Contemporary art lovers, mark your calendars! Lafayette Anticipations welcomes Pol Taburet's first institutional monographic exhibition, Opera III: Zoo "The Day of Heaven and Hell", from June 21 to September 3, 2023. Born in 1997, the talented artist presents paintings and explores new media such as sculpture and installation. Pol Taburet 's never-before-seen works create a captivating journey that unfolds from stage to stage throughout the Foundation.
Lafayette Anticipations is transformed into a domestic interior inhabited by visions that immerse us in a reality bordering on hallucination. Inspired by the imagination of childhood and its capacity to create worlds, Pol Taburet 's works draw on personal and collective mythology, fairy tales, cartoons and art history. Architecture is charged with presence, the inanimate comes to life, the monstrous lurks in the shadows and emotions take shape.
Figures emerge from paintings and sculptures like spectres, bodies caught in the artificial lights of a salon, theater or strip club. Born in the intimacy of domestic space, memory, dream or fantasy, these "spirit-characters" escape to animate all the Foundation's spaces. The strange mingles with the familiar, and the works invent a human bestiary, exploring the impulses, visions and desires that animate our minds and bodies in intimacy. Another common thread is the mouth, omnipresent in the artist's work, somewhere between a howl of happiness and terror, inviting visitors on a journey into the unknown, almost uncomfortable, frightening and where anything is possible.
Pol Taburet is a French artist who graduated from theEcole Nationale Supérieure de Paris-Cergy. He lives and works in Paris. His work questions the relationship between the human and animal body and the object, the way they coexist in domestic space, and the shifts between the inanimate and the animate. His work blends diverse sources of inspiration, such as Caribbean mythology and beliefs, contemporary culture, including cartoons, TV series and music videos, and art history. In 2022, he won the Reiffers Art Initiative prize for young artists and cultural diversity. His works can be found in many prestigious collections.
Don't miss this fascinating Pol Taburet exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, a unique experience that will transport you between heaven and hell through the powers of imagination!
Dates and Opening Time
From June 21th, 2023 to September 3rd, 2023
Location
Lafayette Anticipations
9 Rue du Plâtre
75004 Paris 4
Access
Metro lines 1 and 11 "Hôtel de Ville" station, line 11 "Rambuteau" station
Prices
Free
Official website
www.lafayetteanticipations.com
More information
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm. Nocturne Thursdays until 9pm. Closed on Mondays.
