Paris Art Week 2022: 6 galleries that will set the tone

In The New Beyond, American artist Robert Longo presents his most recent series of monumental charcoal drawings paying homage to the European pioneers of post-war art. By revisiting their work in a contemporary context, Longo offers this exhibition as a 'historical construction'.  With uncertainty dominating the current political climate in Europe, Longo's most recent series of drawings encourages us to look to the work of artists whose art helped heal the wounds of war and imagine a different future. As they laid the foundations on which artists still build today, their example might guide a younger generation. 

Thaddaeus Ropac
7 Rue Debelleyme 75003
On view: Robert Longo | The new beyond
17 - 23 October

Perrotin Paris announced Caribbean artist Tavares Strachan's first exhibition with the gallery - In Broad Daylight. "One of the things that the history of religious storytelling has done very well is to take beauty and tragedy and smash them together. This is what I am trying to do with this series of sculptures," explains Strachan. Unlike routine sculptural forms of heroes which represent a notable (often European male) subject in action or at least in command of the occasion, Strachan's are doubly weighted in an opposing direction, towards Black male figures who have a complex relation to the heroic event (with neither military nor political status); and towards the Black women who bore them and who continued to bear the traumatic legacy of their lives. This project amplifies the bigness of things. The larger-than-life sculptures hint at the artist's ongoing interest in the celestial and the vastness or enormity of existence, beyond what we can know, see, touch, or feel.

Perrotin
10 Impasse Saint Claude 75003
On view: Tavares Strachan | In broad daylight
15 October - December 17

193 Gallery presents the work of Chilean artist Javier Toro Blum with the exhibition, Azul Bleu. Javier has designed an exhibition where blue and at the heart of the project and color and light will be protagonists, interacting with the architectural space and the spectators. The artist crosses his work and French culture, he takes as a starting point for his exhibition Azul Bleu a dialogue between "two blues" the colour International Klein Blue and the luminous blue of his own works. The latter is the product of research he has been developing since 2015. This quest has led the artist to produce a large part of his work using glass and filters of a very deep blue which, without interior light, borders on black.

193 gallery
24 Rue Béranger, 75003
On view: Javier Toro Blum | Azul Bleu
3 September – 29 October

The greatest collectible design and functional art gallery presents work by Wonmin Park this fall. Wonmin was born in 1982 in Seoul, South Korea, and is a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven. "In my designs, I want objects to speak for themselves. To be beautiful, and attractive, and engage with their surroundings. My work embraces simplicity, purity, and subtlety. People who experience my design have the space to explore their own sensations and emotions," says Wonmin Park. To maximize the visual appeal of his pieces, Park uses resin and metal. The use of these chosen materials produces a surreal, dream-like quality reminiscent of seeing something without fixed contours, bound together by light and air. Park's furniture acts like a sculpture that demands to be looked at and visually appreciated. His designs are considered both practical commodities and fine art.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery
54 Rue De La Verrerie 75004
On view: Wonmin Park | On Earth

20 October – 7 January
Opening: October 20, 6 pm