In 2021, Perrotin opened for the first time an exhibition of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier.
The photographic works, titled ARTvonTRIER, which works incarnates the world premiere of the exhibition, are extracts from Lars von Trier’s award-winning filmography. Audiences will be able to recognize legendary and iconic scenes from Trier’s films. A new involvement and reflection await in the transformed works.
This exhibition has been curated by Anna Lena Vaney and Malou Lykke Solfjeld.
Jean-Michel Othoniel took over the museum of the Petit Palais and its garden. This was the artist’s biggest solo show in Paris since his retrospective My Way at the Centre Pompidou in 2011.
With more than 70 new artworks, Othoniel has invented “The Narcissus Theorem,” about a man-flower who, in reflecting himself, reflects the world around him. Othoniel weaves a web of unreality, enchantment, illusion and liberation of the imagination. Rivers of blue bricks, Lotus, Necklaces, Crown of the Night, Wild Knots, and Precious Stonewall are hidden in the architecture, placed on the water mirrors of the pools, hanging from trees; new works dialogue with the architecture of the Petit Palais and the golds go its garden. This exhibition is a message of opening, freely given to the public.
For his first solo exhibition in Japan, Julio Le Parc unfurls his oeuvre across Le Forum and beyond, occupying the entirety of the Maison Hermès in Ginza both inside and out: a large-scale work fills the glass façade of the Renzo Piano building.
'Les Couleurs en Jeu' offers a rich immersion in his decade-spanning œuvre by bringing together early paintings with emblematic series such as 'La Longue Marche' and the 'Lames réfléchissantes,' as well as with suspended mobiles, another significant aspect of the work of this major figure of contemporary art.
PERROTIN POP UP STORE
AT THE RENOVATED SAMARITAINE
JUNE - OCTOBER, 2021
For four months Perrotin Store has occupied 2150 sq feet on the department’s ground floor newly renovated on Rue de Rivoli by SANAA agency.
A selection of objects, some signed and previously unseen, were on offer in this new kind of shop: art books, limited editions by artist, but also T-shirts, goodies and decorative objects.
Perrotin Hong Kong has presented a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Aya Takano, marking the artist’s second presentation at the Hong Kong space, since her debut in 2012. In these series of ten paintings and twenty-four drawings, Aya Takano has created an ode to Hong Kong like no other, capturing its landscapes, its culture and its quirks, in a happy and colourful tribute that puts on display the artist’s intimate affection for the city.
Spanning more than 3,000 square meters, “Useless Bodies?” is one of the most ambitious thematic investigations realized by Fondazione Prada to date. Conceived for four gallery spaces and the courtyard of its Milan venue, the exhibition explores the present condition of the body in the post-industrial age in which it seems that our physical presence is losing its centrality or is even completely superfluous. This shift impacts every aspect of our lives: from our working conditions to our health, our interpersonal relationships, and the way we retain information. The exhibition “Useless Bodies?” also explores how we physically adapt to a world increasingly based on two-dimensional imagery, not least in the light of the current pandemic.
