Oscar Niemeyer.GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art in the north-west corner of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. The building was constructed in 1861 during the reign of Napoleon III. No season of architectural blockbusters would be complete without a loving look back at the modernist who most presaged today's bout of hedonistic he·don·ism n. 1. Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses. 2. Philosophy The ethical doctrine holding that only what is pleasant or has pleasant consequences is intrinsically good. formalism. Et voila voi·là interj. Used to call attention to or express satisfaction with a thing shown or accomplished: Mix the ingredients, chill, and , a Niemeyer retrospective at the Jeu de Paume Jeu de paume was originally a French precursor of lawn tennis played without racquets. The players hit the ball with their hands, as in palla, volleyball, or certain varieties of pelota. Jeu de paume literally means: game of palm (of the hand). . The show, curated by Daniel Abadie with Cecilia Scharlach and Michel Ricard, promises two full rooms of Brasiliana--revel yet again in the synthetic splendors of a Jet Age city in the bush!--and several spaces in which we will discover, through letters and photographs, Niemeyer's "implications." For this we need a trip to a gallery? It would be easier to go to a newsstand, where a few flipped pages of a magazine reveal that the Niemeyer formula--pictorial curves, sensuous prisms, light politics, cool heroism--is, like the man, alive and well. Dec. 10-Feb. 3. |
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