The World as it Goes - Pinault Collection

Exhibition Catalogue The World as it Goes - Pinault Collection, presented at the Bourse du Commerce, Paris (until 2 September 2024).

A presentation of emblematic works from the Pinault Collection, initiating a dialogue between established and emerging artists, and between artistic practices, scattered throughout the various spaces of the Bourse de Commerce, which are dotted with large-scale installations. What the works have in common is that they displace and derange the usual reference points and measures. With : Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Sturtevant, Rosemarie Trockel, Anne Imhof, Mohammed Sami, Pol Taburet, Salman Toor...

Borrowing its title from a philosophical tale by Voltaire, this new exhibition from the Collection Pinault reveals the "acute awareness of the present" among artists, according to its curator Jean-Marie Gallais.

From established figures (Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Sturtevant, Rosemarie Trockel...) to a younger generation of artists (Anne Imhof, Mohammed Sami, Pol Taburet, Salman Toor...), collector François Pinault's choices have always reflected this passion for art that is in step with the times, whether it be committed or simply observant, provocative or darker. Faced with the excesses and paradoxes of the world, but also with the turmoil of the times and a feeling of losing one's bearings, artists become prophets, visionaries, philosophers, sometimes cynical and ironic, often poets and re-enchanters.