Finally an exhibition about neon! Neon, so easy to create (you just need to decide the dimension of the tube and the color), but such a strong communication tool. La Maison Rouge in Paris hosts the first major international exhibition in Neon Art since the 40ies to the present, with hundreds of historical and unpublished works. Starting by the pioneer Gyula Kosice and Lucio Fontana in the early 1940 and 50ies, Morellet, Bruce Nauman, Stephen Antonakos, Joseph Kosuth or Mario Merz in the 60ies, artists such as Jason Rhoades, Claude Lévêque, Sylvie Fleury and many other contemporary artists.

Close to the Mendeleïev periodic elements series, we find the family of gases known as ”noble” or ”rare”, a group of chemical elements with common properties: odorless and colorless in conditions called ”standards”, these monatomic gasesonce under pressure produce a colored light when traversed by an electric field. Neon (Ne), whose name comes from the Greek word ”neos” (new) produces a red light. Argon (Ar) gives a blue light while the sodium vapor produce yellow radiations.