The first French exhibition of  the work of Rashid Rana, considered the most important living Pakistani contemporary artist.

With his montages of digital images, sculptures and video installations, the work of Rashid Rana is often controversail, even paradoxical. For this important Parisin exhibition, his pieces have been dispersed within the Guimet museum’s permanent collection, allowing contemporary art and ancient Asian pieces  confront each other, proving that the museum is much more than just a display case for old treasures.

Originally a painter, Rana now tends to work in digital media, allowing him to bring together many different images within a sole image through pixelisation. As he says, « today, each image, each idea and each truth contains its opposite within itself, » and his images use their juxtaposition not only so that each image provides context and a critique of the surrounding images, but also to give the work a different meaning depending on the distance of the viewer.

You can hear more from the artist here, in a short piece prepared by the AFP.

The Rashid Rana exhibition Perpétuel Paradoxe is at the Musée Guimet (here) until 15th November 2010.

Open every day except Tuesdays from 10 – 6pm.

Admission 7.50€ / 5.50€

Official site: www.guimet.fr

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