LORIS CECCHINI : Non-elementary particles
Loris Cecchini, a leading artist born in 1969 in Milan, explores in a playful and highly decorative way “a reconfiguration of our sense of space and our contact with the environment”. A “reconfiguration” which, on the first floor of the iconic sailboat-shaped tower rising above the artificial sands of Dubai, in the Pop-Up exhibition space […]
MICHAEL HEIZER : The lyricism of the masses
With an assertive anti-academism, replacing the elaborate, polished, finely sculpted work with earth or raw stone, and the grace and lightness required since Antiquity with the mass and chaos of voids, the vertigo and dichotomy of spaces, Michael Heizer shows us the clash of the Titans, that of stone against steel, in Rock/Steel, a series […]
YAZUAKI ONISHI : Hidden Landscapes
To “capture the void,” “to seize the reverse side of the matter,” such are the stakes of the spectacular work of the Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi, born in 1979 in Osaka, where he lives and works to reverse our vision of the world, to allow us to “look at it from a different point of […]
MAREO RODRIGUEZ : Graphic abyss
Faults, breaks, cracks, folds, expansions… From stratified landscapes to broken stones, from rocky invasions to luminous tears, Mareo Rodriguez’s imaginary topographies seem to open up before us the bowels of the earth, this subterranean world populated by caverns and gaps, revealing the immensity of the abyss… Playing with monumentality and the difference of scales, but […]
JAMES TURRELL: Magnetic
Like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, and the other pioneers of the Land Art adventure started at the end of the 70s, James Turrell moves immense masses of earth, models them to transform desert sites into sculptures, or rather, into cosmic theaters intended to make man hear the heartbeat of the earth, from its […]
WANG KEPING: Metamorphoses
Evoking some archaic goddesses from the depths of time, Wang Keping ‘s monumental wooden sculptures fascinate by their density and sensuality. Maternity, Origin of the World, Cyclops Woman… half-figure, half-totem, they appear frozen in their metamorphoses, suspended between form and formlessness, incarnation and abstraction… Carved in hundred-year-old trees, these hieratic figures seem to come from […]
Xinyi Cheng: new darling in Paris
Much in demand in Europe, she just keeps accumulating exhibitions. After hanging her works on the walls of the François Pinault Trade Exchange, it is at Lafayette Anticipation that they will now be visible. Thus revealing her genius to the curious who come to intoxicate themselves with the talent of the famous Xinyi Cheng. Five […]
ALBERTO BIASI : Hypnotic
In 1965, Alberto Biasi (a founding member of Gruppo N, the Italian branch of lumino-kinetic art) took part in the historic exhibition The Responsive Eye at MoMA in New York. Since then, he has continued to deepen his “optico-dynamic” experiments and their retinal reception by the viewer. The concept of “motor eye” gives the viewer […]
SOPHIE CALLE : The Ghosts of Orsay
Interweaving past and present, reality and fiction, memories and fantasies, Sophie Calle weaves troubling tales with little nothings, vestiges of ordinary life doomed to decay or oblivion. A virtuoso affabulator, the queen of micro-fiction who, from true-false reports to pseudo-true stories, has been luring us for forty years, returns to the origins of this process […]
YMANE CHABI-GARA, A CONTEMPORARY MATERIALISM
The Hikkikomori are young Japanese men in a situation of chosen isolation. It is also the title of the large-scale paintings of Ymane Chabi-Gara. From cultural discovery to language learning, Japan is at the heart of the artist’s imagination, “so far from Western references, it makes different things emerge,” she says. It is therefore her […]
VINCENT LEROY : Anamorphoses
Trained in industrial design at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris, Vincent Leroy has given design a spectacular, monumental dimension that has made him so successful. His latest work, displayed in the windows of Yves Saint Laurent boutiques around the world, speaks volumes about his work at the crossroads of art, architecture, […]
THOMAS LEVY-LASNE, INCISIVE REALITY
In Thomas Levy-Lasne’s hyper-realistic paintings, bodies and environments melt into a frozen temporality. In his charcoal paintings, the forms take advantage of the charcoal dust to freeze in the same warm breath. At the heart of his latest series of distanciel charcoal, light is as close as our gaze is distant, a strange selfie in […]
Bill Viola : Exhibition Submersible
Immersive, timeless, eminently mystical and sensual, Bill Viola’s work fascinates us as much as it upsets us. Fascinating by its monumentality and the solemn slowness of the images, it submerges us in a flood of rain and dreamlike or cataclysmic streams, making us capsize in the wreckage of bodies and thoughts. For Bill Viola, who […]
Lee Ufan : Requiem exhibition
For fifty years, the Korean artist’s minimalist works have been playing with emptiness and fullness, bringing space and materials into resonance. To “inhabit time” and make silence resonate. After the gardens of Versailles in 2014, here is the fascinating necropolis of the Alyscamps in Arles, where the 85-year-old master has chosen to perform a Requiem. […]
Carsten Höller : Sensory
On the borderline between art and science, Carsten Höller’s light installations are less a matter of plastic research than of aesthetic experimentation. Born in 1961 in Brussels, the German artist (who lives in Stockholm) was trained as an entomologist before devoting himself to what has been called “relational aesthetics”. The MAAT exhibition, which brings together […]
Mehmet Ali Uysal : Su
Ecologically correct or not, Mehmet Ali Uysal, the Turkish artist of the moment, has struck hard with his gigantic installation simulating the imminent submersion of the Bon Marché under the effect of the melting of two icebergs suspended from the double glass roof of the department store. Real ice cathedrals (sculpted in a modular textile […]
Vanessa Enríquez : Variable geometries
Discovered at the Drawing Lab in Paris, where she was invited to display her Spatial drawings alongside other graphic productions (engravings, textile prints…), Vanessa Enriquez (born in Mexico City in 1973 and living in Berlin since 2008) composes works that are troubling because of their syncretism, both cultural and formal, and their singular hybridity that […]
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Meeting with Frédéric Jousset, president of the Art Explora Foundation
« The pandemic has only reinforced Art Explora’s message of taking an interest in all audiences, especially those who are far from it. » Frédéric Jousset
Rodolphe Barsikian’s digital art on display in the heart of Paris
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Three museums awarded the European Art Explora Prize – Academy of Fine Arts
For its very first edition, the European Prize launched by the Art Explora Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts was awarded to three museums with innovative initiatives to facilitate access to culture.