Mira Schor, ‘Orbs and eclipses’
Marcelle Alix
Through October 27, 2022
Tucked away on a side street of the Butte de Belleville, Marcelle Alix is known for embodying the youthful underground rumblings of Paris’s vibrant art scene. ‘Orbs and eclipses’, a solo show featuring works by Mira Schor from the last three years alongside a historical gouache from 1971, is no exception. Schor may not be a ‘young’ painter – for 50 years she has been exploring the same medium with the same objectives – and yet her work speaks to the persistent rebel spirit of the neighborhood that currently hosts her show. Her small formats, unstretched canvases, economy of materials, and bluntly feminist iconography produce a unique alchemy of power and modesty.
Suzy Lake, ‘On Stage’
mfc-michèle didier
Through December 23, 2022
Karl Marx entreated his followers to ‘transform the world’; Arthur Rimbaud implored his readers to ‘change their lives’. The gallery mfc-michèle didier suggests that Suzy Lake’s work synthesizes both injunctions. Forged in the radical decades of the 1960s and 70s, the artist’s manipulated photographic self-portraits speak to her reflections on her own identity as a woman and on the way that identity was perceived by society. To celebrate Lake’s ever-heightening profile and appreciation by art historians and institutions (her work is part of many prominent North American collections and pieces were recently acquired by the Cnap in Paris), mfc-michèle didier is dedicating the entirety of both their Paris+ booth and their gallery space to this pioneering artist.
Alfred Courmes, ‘du côté de chez Courmes’
Loevenbruck
Through November 5, 2022
Born in 1898 and deceased in 1993, the life of French artist Alfred Courmes, like his work, reached across and united centuries. The last of a generation born into the conventions of Belle Époque, Courmes’s trajectory brought him from an aristocratic upbringing to a mental institution and, finally, to a late discovery of the work of Flemish and Italian masters. His work appropriates Renaissance mythological and religious scenes, infusing them with irony and cynicism, and fusing them with the codes and imagery of 1960s advertising. The result has been named a ‘precursor of pop art and narrative figuration’, although his work continues to escape easy classification and categorization. Courmes was a singular and beguiling artist who has at last earned an exhibition of equivalent measure at Loevenbruck. ‘du côté de chez Courmes’ also marks the occasion for the publication of a catalog with new insights into his practice.
Ficre Ghebreyesus, ‘Map / Quilt’
Galerie Lelong & Co.Through October 22, 2022
Born in Eritrea at the beginning of the War of Independence (1961–1991), Ficre Ghebreyesus fled as a teenager and became a refugee in Sudan, Italy, and Germany, before finally settling in the U.S., where he went on to receive a master’s degree from the Yale School of Art. This exhibition at Galerie Lelong & Co. represents the first time the artist’s work has been shown in France, and it includes two paintings from the ‘Map Quilt’ series (1999). Each of these works simultaneously evoke an abstracted geography or landscape and the patterns and colors of Eritrean textiles. Also included are pastels from the 1990s as well as a series of small delicate canvases in which landscapes merging into abstraction alternate with scenes populated with human silhouettes, animals, or flowers.
克雷爾特伯萊（Claire Tabouret）“L’Urgence et la Patience”
阿爾敏萊希畫廊（Almine Rech ）
克雷爾特伯萊“Paysages d’Intrérieur”
貝浩登（Perrotin）
展期從即日起至2021年12月18日
正值駐洛杉磯的法國藝術家克雷爾特伯萊受到畢卡索（Pablo Picasso）1921年的《Three Women at the fountain》而創作的首個青銅噴泉作品《Baigneuse assise》在巴黎畢卡索博物館（Musée National Picasso）展出，阿爾敏萊希和貝浩登也同期在藝廊舉辦了她的繪畫作品展。阿爾敏萊希的“L’urgence et la Patience”展覽聚焦于特伯萊色彩豐富而鮮明的肖像；而貝浩登的“Paysages d’interieurs”則展示了類似色調的全新風景畫。這些作品畫在合成毛皮上，並與藝術家的花束和陶器單版畫一同展出。當一起觀賞這三個展覽時，會發現他們都提供了關於藝術家當前工作和關注點的實質性概述。
‘Carol Bove: Vase/Face’
David Zwirner
October 17 – December 17, 2022
This exhibition of new work by Carol Bove at David Zwirner’s Paris location features large-scale sculptures made of crushed and sandblasted stainless-steel tubes. Each is combined with a large, reflective, circular glass disk. Presented in monochrome environments, the works evoke a phenomenological experience of form and the surrounding space. Also featured are new wall-mounted works with colorful matte finishes in pale yellows and greens that give the false impression of steel being effortlessly malleable. Together, the works on view continue the American artist’s decades-long exploration of the boundaries of physicality and perception.
Wilson Tarbox is a critic and art historian based in Paris.
Top image: Top image: Detail of a work in Mira Schor, ‘Orbs and eclipses’, Marcelle Alix, Paris, 2022. Photo by Aurélien Mole. Courtesy of Marcelle Alix, Paris.