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Art and anticipation

Contemporary Art | During the second decade of the 21st century, there have been an incalculable number of exhibitions with the theme of the future, crystallizing a profound occupation of the West. A two-part program - in Brussels and Paris - organized around the Jacques Attali essay « A brief history of the future » (2006) sets itself apart in proposing a structuralist vision of the history of humanity.

David LaChapelle, Gas Shell, 2012 © David LaChapelle Studio, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery
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David LaChapelle, Gas Shell, 2012
© David LaChapelle Studio, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery

The two exhibitions at the Belgian Royal Museum of Fine Arts and the Louvre mean to inform a general public and transpose Jacques Attali’s prospective text into visual pedagogy :
At the Louvre, the curators Jean de Loisy et Dominique de Font-Réaulx unravel a thread of the historical epic from antiquity onwards, mixing in contemporary artists (Camille Henrot, Tomas Sarraceno, Ai Weiwei...).
In Brussels, the young curators Jennifer Beauloye and […]

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David LaChapelle, Gas Shell, 2012 © David LaChapelle Studio, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery Claudio Parmiggiani, L’ascension de la mémoire 1976 © Archives Claudio Parmiggiani,and Meessen de Clercq, Bruxelles Jean-Michel Alberola, L’espérance a un fil, 2006-2009 © Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Stelarc, Third Ear, 2007 © Nina Sellars Tomás Saraceno , exposition « Hybrid Solitary, Semi Social Quintet, On Cosmic Webs » © Tanya Bonakdar Gallery & Biennale d’architecture de Chicago Chéri Samba, La Destruction du monde par l’homme © Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris & Chéri Samba Ugo Rondinone , Diary of Clouds 2007-2008 © Galerie Eva Presenhuber & Ugo Rondinone

David LaChapelle, Gas Shell, 2012
© David LaChapelle Studio, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery

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