Pinault Collection Exhibition, The Jacobins Convent, Rennes, France - 12 Jun 2021

Pinault Collection exhibition in Rennes 12th of June 2021 Pinault Collection in Rennes black and white, the theme of this new exhibition. The Jacobins Convent in Rennes is hosting 107 works of contemporary art. International stars representative of Francois Pinault's attraction to minimalism. A monumental culture, perched, majestic, white dress under a coat of black feathers, the work of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, welcomes the visitor. And seems to guide him. Two other works follow, one immaculate white and one black. The first, Bourgeois Bust by Jeff Koons, is a sculpture of the artist gazing lovingly at his ex-wife, the former porn actress La Cicciolina. It is joy, jubilation that contrasts with Damien Hirst's skull and crossbones, next to it, symbolising mortification. With star artists, such as Maurizio Cattelan and his nine white Carrara marble recumbents, but also Man Ray, Francois Morellet (creator of the Visual Art Research Group in 1960), photographers Dorothea Lange, Raymond Depardon, Cartier-Bresson and Richard Avedon with his hard-hitting series devoted to napalm victims or patients in a psychiatric asylum Not forgetting Paul McCarthy's Bear and Rabbit. Adel Abdessemed, his monumental black bronze sculpture immortalizing Zidane s header. Pinault Collection in Rennes le noir et le blanc, theme of this new exhibition. The convent of the Jacobins in Rennes hosts 107 works of contemporary art. International stars representing Francois Pinault's appeal for minimalism. It is a monumental vulture, perch, majestic, white dress under a coat of black feathers, work of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, which welcomes the visitor. And seems to guide him. Two other works follow, an immaculate white and a black one. The first, Bourgeois Bust by Jeff Koons, is a sculpture of the artist lovingly watching his ex-wife, the former film actress X la Cicciolina. It is the joy, the joy that cut off with the skull of Damien H