FOCUS, SARA-VIDE ERICSON
The Resistance, 2023 All that’s left of the face is the lower profile: a closed mouth and chin hanging from a taut neck adorned with a silver collar on the body, also truncated, all that remains is the bust and groin adorned with a sequined bodice and satin panties. It takes audacity and talent to […]
YOKO ONO, Music of the mind
Artist and activist, pioneer of conceptual and participatory art, performance art and experimental music and film, famous widow of Beatles founder John Lennon and committed campaigner for world peace, Yoko Ono is the subject of a major retrospective at London’s Tate Modern. From her Instructions paintings, which turn the work of art into a work […]
Sarah Brahim, sometimes, we are eternal
Housed in a marvellous neoclassical villa built in the 1930s on the shores of Lake Lugano, surrounded by the Ticino mountains, the Fondation Bally is hosting the first solo exhibition by Saudi-American artist Sarah Brahim. Born in 1992, the artist uses video and sound installations, photographs, performances and sculptures to create a choreography of intimacy […]
LÉONARD MARTIN – SUITE ZABRISKIE
Fixed explosion Inspired by the final explosion scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s famous film Zabriskie Point, Léonard Martin’s eponymous suite, presented at Galerie Templon’s Brussels space, shows us a world turned upside down, evoking the constant flow of images in our world in the grip of the cloud. Enough to make us want to break free […]
LACAN , WHEN ART MEETS PSYCHOANALYSIS
“In his subject, the artist always precedes the psychoanalyst,” said Jacques Lacan. At the Centre Pompidou Metz, two art historians and two psychoanalysts have brought together a collection of ancient, modern and contemporary works of art to shed light on the relationship the famous psychiatrist and psychoanalyst had with images, and the influence he exerted […]
FU SITE, Disruptive fables
Represented in France by Galerie-B, which showed his work last month at the Singapore Fair, Fu Site is one of the most talented artists of his generation. Born in China in 1984 and living in France since 2006, this virtuoso painter invents improbable worlds populated by chimeras, deformed creatures and tattered bodies in pastel colours. […]
DORA JERIDI, Harmony out of chaos
Dora Jeridi, winner of the Emerige 2022 Révélations bursary, has just graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris where, after studying literature and two masters degrees in history, she studied under Djamel Tatah. She well deserves the exhibition just dedicated to her by Galerie Mor Charpentier 1: after her participation in the “Figurations, un autre art […]
FOCUS : YANG ZHICHAO, PLANTING GRASS
Photographic print (2023) from the eponymous performance in 2000 “The human being no longer sees himself as the centre, the decider and measure of all things, imposing his will on an inert nature. The work emerges from a symphony that aims to be both human and non-human.” This is how Guillaume Logé explains the concept […]
GUILLAUME BRESSON, De la chute
Exhibited since 2010 at Galerie Obadia, Guillaume Bresson is one of the leading figures in the hyperrealist figurative painting movement that has become so fashionable. Now based in New York, the French artist (b. 1982, Toulouse) returns with a virtuoso new series, more theatrical than ever. Against indeterminate black backdrops, stormy seas or baroque skies, […]
DIANE BENOIT DU REY , Optical vibrations
Irisation, Chroma, Vibration…, the chromatic palpitations of Diane Benoit du Rey’s canvases hypnotise us. In fact, it was under the title Hypnosis that her large-scale painted fabrics and sandblasted disk were displayed last autumn under the dome of the Espace Richaud in Versailles. Comprising fifty metres of painted hangings suspended between the coffered dome and […]
CHRISTIANE PESCHEK, THE BODY OF THE IMAGE
Multimedia artist Christiane Peschek constructs her environments as places of potential relations between organic and technological, human and artificial intelligence. From sound to smell, from object to image, her work plunges the public into a sensory confusion, starting with the visual confusion created by many of her digital images. In his latest exhibition, “Liminal Ghost”, […]
BARNABY WHITFIELD BEYOND THE VISIBLE
In his studio, imbued with a profound tranquillity, Barnaby Whitfield creates canvases that capture the essence of the human soul, weaving stories in colour and shadow. Each portrait, like a unique universe, reveals enigmas beneath his brushstrokes, expressing unspoken emotions and thoughts with exceptional sensitivity. My Bones To Blossom, Queer Splendour Presenting a rich introspection, […]
