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Melanie Matranga
Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668145 Acqn 26098
Pb 16x24cm 96pp 54ills 42col 14.95
Conceived as an emotional structure, , Mlanie Matranga's exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo
is intentionally equivocal. Its very titlein Mandarinputs us in an awkward situation, just as
when we need to ask a stranger our way in an unknown city, or when we have to admit our
inability to understand a message before being even able to start a conversation. Mlanie
Matranga combines in her exhibition signs that reflect upon interiority with elements linked to
social attitudes and habits. We find ourselves amid familiar objects and generic forms, in
situations where self-expression, paradoxically, is possible only once identity is lost. They are
places to be alone with others.

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Patrick Neu
Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668039 Acqn 26097
Pb 16x24cm 96pp 41ills 36col 14.95
With each piece, Patrick Neu turns traditional technique on its head and embarks on new
experiments, which he extends for as long as required. The artist works with materials not often
found in the art world: bees' wings, lampblack on glass, crystal, wax, blocks of Chinese ink,
butterfly wings, sloughed snakeskin, eggshells, charred paper, etc. For 30 years, Patrick Neu has
been developing his art discreetly. The works selected for his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo
are a nod towards this perilous dialogue with the materials and the memory of the world.

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Ragnar Kjartansson
Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668138 Acqn 26103
Pb 16x24cm 96pp 73ills 71col 14.95
Ragnar Kjartansson's singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and
opera, plein air painting and music. He often produces large-scale multidisciplinary projects and
the production of his works often requires the collaboration of several participantsactors,
musicians, friends and family members. Experimenting the mechanisms of theatre and the
dramatic impulses of tragedy, Ragnar Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of
melodramatic actions and in revealing the reality on which relies every interpretation. Through
repetition, which is genuine motif in his work, Ragnar Kjartansson enlightens the theatricality and
efforts at work in everyday life.

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Jean-Michel Alberola
Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668596 Acqn 26104
Pb 16x24cm 96pp 57ills 52col 13.95
Political, poetic, committed, profound: Jean-Michel Alberola's oeuvre is an artist's reaction to
reality, human feelings and the state of the world. His exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo triggers a
voyage that stimulates the eye and the mind as it maps the under appreciated diversity of his
work. Associating bodily and geographical fragments with ambiguous statements and injunctions,
this major and utterly distinctive figure on the French art scene shapes rebuses that challenge
both our way of seeing and the role of art in society. And yet, in its intermingling of artistic
speculation and political questioning, and of conceptualism, abstraction and figuration, Alberola's
unique, hard-hitting oeuvre is never without its touch of humour.

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Florian & Michel Quistrebert

Palais De Tokyo 2016 ISBN 9782840668602 Acqn 26105
Pb 16x24cm 96pp 71ills 65col 13.95
In their works, mingling colours, light, mass and illusions, Florian and Michael Quistrebert play
back the main motifs of modern art, while perverting them, through a particular approach to
matter. At the Palais de Tokyo, they are deploying a vast optical theatre in which experience of
their paintings and videos is disturbed by the glittering and internal motions of objects. The
Quistrebert brothers' ambiguous pieces evoke the impossibility of grasping a painting. Their
pictures are never what they show or, rather, never stabilize themselves around their subjects.
The artists explore perception by handling it in various ways, which can be intellectual, optical,
symbolic or else occult.

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