BRUTALIST FORTRESS IN THE MAYAN JUNGLE
Mexico – Tulum Adrian and Andrea, a young Canadian couple straight from Ottawa, are the creators of this little paradise of a different kind. Overwhelmed by their visit to Cenote Suytun, an incredible underground cave beloved by the Mayans, they decided to design a villa that would capture the natural and spatial beauty of the […]
PIERRE PAULIN / OSCAR NIEMEYER
CURVED IDEAS, FREE FORMS Laid out flush with the floor, and even on walls from the 1990s onwards, Pierre Paulin’s seat carpets are one with the space, and spread throughout it. Reminiscent of oriental garden rugs and Japanese tatami mats, which the designer discovered in 1970 during a trip to Osaka and then India, but […]
THE ART OF MASCULINE STYLE
UNITED STATES – LOS ANGELES For its new group show, the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles presents the work of some thirty leading photographers to celebrate male cultural icons through the different ways style has been used in the expression of self-identity. Steve Schapiro, Miles Aldridge, Annie Leibovitz, Herbert List, Norman Seeff, Herb Ritts, Phil […]
THE ART OF MASCULINE STYLE
UNITED STATES – LOS ANGELES For its new group show, the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles presents the work of some thirty leading photographers to celebrate male cultural icons through the different ways style has been used in the expression of self-identity. Steve Schapiro, Miles Aldridge, Annie Leibovitz, Herbert List, Norman Seeff, Herb Ritts, Phil […]
CLAUDE BATHO & ERICA LENNARD
FRANCE – PARIS THE ETERNAL FEMININE A foggy window, an umbrella hanging from a cracked wall, a basin of wet laundry, a little girl asleep on a bench… all simplicity and strangeness, Claude Batho’s photographs express the poetry of everyday life, that of common objects and household chores. Enhanced by black and white, individualised by […]
STEFANIE LANGENHOVEN OR SELF-AWARENESS
SOUTH AFRICA The South African artist and photographer explores the female psyche through the themes of pregnancy, changes in mother-daughter relationships, dreams, fear and death. “Your vision becomes clear when you can look into your heart. He who looks outside himself is only dreaming; he who looks inside himself wakes up”. This quote from Carl […]
THE YETI COLLECTION BY KEN KELLEHER
United States – Massachusetts After his giant abstract sculptures, the American artist and sculptor is adding a new string to his bow and exploring interior design. For Ken Kelleher, furniture is as much an element of pleasure as it is a rich history of contributors. “Whether it’s a personal, corporate, community or institutional space, I […]
BELLONBOUILLOT STUDIO
United States – New York GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN INSPIRATION Guillaume Bellon and Antoine Bouillot are the creative minds behind the Parisian design studio BellonBouillot. Exclusively for New York gallery STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN, the duo have designed and created the “PAW” collection. With a lifelong fascination for the Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre, the […]
3DAYSOFDESIGN
Denmark – Copenhagen 4 NAMES TO REMEMBER Ten years after its launch, 3DAYSOFDESIGN, based in the Danish capital, has carved out a place for itself in the hearts of enthusiasts of the discipline. Fora Projects Fora Projects is a company that explores the links between furniture and objects. Their pieces, which they present as “well […]
VIRGIN SUICIDES BY SOFIA COPPOLA, TWENTY-THREE YEARS LATER
UNITED STATES – NEW YORK On September 27, 2000, the first feature film by a twenty-nine-year-old director with an already prestigious name was released in French cinemas: Virgin Suicides. The film, now a cult classic, opens in cinemas on July 12. The mystery of the Lisbon sisters has lost none of its aura. We sometimes […]
CARLOS LEAL, THE AESTHETICS OF THE PUNCH
FRANCE – PARIS Making the invisible visible, the homeless wandering or stagnating in our streets, in this case those of Los Angeles: this is the mission admirably accomplished by Spanish-Swiss photographer Carlos Leal. Far from being documentary photography, his extremely spare, beautifully composed images have the force of a punch. Elliptical, they never show in […]
PHILOS
GREECE – ATHENS In the heart of Athens’ picturesque Solonos Street, Philos – Greek for friends – brings back to life a decaying neoclassical mansion built in 1937 by entrepreneur and arts lover Euripidis Koutlidis. A place that has lain dormant since the latter’s death, Philos finds a new lease of life in a project […]
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STORIES OF MARTIN ESSL
