Julio Le Parc: Light and Movement at Palais de Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo in Paris hosts the largest-ever French exhibition of Julio Le Parc, running from February 27 to May 20, curated by Daria de Beauvais. Concurrently, the Grand Palais presents 'Dynamo: A Century of Light and Movement in Art 1913-2013' (April 10–July 22), curated by Serge Lemoine and Matthieu Poirier, featuring 150 artists. Le Parc, a key figure in kinetic art, founded the Groupe de Recherche et d’art visuel (GRAV) in 1960 and won the Grand Prix for painting at the 1966 Venice Biennale. His political engagement began early, including the 1955 occupation of Buenos Aires' fine arts school and involvement in May 1968. The exhibition includes works from 1958 onward, with new pieces adapted for the venue, such as a version of his Nuit Blanche installation. Also featured are figurative paintings from 1972 denouncing torture, created with the group Denuncia. Le Parc's practice emphasizes collective creation and spectator participation, exemplified by GRAV's labyrinths and street actions like the 1966 'Journée dans la rue'.
Key facts
- Palais de Tokyo exhibition runs February 27 to May 20, 2013
- Curated by Daria de Beauvais
- Grand Palais exhibition 'Dynamo' runs April 10 to July 22, 2013
- Le Parc founded GRAV in 1960
- Le Parc won Grand Prix at 1966 Venice Biennale
- Exhibition includes works from 1958 onward
- New works include a version of Nuit Blanche installation
- Figurative paintings from 1972 denounce torture
Entities
Artists
- Julio Le Parc
- James Turrell
- Lucio Fontana
- Pablo Neruda
- Piet Mondrian
- Georges Vantongerloo
- Joseph Albers
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Vasarely
- Francisco Sobrino
- Horacio Garcia-Rossi
- Hector Garcia-Miranda
- François Morellet
- Joël Stein
- Yvaral
- François Molnar
- Gerhard von Graevenitz
- Davide Boriani
- Jean Tinguely
- Pierre Restany
- Gontran Guanaes Netto
- Alejandro Marcos
- Jose Gamarra
- Jean-Louis Pradel
- Arnauld Pierre
- Baudouin Janninck
- Michel Faré
- Jacques Lassaigne
- Jean de Loisy
- Laurent Le Bon
- Serge Lemoine
- Matthieu Poirier
- Daria de Beauvais
Institutions
- Palais de Tokyo
- Grand Palais
- Centre Pompidou-Metz
- Museo nacional de las Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)
- Centre culturel Julio le Parc (Mendoza)
- Galerie Denise René
- Galerie Lelia Mordoch
- Galerie Bugada Cargnel
- Casa Daros (Rio de Janeiro)
- Galerie Nara Roesler (São Paulo)
- MOCA (Los Angeles)
- Musée des beaux-arts (Buenos Aires)
- Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
- Université Rennes II
- Stedelijk Museum
- Musée des arts décoratifs (Paris)
- Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Groupe de Recherche et d’art visuel (GRAV)
- Gruppo T (Milan)
- Gruppo N (Padua)
- Equipo 57
- Gruppe Zero (Düsseldorf)
- Denuncia (group)
- Amnesty International
- ORTF
- Flammarion (publisher)
- Baudouin Janninck (publisher)
- artpress (publication)
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Mendoza
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Cachan
- Rio de Janeiro
- Brazil
- São Paulo
- Los Angeles
- United States
- Rennes
- Venice
- Italy
- Zagreb
- Croatia
- Munich
- Germany
- Düsseldorf
- Milan
- Padua
- Dortmund
- place de la Concorde
- Espace Beaugrenelle
- rue Delambre
- rue Beautreillis
- Rio de la Plata
Sources
- artpress —