CYRUS GOBERVILLE CURATES POIGNANT & ECLECTIC MUSIC PROGRAM AT PARIS'S ICONIC BOURSE DE COMMERCE

RUNNING ALONGSIDE “CORPS ET ÂMES,” THE PINAULT COLLECTION’S CULTURAL PROGRAM PAYS TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR JAFA THROUGH A SERIES OF CONCERTS & PERFORMANCES

On view until August 25, 2025

The Bourse de Commerce is drawing some one hundred works from the Pinault Collection to present the exhibition “Corps et âmes”, an exploration of representations of the body in contemporary art. From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, Georg Baselitz to Ana Mendieta, David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, and Arthur Jafa to Ali Cherri, some forty artists have used painting, sculpture, photography, video, and drawing to explore the connections between body and soul.

Art seizes the energies and vital flows of our thoughts and inner lives to create a socially committed, humanist experience of otherness. Forms metamorphose, returning to figuration or freeing themselves from it, to grasp, hold on to, and allow the soul and consciousness to reveal themselves. It is no longer a matter of merely painting bodies, instead capturing the forces that run through them, to bring to light what is buried and invisible, and to open up the shadows. Arthur Jafa’s work in the Rotunda, Love is the Message, the Message is Death, transforms the space into a sounding board for the music and social commitment of African American icons such as Martin Luther King Jr, Jimi Hendrix, Barack Obama, and Beyoncé, thus granting them a universal scope.

Arthur Jafa, Love is the Message, the Message is Death, 2016

Kerry James Marshall, Beauty Examined, 1993

Arthur Jafa, Love is the Message, the Message is Death, 2016

Antonio Oba, Cantor de coral - estudo, 2023

Miriam Cahn, Ritual Gehen'catwalk, 13.4.02 , 2002

Ali Cherri, Vingt-quatre fantômes par seconde, 2025

Ali Cherri, Vingt-quatre fantômes par seconde, 2025