Kamel Mennour is pleased to present ‘Jours blancs ’ [White Days], a group show bringing together the works of Jean Arp, James Bishop, Marie Bovo, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dadamaino, Jean Degottex, Jean Dubuffet, Latifa Echakhch, Michel François, Douglas Gordon, Petrit Halilaj, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anish Kapoor, Tadashi Kawamata, Bertrand Lavier, Lee Ufan, Piero Manzoni, François Morellet, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Robert Ryman and Antoni Tàpies. The exhibition extends from the gallery at number 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, in Paris’ 6th arrondissement, to the gallery at number 28 avenue Matignon, in the 8th arrondissement. The title ‘Jours blancs’ has been borrowed from a series of photographs by Marie Bovo, all of them taken in 2012 during the bright nights of Lofoten, beyond the polar circle in Norway.
The current exhibition has been conceived as an exploration of the colour white, which of course is produced by the combination of all the colours of the light spectrum. The visitor is invited to wander through the immaculate, frosted spaces of the gallery, like a blank page over which the works unfold their various histories.
More than ever, this is the space of the White Cube, a poetic screen, a luminous, milky-white field of possibilities enticing us to reflect and to dream. It’s a strange, floating world, at the outer limit of colour, light, and temperature.