Monday, October 15, 2012

A dive into the Parisian art world, part 1


Life is a Killer. A golden statement 
by poet-artist John Giorno in Palais de Tokyo.
Photos © Paula Hietaranta

Sorry! Your blogger from Helsinki has been silent for a while, because she has been living in Paris for three weeks.
So here come my impressions of the Parisian art scene. Challenging, yes. Interesting, definitely. But sometimes it is like an amusement park, a mixture of danger and cotton candy, which makes you feel happy and dizzy.

Palais de Tokyo presents a lot of works by interesting artists under the theme Saison 2 Imaginez l´imaginaire. It is about art in construction, and really - the whole museum seems to be a construction site.
Fabrice Hyber, Das Wunderkind of the French art world, shows there Raw Materials – well, all kind of things starting from his early student lipstick works to rotting vegetables and his famous green men. 

Le mur escalier (2012), the turning staircase by Huber, 
is happily tested by young and even older visitors.

Fashion is an important part of French culture and a firm statement in the daily life.
Musée d´Orsay shows L'impressionnisme et la mode, a huge collection of famous paintings, museum piece dresses and accessories. Go there to see the art of fashion and the fashion as an art.

Dress by Phoebe Philo, laser cut and stitched toile, 
Chloé A/W 2006-07 collection.

More fashion you see in Palais de Tokyo where Chloé. Attitudes is a celebration of the Maison’s 60-year contribution to fashion culture.” 
It tells the history of fashion house with it´s famous designers and shows a big amount of the original pieces for example by Karl Lagerfeld who was a in-house designer some decades ago.
  
That is enough for today, more to come!




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