Tacita Dean and Julie Mehretu Dialogue at Marian Goodman Gallery Paris

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris presents a two-person exhibition featuring Tacita Dean and Julie Mehretu, running from June 8 to July 20, 2018. The show celebrates the gallery's 40th anniversary and founder Marian Goodman's 90th birthday. Dean, born in 1965 in the UK, explores representation through narrative and imagery. Mehretu, born in 1970 in Ethiopia to an Ethiopian father and American mother, is known for her dynamic paintings and drawings. The ground floor displays nine eclipse paintings by Dean alongside a monumental painting by Mehretu. The lower level features 45 vintage humorous postcards enhanced with color by Dean and 45 black-and-white monotypes by Mehretu, totaling 90 works arranged like musical notes or constellations. Created separately on the US West and East Coasts, the works share the monotype technique and a playful, musical quality. Dean's postcards reference trains, potatoes, dolmens, and Marcel Broodthaers, the first artist Marian Goodman presented in New York. Mehretu's scriptural polyphony echoes the urgency of Henri Michaux's drawings. The exhibition highlights correspondences in technique, lightness, and irony toward art history.