PARIS + BY ART BASEL/COURSE
It was in a landscape that was both «familiar and new,» to use the words of Clément Delépine, co-founder of the very underground travelling off fair, Paris Internationale, and now the director of Paris +, that we surveyed the 156 stands of the new offshoot of Art Basel, grafted on in place of the legendary […]
FOCUS / WORK FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
A small silhouette photographed from behind, from above, walking in a large grassy area measuring 3.5 m x 5.1 m: a point in the immensity, a crossing… It is a manifesto work, embodying all the dreams of emancipation of the image of the avant-garde artists of the 1970s, that we have chosen from the collection […]
OFFSCREEN / JOURNEY
«The digital world is expanding and the analogue world is contracting,» says Carmen Winant, who has turned the massive collection of archival images and their reappropriation into a new plastic and narrative medium. Following the example of the American photographer, whose images in her latest mural mosaics are detached from the wall to occupy the […]
THÉO MERCIER : OUTREMONDE, THE SLEEPING CHAPTER
Mattresses, sleeping bags, pieces of cardboard, dismantled beds, broken stones, and truncated columns… What are these ruins, of sand, that Théo Mercier has brought to light under the centuries-old vaults of the Conciergerie? Are they ours? Those of our world “in crisis” – at war, bankrupt, on borrowed time…? Or those of another world? Of […]
ADEL ABDESSEMED : PAR-DELA LES FLAMMES
A cry, all the work of Adel Abdessemed is a cry. A cry against the cruelty of the world and the ferocity of man. A cry pushed as one stabs space, with sabers or swords – of which he has made impressive (but very unimpressionistic) bouquets of Water Lilies (presented at the Venice Biennale in […]
LESS, AN AMBIGUOUS WORK IN PROGRESS
Recently completed in Canberra, Australia, LESS was designed by Chilean art and architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen. An intentionally enigmatic structure, LESS aims to contribute to the evolving social landscape of Dairy Road, by providing a landmark and a gathering place. LESS invites the evolving community to interact with and occupy its varied spaces as […]
JOAN MITCHELL / Minnesota, 1980 / Fondation Louis Vuitton
Reaffirming, once again, “its desire to anchor its commitment to contemporary creation in a historical perspective,” the Fondation Louis Vuitton is offering this fall a flamboyant dialogue between the precursor of abstraction, Claude Monet (1840-1826), and one of its most dazzling exponents, Joan Mitchell, who was born in 1925 in Chicago, a year before the […]
TATIANA WOLSKA : PROPAGATIONS / VARIATIONS
Alternately drawn or sculpted, suspended or camped on the ground (sometimes on wheels), the organic forms imagined by Tatiana Wolska spread in the space in twists, undulations, concretions, tangles, rustlings… Proliferating sinuous forms extending beyond the frame (of the sheet of paper or the inhabited architecture), they seem to be moved by an inner, invisible […]
SOPHIE KUIJKEN
Born in 1965 in Bruges and a graduate of the Ghent Academy of Fine Arts (K.A.S.K.), Sophie Kuijken paints strange and fascinating portraits in the solitude of her studio in Leuven. Portraits whose strangeness is consciously accentuated by the classicism of the workmanship (of an almost polished realism) and the poses adopted by the models: […]
PARCOURS : XVIth BIENNIAL OF LYON, MANIFESTO OF FRAGILITY
Enclosure, confinement, isolation, uprooting, destitution, disruptions, wanderings, fears…: the list of evils of our world in the grip of doubt and anxiety is endless. From the ravages of war to political lies, from global warming to pandemic cycles, the 200 artists gathered at the 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art (spread over twelve venues) review […]
THE PALACES OF CURIOSITIES OF JINA PARK
Jina Park’s works are strange scenes; where and when they happen is unknown. In the series Collector’s Room (2018), The Guardians of Cabinets (2020), The Moon Palace (2021), and Voyage into the Sun (2022), she employs egg paint (“tempera,” a technique used since the Ier century) and gradually develops a landscape where geometric figures, sculptures, […]
DHEWADI HADJAB : Vaciller
Wallpapers, waxed parquet floors, sofas… Painted with incredible meticulousness in shimmering, velvety tones, the elements that make up the interiors of Dhewadi Hadjab, the new protégé of the Kamel Mennour Gallery, have something of a false ring to them, like the sets of vaudevilles hiding some underlying drama in their stifling comfort. In Dhewadi Hadjab’s […]
