Le Bristol Paris - Photo: DR

The first, Daniel Buren, one of the most renowned artists in the world, who since the sixties, uses white and colored vertical stripes 8,7 cm wide to develop his work in all kinds of private and public places. Each of its exhibitions sparks the event.
For his invitation to the Bristol, Buren is installing a spectacular and unique pergola facing the colonnade of the three-star restaurant Epicure, a so-called in situ work, created precisely for the hotel garden. The pergola is a light construction that generally serves as a support for climbing plants and allows its environment to be shaded. The artist here thwarts his common usage by hanging not flowers but five colors arranged in alphabetical order above our heads. The colors play with the light and in the presence of the sun, are projected around.

Daniel Buren, Technical drawing for A colorful break, in situ work for Le Bristol, Paris, May 2016 © Jean-Christophe Denise. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris

The artist invites the viewer to browse this temporary architecture and offers to receive the customers of the Epicure restaurant, and thus bring this environment into conversation with the cuisine of three-star chef Eric Frechon.

Hicham Berrada, meanwhile, lights up the large mirror screen at the Bristol Bar in the light of a selection of his videos. Nourished by a double artistic and scientific training, his work combines intuition and knowledge, science and poetry. He explores scientific protocols that closely imitate different natural or atmospheric processes in an approach close to a painter. The ethereal and vaporous works of Hicham Berrada meet the time of the projection cocktails of Maxime Hoerth, another alchemist, chief barman and Meilleur Ouvrier de France.

This exhibition is initiated by Kamel Mennour and the curator Florence Parot, in parallel with the opening of the new gallery space, 28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8.

Daniel Buren, Photos-souvenirs: Pergola, work located, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris, June - September 2009

For three years now, the hotel has been initiating this special meeting around the most demanding contemporary creation. Internationally renowned artists are invited to take over the bar and garden, all in collaboration with the largest galleries of contemporary Parisian art. The Bristol welcomed artists from October 2013 to July 2014 Adrien Missika, Louidgi Beltrame, Christophe Herreros, Philippe Terrier-Hermann, Xavier Veillan, Ange Leccia and Isabelle Cornaro. Between September 2014 and March 2015, the Galleria Continua and the Perrotin Gallery took turns curating the mirror screen of the Bar and exposed the artists Daniel Buren, Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Hans Op de Beeck, Jesper Just, Laurent Grasso, Gianni Motti, John Henderson or JR to react to this singular context. Last April it was the turn of the curator Timothée Chaillou and the artist Matthieu Mercier, in partnership with the Auction House Piasa, to offer a selection of videos, including among them the works of Claude Lévêque, by Olivier Dollinger, Pierre Bismuth, Guillaume Paris, Pascal Goblot or Natacha Lesueur. Then, last October, our curator Florence Parot offered a program around the city of Beirut and invited the artists Mehdi Meddaci, Lorde Selys and Marcel Dinahet, in partnership with the Tourist Office Lebanon.

Founded in 1999, the gallery kamel mennour presents within its spaces of the 6th arrondissement (47, rue Saint-André des Arts and 6 rue du Pont de Lodi) the work of thirty contemporary, young and internationally recognized artists.

Kamel Mennour will inaugurate its third space next May 24, next to the Bristol Hotel, 28 Avenue Matignon, with a personal exhibition by the artist of Chinese origin Huang Yong Ping in parallel with his Monumenta "Empires" which opens on May 8 at Big palace.

Represented artists: Hicham Berrada, Mohamed Bourouissa, Marie Bovo, Daniel Buren, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Valentin Carron, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Latifa Echakhch, Michel François, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Alberto Giacometti, Johan Grimonprez, Petrit Halilaj, Camille Henrot, David Hominal, Huang Yong Ping, Alfredo Jaar, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anish Kapoor, Tadashi Kawamata, Alicja Kwade, Lee Ufan, Claude Lévêque, François Morellet, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Gina Pane, Martin Parr, Martial Raysse, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Zineb Sedira, Shen Yuan.

Hicham Berrada, Birds, 2014. Still. Color video, 3 min 55 s. © ADAGP Hicham Berrada. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris

Florence Parot is an exhibition curator. Living between Paris and Amsterdam, her career includes the position of conservation attaché for the video collection at the Center Pompidou for twelve years, where she notably co-designed the Vintage Video exhibition and supervised her roaming at ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany) , at the Beirut Art Center in Beirut (Lebanon) and at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (South Korea). Currently in preparation for a doctorate on the history of artist performance, since 2011 she has initiated Châteaux Secrets, an artists' camp inspired by utopias defending self-construction, cooperation and a return to nature. In Amsterdam, she teaches at the Sandberg Instituut, and collaborates with Krux Amsterdam, a group of artists, craftsmen and designers. At the start of 2016, she created Artist Placement to support artists and guide them towards new research and exhibition contexts.

Daniel Buren was born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt. He lives and works in situ, that is to say with and on the spot. Graduated from the arts and crafts school in 1960, he chose to focus his work on an economy of artistic means. In 1965, it was from a striped blind canvas that he created a singular artistic tool: alternating vertical white and colored bands of 8,7 cm in width repeating and appearing on all supports. From the 1970s, Daniel Buren's stripes will be found in hundreds of personal and group exhibitions around the world and occupy public space. Les Deux plateaux inaugurated in 1986, commonly known as the Buren Columns, is probably one of his most famous works because he was the subject of much ink from journalists when it was built in the main courtyard of the Palais-Royal . Its supports and surfaces of expression change, the artist innovates, experiments with marble, stone, plastic, the mirror, Plexiglas, glass, continuing to produce works in two or three dimensions. Exploded huts or pergolas are manifestations of this, they now invite you to experience it. The spectator then finds himself “caught” in color, conquering three-dimensional space. Daniel Buren currently works at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and from May 11, at the Vuitton Foundation in Paris with a work entitled: The Light Observatory, in situ work.

Hicham Berrada was born in 1986 in Casablanca in Morocco, he graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in 2011, then continued his research related to the activation of different natural processes at the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Le Fresnoy. He takes part in several group exhibitions in Paris, Brussels, Casablanca and Beirut. In February 2013, his first monographic exhibition, designed with Mouna Mekouar, curator, takes place at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Modules. The same year, he was awarded the Schneider Foundation prize (installation category). He was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2014. His dazzling work Mesk-ellil was presented at the Galerie Kamel Mennour and at the last Biennale in Lyon. He recently joined the prestigious collection of the Center Pompidou.

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