What’s On Now In Paris
Paris, known as the city of love, the city of fashion, the city of culture. Paris is and always has been, the city of art too… and it truly lives up to it’s name. Apart from the galleries that we all know and love; Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay and Musée Picasso, for example, Paris is rich in modern art as well, and it is for this reason that it is imperative to look at some of Paris’ modern art when you arrive in Paris for your weekend break, or how ever long your break might be. After getting your Paris accommodation sorted out, be sure to get your creative cap on and head on down to MAC/VAL.
The perfect place to start on your art quest is at MAC/VAL. This contemporary art museum opened days after the end of the banlieue riots in November 2005, and this museum is a proud display of cultural vitality outside the city centre. You will find many Parisians frequenting this art gallery, admiring its forward thinking and inventive ideas, an achievement in itself as it is difficult to get the Parisian art clique out of the city centre and into the suburbs, where this art museum is located, in the south-eastern suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine.
The MAC/VAL had the ultimate opening night and the launch was an ultra stylish TV advertising campaign that showed serious looking gallery-goers getting splattered with paint and concluded with the slogan Venez prendre l’art (Get a breath of fresh art). The main ideas of the gallery’s organizers is to put an alternative slant on art, to produce new and exciting installations and to make art accessible and appealing to the general public. In order to do this, the gallery chose to make the entrance fee low (€4) which seeks to encourage people who might not usually enter a gallery, to do so.
Some of the examples of recent work in the gallery include installations from the likes of Gilles Barbier, Jésus-Rafael Soto and Christian Boltanski, and the work generally ranges from the 1950’s up to the present day. The most famous of the 110 works in the gallery include Jean Dubuffet’s Chaufferie avec cheminée (boiler with Chimney). MAC/VAL also organizes temporary exhibitions and has a 150 seat cinema, documentation centre, bookshop and public garden. It’s in-house bar/restaurant La Transversal also has an excellent reputation. So once you’ve got your apartments Paris or your Paris hotels sorted, you’re good to get arty!
Posted on: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 3:37 pm 
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