Une seconde d'éternité

Philippe-Parreno, Quasi Objects: My Room is a Fish Bowl, AC/DC Snakes, Happy Ending, Il Tempo del Postino, Opalescent acrylic glass podium, Disklavier Piano, 2014-2022
Curated by
Emma Lavigne
For this new season bringing together summer and winter, the need for the here and now, and the search for the infinite, elusive though it may be, Une seconde d’éternité (A Second of Eternity) takes visitors on a journey inspired by the question and experience of time, through a selection of artworks from the Pinault Collection.
The exhibition is gradually taking over all the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce, beginning with the Felix Gonzalez-Torres — Roni Horn exhibition and OPERA (QM.15) by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, which have been presented since April. It brings together the works of some twenty artists.
The account created here through the exhibited works explores the polysemous nature of present time, in turn suspended, fleeting, inhabited by spectral presences, and traversed by the theme of loss and incarnation. This cycle borrows its title from a 1971 work by Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers, Une seconde d’éternité (d’après une idée de Charles Baudelaire), a film that brings to life for one short moment the presence of the artist through the simple portrayal of his signature. The work sets the tone for an exhibition where the intensity of the presence of bodies and images is set against their fleeting nature. As Charles Baudelaire said, it is a question of finding “in one second the infinity of joy” and contemplation.
Artworks in the Une seconde d'éternité exhibition

Standing Walls II
1968 - 2016


MARE NOSTRUM, 2008 + 27.6.17
2008 - 2017

Days of Inertia
2015

FPS (60)
2018

OPERA (QM.15)
2016

Seated Artist
1971

One Million Kingdoms
2001

Grande vague - Cette
1857

At Dusk
1993

Marilyn
2012



Mont Analogue
2001


Gober Wedding Gown
1996

Tag/Nacht III
2015


Untitled 2012
2012
