MIN JUNG - YEON MIRAGE
"What is painting? It plunges the divine into perceptibility, it is eye - it sees the times, it is abstract thought and makes worlds and inter-worlds conceive." Markus Lüpertz Two years ago, in the rotunda of the Musée Guimet (Musée National d'Art asiatique Guimet, Paris), Min Jung-Yeon led us into the world of [...].
FOCUS / A WORK FROM THE LOUIS VUITTON FOUNDATION COLLECTION ANIMITAS (WHITE) BY CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI (2017)
Three hundred Japanese bells suspended from long rods in the immaculate whiteness of a landscape at the end of the world (Ile d'Orléans in Quebec) let us hear in their soft tinkling "the music of the stars and the voices of floating souls" (Christian Boltanski, sic). Filmed in a long sequence, from dawn to dusk, they cradle us in their music, [...].
DAVID SPRIGGS AUGMENTS REALITY
Space is a visual theater that the Vancouver-based artist explores by stratifying it, to create immaterial landscapes that invite us to look beyond forms. It's all a question of perception. Shaped by juxtaposing several parallel layers of transparent shapes or colors that he suspends, his works create the illusion of a third dimension, alternating [...].
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN, PRECURSOR OF PERFORMANCE ART
The Barbican Centre in London presents another major exhibition, "Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics", highlighting the work of this American pioneer of feminist art and performance. Her activism is deeply rooted, and women's freedom has always been her favorite subject. Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) has never ceased to [...].
TIM BREUER IN FREE FALL
Impalpable, indecisive forms seem to emerge from the watery depths; floating, transparent bodies, sometimes evoking human plasticity, sometimes that of algae or jellyfish, or of some translucent, luminescent creature from the abyss... A strange world without depth or thickness, that of the young Berlin painter Tim Breuer, who was a pupil of [...].
BAO VUONG PAR-DELA LE NOIR
"The confrontation with the two infinities [sky and sea] humbles us and brings us back to a dialogue with ourselves. At the end of the 1970s, barely a year old, Bao Vuong, huddled in his parents' arms on a makeshift boat, made the long crossing, like thousands of other boat-people [...].
"PLASTIC MONUMENT", THE PLASTIC MONOLITH THAT CALLS US TO ORDER
The VATRAA architecture firm has created a singular work, once again sounding the alarm and pointing the finger at our insane consumption of plastic. This curious monument was erected in the city of Lombardy. The principle? A monolithic shape reminiscent of the megaliths of Stonehenge, inspired by the built heritage inherited from our ancestors [...].
P17A1, THE NEW AERODYNAMIC CARAVAN FROM POLYDROPS
Kyunghyun Lew and Jieun Cha, two former architecture and engineering graduates, are passionate about road trips and obsessed with insulation and energy efficiency. In 2017, they decided to found Polydrops to design energy-efficient, distance- and weather-proof caravans. After the P19 model, they present [...]