La Nuu Festival: photographic poetry
Exhibiting contemporary photography in the streets, for a varied public, to confront the urban population, to remain visible to those who welcome artists and the public within their walls: this is the principle behind La Nuu festival, held in the town of Rubi in Catalonia. This year, in 2021, the festival [...]
ELSA & JOHANNA
Selected for the Prix Balzac, relaunched this year to reward the photographic work most evocative of the Comédie humaine of our time, they are presented in their first solo museum show, "The Plural Life of Identity", at the Städtische Galerie in Karlsruhe until February, and in Paris at Galerie La Forest Divonne until December 23 with a new [...].
Nicolas Floc'h : invisible
Photographed in panoramic shots, with the timeless sumptuousness of black and white, Nicolas Floc'h's underwater landscapes plunge us, at the edge of the visible and the invisible, into the silence of infinite spaces. Immersive and magnetic, these landscapes give us the strange sensation of wandering and floating between two waters: the sunlit water of the ocean and the [...].
Contact boards: an air of Normandy
Anchored in its region, the Planches Contact photography festival in Deauville focuses on a number of themes, reflecting its international ambitions: young talent, partnerships and, above all, photographers in residence from France and abroad. The richly illustrated exhibition offers an insight into both contemporary photography and the Normandy landscape - a diversity of [...]
Large-scale drawing
Once confined to the intimate confines of a sheet of paper or a sketchbook, contemporary drawing is now spreading on a grand scale. A simple medium that has become a work in its own right, it has changed format and status. It has gone beyond its original framework and function, exploding and [...]
Marina Abramović & Ulay: go back!
A goddess of performance art, Marina Abramović has been moving and shaking us with the same vigor and plastic force for four decades. The Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, in Lyon, is proud to present her radical work, which began as a duo in the mid-1970s with her partner and accomplice Frank Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay.
Duy Anh Nhan Duc: Fragile beauty
Following on from Lee Bae's charcoal "contemporary grotto" in 2015, Shouchiku Tanabe's monumental bamboo arborescence in 2016, Min Jung-Yeon's bewitching birch forest in 2019 and Daniel Arsham's Zen garden last year, Duy Anh Nhan's poetic, light-hearted celestial landscape of dandelion egrets [...].
Kubra Khademi: political poetics
She tells us stories, myths and realities. Between painting and performance, her body exposes itself. Afghan artist Kubra Khademi has been drawing since childhood, and performing since her studies in Kabul. The ochre bodies she traces are like her own. Stereotyped, "They're all me, and they're all other, there's no [...].