Who is Abdel El Tayeb?
If Pierpaolo Piccioli proudly poses next to him in front of the photographers, it is because his name is worth remembering. He caused a sensation at the Fashion Trust Arabia in Doha last November and won the Young Talent of the Year 2021 award. Abdel El Tayeb, young French-Sudanese, shines in the workshops of Bottega […]
Léa Augereau: feminine power
Having entered the world of painting quite by chance, Léa Augereau quickly established herself as an artist to watch. A stylist and pattern maker by training, she initially only sought to replace fashion illustration with painting for her portfolio, but she fell in love with the brush. And the public, with her paintings. These, for the […]
Basak Bugay & Burçin Basar
Prison or dollhouse? Vault or dungeon? Cabin or cell? The strange concrete dwellings on stilts created by Basak Bugay provoked a curious commotion at the Zilberman Gallery booth during the 15th Contemporary Istanbul art fair last June: there were the hurried visitors […]
Maurizio Cattelan The last judgment
The titles of each of his exhibitions sound like death knells and resound like admonitions. Thus, after .Not Afraid of Love., the groundbreaking retrospective at the Monnaie de Paris in 2016, “Amen”. Warsaw in 2012, or “Breath Ghosts Blind”, his XXL exhibition at Hangar Bicocca, Milan (see Acumen no. […]
KATE MCCGWIRE, NATURE REVEALED
It was while discovering piles of feathers shed by pigeons nesting in abandoned buildings that Kate MccGwire had the idea of working with this material. That was fifteen years ago. The adventure began with the ever-renewed collection of feathers from pigeon breeders and hunters alike, the artist using only the birds' plumage […]
MARTINET & TEXEREAU: DRAWING AS A DUO
The collaborative drawings, like freeze-frames, depict strange, uninhabited dwellings drawn collaboratively in graphite on large sheets of paper by Pauline Martinet and Zoé Texereau, are fascinating for several reasons. First and foremost, their extraordinary graphic mastery is all the more impressive because the two artists share it […]
The Magic of White
Although the theme isn't new (we remember, in particular, the beautiful "White on White" exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery a year ago), we never tire of revisiting the magic of white, so often explored by modern artists. Although the theme isn't […]
In the world of Josèfa Ntjam
Multimedia artist Josèfa Ntjam moves seamlessly between video, photomontage, sculpture, and sound performance. Employing an assemblage technique, each of his pieces seems to explore different facets of a single celestial or aquatic universe. In Unknown Aquazone, sculpture and video converge and are enriched by photomontages. Familiar symbols reappear […]
PIPILOTTI RIST: BIG HEARTEDNESS, BE MY NEIGHBOR
In Los Angeles, multidisciplinary artist Pipilotti Rist is taking up residence at MOCA. Rist is known for her environmental and multimedia installations, combining everyday objects with the magic of film projection. While Dominique Païni situates the artist within the renewal of video art, which uses moving images to explore time as a material, here, it is the fiction of the everyday […]
MARCEL DUCHAMP AND THE FETISH
From fetishism to eroticism (by way of Dadaism and Surrealism), there is only one step… a step taken with gusto, with provocation, subversion, and puns, by Marcel Duchamp. “Everything is based on an erotic atmosphere,” the master of subversion asserted in 1967. From this eroticism at “the basis of everything” – […]