Paris WorldWide #9

De gauche
à droite :
Left to right:
Panneau au
flûtiste, Iran ;
La Richesse de
Simon Vouet
(vers 1640).
Les œuvres
illustrent les
codes, mais aussi
les aspirations
des sociétés qui
les ont vu naître.
Panel With a Flute
Player, Iran;
Simon Vouet’s
Allegory of
Wealth (c. 1640).
These works
illustrate the
codes and
aspirations of
the societies that
made them.
In his film The Double Life of Véronique, Polish
filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski suspended the
world “in a drop of water.” This fall, the Louvre
intends to replicate this feat on a grander scale. The
exhibition A Brief History of the Future sees and
describes the world not just through a drop, but
through a deluge of works from ancient Egypt to
today. The show was inspired by Jacques Attali’s
2006 essay of the same title, where the former
advisor to President François Mitterrand imagines
the events of the next 50 years and maps out his
vision of the future through perceived historic
patterns. The exhibition illustrates Attali’s
predictions in a unique artistic dialogue that includes
an installation of ruins by Ai Weiwei, retouched
photographs by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and a suspended
tightrope walker by Rhona Bitner; these, along with
antique busts, reliefs, weapons and maps, paintings
by Thomas Cole and Fernand Léger, and a fragment
of Rodin’s Shadow found in the rubble of the World
Trade Center name a few of the 200 works that make
up this mosaic. In Attali’s words, it conveys a
“structure of history” that allows us “to predict the
shape of decades to come.” ◆ Christophe Jacquet
Une brève histoire de l’avenir, du 24 septembre au 4 janvier/
September 24-January 4. Musée du Louvre. Paris 1 er (01 40 20 53 17, louvre.fr).
Et après l’expo ? After the exhibition
• delfonics
Venue du Japon, cette papeterie redonne du style à
de simples stylos, agendas, classeurs ou pochettes.
Delfonics’ luxury stationery from Japan lends style to
simple pens, agendas and folders.
Carrousel du Louvre. 99, rue de Rivoli, Paris 1 er (01 47 03 14 24, delfonics.fr).
• librairie galignani
Sous sa verrière, la librairie Galignani abrite des
ouvrages d’art, des éditions illustrées et un large
choix d’auteurs en version originale.
Under the Galignani bookstore’s glass roof you’ll find
art and coffee table books along with a wide range of
fiction and nonfiction books for adults and children in
French or English.
224, rue de Rivoli, Paris 1 er (01 42 60 76 07, galignani.fr).
• defender
On se rend au bar de l’Hôtel du Louvre, pour humer
l’air chic de Paris. Au menu, cocktails inventifs à la
crème glacée et concerts jazz en soirée.
Breathe in the chic air of Paris at Defender, the bar at
the Hotel du Louvre. Come for teatime or imbibe a
craft cocktail over a jazz concert in the evening.
Place André Malraux, Paris 1 er (01 44 58 37 89).
© Musée du Louvre, dist.RMN-Grand Palais / ClaireTabbagh - © 2007 Musée du Louvre / Angèle Dequier
48 - paris Worldwide septembre/octobre
september/october 2015