TIAGO BESSA, REFLECTION ON IDENTITY
The young Portuguese designer designs a first committed collection that makes them one of the finalists of the Hyères Festival 2023 at Villa Noailles. Focus on a talent to follow. “Hermaphrodite” is the name of Tiago Bessa’s graduation collection that explores the concepts of gender and inclusion. A critical and personal exercise on the social […]
MAN RAY AND FASHION
After the Cantini Museum in Marseille in 2019 and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris in 2020, it is the turn of the Fashion Museum in Antwerp to show the fashion photographs of Man Ray, confronted this time-here, to the creations of contemporary stylists and photographers influenced by the work of the Surrealist, such as Martin […]
LOUIS VUITTON SETS UP SHOP IN PALM SPRINGS
As an expression of the House’s unparalleled know-how and craftsmanship, Louis Vuitton continues its invitation to travel through a campaign that highlights the Art de Vivre collections. From trunks to lifestyle accessories and Nomadic Objects, the French label infuses its conventions, tradition, and French art of living into a colorful short film. Set on the […]
THE AESTHETIC EMOTIONS OF CHLOE LE DREZEN
The French photographer, nourished by the sensibility of beauty, explores the transformative power of make-up, light, and composition in her photographs and limited-edition zines. Chloé Le Drezen has been fascinated by photography since the day she picked up her father’s camera as a child. Since then, this native of Nantes has never stopped learning photography […]
ALAÏA, BACK TO SOHO
The emblematic district of SoHo, where Azzedine Alaïa opened a first space and launched its global success in the 80s, welcomes again the French-Tunisian designer. At the entrance of 2023, the House opened a new boutique at 149 Mercer Street. “New York has always been one of the creative hearts intimately linked to the history […]
THREE FILMS TO WATCH AT CANNES
As always, a lot of good people are expected on the Croisette for the second half of May, from Martin Scorsese’s big comeback with Killers of the Flower Moon, to the stunning casting of Wes Anderson’s new film, Asteroid City. Among a rich and eclectic selection, between regulars and newcomers, three films particularly attract our […]
RILEY KEOUGH, ACTOR, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
The actor, who plays the lead role in the Prime Video series Daisy Jones and the Six, presents, with Gina Gammell, her first film as a director, War Pony – Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2022. What if Riley Keough is the new icon of American independent cinema? In 2015, in a motel […]
NEMANJA NIKOLIC : Double black
The Serbian artist Nemanja Nikolić (1987) embarked on a strange journey back and forth between still and animated images in his project Double Noir, initiated in 2016. Using still images from eighteen films starring Humphrey Bogart, he drew, with white chalk on a blackboard, fragments of sequences that he photographed, before erasing them to compose […]
FRANZ ROGOWSKI, THE EUROPEAN
He radiates Disco Boy, the first film by Giacomo Abbruzzese, Silver Bear at the last Berlin Film Festival, in which he plays the main role. Portrait of a sensitive and mysterious actor. We met him as a refugee in the occupied Marseille of Transit by Christian Petzold (2018), or as a passionate lover in Ondine, […]
SIMON MARTIN : Evanescence / Florescence
Painting as an evanescence, a breath, a murmur, a memory, an apparition… It is such a florescence, a germination or a flux that, in its flows of blue, yellow, and pale roses, the painting of Simon Martin appears to us. “Here and there, repentances and drips, sub-layers and contours are left visible,” says Horya Makhlouf, […]
JOANNA PIOTROWSKA
Little “tales of ordinary madness Drawing from body language and the poetry of the absurd, the framework of Joanna Piotrowska’s multimedia practice is aimed at staging bodies under tension in artificial postures to bring out the violence of human relationships, oscillating from embrace to oppression. “Through photography, film and performance, Joanna Piotrowska points to […]
HAIR AND FUR
“O fleece […] O curls! […] Ecstasy!” Baudelaire, “La Chevelure”, Les Fleurs du mal. Depicted by so many poets as bewitching (“These hairs, these ties, with which my heart embraces you […] / Hold me so tightly […]”, wrote Ronsard in his Sonnets for Helen in 1578), hair has always been the primary element […]
PARIS DRAWING NOW COURSE PARIS
With its Insight and Process sectors dedicated to emerging artists, new experiences, and hybridizations (video, performatives, etc.), Drawing Now Art Fair, the small fair that has become the unmissable event of contemporary drawing, once again testified, at its 16th edition in March,1 the vitality of a medium that seems to be increasingly pushing its limits […]
ART PARIS ROUTE
Combining modern art and contemporary art with happiness, the Parisian spring fair offered us a 25th successful edition between 29 March and 2 April. Through a “Promise” sector dedicated to young galleries and to very small emerging creation, we were able to make beautiful discoveries, and rediscoveries, with 154 galleries from 25 countries brought together. […]
PAVILION HOUSE, A FASCINATING VOLUMETRIC GAME
The Hive Architects, an Athens-based studio founded by Michael Xirokostas and Theodoros Panopoulos in 2020, creates spaces inspired by the Hive Mind concept of collective intelligence. Their projects are conceived as places of collective and sensory experience, respecting sustainability and the built environment. “Pavilion House, located in the village of Kalogeriko, near Arta, Greece, is […]
ODE TO BRESILIEN MODERNISM
MF+Arquitetos enhances architecture between interior and exterior, combined with a set of straight lines and a quality of natural materials that offer a new concept of life. Zoom in on three projects. For nearly fifteen years, founders Mariana Garcia Oliveira and Filipi Oliveira, based in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil, have distinguished themselves by their contemporary […]
THE ULTIMATE IN SEASIDE PRIVACY
Herbst Architects, New Zealand, has been creating homes that maximize the potential of an indoor-outdoor lifestyle, making the most of living landscapes, for twenty years. “What is the best way to live and feel connected to the New Zealand landscape and climate?” This is one of the questions Lance and Nicola Herbst have been striving […]
DESERT X 2023 OR SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
For its fourth edition, the international art exhibition continues its commitment to contemporary creation through the works of twelve artists in the Coachella Valley. Focus on four. Desert X continues to examine the changes that are shaping a world increasingly dominated by the climate crisis, globalism, and political and economic migration. Twelve artists from Europe, […]
LODGE A GRAND SPECTACLE
C’est sans nul doute le plus bluffant des hôtels de l’archipel de Chiloé : il surprend par son architecture contemporaine, ses lignes graphiques déstructurées et sa conception sur pilotis, sur le modèle des maisons traditionnelles, les palafitos. Il fascine par ses panoramas grandioses sur la baie et les îles, à contempler depuis les terrasses ou […]
RETRAITE RÊVÉE DANS L’UTAH
Le studio multidisciplinaire Andrew Trotter, à Barcelone, nous conviera dès la fin de l’année prochaine au cœur du désert de l’Utah. Le projet « Paréa Zion » est un hôtel paysager à l’architecture avant-gardiste, à proximité du parc national de Zion. Il mêle le caractère confidentiel d’une résidence privée au service d’un hôtel-boutique pour offrir une expérience […]