Exhibition guide
With the support of around twenty modern and contemporary artists from the Pinault Collection, the “Clair-obscur” exhibition traverses, from darkness to light, the heritage of chiaroscuro which resonates with present times. The museum transforms into a landscape that is both luminist and twilight, and immerses the visitor in a reflection between visible and invisible, where the materiality of light and the shadowy areas of the unconscious are expressed.
Visit details
- Dates: From Wednesday March 4, 2026 to Monday August 24, 2026: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- Venue: Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection, 2 rue de Viarmes, Paris
- Price: De 0 à 15 €
- Audience: All audiences
- Source: Event page
About the exhibition
What does it mean to “see darkness”? The “Clair-obscur” exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce explores this question by bringing together artists from the Pinault Collection who, from modern art to today, probe the dark areas of the world as much as they reveal the flashes of light. The museum becomes an immersive landscape where shadows and lights interact, heir to Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. This luminous tension runs through the works of Victor Man and the videos of Bill Viola, where figures slowly emerge from the darkness. More than a technique, chiaroscuro appears here as a universal language which questions our relationship to the visible, the invisible and the unconscious. Under the dome of the Rotonde, Camata (2024) by Pierre Huyghe establishes a hypnotic ritual filmed in the Atacama Desert. In the Passage, Laura Lamiel presents a series of installations where color, light and sensitive objects compose an introspective universe with spiritual accents. Curator: Emma Lavigne, director and general curator of the Pinault Collection