MARINA ABRAMOVIC : Retrospective
Born in 1946 in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, Marina Abramović led performance art from its experimental beginnings in the 1970s to its apogee. After endangering herself for over fifty-five years and still going strong, the artist has been given a retrospective at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. A true consecration marked by the representation of four […]
DELCY MORELOS, BARD OF THE EARTH
At the last Venice Biennale, Delcy Morelos drew us into her labyrinth of fragrant peat deployed between the pillars and girders of the Arsenale, offering us a salutary stroll to the heart of life and the primordial element she has made her favourite means of expression. The Colombian artist returns to New York and Paris […]
FOCUS CLAIRE MORGAN : THE WALTZ OF THE HANGED
If life hangs by a thread, it’s death that Claire Morgan hangs by its threads – the same threads that, trimmed with bird skins, make up her latest mobile entitled Song. A playful title for a funereal work with the allure of a memento mori: a garland of dead birds as ravishing as it is […]
IMMERSION, THE ORIGINS: 1949-1969
Dive into a bath of polystyrene balls, balloons or feathers, get lost in a labyrinth of mirrors (by Christian Megert) or wander through an elastic space (designed by Gianni Colombo): this is what the exhibition at Lausanne’s Musée des Beaux-Arts offers us, the first to trace the emergence of immersive art between 1949 and 1969, […]
CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI : This Void Made of Infinity
« […] créer des lieux psychologiques… des lieux mentaux. Des lieux qui ont une voix, un cœur qui bat dans l’épaisseur des murs » : tel est le but poursuivi par Claudio Parmiggiani 1 avec sa série des Delocazioni, des œuvres de fumée et de suie. Véritables « sculptures d’ombre », ces tableaux fantomatiques réalisés in situ à partir de flacons, […]
MASCULINITY AS SEEN BY PAINTER KRIS KNIGHT
Kris Knight’s paintings reveal fragments of life where time has stood still. The intimacy of the protagonist is finally revealed. With a glance, Knight invites the viewer to become part of a life that does not belong to him. A 2003 graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Canadian painter Kris Knight has […]
ISSY WOOD, LUBIES ET VANITES
Issy Wood, a young rising star in British painting1, has her first French exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations. Spread out over sixty paintings and as many personal anecdotes, like a visual diary, this plunge into intimacy blending kitsch and triviality says a lot about the stereotypes of our society. High-gloss black leather coats, car seats and […]
TRAIL PARIS+ “AN EFFERVESCENT SCENE”
Two ultra-sexual dolls reclining on a lemon-yellow Triumph (Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles HQ in London), aluminum molded women littering the stand of Layr Gallery in Vienna (six human-scale sculptures by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021), giant aluminum daisies (at Perrotin) shining like Urs Fischer’s Wave installed on Place Vendôme by Gagosian…. For its […]
OFFSCREEN THE IMAGE IN ALL ITS STATES
Bringing together avant-garde, historic and contemporary artists to explore innovative image-based practices (installations and experiments with still and moving images), the Offscreen show offered us a second fine edition. Here, among the international galleries gathered at the Grand Garage Haussmann this year, are the works that caught our eye. © Thomas Devaux It was […]
MARI KATAYAMA OR THE ART OF TRANSGRESSION
After the MEP studio in 2021, here are the disturbing textile and photographic works of Japanese artist Mari Katayama presented in the Project Room of the Suzanne Tarasiève gallery. “Beautiful as the chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table.” Adopted by the Surrealists, this famous line from Count de […]
MARI KATAYAMA OR THE ART OF TRANSGRESSION
After the MEP studio in 2021, here are the disturbing textile and photographic works of Japanese artist Mari Katayama presented in the Project Room of the Suzanne Tarasiève gallery. “Beautiful as the chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table.” Adopted by the Surrealists, this famous line from Count de […]
CHEN ZEN’S PURIFICATION ROOM
Caught in a gangue of clay, everyday objects lie in a room open to view like a theatre stage itself entirely covered in clay: a moped, a helmet and an old computer, a cart, crockery, furniture, a sofa, a washing machine, a dented suitcase, piles of cables and shoes, dead bottles and hanging clothes… Petrified, […]