Group show, Jours Blancs

Group show, Jours Blancs

47, rue Saint-André des Arts Paris, 75006, France Monday, October 18, 2021–Saturday, January 29, 2022

‘Did they take the milky sap
spilt on winter sky’s blue vault,
or the silver lily’s pap,
or the sea’s white spume of salt [...]’

Théophile Gautier, ‘Symphony in white major’, Enamels and Cameos, 1852

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.