« NE ME RETIENS PAS », THE FIRST SOLO SHOW OF INÈS MÉLIA
If Inès Mélia’s work is so fascinating, it is because the artist has the ability to create with the banality of everyday life. Discarded books are transformed into poetic tissue boxes, while cheese is transformed into astonishing ceramic candleholders. The domestic universe inspires her – a muse with which she has fun but always with […]
CALIDA GARCIA RAWLES
Calida Garcia Rawles‘ paintings grab you. Faced with the deep, luminous blue of the waters she paints, the hyper-realism of the waves, the reflections, and the bodies, you feel ready to fall over. The American artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, creates large-scale portraits of African-American men and women immersed in water. Behind […]
François Morellet
A major figure of geometric abstraction, a precursor of minimalist art, but also of interactive art, a champion of numbers and chance, of the curve and the right angle, of order and disorder, of lunatic geometry and random distribution… François Morellet (1926-2016) is a breviary of contemporary art all by himself. Armed with squares, directories, […]
PHOTOGRAPHIC REALISM
In VIEW From the ancient trompe-l’oeil to the trap paintings of Daniel Spoerri, artists have always been determined to give the illusion of reality or to reproduce pieces of the real with meticulousness. After all the realisms – antique and neo-antique, naturalist, verist… – there was, throughout the twentieth century (the century of abstraction), the […]
The nostalgic collages of Vesna Vrdoljak
Discovered during her first solo exhibition at the Amélie Maison d’Art gallery in Paris, Vesna Vrdoljak transmits with her artistic collages a poetic melancholy where design, architecture, fashion, and nature create a moving symbiosis. Mixing both black and white and color photographs, as in her series Louis XVI, the contrast that is based in the […]
BRUCE NAUMAN
Contrapposto Studies The body – truncated, made-up or performed; space – oppressive, blinding or alienating; and sound – disconcerting and haunting: these are the three fundamental materials of the theater of cruelty and absurdity utilized, via video, performance, photography, and sculpture, for nearly sixty years by the precursor of body art (born in 1941 in […]
HA:AR
Generative mutations Stars of the Crash exhibition, which unveiled the NFT works of the Feride Ikiz collection during the 15th edition of the Contemporary Istanbul art fair in June 2021, and incredibly active on the Istanbul scene, the duo ha:ar operate a disturbing fusion between the real and the virtual. Work of the third kind, […]
THE NOBEL COLLECTION
And Now The Good News Shocking, striking, disturbing, intelligent – and eminently plastic … the works in the Annette and Peter Nobel collection, which we discovered at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, hit the nail on the head. What do they have in common? Newsprint. The guiding principle of the collection? News, as Edward Ruscha […]
Philippe Decrauzat
When art becomes hypnotic Philippe Decrauzat is an artist working in Lausanne and Paris. He exploits the field of abstraction with the ambition of pushing perception beyond the limits of the image to create a spatial presence. By manipulating a multitude of lines that synchronize to form undulating, superimposed and intertwined patterns with powerful moiré […]
THE JOURNEY TO NANTES
Every summer for the past ten years, the former city of the Dukes of Brittany has been given over to artists charged with reinterpreting its heritage, even if it means disguising it. For this new edition of the Voyage à Nantes, Hélène Delprat deploys her small shadow theatre with the appearance of a danse macabre […]
HARTUNG-BERGMAN FOUNDATION
An interlocking of cubic “elementalist” volumes barely emerging behind the foliage of the olive trees; immaculate white walls inclined towards the sky and open into “window-pictures” and holes of light on nature; a private house and two studios deployed around a patio and a central swimming pool, reminiscent of the impluvium and atrium of the […]
EVA NIELSEN
Prints/Overprints The latest works by Eva Nielsen, which are being exhibited at the Galerie Jousse, are the result of an artistic residency with the tanners and silk workers attached to LVMH (LVMH Métiers d’art residency). They are further evidence of the great mastery and plastic inventiveness of the Franco-Danish artist, who has made the hybridization […]
VENICE BIENNALE
