Un grain de toute beauté

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

NOW CLOSED

This exhibition brings together the award winners of the 60th Salon de Montrouge which ran from last 5 May to 3 June, selected by a jury presided by the filmmaker Olivier Assayas.

Normally speaking, they have nothing in common, except for the coincidence of this fleeting glory, and now this group presentation, which is taking the risk of putting their work into a “psychic” perspective. The title of this exhibition comes in fact from a song by Alain Bashung Au Pavillon des Lauriers, named after the wing of the psychiatric hospital where he sometimes stayed: “I want to stay mad”, he proclaimed, and “Je veille / Sur un grain de toute beauté” which might be paraphrased as “I loosen / So beautifully the screws”. Read more.

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