VITA NUOVA : Italy in the 60s and 70s
“The provocative intentions of my works are similar to my ecstatic dreams: the desire to communicate, the desire to establish an uninterrupted thread with others, and at the same time, precisely, to provoke astonishment, perhaps even indignation or scandal,” wrote Lucia Marcucci in her memoirs in 2005. This sets the tone for the exhibition devoted […]
ROMAIN BERNINI : INTERZONE
Hyper-realistic drawing, psychedelic colors, saturated spaces, very tight closeups (on improbable eyes of abyssal creatures or luminescent trees), the absence of horizon and perspective… At the borders of reality and fiction, Romain Bernini’s paintings plunge us into a troubled universe, both familiar and strange: a closed world with acidulous and washed-out colors, similar to a […]
AN EDITION UNDER THE SIGN OF LIFE FOR PRIVATE CHOICE
During the bubbling Art Week in Paris, Private Choice returns with an 11th edition with the theme Lines of Life. A not-to-be-missed event for collectors and art lovers, this contemporary art fair is distinguished by its exhibition setting. Founded by Nadia Candet, the event invites visitors to discover a selection of art and design works […]
Nara Yuki, when porcelain becomes architecture
His vases are born of the harmonious marriage of technology and tradition, celebrated by an artist’s eye. Heir to eleven generations of Japanese ceramists who have been working with clay for 350 years – his father, Ohi Chozaemon XI, was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit – but also a graduate in architecture from Tokyo […]
GEORGIA RUSSELL : Mobile material
“Color is a mobile material that, like water or wind, has a life of its own.” Georgia Russell’s entire research lies in this quest for movement in the very matter of the work, not its representation but its inscription, its shaping in the very body of the material constituting the work. It is thus by […]
YAYOI KUSAMA / Fondation Louis Vuitton
“To share the emotions and questions provoked by certain works whose power to “break the rules” reinvents a relationship with the world”: this is the guiding principle of the Louis Vuitton Foundation Collection created in 2006 by Bernard Arnault, a principle with which we identify. This is why we have decided to focus each month […]
PIERRE HUYGHE
Variants A mutant landscape deployed on a large screen, abandoned rusty wrecks, pink mutant swarms clinging to the trees, and other strange organic excrescences appearing, here and there, at the detours of the often flooded paths… Fascinating mise en abîme of the landscape and the surrounding nature, but above all, of the perpetual metamorphosis of […]
SWISS MADE
Max Bill, Ugo Rondinone, Meret Oppenheim, John Armleder, and others Just like its territory, with such diverse landscapes, Swiss art has something indefinable, a je ne sais quoi of trouble and, at the same time, very particular. So, the expression chosen by the new Gagosian gallery to unite the great Swiss artists, Swiss Made, seems […]
THE MODULOR OF LE CORBUSIER REVISITED BY DANIEL ARSHAM
For one summer, the New York darling of design and contemporary art is moving to the MAMO on the roof of the Cité Radieuse in Marseille. In partnership with Galerie Perrotin, this art center, founded by Ora Ito, hosts the site-specific exhibition, “The Basketball Modulor.” In this singular work, Arsham explores themes that are specific […]
PIERRE HUYGHE
Variants A mutant landscape deployed on a large screen, abandoned rusty wrecks, pink mutant swarms clinging to the trees, and other strange organic excrescences appearing, here and there, at the detours of the often flooded paths… Fascinating mise en abîme of the landscape and the surrounding nature, but above all, of the perpetual metamorphosis of […]
Melanie Bonajo: Bound bodies
When you face the Chiesetta della Misericordia, which borders one of the many Venetian canals, there is no indication of what awaits you inside: the cold gray stone is followed by a colorful patchwork carpet-seat, inviting visitors to lounge on it while the film, “When the body says Yes,” by Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo, is […]
SALLY GABORI
Great swaths of color like cries or tears: the monumental canvases painted in the last ten years of her life by Sally Gabori are a cartography of the heart. Spreading their lagoon blue, their lemon yellow, their strident orange, and their deep white in parcels on the canvas, they tell the nostalgia of the native […]