The Milk of Dreams The title of the 59th Venice International Art Exhibition, taken from a fairy tale written by Leonora Carrigton,1 is misleading. Like the tales, mixing horror and wonder in a strange timelessness, this new edition shows the dark side of the fable and often plunges us into the shifting sands of opaque […]
OLAFUR ELIASSON
Vibratile spaces Born in 1967 in Copenhagen, affiliated with the Light and Space movement, Olafur Eliasson has made light and chromatic phenomena the basis for an exploration of perception and especially of its subjectivity. Considering the perception of the external environment (light and darkness, colors, depth of space and time…) as intrinsically linked to the […]
“We walked on the Earth” by Uffe Isolotto
The 59e edition of the Venice Biennale began on April 23 and will be held until November 27 for the pleasure of visitors. An emotional journey through the national pavilions at the Giardini and the Arsenale, combining established artists and beautiful discoveries. The Danish pavilion has chosen Uffe Isolotto, a Danish artist born in 1976 […]
DRAWING NOW
Hyperdrawing Created fifteen years ago to showcase new practices in contemporary drawing, notably the great diversification of its formats, media, and materials, the Drawing Now Art Fair is riding the wave of the growing success (among young collectors, but also and above all, among artists) of an affordable and malleable means of expression, harbored in […]
ART PARIS / DISCOVERIES
Art Paris has been a growing success, blending modern, contemporary, and emerging art into a most appreciable balance. After a beautiful 23rd edition that inaugurated the Grand Palais Ephémère last September, the fair returned from April 7 to 10 with 130 regional and international galleries of high quality, offering, in particular to young galleries and […]
Grégoire Scalabre, the passion of ceramics
It is a passion, working with clay, that drives Grégoire Scalabre. Both a sculptor and a teacher, he approaches ceramics with a new perspective that he reveals internationally, notably with his latest project at the Venetian exhibition, Homo Faber. Meeting with the artist. 1- Tell us about your first encounter with ceramics. I had an […]
Sergio Roger or the art of weaving ancient sculpture
At first glance, Sergio Roger’s work seems to be carved in stone. The milky and irregular hue of his sculptures is reminiscent of marble. Yet his pieces tickle our curiosity. It is by getting closer that the material and the very essence of his work are revealed. Sergio Roger is a textile sculptor. It is […]
DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER
Speculative space After Cosmodrome,presented at the Consortium de Dijon in 2001, Chronotypes & Dioramas,shown at the Dia Art Foundation in New York in 2009, Pynchon Park (MAAT Lisbon, 2017), and Martian Dreams Ensemble (GFZK, Leipzig, 2018), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster unveils at the Serpentine Galleries her latest phantasmagorical opus, more psychedelic and wacky than ever: Alienarium 5. […]
ANITA MOLINERO
Extrudia Based on both the use of constraint and the interaction of chance, Anita Molinero’s extruded plastic sculptures emerge from a double paradox: the implementation of opposing forces (the constraint of gesture and laissez-faire) on the one hand, the “transmutation” of an ecologically incorrect material (plastic) into its deliquescence (produced by its ignition, making it […]
LE FRESNOY / COLLECTION PINAULT : So far
“Do works of art have the power to modify, by displacing them, our points of view on the contemporary world?” Such is the problematic, eminently political question posed by this exhibition, exploring the impact (visual and environmental, ecological and ethical) of images made by artists to allow us to see the world, such as they […]
NATHALIE DU PASQUIER
Elementary colors, elementary forms, flattened spaces, confusion between form and substance, space and object, base and work, art and design… It is to a clever mixture of genres and a joyful mishmash of forms that Nathalie Du Pasquier, since the 1980s, likes to confront us in upside down spaces. For the French artist and designer, […]
CAT LORAY / CLÉMENT BORDERIE : Between two
“Making the invisible visible”, showing the imprint of time by capturing on blank canvases stretched over matrices installed in nature the micro-organisms deposited by the wind and rain by leaves, dust, insects… Resulting from a slow process based on the concept of “laissez-faire”, Clément Borderie ‘s canvas-pieces give abstraction the density of life. In her […]