Jean-Paul Goude: " Goudemalion," A Retrospective

Working as a photographer, graphic designer, illustrator, and advertising film director since the 1960s, Jean-Paul Goude has had a rich and storied career. From the New York of Andy Warhol and mixed cultures, to famous model and singer Grace Jones, his muse of the 70s-80s, from the spectacular Bicentennial Parade in Paris in 1989 to ads for Kodak and Chanel, Goude has been one of the greatest contemporary imaginations and seminal taste makers for over four decades.

Les Arts Decoratifs is presenting the first exhibition in Paris, dedicated to Jean-Paul Goude's work. For this extraordinary event, Goude is proposing a retrospective and creative vision of his oeuvre encompassing all fields of artistic expression, from fashion and photography to advertising and performing arts. His entire forty-year career will be retraced, featuring his drawings, objects, music, photographs and films, including the evocation of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. This journey will be punctuated with the artist's original creations and theatrical installations highlighting ultimate points of his life and work.

Jean-Paul Goude lives and works in Paris, France.

Goudemalion

Portrait of Jean-Paul Goude, 2011

Cry Now, laugh later, New York 1982
©Jean-Paul Goude

Grace Jones, V magazine, Paris 2009
©Jean-Paul Goude

La Blanche (White), Paris 1983
©Jean-Paul Goude

Grace reviewed and corrected, New York 1978
©Jean-Paul Goude

Maternity dress, in collaboration with Antonio Lopez, New York 1980
©Jean-Paul Goude

Bicentenary of the French Revolution, Paris July 14, 1989
URSS: Soviet constructivist 
©Jean-Paul Goude

Galeries Lafayette: L' Homme (Man), collage, Paris 2004
©Jean-Paul Goude

Galeries Lafayette: The Queen of Seoul, Paris 2005
©Jean-Paul Goude

Galeries Lafayette: Mia Frye, Danse avec la mode (Dance with fashion), Paris 2008
©Jean-Paul Goude

Poster for Coco Chanel perfume, 1991
©Jean-Paul Goude

Azzedine and Farida, Paris 1985
©Jean-Paul Goude

Courtesy Museum Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris

Goudemalion. Jean-Paul Goude, a retrospective

November 11, 2011 - March 18, 2012
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Hassan Hajjaj: Spring-Summer collection 2018, a photographic series

Hassan Hajjaj's photographic world draws its power and vitality from his personal history. A child of the 1960s, he grew up in Morocco and went on to discover London and its dazzling art scene. Former music promoter and music video producer, Hajjaj also designed a line of fashion accessories and opened RAP, a  ready-to-wear boutique that became a fashion hub in in the 1980s. He drew on all this experience to create installations and decors full of his fascination with the flamboyant, organized chaos of Arab souks.

Hassan Hajjaj's photographic series whose meticulous mises en scene betray an admiration for Samuel Fosso, Malik Sidibe and David La Chapelle. In these images from Marrakech, he plays on the sophisticated codes of fashion circles and music videos. He succeeded in turning young, heavily veiled and jellaba-clad women into magazine icons and hip-hop stars. The photographs, looking at first glance like Orientalist fantasies, use humor and derision to exploit the ambiguities and contradictions implied by the veil and traditional dress. Kitschy and highly colored, subversive and outlandish, Hassan Hajjaj's images put crucial questions about the way East and West see each other, and about cultural exchange between them.

Hassan Hajjaj has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Morocco, London and the Middle East. In 2009, he was one of the eight finalists in the Victoria & Albert Museum's Jameel Prize for Islamic art. He divides his time between London and Marrakech.

Spring-Summer collection 2018

© Hassan Hajjaj

Courtesy Hassan Hajjaj / Mouna Mekouar

Spring-Summer collection 2018 series is currently on view at Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
September 13 - November 11, 2011

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Chan-Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume, Fairy Tales

Chan-Hyo Bae was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1975. After graduating in photography in 2003, he moved to London where he took out a further degree from the Slade School of Fine Art. His photographic work is shown regularly in the United States, the UK and Asia.

Chan-Hyo Bae focuses on the complexity of relationships between East and West, and the exacerbating influence of colonial imperialism. His large-format color prints, in which he plays unidentified female British monarchs from the 13th to the 19th centuries appear to be a cheeky sort of wish fulfillment.

As I see it, Orientalism was born out of Western cultural preconceptions about Asia a conquered territory out of a false image that sees the culture of the other from an ethnocentric, self-absorbed point of view. It was this kind of anti-Oriental prejudice that suddenly made me aware of the chaotic, alienated state of my own identity - a confusion I try to show in my work. I began by examining portraits of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, which highlight the forces behind the building of the British Empire.
My recent work on Fairy Tales deals even more explicitly with the feelings of alienation and prejudice I see at the core of Western culture. This involved studying and interpreting the most representative of these tales, like Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and Beauty and the Beast. What I found was class-based social organization and, above all, the implicit message that in order to be happy, the weak must submit to the order of things established by the strong.
~~ Chan-Hyo Bae


Chan-Hyo Bae lives and works in Toronto. Existing in Costume, Fairy Tales is on view at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris.

@Chan-Hyo Bai / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee de Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

Courtesy Musee du Quai Branly / Photoquai 2011, Paris

Chan-Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume, Fairy Tales

Group Show, Sepember 13 - November 11, 2011

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