WHAT TO REMEMBER FROM THE VERY FIRST FEAR OF GOD FASHION SHOW
Born on the other side of the Atlantic, Fear of God is an independent American brand, founded in the early 2010s in Los Angeles by Jerry Lorenzo, son of basketball player Jerry Manuel. Quickly becoming inevitable for any self-respecting streetwear fan, the universe designed Jerry Lorenzo has embraced the codes of classic luxury, through cuts […]
NORMAN FOSTER
Paris – France De la Terre à la Lune Déployée sur 2 200 m2, l’exposition « Norman Foster » du Centre Pompidou, la plus grande consacrée à un architecte vivant, présente en 130 projets l’œuvre pléthorique d’un maître de l’urbanisme élaboré depuis six décennies. Présent dans 70 pays, ayant reçu plus de 300 récompenses, à la tête d’une agence de 1 500 personnes, dont […]
TANIA FRANCO KLEIN A SPECTRAL VISION OF HUMANITY
Her photographic practice oscillates between reality and fiction in a strange space where dramatic pairings of light and shadow play on perspectives like film stills. Tania Franco Klein’s portfolio is a fascinating play of cinematic images saturated with light and color. In her narrative process, this native of Mexico City probes the social behaviors of […]
LA VILLA BRUMMELL MAJORELLE
OU L’HOMMAGE CONTEMPORAIN À LA MÉDINA Une interprétation ludique d’éléments architecturaux arabes distillés à travers des yeux étrangers, et notamment ceux de l’architecte néo-zélandaise Bergendy Cooke : c’est ainsi qu’est présentée la majestueuse Villa Brummell Majorelle de Marrakech. Inspirée par la richesse architecturale de cet univers sans pour autant la reproduire, la silhouette du bâtiment rend […]
PAUL GUILHAUME, THE LIGHT OF DOCUMENTARY
A regular collaborator of Léa Mysius (he is responsible for the images of Ava and Les Cinq Diables, films for which he is also a co-writer) and director of photography for Jacques Audiard’s black and white urban film Olympiades, Paul Guilhaume is one of the most promising cinematographers of his generation. With Casa Susanna, broadcast […]
MICHEL GONDRY, BETWEEN TWO FILMS
Presented last month at the Cannes Film Festival’s Quinzaine des Cinéastes, The Book of Solutions is Michel Gondry’s first film since Microbe et Gasoil, released in 2015. Eight years during which the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind stayed away from the big screen, but not from cinema. In 2014, on the advice […]
GLASS PAVILION
L’agence américaine Specht Architects signe un superbe pavillon de verre à Sheffield dans l’État du Massachusetts. Les propriétaires ont troqué leur manoir historique du XVIIIe siècle pour une demeure au style minimaliste et moderne, afin de profiter de leur retraite. Ils ont néanmoins conservé les antiquités et les objets collectés au cours de leur vie. […]
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED REVISITS CARMEN
Transposing a great classic of 19th-century French literature and opera into contemporary America: this is the program of Benjamin Millepied’s first film. And what better way to launch the film career of the former director of dance at the Paris Opera than with a film adaptation of Carmen? Prosper Mérimée’s novel had already been adapted […]
THE HYPERREALISTIC SCULPTURE, ENCORE!
Nantes – France At a time of transhumanist utopias and cosmetic surgery, how do we view our imperfect bodies? Born in the United States in the 1960s, hyper-realist sculpture is experiencing a resurgence of interest that raises questions: after the Musée Maillol and the Fondation Beyeler,1 it is now being honored at the Musée d’Arts […]
KIMSOOJA TO BREATH
Korean artist Kimsooja, invited by Galeries Lafayette to “inhabit” her historic dome, gave herself to a form of remembrance. Having chosen to dress it with a film diffracting light into rainbow spectra, it pays homage to Jaques Grüber, the great master glassmaker of Art Nouveau who, when the dome was built in 1912, had created […]
FIORENZA MENINI
Walk Man Walk like a Woman France – Montpellier There is no end to the work of feminist (or simply female) “artiviste.” Here is the one, elaborated in the New York of the 1990s and early 2000s, by Fiorenza Menini (born 1970). “A confusing score composed of walks, happenings, performances, texts, photographs and video” testifying […]