Palais de Tokyo, Paris
June 12 - September 7, 2025
June 12 - September 7, 2025
Ten years after UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO (2015), an exhibition presented at the Palais de Tokyo as a declaration of love, John Giorno’s poetry returns to the Palais in a new site-specific installation on the building’s main windows, accessible for free.
Designed by the artist Ugo Rondinone, this new large-scale installation transforms a selection of prints from Giorno’s Welcoming The Flowers series (2007) into an epic “stained-glass” window illuminated by sunlight. In this new version, the flowers are lit by natural light, creating a vertical garden of light, colour, and words that celebrate love, sexuality, spirituality, social, and political engagement.
Designed by the artist Ugo Rondinone, this new large-scale installation transforms a selection of prints from Giorno’s Welcoming The Flowers series (2007) into an epic “stained-glass” window illuminated by sunlight. In this new version, the flowers are lit by natural light, creating a vertical garden of light, colour, and words that celebrate love, sexuality, spirituality, social, and political engagement.
Welcoming The Flowers is part of a ten-year anniversary celebration of UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO, which also included Merci! John Giorno, a two-part benefit exhibition at Galerie Almine Rech, and a contribution to Pom Pom Pidou, the Centre Pompidou's current collection display at the Tripostal in Lille, highlighting the scope and influence of Giorno’s work in Paris and at the intersection of poetry, art, activism and music.
Welcoming The Flowers is supported by the galleries Almine Rech and Eva Presenhuber.
Photos by Aurélien Mole.
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Welcoming The Flowers is supported by the galleries Almine Rech and Eva Presenhuber.
Photos by Aurélien Mole.
Click here for more information.
