November | 2007 | Art.Jet.Set

FIAC – Paris Body Politics

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

FIAC, Foire International D’Art Contemporain, Every October, Paris holds its annual contemporary art fair. This year the locations were divided between Grand Palais and Cour Carree Du Louvre Aside from the usual, too much abstract art, the provocative compelling works dealt with body politic. Douglas Gordon, Portrait of You + MeBlack and White photos mounted on mirror, with strategic holes burnt in them.Douglas Gordon is most reputable for his monumental video installations, like 24 Hour Psycho (slowed down Hitchcock’s film […]

Categories: FIAC - Foire Internationale D'Art Contemporaine Paris, Venice Biennale • Tags: Douglas Gordon, FIAC, Kendell Geers, Thomas Hirschhorn, Vik Muniz

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BEST OF GIARDINI

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

USAFelix Gonzalez-Torres used 700 lbs of individually wrapped licorice in an analogy to missiles and oil, pariotism and capitolism . His use of these dark multiples, manufactured goods, and strings of lightbulbs, playing with the idea of candy is a sinister melange of sweets and darkness. Did anyone else see this guy in the Padiglione Italia? He was walking a mechanical dog on a leash…. bon, bref. He also obscured my shot of Sigmar Polke stunning painting…. rather pigment on […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: Felix Gonzalez Torres, Giardini, Isa Genzken, Maariya Wirkkala, Sigmar Polke, Tracy Emin, Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale – CANADA

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

CANADA Lets be honest, I am Canadian and I love Canada, but the exterior of the pavillion looks like an outhouse!!David Altmejd creates a hallucinatory architectural environment mixing glass mirrors with natural elements businessman bodies with bird heads all culminating in Giant an anthropomorphic commentary on man nature and our highspeed society.

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: Canada, David Altmejd, Venice Biennale

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Russia – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Last Riot a triptych digital video created by the collective called AES+F (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky + Evgeny Svyatsky).Using very basic computer graphics , the montaged segmented videos showing in digitized computer animation, animals birds and reptiles cut by sceens of desert with army jeeps, then vast arctic landscapes of torso-nu children fighting in slow motion with baseball bats and golf clubs. An apocalyptic view of modern society corruption and video games. Contrastly, Audrey Bartenev Lost Connection spun […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: AES+F, Russia, Venice Biennale

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Venezuela – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Photographer Antonio Briceno exhibition titled Gods of America. Pensive and heroic, these portraits reconsider our role in the landscape.

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: Antonio Briceno, Venezuela, Venice Biennale

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London Street Graffiti

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

This is me… yes we love Keith Haring, Basquait, and since the proliferation of BANKSY…. the streets of London are painted with anecdotes like this one…. humourous witty and stylized

Categories: Ashley Higgins, Graffiti, London, Street Art • Tags: ashley Higgins, Banksy, Graffiti, London

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Best of African Pavillion – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Algeria’s Philippe Parreno, an empty room the ceiling filled with black helium filled speach bubble balloons. Haiti’s Mario Benjamin Sublime emotive portraits. Kendell Geers 7 Deadly Sins http://www.youtube.com/get_player MOUNIR FATMI – Save Manhattan 03 An assemblage of speakers old and new lined up in the middle of the space. The subtility is what gives this work its bulldozing effect, a massive spotlight casts from the speakers a shadow reminiscent of the Manhattan skyline. The voice of the iconic city floods […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: African Pavillion, Kendell Geers, mounir fatmi, Philippe Parreno, Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale – African Pavillion

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

The African Pavillion was the highlight of the Arsenale. In the first niche, we enter the African Pavillion, in the center of the room a table with a heavy leather book whose large pages wait blank, settled in the binding a black marker. A digital projector reflected its pages upon the wall, with the caption “Art Africain Pourquoi Faire” I found this compelling challenging and provoking!!! Pourquoi faire….. to do a lot of things!!! Tragically, either the pavillion’s visitors didnt […]

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Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

The Venice Biennale, title theme THINK WITH THE SENSES FEEL WITH THE MIND, curated by Robert Storr. The biennale is divided into two main playgrounds, The Arsenale – a series of connected warehouse spaces VS the Giardini where each country has a house in which they present their most acclaimed artist. Storr quotes as saying the theme is to present the dichotomies between the perceptive and the conceptual, between thought and sentiment. Less descretly the undertone of the Arsenale presented […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Canevari, Ganihar, Jang Zhen Zhang, Robert Storr, Venice Biennale

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Paulette Phillips

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Increadable film installation by Toronto based artist Paulette Phillips Crosstalk. As if we stand still and the world spins around us. Phillips films crosswalks of a busy intersection, speed of life and technology wizz around us.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Paulette Phillips, Power Plant Toronto

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Victor Alimpiev at Belgrade City Museum

November 24, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Exhibition Art, Life, Confusion at the Belgrade City Museum, Serbia Victor Alimpiev in Summer Lightenings films slowly rolling close ups and then pans out, a room full of school children seated at their desks. Ten little fingers start drumming…. then ten more, and more…. they all begin rapping and rolling on table tops, all at once accumulating into a triumphant harmony of a thundering rain storm. Their eyes widen and locks of blond hair fall like bolts of lightening, as […]

Categories: Museum • Tags: Alimpiev, Belgrade City Museum, Victor Alimpiev, video installation

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Walid Raad

November 24, 2007 by ArtJetSet

I Only Wish I Could Weep In our society of CCTV, we don’t notice all the cameras noticing us. The video montage of sunsets in I Only Wish I Could Weep inspires a sensitivity remarkably simple but so warming and profound. The montage is peiced together by feed from a security camera set to monitor the boardwalk along the coast in Beyrouth. Each day at sunset the unnamed security guard would divert away from surveillance….. panning across the still waves, […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: I only wish I could Weed, Maison Rouge, Walid Raad

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Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla

November 24, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Returning a Sound The first time I saw this video installation was during a show at the Maison Rouge, called Un Vision Du Monde. Approaching the doorway to the Allora + Calzadilla niche, a quiet rummbling murmur grew stronger and stronger…. The video projected on a small screen contrasted by the big noise that filled the little space. On the screen rolling green hills cut by narrow dirt roads. We follow behind a young boy on a scooter, the mouth […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla, Masion Rouge, Paris, Returning a Sound

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Monthly Archives: November 2007

FIAC – Paris Body Politics

BEST OF GIARDINI

Venice Biennale – CANADA

Russia – Venice Biennale

Venezuela – Venice Biennale

London Street Graffiti

Best of African Pavillion – Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale – African Pavillion

Venice Biennale

Paulette Phillips

Victor Alimpiev at Belgrade City Museum

Walid Raad

Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla