visual artist Mimosa Echard, who is preparing her solo show at Galerie Chantal Crousel...
