To mark the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, the Paris museum dedicated to the painter invited Sophie Calle to take over the Hôtel Salé. Confronted with the figure of one of the masters of modern art, she chose to empty the entire museum space – Picasso was evicted! – in order to install her furniture and personal objects on the upper floors, and to unroll, on the first floor, a fresco imagined as an echo of the famous Guernica but composed as an immense collage of works she has been exchanging with other artists for years. To accompany this exhibition, À toi de faire, ma mignonne, Sophie Calle has devised a book in which she lists her “rendez-vous” with Picasso. Testimonies from the guards, paintings packed up during confinement, etc. Sophie Calle’s distinctive art of storytelling.
Conceived as an artist’s book with its intimate format and alternating Bible and creative papers, Picalso immerses the reader in the artist’s funny, poetic and singular universe.
An essay by Yve-Alain Bois, entitled Picassiette, recontextualizes these “rendez-vous” in Sophie Calle’s work and revisits her favorite themes of remembrance, lack, disappearance and absence.
55,00€
