Combining two of life’s greatest joys, bicycling and art, Lance Armstrong’s Stages exhibition opened at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris last week. On view through August 8th, the benefit show for the Lance Armstrong Foundation features commissioned work from the “world’s most accomplished and promising international artists.†The selection of 16 artists, all but two of them male, was tasked with creating new work with some type of cancerous connection.
Geoff McFetridge’s pushpin homage to the ubiquitous Livestrong bracelets, Shepard Fairey’s portrait of a cancer-surviving friend, Tom Sach’s “tequila bike for girls†and Catherine Opie’s photograph of a long open road are among the artworks surrounding the disease, surviving and bicycling. After the show’s Paris run, it will exhibit in New York this fall.
Hey waitaminnit…..I thought the French hated poor poor Lance? If so why open the art show in Paris? In FRANCE?? Or could it be all this "France anti-Lance" stuff is baloney??? Anyway, I hope lots of Euros are collected for cancer survivors, so it's a really good thing.
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