Hôtel Lutetia’s new artistic season: sensuality, emotion and inspiration
Photography exhibitions throughout the semester, a mystical olfactory installation for the Rives de la Beauté, Ecole des Beaux-arts workshops in initiation mode during the Parcours Saint-Germain and monumental works by Mauro Corda as decor for the end-of-year festivities: beautiful, grand, festive!
The Hôtel Lutetia continues to live up to its reputation as one of the world’s leading hotels for the arts: until the end of the year, visitors to the Left Bank luxury hotel will be surprised by a flurry of photographic inspirations, an ode to sensuality, and a series of oversized sculptures…
Since early September, the hotel has been bathed in the fragrances of Parfum d’Empire, creator of rare essences and unique perfumes: a discovery of raw materials and a spiritual journey, combined with a sublime exhibition of photographs by Fabrice Leseigneur – a promise of refinement and pleasure in this second edition of Rives de la beauté. www.rivesdelabeaute.com
In October, for its twelfth year of existence and building on the success of the last edition, the Parcours Saint-Germain-des-Prés continues its partnership with Paris’s biggest contemporary art event, FIAC, and decides to focus on more targeted, private visits in collaboration with each of the partners. New artists are invited to exhibit, to produce original works and to organize meetings in the district’s major shops, thus perpetuating the tradition of a culturally prosperous Left Bank. At the Lutetia, students from the Ecole des Beaux-arts will be taking public spaces by storm – sculptures, paintings, photographs, video animations… – www.parcourssaintgermain.com
In November, Hôtel Lutetia will take part in the Month of Photography, with an original exhibition by Montpellier artist Jean-Baptiste Senegas – like a 19th-century explorer, the photographer set off into the animal world in search of what has always fascinated man: taming the beast. Using ancient processes such as ambrotyping, Jean-Baptiste Sénégas creates a world where the subject seems suspended in time. His work raises pertinent questions about man’s need to display trophies, symbols of his power – www.jeanbaptistesenegas.finegallery.net
In December, French sculptor Mauro Corda will be installing his monumental works, like so many winks dedicated to festivity and good humor: his figures blend the elegance of classical purity with leaping modernity, and beyond that, question identity and the body in extreme states, translated according to the resources of the materials he favors. Renowned in France and abroad, Mauro CORDA has been exhibiting alone since 1989, in the four corners of the world, while museums, ministries, foundations and the most prestigious collectors snatch up his works – www.maurocorda.com
At the same time, and until early 2013, the walls of the Brasserie du Lutetia are giving carte blanche to two photographers inspired by the beauty of Paris:
– Maxime Hibon: for this young photographer, well-versed in the codes of image, the city is a mirror of culture, a reflection of a transcendent and unsettling imagination. Paris is sublimated: it subjugates – “Paris is a dream” – until October 31.
– Christian Deroche: he declares his love for the City of Lights, searching for beauty and design in what Paris has produced, in the very large or the very small, which the eye, tired of this habituation, no longer distinguishes. – Figures Urbaines” – until January 2013.
Emotion, talent, originality: it’s happening on the Left Bank and it’s at the Lutetia!
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