The observation is eloquent: more than half of the works in the Pinault Collection, across all mediums, deal with the human figure. Through this primordial subject, the artists place us face to face with our fellow human beings, whose appearance—and much more—has been immortalized by painting, drawing, photography, or film: by the gaze of another. Nearly 90 works from the Pinault Collection, reflections of the art of our time, have been chosen for this exhibition, which orchestrates a confrontation between spectators and, for the most part, faces. All of these, known or unknown, say something about the history and current events of a constantly renewed genre. Each in their own way, these faces ultimately provide a sensitive and collective answer to the question: what can art do?
Through these looks and attitudes, the most direct expression of humanity to humanity, we can read tensions, trajectories, emotions, revolts, feelings, conditioning, love, violence: each of these portraits is a landscape to explore, eye to eye.
The exhibition Eye to Eye traverses the history of art, speaks to us about the relationship to the image of oneself and others in the age of social networks, summons the idea of disappearance and the impossibility, sometimes, of capturing a face, an expression, a spirit, an attitude, a soul. Masked glances mingle with frank glances, intimacy ends up rubbing shoulders with eternity.
In resonance with Eye to Eye, Pinault Collection is lending an exceptional collection of works by Claire Tabouret to the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, which is simultaneously dedicating an exhibition to the artist, as part of Exporama.
With: Giulia Andreani, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arébénor Bassene, Michaël Borremans, Camille Blatrix, Miriam Cahn, Kantarovsky, Kiki Kogelnik, Michael Krebber, Florian Krewer, Tetsumi Kudo, Annie Leibovitz, Monica Majoli, Victor Man, Jean-Luc Moulène, Shirin Neshat, Antonio Oba, Albert Oehlen, Orlan, Yan Pei-Ming, Giulio Paolini, Irving Penn, Raymond Pettibon, Pierre & Gilles, Pope L., Richard Prince, Andy Robert, Wilhelm Sasnal, Thomas Schütte, Cindy Sherman, Edward Steichen, Rudolf Stingel, Paul Strand, Alina Szapocznikow, Claire Tabouret, Marion Tampon-Lajarriette, Tatiana Trouvé, Luc Tuymans, Francesco Vezzoli, Carrie Mae Weems, Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Zhang Huan.
Curator: Jean-Marie Gallais, curator, Pinault Collection
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