20 aprile 2024 - 24 novembre 2024
The Louis Vuitton Foundation offers us the opportunity to approach an artist who, with his blurring works – especially his site-specific installations with a strong historical and social relevance to their target locations – has often drawn attention to major contemporary issues. His openly anti-star-system approach and the ephemeral nature of many of his works make Ernest Pignon-Ernest (Nice, 1942) one of the pioneers of street art. The theme of the “stranger” has permeated Ernest Pignon-Ernest’s work since his beginnings in the 1960s. Naples, Rome, Soweto, Haiti, Paris, Algiers: his graphic interventions on city walls reveal the tensions of the places he chooses. At the heart of the exhibition Je est un autre, created for the Louis Vuitton spaces, stands out the image evoking the life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, which had already appeared in Rome, Matera, and Naples.
The exhibition is curated by Suzanne Pagé and Hans Ulrich Obrist, in dialogue with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
