SALON D’AUTOMNE DE PARIS 2024 – 121ème ÉDITION – Les Champs-Élysées – Paris 8 – France
• October 22 to 27, 2024
• Opening Tuesday, October 22, 5pm to 10pm. Invitation only.
• Opening ceremony at 7pm.
After 2 years at the Grande Halle de la Villette, the 121st edition of the Salon d’Automne de Paris is back to its roots: the Salon returns to its autumn traditions, taking place from October 23 to 27 on the Champs-Élysées at the start of the Paris cultural season.
For this edition, Florence Lemiegre, an artist who has been a member of the Salon d’Automne de Paris since 2018, is exhibiting the spectacular “Noli me tangere Pistils” Big Mama deep blues, in red Normandy earthenware. This contemporary ceramic sculpture is a continuation of her work to protect nature, and more specifically the fragility of our oceans.
Through this universe of “Noli me tangere”, she explores the wounds at the heart of our planet’s flesh, and symbolically denounces the decline of oceanic health: sea and clay earth find correspondences and retain the imprints of traumas and aggressions suffered.
W: 22 in – D: 20,47 in – H: 23,22 in – Weight: 52.69 lbs
Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Florence Lemiegre
Through the intertwining drapery of organic, coral-like forms and chiselled lace, she constrains the material, pushing it to extremes. In this kind of traumatic state, the earth gradually accepts the inevitable changes, transitory or otherwise, that the artist imposes on it. The dynamic process is underway, and the sculpture comes to life. The work seems to have found its own equilibrium. It reveals imperceptible, impalpable cracks and wounds. The result is often a mysterious, unspeakable beauty, both fragile and violent.
Audiences can also discover “Baby Mama deep blues – Candidus” and “Tiny Mama deep blues”, two Noly me tangere Pistils.
W: 3,54 in – D: 3,54 in – H: 3,54 in- Weight: 8,92 oz
Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Florence Lemiegre
W: 4,33 in – D: 5,11 in – H: 5,11 in – Weight: 11,88 oz
Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Florence Lemiegre
The artist, Florence Lemiegre will be present at the opening and every afternoon for the duration of the event.
The 121-year anniversary of this internationally renowned artistic adventure is a marvellous opportunity to discover the universes of over 1000 artists from 43 countries. It’s also a chance to share in the many festivities (lectures, performances, concerts, etc.).
This year, cinema joins the event with the presence of French director and screenwriter Yann Le Quellec, the patron of this 121st edition. He is also a film producer, through the SOFICA Cinémage, which he co-founded. He has produced and co-produced over 600 films, including Intouchables, Le sens de la fête, Anatomie d’une chute, Le daim, Titane, Chambre 212… Cinema is no longer an artistic discipline represented at the Salon d’Automne, but thanks to this patron, we have the chance to re-establish a connection with this universe.
A tribute is also paid to Cabu, with some twenty of his drawings on the theme of jazz. No chronology, no stories, just spontaneous “on the spot” drawings, enlarged to magnify the power of his art and his genius for drawing. In 2013, Cabu was the patron of the Salon d’Automne.
A LITTLE HISTORY:
From yesterday to today, a salon created by artists, for artists.
The Salon d’Automne is organized by the Société du Salon d’Automne, a non-profit association of artists founded in 1903 and recognized as a public utility in 1920, whose aim is to encourage and develop the fine arts in all their forms, particularly through exhibitions both in France and abroad.
It was in 1903, in the basement of the Petit Palais, in reaction to the prevailing academicism, that a few friends gathered around the architect Frantz Jourdain, Guimard, Carrière, Desvallières, Bonnard, Rouault, Vallotton, Vuillard, Matisse, and many others, decided to organize an independent exhibition, with the aim of promoting the avant-gardes and innovative minds of their time. An instigator of multidisciplinarity and equality between the arts, Le Salon d’Automne was born, establishing itself as an essential witness to the emergence of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century: fauvism, surrealism, cubism, abstract art, new figuration, etc.
From its beginnings to the present day, the Salon d’Automne has played a key role in the emergence of all the major artistic movements of the 20th century, welcoming the greatest names in modern painting such as Cézanne, Picasso and the Ecole de Paris, Dali and Zao Wou-Ki, in sculpture such as Maillol, Rodin, Camille Claudel, Bourdelle and Duchamp-Villon, in music such as Debussy and Ravel, and in poetry from Apollinaire to Aragon.
Fort de sa prestigieuse histoire, ce salon fait par des artistes, pour des artistes, n’ignore toutefois pas le présent, et encore moins l’avenir ! Il continue de faire la part belle à la création contemporaine avec des artistes reconnus. Cabu en 2013 et Wolinski ainsi que Moebius en 2015, Ousmane Sow en 2016, Jacques Villeglé, Yvon Taillandier et Ambroise Monod en 2017, François Cheng et Franquin en 2018, le philosophe et sociologue Frédéric Lenoir et le plasticien Michel Kirch en 2019, Guillaume Atlan, compositeur de musique électronique en 2020, Pascal Dusapin, compositeur dessinateur bibliophile en 2021 et Fabienne Thibeault en 2022 dans un même esprit de rassemblement. Tous ces créateurs ont offert au public une vision multidisciplinaire, libre et dynamique de l’art, sans distinction entre art majeur et art mineur.
Le Président du Salon d’Automne de Paris de la 121ème édition est l’artiste peintre Jean-Christophe Lévêque.
L’affiche de cette 121ème édition est de Didier Thirion.
SALON D’AUTOMNE DE PARIS 2024, 121ème ÉDITION
Pavillons éphémères, avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris
Horaires d’ouverture : mercredi au samedi : 11h-20h, le dimanche : 11h-18h
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