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Monumenta 2014 film off
Film of the exhibition setting at the Paris Grand Palais, hosted by russian artist couple Ilya & Emilia KABAKOV…
Photo and video by PASCAL GILLET

Monumenta 2014 Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Preview of L’etrange Cité exhibition by Russian duo Ilya and Emila Kabakov. Effectively, the art event Monumenta is back at Grand Palais after one year suspension for budget restriction. The exhibition will be open from the 10th May to the 22nd June. More pictures and videos to come very soon!
Photo by Pascal Gillet

CHANEL the discount show
Chanel supermarket show, fall winter 2014, at the Grand Paris, Paris.
Photo by Pascal Gillet

VANESSA BRUNO show
Vanessa Bruno fall winter 2014 women show at Grand Palais, Paris.
photo by Pascal Gillet

Dries Van Noten, fall winter 2014 men show at Manège du Grand Palais, Paris
photo by pascal gillet

Vanessa Bruno women show, Spring/Summer 2104 at the Grand Palais, Paris.
Photos by Pascal Gillet

Vanessa Bruno, before show

Vanessa Bruno front row, spring/summer 2014 women show at Grand Palais, Paris.
Photos by Pascal Gillet

Dice Kayek photographed at the Grand Palais after the viewing of the Premiere of the film NOIR by Marie Schüller at the MK2 cinema.
photo by Pascal Gillet

Courrez vite pour les deux derniers jours…!

photo. Pascal Gillet

Grand Palais—Nef
Avenue Winston-Churchill
13 décembre 2012 – 6 janvier 2013

Chanel spring/summer 2012 show at Grand Palais, 75008 Paris.

Photo. Pascal Gillet

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Amazing set on the Spring/summer 2012 Chanel show at the Grand Palais.
Photo. Sophie Demarcq

Hier soir, Paris première fêtait ses 25 ans au grand palais. Pour l’occasion, la chaîne organisait un verni(pas)sage avec 25 artistes dont Karl Lagerfeld, Daniel Buren, Jean Charles de Castelbajac, Marjane Satrapi, une chorégraphie orchestrée par Blanca Li et ses danseurs, un concert d’Imany et Selah Sue… Une jolie rentrée en son et en lumière.

Photo and video par Sophie Demarcq

PR folio — Photo by Karl Lagerfeld

The fall/winter 2011/12 Chanel Haute Couture Show at Grand Palais by the 5th July 2011.

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn their vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais and to create a new artwork especially for this space.

Anish Kapoor describes the work he is creating for MONUMENTA as follows: “A single object, a single form, a single colour.” “My ambition”, he adds, “is to create a space within a space that responds to the height and luminosity of the Nave at the Grand Palais. Visitors will be invited to walk inside the work, to immerse themselves in colour, and it will, I hope, be a contemplative and poetic experience.”

Designed using the most advanced technologies, the work will not merely speak to us visually, but will lead the visitor on a journey of total sensorial and mental discovery. A technical, poetic challenge unparalleled in the history of sculpture, this work questions what we think we know about art, our body, our most intimate experiences and our origins.
Spectacular and profound, it responds to what the artist considers to be the crux of his work: namely, “To manage, through strictly physical means, to offer a completely new emotional and philosophical experience.”

Monumenta 2011
from 11th may – 23 june 2011
Nave of Grand Palais – Main entrance
Winston Churchill Avenue – 75008 PARIS

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Karen Elson, the british model, singer, songwriter and guitarist… live on stage at the Grand Palais during the Etam show.

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Alison Mosshart (VV) from The Kills, on stage at the Grand Palais during Etam Show.

Photo. Pascal Gillet

Starting today, December 10, until January 12, Bulgari will be showcasing more than 500 precious items at the Grand Palais in Paris. The retrospective highlights key moments in the history of the celebrated jewellery maker and the development of Bulgari design starting with the opening of the first boutique in Rome’s Via Sistina in 1884 to the present day. The show is divided into periods starting with the first half of the 20th century, moving into the 1960’s when precious stones were used with rarely used original materials, to pop art in the ’70s, bold designs in the ’80s and ’90s, to the designs of the 21st century.

In addition the exhibition will also feature jewellery, drawings, cinema stills and original items from private collections, including items owned by Elizabeth Taylor. Jewellery and art lovers alike should definitely plan to visit this impressive exhibition.

Nef du Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

Photo. Pascal Gillet

The ARTPARIS+GUESTS contemporary art fair 2010 reflects market evolution with seven geographic and cultural platforms having the purpose of integrating emerging scenes and new creative values. These platforms are an opportunity to buy, meet, discover… 

Jérome Zonder, Ca s’est passé très vite, 2009/ Garance et Baptiste sont à la campagne, 2009, Eva Hober Gallery.

Wen Fang, Paris-Beijing Gallery.

The platforms represent one continent and three countries: Africa, Finland, Indonesia, and Ukraine. But also Paris, the international capital of art, with its Marais district galleries at the Utopia/Dystopia platform and the Rive Gauche galleries which are recreating a Collector’s Apartment, not to mention young European galleries specially combined in a curiosity cabinet entitled Visions. In short, unprecedented sights beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais! Here some artists selection from our walk… Enjoy!

Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Metropolis Gallery.
   

Tuân Andrew Nguyen, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery.

Jan Fabre, Daniel Templon Gallery, Venice Projects.

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Groko, 2010,  Collection Gervanne et Matthias Leridon.

Kudzanai Chiurai, The Minister Series, African Artists for Development.

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Autonomy 1, 2009 Galerie Patricia Dorfmann.

Monumenta, rendez-vous annuel à l’initiative de Ministère de la culture et de la communication pour une confrontation artistique de trés grande ambition invite cette année Christian Boltanski. Personnes, l’oeuvre magistrale spécialement conçue pour la circonstance est présentée dans la nef du Grand Palais à Paris. 
Commissaire de l’exposition: Catherine Grenier

Christian Boltanski et Frédéric Mitterand, ministre de la culture et de la communincation en pleine discussion lors du vernissage pour la presse…

A l’issue de son parcour, le visiteur peut s’il le souhaite participer à un grand projet utopique de Christian Boltanski: faire don de l’enregistrement sonore des batements de son coeur!
A partir de 2010, c’est dans l’île de Teshima, dans la mer intérieure de Seto au Japon que les archives du coeur seront conservées dans le cadre de la Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation.