ALIN BOZBICIU FROM CONTORTIONS TO TWIRLS
Born in 1989, Romanian painter Alin Bozbiciu casts the shadow of many of the great masters of the past over his canvases. His fiery painting is both fast and free, expressing the urgency to paint in order to capture emotion. Pieces of flesh, falling or dancing bodies, clutching, embracing, whirling, fluttering… Alin Bozbiciu’s painting is […]
LE FRESNOY, PANORAMA 25
An annual creative event at Le Fresnoy, the renowned studio national des arts contemporains de la métropole lilloise located in Tourcoing, “Panorama” offers the opportunity to discover over 50 new works in the fields of image, sound and digital creation created by resident students. Here’s our selection for this 25th edition. Combining sculptures resembling […]
FOCUS LORIS GRÉAUD : THE MUSEUM GHOST
After taking over the Palais de Tokyo in 2008 with an impressive lunar forest of charred trees, and after installing a monumental, ghostly sculpture draped in a sculpted black veil under the Louvre Pyramid in 2013, Loris Gréaud returns to the museum with an exhibition that isn’t really an exhibition at all: “immaterial, disquieting and […]
KATIA BOURDAREL, OR THE TROUBLE OF PAINTING
Each year, the Biennale d’Issy-les-Moulineaux showcases emerging artists alongside established names. For its fifteenth edition, it has chosen the theme of dreams, under the title “Dreams have their reasons”, inspired by William Shakespeare’s famous phrase: “We are the stuff our dreams are made of…”. 1, it welcomes Katia Bourdarel, a painter representing the new French […]
MARK ROTHKO: WHEN COLOUR BECOMES THE EMANATION OF LIGHT
Twenty-two years after the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton once again offers us the pleasure of plunging into the hypnotic colour fields of painter Mark Rothko, the great master of the colour field 1. “How can one express what cannot be expressed and yet is so intensely experienced? How can […]
RIZZOLI “NEW YORK” PUBLISHES THE FIRST MONOGRAPH BY ARTIST INÈS LONGEVIAL
Inès Longevial unveils her first monograph, published by Rizzoli New York. Sketches, works, studio views… the monograph “Inès Longevial” plunges readers into the painter’s poetic universe. Escape guaranteed. Passionate about art from an early age, Inès Longevial realised her dream of becoming one of the most talented painters of her generation. It was undoubtedly her […]
THIBAULT BRUNET: VIRTUAL TYPOLOGY
Landscape studies and portraits created inside video games, ruined landscapes collected on the Internet, amalgamated and reconstituted using photogrammetry 1, 3D digitisation of cliffs, virtual images… Thibault Brunet (b. 1982) likes to blur the boundaries between drawing, painting, sculpture and photography. A master of “the dilution of the real in the virtual and of photography […]
PARIS + BY ART BASEL
For its second edition from October 18 to 22, the new Parisian contemporary art fair, like the one it dethroned too, will be extending its reach beyond the Grand Palais Éphémère, where 154 galleries from 33 countries are expected. In addition to the traditional Tuileries Gardens and Place Vendôme, the Palais d’Iéna (with a […]
ART ORIENTÉ OBJET
France – Paris Post humana “Make people think,” “make them laugh” and “make them dream”: these are the three aims of Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, who have been working together since 1991 in the explosive duo Art Orienté Objet. A shock duo willingly provocative, “committed to biodiversity and ecology”, they have made humour and […]
AMITĀBHA BUDDHA
This delicately cast figure not only represents one of the buddhas of the four cardinal points, but also evokes the spirituality and serenity proper to meditation. Dressed in a long, elegantly draped robe covering his shoulders, this Buddha figure is seated in vajraparyankasana on a double lotus base. The hands placed on the knees in […]
LA NOTTE/ RENAVA OFF
Corsica – Bonifacio Dedicated to the field of video art and experimentation with new technologies, the Biennale de Bonifacio was born in 2022 on the initiative of a collective, De Renava, driven by the desire to “activate the island’s heritage” by instituting a dialogue between the works of international artists, the city’s emblematic sites and […]
CONTOUR, THE MOVING IMAGE BIENNIAL
