After Venice, it is in Paris that we can discover the works of the Pinault collection in an exceptional place: La Bourse de Commerce. As was the case for Le Palazzo Grassi, which opened in 2006 and La Punta della Dogana, which opened in 2009, emblematic heritage monuments are being renovated by combining historical splendor and contemporary architectural simplicity by Tadao Ando to become the setting for a scenography. which confronts the cultural heritage and the avant-garde of today, for a contemplation of the works in a new setting.
Jeff Koons, the most popular contemporary artist but also the most divisive, invests the MUCEM Marseille to create a dialogue between his emblematic works and the popular art collections kept in the fiber-reinforced concrete mesh walls designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti. A carte blanche to the plastic surgeon that looks a bit like the marriage of the dog and the lobster. What a conversation to imagine between twenty works that have marked the flamboyant career of the artist, including 19 from the Pinault collection and loaned for the occasion, and everyday objects, witnesses of the history of popular lifestyles , belonging to the ethnographic heritage of MUCEM inherited from the former Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Paris?