Three exhibitions to see in Paris now (in spring)

Born in ’42 and still with a camera around his neck to capture the most hidden sides of life, Iturbide is the most famous living Mexican photographer. Famous for portraits of Yucatan women and native populations of the Sonoran Desert, Graciela Iturbide he has a gaze capable of revealing “the color of the world” even in black and white. On the ground floor are presented his most recent works, all medium or large, including the very recent ones made in the Mexican village of Tecali, where – a rare event for his career – he shot in color. Downstairs, a suggestive brick reconstruction of his studio by his son the architect Mauricio Rocha (the title Heliotrope 37 refers to the name of the street in Mexico City where in fact there is theatelier of the photographer) and some of the most iconic shots of her career such as those dedicated to motherhood, the death of young children and the most marginalized communities in Latin America. Necessary exhibition, so as not to forget about “other worlds”.

Masterpieces from Russia at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

The last stage requires some commitment, but it is worth it. To go to the Fondation Louis Vuittonhuge architectural project of Frank Gehry commissioned by Bernard Arnault (the founder of the LVMH group, another super art collector) and inaugurated in 2006, you have to get to the heart of the Bois de Boulognethe huge urban park west of the center (Charles De Galle Etoile metro: here it is a shuttle every twenty minutes to reach the exhibition venue).

The Fondation can be recognized from afar, with her sailboat shape: once inside, the view over the Defense district is unique. Always worth a visit, but this season even more because it hosts (officially until April, net of sudden changes of direction and decision to withdraw the loans) The Morozov Collectionone of the most important collections of impressionist and modern art coming from Russia.

Let’s talk about something equal to 200 masterpieceswith names from the history of art booklet: Manet, Monet, Rodin, Pissatto, Renoir, Sisley, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and then the Russians Malevich, Larionov, Goncharova.

For the first time – and it is bizarre that it happens precisely in this dramatic period – these works of art have left Mother Russia since the formation of the collection: owned by brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozovvisionary lovers of the arts, capable of taking the novelties of European creativity beyond the curtain, the collection it has few equals in the world and is usually distributed among the exhibition venues of theHermitage of St. Petersburg, del Pushkin and of Tretyakov Galleries of Moscow. The loan is therefore truly exceptional and today, in the “ship of the contemporary” in Paris, this exhibition from Russia appears to us as a tribute to creative freedom. A mirage, given the times.