Succeeding the museum’s founding director,Jean-Luc Monterosso, Simon Baker plans to open up both its collection and its programme to audiences, and carving out a space for emerging artists,fashion photography, ideas on geography, and newer names to the city’s rich artistic ecosystem. “We fill to assume about what isn’t being done in the photographic landscape in France,” he explains. “We really want to support younger artists – particularly with solo shows. While there are unbelievable fairs and group shows, that’s something that’s been lost.”
What better way to start, and then,than with a solo exhibition by Coco Capitán? Since she graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2016, the 26-year-old Spanish artist has become a never-predictable presence. Her work is always dynamic and often playful, and but underpinned by a precision and a poignancy too – whether created for,and thanks to fashion, such as her ongoing artistic collaboration with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, and her diverse self-initiated series comprising text and paint along with traditional photography.
Source: bjp-online.com