Remember Me Paris Show: 700 Pinault Works Called Narrow — SkimNews
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- "Remember Me" exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris displays 700 works drawn from François Pinault's collection
- More than half of the 700 exhibited works are by photographer Irving Penn, shaping the show's heavy single-artist emphasis
- The Guardian review calls the selection "blinkered" and "annoyingly didactic," dismissing its ambition to survey two photographic centuries
- The critique likens the exhibition's narrow scope to "a history of food in three ham sarnies," mocking the gap between stated breadth and actual range
- The exhibition opens with a wall text quoting Aimé — urging them not to "assume the sterile attitude of the spectator" — that the reviewer reads as setting a preachy tone
Why it matters: Pinault's Bourse de Commerce has become one of Paris's most prominent private-museum venues, so a Guardian pan of its flagship photography show — 700 works still dismissed as too narrow — signals that curatorial choices, not collection size, drive critical reception of the capital's blockbuster private exhibitions.
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