FRANCE – PARIS As a child, Martin Essl spent most of his time in his father’s darkroom. He discovered a consuming passion for photography. Originally from Austria, the photographer studied at a number of art schools, including the Linz University of Art. Following his studies, he moved to the 18th arrondissement of Paris, not far […]
COSMIC TRIP, ANNA-EVA BERGMAN AND HANS HARTUNG
France – Antibes Located on the heights of Antibes, in the magnificent villa-workshop of one of the most legendary artist couples of the 20th century, the Hartung-Bergman Foundation presents an exhibition dedicated to the cosmic visions of Hans Hartung (1904-1989) and Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1987) exploring their fascination for science. ” … forces that pull away […]
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET, THE POWER OF THE ABSURD
France – Metz A dummy Prada boutique set up in the middle of the Texas desert in 2005, a drowned collector floating in a pool at the Venice Biennale in 2009, a contemporary art centre transformed into a fictitious art fair in Beijing in 2016, a swimming pool in the shape of a giant ear […]
FOCUS ON MATEO KRIES’ NEW BOOK: BAUHAUS STYLE
FRANCE – PARIS “Let us strive to imagine and create the new building of tomorrow; the one that will unite every discipline – architecture, sculpture and painting – and the one that will one day soar skyward by millions of craftsmen’s hands, as a symbol of a new belief to come.” -Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Manifesto, […]
ART BASEL, THE HIGH MASS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Basel – Switzerland A look back at the Basel contemporary art fair, held from June 12th to 18th, in anticipation of Paris +Art Basel from October 18th to 22nd. Two hundred and eighty-four galleries, over 4,000 artists from five continents, 82,000 visitors, a Rothko offered for $60 million 1 … the figures for the world’s […]
TAISIIA CHERKASOVA, THE ROAD OF DREAMS
FRANCE – PARIS Two lighthouses shine in the clear night at the bend of a road that runs deep into the forest: painted in acrylic ink on wood, this painting by Taisiia Cherkasova, exhibited among other fantasised memories at Galerie Dominique Fiat, caught our eye. What are these lighthouses telling us, marking the vanishing point […]
EL ARTE DEL ESTILO MASCULINO
Estados Unidos – Los Angeles En su nueva exposición colectiva, la Fahey/Klein Gallery de Los Ángeles presenta la obra de una treintena de destacados fotógrafos para celebrar los iconos culturales masculinos a través de las diferentes formas en que el estilo se ha utilizado para expresar la identidad propia. Steve Schapiro, Miles Aldridge, Annie Leibovitz, […]
THE SUBLIMATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE THROUGH THE LENS OF CHRISTIAN VOGT
Following his design studies at the Basel School of Art, Christian Vogt took up photography in the 1960s. He became assistant to the renowned American photographer Will McBride. Over the course of his career, the artist won numerous awards, including the Triennale Internationale de la Photographie de Fribourg in 1975, and the Kulturpreis der Stadt […]
SIMONE KAPPELER
FRANCE – PARIS There’s something pulsating in Simone Kappeler’s photographs, something very much alive. Truncated, blurred images, tight, cinematic framing, unexpected colours, sometimes a little faded, reminiscent of old photographs… Far from the polished, skilfully composed “beautiful image”, her shots seem to be the fruit of a quest for instantaneity. Born in 1952 in Frauenfeld, […]
HAYA KHAIRAT, IN THE PICTURE
France – Cannes Egyptian photographer, director of photography, and filmmaker Haya Khairat was awarded the Pierre-Angénieux “special encouragement” prize at the Cannes Film Festival, an endowment given to promising young cinematographers. Interview with a young woman who has carved out a place for herself in an industry still dominated by men. Was your first passion […]
FLÓRA ANNA BUDA, A DIRECTOR TO WATCH
France – Cannes Winner of the Palme d’Or for short film at the last Cannes Film Festival, 27 is an animated film that tells a tender and whimsical tale of the constrained sex life and fantasies of a twenty-seven-year-old woman forced to live with her parents. The film also highlights the housing crisis in many […]
L’AUBE, AN INSPIRING AND CREATIVE GASTRONOMIC EXPERIENCE
France – Paris Inspired by the proximity of the French Comedy and the Palais Royal Theatre, a unique concept is proposed with lunch – after show and tasting menus, with a choice of 5 to 8 courses. Thibault Nizard, this young 30-year-old chef, has worked his talents in such prestigious gastronomic restaurants as Drouant, Taillevent, […]