Georg Baselitz and Irving Penn featured in Corps et Âmes Group show at Bourse de Commerce, Paris . (This link opens in a new tab).

The Bourse de Commerce is drawing some one hundred works from the Pinault Collection to present the exhibition Corps et Âmes, an exploration of representations of the body in contemporary art. From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, Georg Baselitz to Ana Mendieta, David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, and Arthur Jafa. (This link opens in a new tab). to Ali Cherri. (This link opens in a new tab)., some forty artists have used painting, sculpture, photography, video, and drawing to explore the connections between body and soul.

In the generative curves of the Bourse de Commerce, as an echo of the rondo of bodies that populate the vast, painted panorama encircling the building’s glass dome, the exhibition ‘Corps et âmes’ explores the significance of the body in contemporary thought through the works of some forty artists in the Pinault Collection. Freed from all mimetic constraints, the body — whether photographed, sculpted, drawn, filmed, or painted — does not cease to reinvent itself, thereby granting art an essential organic quality that allows it, like an umbilical cord, to take the pulse of the human body and soul.

Art seizes the energies and vital flows of our thoughts and inner lives to create a socially committed, humanist experience of otherness. Forms metamorphose, returning to figuration or freeing themselves from it, to grasp, hold on to, and allow the soul and consciousness to reveal themselves. It is no longer a matter of merely painting bodies, instead capturing the forces that run through them, to bring to light what is buried and invisible, and to open up the shadows.. (This link opens in a new tab).

— Emma Lavigne, General Curator, General Director in charge of the Pinault Collection