Almine Rech, Paris
Matignon & Turenne (Front Space)
April 26 - June 7, 2025
Matignon & Turenne (Front Space)
April 26 - June 7, 2025
A benefit exhibition for Giorno Poetry Systems featuring:
Julie Béna, William S. Burroughs, David Douard, Verne Dawson, Judith Eisler, John Giorno, Tarek Lakhrissi, Mélanie Matranga, Clément Rodzielski, Ugo Rondinone, Billy Sullivan, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Across two galleries in Paris, this exhibition celebrates the 10 year anniversary of the Palais de Tokyo exhibition Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno, and includes a range of collaborations in museums in the city and the region throughout 2025. A portion of the funds from the sale of artworks will benefit GPS, the nonprofit organization the artist founded in 1965.
Merci! John Giorno, explores John Giorno’s life and work and his role as a community builder and artistic influence on other artists, poets, and musicians across time and space. This exhibition features works by Giorno, works by artists in his artistic and social circles, and works by contemporary French artists who were inspired and influenced by the iconic 2015 exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, marking the lasting impact this exhibition has had on an emerging generation of artists in Paris.
At the Palais de Tokyo, a spectacular site-specific installation brings Giorno’s unique visual vocabulary back to where it had filled the entire museum ten years prior: a display of Giorno’s Welcoming the Flowers prints, in an arrangement conceived by Ugo Rondinone, is presented on the Palais’ large windows (12 June – 7 September, 2025). In collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou, Giorno’s iconic interactive work Dial-A-Poem (1968 - present) is represented with Dial-A-Poem France (+33 9 87 67 54 92), which is displayed as a large graphic that welcomes visitors to the Tripostal, in Lille, in the context of Fiesta, the 7th major edition of lille3000, and the exhibition Pom pom Pidou, featuring works from the Pompidou’s collection (26 April – 9 November, 2025).
Julie Béna, William S. Burroughs, David Douard, Verne Dawson, Judith Eisler, John Giorno, Tarek Lakhrissi, Mélanie Matranga, Clément Rodzielski, Ugo Rondinone, Billy Sullivan, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Across two galleries in Paris, this exhibition celebrates the 10 year anniversary of the Palais de Tokyo exhibition Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno, and includes a range of collaborations in museums in the city and the region throughout 2025. A portion of the funds from the sale of artworks will benefit GPS, the nonprofit organization the artist founded in 1965.
Merci! John Giorno, explores John Giorno’s life and work and his role as a community builder and artistic influence on other artists, poets, and musicians across time and space. This exhibition features works by Giorno, works by artists in his artistic and social circles, and works by contemporary French artists who were inspired and influenced by the iconic 2015 exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, marking the lasting impact this exhibition has had on an emerging generation of artists in Paris.
At the Palais de Tokyo, a spectacular site-specific installation brings Giorno’s unique visual vocabulary back to where it had filled the entire museum ten years prior: a display of Giorno’s Welcoming the Flowers prints, in an arrangement conceived by Ugo Rondinone, is presented on the Palais’ large windows (12 June – 7 September, 2025). In collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou, Giorno’s iconic interactive work Dial-A-Poem (1968 - present) is represented with Dial-A-Poem France (+33 9 87 67 54 92), which is displayed as a large graphic that welcomes visitors to the Tripostal, in Lille, in the context of Fiesta, the 7th major edition of lille3000, and the exhibition Pom pom Pidou, featuring works from the Pompidou’s collection (26 April – 9 November, 2025).
Occupying the entirety of the Palais de Tokyo, Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno (2015) was the first retrospective of the life and work of John Giorno. The late artist’s husband and frequent collaborator, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, conceived the exhibition as a work in its own right and combined poetry, visual art, music, and performance.
Whether they are recorded on an album, painted on a canvas, delivered on stage, printed on a T-shirt, or deconstructed in the pages of a book, poems, for Giorno, are forms of expression that can live within different contexts using different technologies and formats. His work inspires new ways to think about how art, poetry, performance, music, spirituality, and activism can become productively entangled and cross-fertilized. Ten years after his landmark exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, and 5 years after his passing, Merci! John Giorno celebrates the lasting impact his work has had on others.
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Whether they are recorded on an album, painted on a canvas, delivered on stage, printed on a T-shirt, or deconstructed in the pages of a book, poems, for Giorno, are forms of expression that can live within different contexts using different technologies and formats. His work inspires new ways to think about how art, poetry, performance, music, spirituality, and activism can become productively entangled and cross-fertilized. Ten years after his landmark exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, and 5 years after his passing, Merci! John Giorno celebrates the lasting impact his work has had on others.
Logo by Scott King
Click here for more information.
