For the primary time, the Petit Palais museum is permitting road artwork inside its partitions, mixing items from their collections with works by Shepard Fairey, Invader, Add Gas and over sixty different artists.
And it’s free!
This marks the primary time that an essential Parisian museum has celebrated road artwork on the identical degree as its personal collections – We Are Right here – an exploration of road artwork typically impressed by the rebelliousness of basic artwork.
On the Petit Palais, for which admission is free, you possibly can see works by modern road artists juxtaposed with (or ‘in a refined dialogue with’ because the official web site places it) the basic work and sculptures of the museum. Paris has all the time been one of many birthplaces of the avant-garde, however the exhibition reminds us that it’s nonetheless important that we push again and redefine the bounds of what’s thought of ‘artwork’.
For instance, after a relatively low-key preliminary presentation, strolling by way of the rooms finally results in the Concorde Room, crammed to the ceiling with the works of over sixty totally different road artists!
To assist your go to, a free app known as WAH (We Are Right here) is offered for iOS and Android, with augmented actuality and additional information in regards to the artists and their works.
There’s additionally a guide that accompanies the exhibition, known as We Are Right here, le salon des refusés ou la revanche du road artwork, (240 pages, 49€), however for some unusual cause it isn’t being printed till the exhibition ends in November 2024 😳 🤷
The exhibition We Are Right here is on the Petit Palais (right here) till seventeenth November 2024
Open every single day besides Mondays from 10am-6pm
Admission free!
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