Unausstehliche Leichtigkeit

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Until May 23rd, The Centre Pompidou dedicates a free exhibition to the fascinating 80’s channeling about sixty photographies and films mostly honoring the American and Occidental scenes.

Very colorful, baroque and exuberant, we all keep a memory of this decade’s flashy iconography in which the glossy and carefree overload seems to actually reveal some kind of paradox, one of an elusive time, of an « Unsustainable Lightness » so well expressed by the exhibition title.

From painted or filmed photos by American artist Elizabeth Lennard, to the psychedelic polaroids of Ellen Carey, the bold humour of Martin Parr’s photos, the famous Jean-Paul Goude portrait of Grace Jones, or even the constructed designs of Pierre et Gilles, the exhibition offers an exclusive visit throughout the 80’s, gathering more than twenty artists whose famous work of art mix perfectly with the ones that must be rediscovered.

An hommage to a generation who knew how to reject the other decade’s codes by abolishing the division between photography and painting, by use of a great deal of humour, irony, erotism and poetry. Making the 80’s a crucial time for french photography as an art and heritage. Needless to say, it is a must see exhibition !

Article by Les Marseillaises