VINGT pick of art openings this week

Text: Aran Cravey
Image: Polixeni Papapetrou, The Loners

Call it the Tim Burton effect, or maybe just Spring fever, but this week’s gallery openings have viewers hopping through the rabbit hole to parallel realities of the imagination. No doubt, Lewis Caroll would be proud. On Thursday, Galerie LMD presents Polixeni Papapetrou’s Between Worlds. In this photographic series, Australian born Papapetrou has created sumptuous, surreal landscapes in which children masked as animals take on the archetypal characters of adult reality. In their unsettling beauty, these hybridized fantasies capture a stirring tension between absurdity and truth that make for compelling images.

Wandering along similar boundaries of surreal consciousness, Galerie Anton Weller presents Nous Deux. The multi-media exhibition by the artistic collective ConiglioViola (at the time of the work composed of Fabrizio Coniglio and Andrea Raviola) is, in the artists’ words, “an autobiographical and sometimes melancholic fairy tale, an attempt to escape from time and from reality but also escape from Art.” In the eleven photographs plus music video, Coniglio and Raviola utilized digital modification in creating adolescent avatars of themselves that travel through dark realms of fantasy.

Continuing with the week’s artistic voyage, Saturday’s opening at Espace topographie de l´art for Dóra Maurer promises an “infinite, vast terrain” in which numerous realms of identity and personal liberation are explored.  This week, Gallery goers can travel to distant realms without ever leaving Paris!

WEDNESDAY MAY 5                                

EXHIBITION OPENING

Rirkrit Tiravanija
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
Galerie Chantal Crousel 75003

THURSDAY MAY 6

EXHIBITION OPENING

Polixeni Papapetrou: Between Worlds
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
Galerie LMD 75007

EXHIBITION OPENING
Matthias Bitzer: The Mercury Window
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
Galerie Almine Rech 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Barbara Kasten
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
Galerie Almine Rech 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Larissa Sansour
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
Galerie La Bank 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Florence Paradeis: Till the end
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
In Situ Fabienne Leclerc 75006

EXHIBITION OPENING
Ernest Breleur: Les portraits sans visages
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Majida Khattari: Les Houris
Vernissage: 6-9 pm
Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Coniglioviola: Nous deux
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Galerie Anton Weller 75006


EXHIBITION OPENING
Exposition BELGAE
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Galerie Vanessa Quang 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Alexandra Leykauf
Vernissage: 7-10pm
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC 75016

EXHIBITION OPENING
Darren Bader, Marieta Chirulescu, Chloé Quenum:
The hoax is a hoax or may or may not be
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Galerie Carlos Cardenas 75004

EXHIBITION OPENING
Elsa Cha, Laurent Okroglic, Lahcen Khedim
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Galerie Claude Samuel 75012

EXHIBITION SPACE OPENING
Galerie BSL

FRIDAY MAY 7

EXHIBITION OPENING
Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Dominique Petitgand, Pia Rönicke:
Both Before and After
Vernissage: 4pm
gb agency 75013

SATURDAY MAY 8

EXHIBITION OPENING
Ann Veronica Janssens
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Air de Paris 75013

EXHIBITION OPENING
“Shut Your Eyes In Order to See”
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Galerie Praz-Delavallade 75013

EXHIBITION OPENING
Dóra Maurer: Déploiements
Vernissage: 6-8pm
Espace topographie de l´art 75003

EXHIBITION OPENING
Jacob Kassay
Vernissage: 6-9pm
Art:Concept 75003