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
Léa Augereau arrived in the world of painting by pure chance, and quickly established herself as one of the artists to watch. Trained as a stylist and model-maker, Léa Augereau's only ambition was to replace fashion design with painting for her portfolio. And the public, with her paintings. The latter, for the [...]
Basak Bugay & Burçin Basar
Prison or dollhouse? Cellar or dungeon? Cabin or cell? The strange concrete dwellings on stilts created by Basak Bugay provoked a curious merry-go-round on the Zilberman Gallery stand at the 15th Contemporary Istanbul art fair last June: there were visitors in a hurry, [...].
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 deeply moving 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 n° [...]).
KATE MCCGWIRE, NATURE REVEALED
Kate MccGwire was inspired to work with this material when she discovered piles of feathers lost by pigeons nesting in abandoned buildings. That was fifteen years ago. The adventure began with the eternally renewed collection of feathers from pigeon breeders and hunters alike, with the artist using only the birds' finery [...].
MARTINET & TEXEREAU: DESIGN DUO
Drawing as a duo Like freeze-frames, the strange, uninhabited dwellings drawn by Pauline Martinet and Zoé Texereau with graphite pencil on large sheets of paper are fascinating in more ways than one. Firstly, their extraordinary graphic mastery, all the more astonishing given that the two artists share it [...].
The Magic of White
Although this is not a new theme (remember, in particular, the very fine "Blanc sur blanc" exhibition at the Gagosian gallery a year ago), we never tire of immersing ourselves in the magic of white, so much exploited by modern artists. Although this is not a new theme (remember, in particular, the very [...]
In the world of Josèfa Ntjam
A multimedia artist, Josèfa Ntjam moves from video to photomontage and from sculpture to sound performance. Each of her pieces seems to be an assemblage of different facets of the same celestial or aquatic universe. In Unknow Aquazone, sculpture and video meet and are enriched by photomontages. Familiar symbols are used [...]
PIPILOTTI RIST: BIG HEARTEDNESS, BE MY NEIGHBOR
In Los Angeles, multidisciplinary artist Pipilotti Rist takes up residence at MOCA. Rist is known for her environmental and multimedia installations, combining domestic objects with the magic of cinematic projection. While Dominique Païni sees the artist as part of the renewal of video art, seizing on the moving image to expose time as material, here it is the fiction of everyday [...].
MARCEL DUCHAMP AND THE FETISH
From fetishism to eroticism (via Dadaism and Surrealism), it's only a short step... taken light-heartedly by Marcel Duchamp, with his provocations, detour and puns. "Everything is based on an erotic climate", declared the master of subversion in 1967. Eroticism is "the basis of everything" - [...].