NUIT BLANCHE in PARIS - The Night Journey of ART from East to Ouest

USPA NEWS - As part of its extramural programming, the City Hall of PARIS organizes every year a special Event called 'NUIT BLANCHE' offering ART in all its aspects on October 1, from 7 pm to 7 am. The Mayor of PARIS, Anne HIDALGO, gave a Press Conference on the Bateau Diamand - Escale Batobus, on September 13.

As part of its extramural programming, the City Hall of PARIS organizes every year a special Event called 'NUIT BLANCHE' offering ART in all its aspects on October 1, from 7 pm to 7 am. The Mayor of PARIS, Anne HIDALGO, gave a Press Conference on the Bateau Diamand - Escale Batobus, on September 13. As a main partner, PALAIS DE TOKYO is responsible for the artistic direction of the 15th edition of Nuit Blanche. It will be an unbroken journey across the city, along the Seine, from medieval Paris on the banks of the 'ÃŽle de la Cité' to the modern Paris of the 'Front de Seine', up to the Paris of tomorrow with the 'Société du Grand Paris'.

The theme of love will be central to this edition, as can be seen in the heart produced by Fabrice HYBER for the Nuit Blanche´s poster. Free and open to the general public, 'Nuit Blanche 2016' will mix together all the ingredients which have made for the public and artistic success of this major Parisian event : a concentration of open-air artworks in public spaces, the presence of emerging or confirmed international artists, and a cooperative approach with other structures or cultural events.

The List of the national and international artists is as follow :

Abraham Poincheval, Alain Fleischer, Alain Séchas, Alicja Kwade, Anish Kapoor, Bridget Polk, Bruno Perramant, Christian Rizzo, Cleon Peterson, Crazy Horse Paris, David Douard, Davide Balula, Emmanuel Trousse, Erwin Olaf, Estelle Delesalle & Jean-Marc Ferrari, Fabrice Hyber, Géraldine Py & Roberto Verde, Gwenaël Morin, Karim Zeriahen,...

L´Opéra de Paris / 3e scène (with Xavier Veilhan, David Luraschi, III-Studio, Bret Easton Ellis, Wendy Morgan), Laurent Derobert, Marie-Agnès Gillot & Pascal Quignard, Laurent Tixador, Loïc Constantin, Gildas Flahault, Benjamin Flao avec les Ateliers du Bout de la Cale, Marie-Agnès Gillot & Julie Guibert, Matthew Barney, Mel O´Callaghan, Nicolas Buffe,...

Ola Maciejewska, Oliver Beer, Philippe Quesne (with Dorit Chrysler, Laurent Le Deunff, Virginie Yassef), Pierre Delavie, Rodrigo Braga, Ryan Gander, Sâadane Afif, Stéphane Thidet, Thomas Teurlai, Thylacine, Tobias Rehberger, TRAM / d.c.a, We Love Art (with an installation of Romain Tardy), Yoann Bourgeois, Zad Moultaka.

The institutions actively participating in this journey include the Musée du Quai Branly, the Pavillon de l´Arsenal, and Le Petit Palais. This Nuit Blanche will invite each visitor to live out a romantic quest in the heart of the City of Lights, alluding to the Dream of Poliphilus, a fictional fifteenth-century Italian character.

Source : The City Hall of PARIS and Le Palais de Tokyo

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