"I long for the return of dioramas whose brutal and enormous magic has the power to impose on me a useful illusion.” Charles Baudelaire (1)
In summer 2017, with “Dioramas”, Palais de Tokyo explores an unexpected source of inspiration for contemporary art: the diorama. The show takes an unprecedented approach to deconstruct the history of looking, at the crossroads of history itself, as well as the histories of art, cinema, the world of theatre, popular and fairground arts, science, and technology.
Curators: Claire Garnier, Laurent Le Bon, Florence Ostende
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(1) Charles Baudelaire, Aesthetic Curiosities, 1868
This exhibition has been organised in partnership with the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort, where it will be presented from 6 October 2017 to 21 January 2018. Exhibition curator at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort: Katharina Dohm
With : Marcelle Ackein, Carl Akeley, Sammy Baloji, Richard Baquié, Richard Barnes, Erich Böttcher, Jacques Bouisset, Cao Fei, Philippe Chancel, Joseph Cornell, Louis Daguerre, Giovanni D’Enrico, Caterina De Julianis, Mark Dion, Jean Paul Favand, Claude-André Férigoule, Joan Fontcuberta, Diane Fox, Emmanuel Frémiet, Ryan Gander, Isa Genzken, Arno Gisinger, Ignazio Lo Giudice, Robert Gober, Duane Hanson, Edward Hart, Patrick Jacobs, Arthur August Jansson, Anselm Kiefer, Fritz Laube, Pierre Leguillon, William Robinson Leigh, Charles Matton, Mathieu Mercier, Kent Monkman, Armand Morin, Lorenzo Mosca, Dulce Pinzón, Walter Potter, Georges Henri Rivière, G-M Salgé, Gerrit Schouten, Ronan-Jim Sévellec, Pierrick Sorin, Peter Spicer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fiona Tan, Tatiana Trouvé, Jeff Wall, Rowland Ward, Tom Wesselmann
