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Sunny evenings along the canal. What summer in Paris was made for. #seventyfifth #theseventyfifth #Paris #zine #travel

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Antony Gormley, Second Body

at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac looks culturally dislocated settled within its inner city Parisian setting. Looking more like an organic farm shop in Surrey than a contemporary exhibition space, this unusual and unlikely venue is currently playing fantastic host to world famous and British born sculptor Antony Gormely.  

 The generous, lofty spaces of the gallery’s Paris Zone 2 location allows Gormley’s fields* of sculptures to react and interact both with each other and participating audiences. The a expansive 4-room installation of works allows viewers to move freely amongst and within the forms that (as the title suggests) all have relatable scales and aspects of the human body, that seek to challenge the relationships between bodies and architecture. The works  ‘objectif(y) and internalize(e) the relationship between a perceiving human body and its habitat by mining and pesforating the normally closed body-volumes using the languages of cells, corridors, shafts and windows, presenting the subjective body as a mansion of many chambers.’

*The collective grouping of sculptural works to generate large-scale installation ‘fields’ has reappeared many times throughout Gormley’s artistic career. One of his most well recognized installations ‘Field for the British Isles’ (1991) comprises of thousands of small hand-sculpted figures that fill the exhibition space, rendering it inaccessible. Read more: http://www.antonygormley.com/resources/essay-item/id/108

Gallery Press Release: ‘… The exhibition continues the artist’s investigation of body and space, interrogating the body as place and architecture as the primary conditioner of our experience of space. Antony Gormley fully exploits the scale and volumes of the former foundry sheds that now form the gallery, catalysing our experience of space and time through works that either constitute or are arranged as “fields”. In a recent statement, the artist describes being “increasingly interested in the tropes of framing, containing and constructing being freed from architecture’s shelter function… to make a psychological architecture that allows surface and mass, light and dark, open and closed volumes free play in works that become places for an adventure in real time.”

How to get there:

RER E: Station "Pantin". (Turn left behind the city hall and walk straight down on avenue Général Leclerc. The gallery will be on your left after the bridge- 5 mins)

Metro: Line 5, "Eglise de Pantin" (Exit rue Delizy. Turn right into rue Delizy, afterwards turn right into avenue Général Leclerc. The gallery will be on your left after the bridge- 10 mins) More information on the gallery webiste: http://ropac.net/place_current_exhibitions/paris-pantin Words and images by Carys Fieldson

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Unmissable exhibitions around Pairs May 2015: 

i-ii       Felice Varini, La Villette en Suite

iii-iv    Takis, Champs Megnetiques, Palais de Tokyo

v-ix     Le Bord des Mondes (At the Edge of  the Worlds), Palais De Tokyo

x-xi     Jérôme Zonder, La Maison Rouge

Images by Carys Fieldson

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Taryn Simon 'The Innocents' at Jeu De Paume #tarynsimon #jeudepaume #photography #Paris #artinparis #theseventyfifth #seventyfifth #travel #zine (at Jeu de Paume)

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Sunday vibes #seventyfifth #theseventyfifth #matisse #henrimatisse #hangover #rainyday #chilling #lounging #museeorangerie #Paris #zine

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PIERO FORNASETTI : LA FOLIEPRATIQUE

LES ARTS DECORATIFS

107, rue de Rivoli
, 75001 Paris

To visit this retrospective is truly like stepping into the alternative world of Piero Fornasetti. However, his surreal and colourful world rarely extends beyondthe boundary of the domestic.

Fornasetti’sbeautifully bizarre, illustrated, story-telling designs take the form of everyday objects from spoons, keys, mirrors, boxes to tables and chairs. Walking from space to space, room to room within this extensive dedicated show at ‘Les Arts Decoratifs’ is a rediscovery of the much overlooked possibilities of the home.

His unique blend of humour, craftsmanship and beauty within the everyday has had a lasting legacy. His attention to detail, his perfectionism and vision to produce objects that transcend functionality and utility, is certainly something left wanting in our modern, mass-produced, Ikea-packaged world.

I certainly felt a renewed, childlike curiosity for the possibilities contained within each draw, underneath every table and behind each locked key. Certainly the beauty in Fornasetti’s objects is not purely skin-deep; many cupboards are left ajar for viewers to uncover even more curiousities within…

Piero Fornasetti envisioned a life full of curiosity, beauty and wonder, carried out in all he did. Immensely fun, kitsch and timeless… a must see show!

The exhibition runs until June 14th 2015

Entrance fee: Full €10, Concessions €8.50

Find out more information about the exhibition and Fornasetti on the website: http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/en/exhibitions/current-events-1322/musee-des-arts-decoratifs/piero-fornasetti-la-folie-pratique By Carys Fieldson

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Has anyone visited the beautiful La Pagode Cinema in the 7th? Featured in our guide to the weekend at the-seventy-fifth.tumblr.com (57 Rue Babylone, 75007) #lapagode #cinema #Paris #vintagecinema #classiccinema #Japanesepagoda #Japanesearchitecture #stainedglass #theseventyfifth #seventyfifth #zine #film #7eme

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Colourful February flowers brighten the wintery skies over Jardin du Luxembourg. Becca Haliwell-Sutton contributes more photography in Issue 2, arriving in March!

All photographs ©RebeccaHalliwell-Sutton

For more photographs and musings visit:

www.flowersanddirt.co.uk

www.rebeccakay.co.uk