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Sheila Hicks "Apprentissages" Multi-site Solo Exhibition. Part Two

Image courtesy of:
Festival d’Automne à Paris and galerie frank elbaz.

HICKS INVITES VIEWERS TO DISCOVER UNIQUE SPACES THAT HAVE RECENTLY BEEN INHABITED BY THE GESTURES OF HER CHROMATIC, PICTORIAL AND TEXTILE-BASED VOCABULARY.

Site specific installations successively exhibited at the Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris (September 13 - October 2), in Parisian shop windows (from October 14) and at the Atelier décor of Nanterre-Amandiers (December 9 - 17 ) as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris 2016.

This, the second part of the artist’s new public artwork and artistic residency in Paris, takes the form of a multifaceted sculpture that encourages visitors to discover new walks and vistas while exploring Paris by foot. Presented throughout a series of windows located across the city Hicks work is seen to occupy a new space between art and architecture, private and public.

This new multi-site solo show is accompanied by an artist talk and lecture series: 
Members of the public are invited to join Shelia from 7pm on October 21, at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, for a conversation with Clément Dirié, art critic and curator and Valérie Guillaume, director of the Musée Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris. 

Locations include:

- Maison Bonnet Lunetier, Passage des Deux Pavillons, 75001 Paris.
- Librairie Petite Egypte, 35 rue des Petits Carreaux, 75002 Paris.
- Régie immobilière de la Ville de Paris, 7-9 rue Saint-Paul, 75004 Paris.
- Galerie kreo, 31 rue Dauphine, 75006 Paris.
- C.S.E/Docteur Philippe Benillouche, 17 rue Beaurepaire, 75010 Paris.

Exhibition curator, Clément Dirié
In collaboration with Paris Musées, Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations, and Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national. With support from Noirmontart production and Galerie Frank Elbaz.

 

 

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