The Philharmonie de Paris celebrates hip-hop in an immersive exhibition

• From December 17 until July 24, 2022, the Philharmonie de Paris presents

  Hip-hop 360

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• A particularly lively and immersive exhibition that celebrates all disciplines of movement, from pioneers to new generations.

• Visitors are invited to take part in the exhibition and to discover numerous works and archives presented in a fun way.

Attention, headphones mandatory! The accessory, supplied at the entrance, is recommended for walking the 700 m² of the

exhibition

hosted by the Philharmonie de Paris, until July 24. Not to listen to a monotonous audio guide, but to connect to the multiple sockets that line the course and broadcast forty years of rap. Music is everywhere, in the air, in photos, vinyl covers, music videos. And it is not the only one to be celebrated since, as its title suggests, the exhibition highlights all the arts of movement. Its many actors and actresses too, pioneers in the 1980s, like DJ Dee Nasty, to the younger generation embodied for example by rapper Lala & ce.

The graffiti is displayed from floor to ceiling, on sheet metal panels, jackets or frescoes several meters long.

Dancing, she looks at herself sitting in a living room in front of

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the TV show presented by Sidney in the 80's which strongly participated in popularizing this culture in France - or in the center of a huge circular room dotted with giant screens.

“The idea was to avoid a presentation that was too museum-like, too rigid and distorting hip-hop,” explained Marie-Pauline Martin, director of the Philharmonie's music museum at a press conference on the eve of the event. 'opening last week.

The goal?

Telling the history of the movement in France, "emphasizing its phenomenal creativity" and its "artistic vitality".

Challenge met with this particularly lively exhibition that grabs you from start to finish.

"We invite the visitor to share the work"

In an atmosphere that is both cozy and festive, all the disciplines are exhibited next to each other. In the room dedicated to the pioneers, a painting by the American artist Fab 5 Freddy stands alongside vinyl records, archive photos and the window dedicated to the Zulu Nation created by Afrika Bambaataa, father of the movement. The whole is overlooked by tagged iron curtains and trains launched at full speed, broadcast on giant screens. "The idea was to create a harmony and a hip-hop universe that would bring together all these works," explains Clémence Farell, in charge of the scenography of

. I am quite happy because it is a universe where things answer each other and where they are part of the same whole. The scenographer also invites the visitor to interact with the exhibition. In a room lined with ghetto blasters, he is invited to surf from one radio wave to another to (re) discover Lionel D's shows on Nova at the end of the 1980s or the first IAM lives. a few years later on Radio Grenouille.

They can also explore the art of mixing, listen to a part of Dee Nasty's record collection or sit in the recreation of a life-size subway train full of tags.

“It's like a painting for me, a 3D tag.

Instead of presenting a photo, we reconstruct and invite the visitor to share the work.

When you manipulate a turntable or a mixer, graffiti is to feel the visitor also invested in the universe and the content, ”says Clémence Farell.

Finally, it is impossible to miss space 360, a huge circular room where breakdance performances and concerts, from Diam's or NTM are projected, almost as if we were there.

"Everyone will learn and discover something"

In addition to the staging, the exhibition stands out for the richness and variety of the objects on display.

The first part is teeming with archival photos that documented early hip-hop with shots of young JoeyStarr by Maï Lucas or of the birth of the movement in New York immortalized by Martine Barrat.

There are also nuggets like old mixtapes or the 

in 1982 at the Pantin racecourse. On loan from a private individual, the object testifies to the passage in France of this major tour bringing together personalities such as the graffiti artist Futura 2000 or Afrika Bambaataa. A collection which is the fruit of a long work of collaboration and documentation with artists and collectors in particular. "It was very difficult to find HD archives because we realize that it is only stored in private homes, there is no hip-hop museum," explains François Gautret, commissioner of the exhibition and actor of the movement. But that moves, that evolves and this exhibition is there too for that. I do not see it as an outcome but as a new step. "

A new march that links the different generations of hip-hop (if the pioneers have a good place at the beginning, the new scene is also celebrated thereafter), brings together multiple disciplines, mixing archives with unpublished works created in situ, to like the fresco by the graffiti artist Mode 2. “In the course there are things that are sharp in terms of history but presented in a fairly playful way.

I think that different audiences can be seduced by the exhibition because it is accessible to everyone ”, assures François Gautret.

“An expert, a child, a schoolboy, a hip-hop guy, here everyone will learn and discover something.

And everyone should have an emotion, ”adds Clémence Farell.

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