The History of Tears

Bourse de commerce - Pinault Collection, 2, rue de Viarmes

Pinault Collection presents in the Rotonde and in the twenty-four vitrines of the Bourse de Commerce an exhibition by American artist Barbara Kruger, The History of Tears. Conceived especially for the Rotonde and the museum's vitrines, Barbara Kruger's The History of Tears confronts visitors with an unceasing flow of words, phrases, and injunctions, filmed sequences and voices. At the heart of the museum, the curved walls of Tadao Ando become the support for monumental quotations borrowed notably from literary works…