BELGIUM – MECHELEN Showcasing various formats and forms of the moving image, at the crossroads of the visual arts and film, the Contour Biennial celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. A festive edition, therefore, curated for the first time by artists, via the Brussels-based production and distribution platform Auguste Orts. Diversity and dialogue are the […]
FIGURES SEULES
EMPTINESS AND MELANCHOLY Brigitte Aubignac, Ymane Chabi-Gara, Marc Desgrandchamps, Tim Eitel and Djamel Tatah Tatah, five painters working in France on the theme solitary figures. Such is the magnificent exhibition on view this summer at the Fondation Lee Ufan in Arles. What do the solitary figures painted by Tim Eitel or Djamel Tatah have in […]
KAPWANI KIWANGA
France – Bordeaux How do you transform a place without disguising it? How do you make a place steeped in history speak and vibrate? This is exactly what French-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga has achieved, when she was invited by Bordeaux’s Centre d’Arts Plastiques et Contemporains (Capc) to take over the great nave of this former […]
MAYAN DIGNITARY
France – Paris Among the artefacts bequeathed to us by the Maya are life-size or larger-than-life faces like this one, modelled from a white stucco made from lime and clay. Because these figures were found in the ruins of cities or temples, and not in tombs, researchers and archaeologists have deduced that they were most […]
TACITA DEAN
THE WRECK OF HOPE France – Paris The Wreck of Hope is a monumental 7-meter-long drawing by Tacita Dean in chalk on a blackboard, depicting a thousand-year-old glacier. Emerging like a monster from the darkness, this vessel of ice seems ready to engulf us or set us adrift, at once powerful and vulnerable, imposing and […]
ELSA MARTINEZ AND MARIE HERVÉ
Sand of noises France – Senlis A hand grasping the stone, a lava rock; taken in close-up, the hand clutches its rocky gangue as if to tear it away, extract its juices or caress it: this black-and-white photograph taken on the shores of Mount Etna in Sicily speaks volumes about the work undertaken by the […]
POL TABURET’S FUNERAL SYMPHONY, AT LAFAYETTE ANTICIPATIONS
Until September 3, 2023, Pol Taburet’s first institutional monographic exhibition takes over Lafayette Anticipations. OPERA III: ZOO “The Day of Heaven and Hell” invites heaven to sympathise with hell. Discover it. Mythological, chimerical, destructive… Pol Taburet’s sculptures and paintings metamorphose and intrigue. After presenting “OPERA I” at Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris) and “OPERA II” at […]
FOREVER SIXTIES
France – Rennes A pivotal decade marked by the emergence of alternative countercultures, the sixties were the scene of societal tensions and artistic investigations that profoundly and durably changed the face of Western society. Breaking with the prevailing abstraction, Pop – and Nouveau Réalisme in France – brought consumer objects, the entertainment society and advertising […]
THE DIAPHANOUS PAINTINGS OF CLEMENT DAVOUT
Luxembourg It all begins with a blurred photograph. Leaves, flowers, branches… Clément Davout takes pleasure in capturing fragments of everyday life during his strolls through the vegetated edens of the capital. At first glance, the works resemble cyanotypes in which layers of oil paint – lightly brushed – follow one another with dexterity. In other […]
LIGHT MY FIRE, SETS FIRE TO GALERIE KETABI BOURDET
France – Paris Until September 23, fire sets the Ketabi Bourdet gallery ablaze. From Peter Klasen to Gilles Derain and Jo Fish, some twenty works combining art and design are featured in an exhibition entitled “Light My Fire”. Discover it. As soon as we enter, Elisabeth Garouste’s Flammes en faïence sets the tone. Situated between […]
LAURA LAMIEL
THE ART OF TENSION Paris – France Chills are guaranteed in the dark basement of the Palais de Tokyo, where Laura Lamiel is at work. Magnificent in its play of reflections and frightening at the same time, the visual artist’s first installation will leave you breathless: Immaculately white, a vast expanse of crushed glass, bristling […]
LAURENT LAFOLIE, BEYOND THE PORTRAIT
FRANCE – PARIS Looking into the eyes of the faces photographed by Laurent Lafolie gives us a very strange, indefinable sensation, an uncomfortable je ne sais quoi. A vain attempt, in fact, since it proves impossible to fix these elusive gazes. And for good reason: they don’t belong to anyone, or rather, they are the […]
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 […]