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67 days to Unhappiness, Sophie Calle photographs her made and unmade bed counting the days post altercation with her lover. The icon of “my bed” is a tender one. Redundant return, new awakenings, nightmares and aspirations of a new day, Sophie Calle series are repetative but remain sentimental and introspective, as Sophie Called does heartbreak best.
Categories: Paris • Tags: Sophie Calle
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Rolling thousands of kilometers during the night, Romain Osi photographs radiate the blur of neon gas station lights and truckstops that makes the hunger for a shotgun midnight roadtrip grow in your stomach and ache in heart.A narrow room, sides lined with photos radiating a luminous red-orange glow, crowned by a video of the streaming night highway.The clever part of this show was the viewfinder of our childhood’s past, this little box of darkness with mini-slides of the exhibited photographs […]
Categories: Paris • Tags: MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, Romain Osi
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Pax Paloscia presented a very sweet naive, yet tres rock and roll painting exhibit at the Addict Galerie in Paris.
Categories: Paris • Tags: Addict Galerie, Pax Paloscia
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The Maison Europeenne de la Photographie presents and interesting dialogue between Larry Clark’s sadistic triste portrayl of his kids from his home town Tulsa. An early photographic reportage of the expolitation of sex and drugs by Middle- American youth, which would set the narrative to his later films like Kids. Where Larry Clark surveys the seedy exploits of white trash Oklahoma, Martine Barrat photographs and dignifies the warmth and the exhuberance of the Black communities in Harlem, New York.
Categories: Paris • Tags: Larry Clark, Maison Europeane de la Photographie, Marine Barrat, Tulsa
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Jeff Koons new paintings at the Gagosian in London. Here is my brother Jeff and I doing our own little hommage to the HULK!! Jeff Koons has a sense of humour, especially in this vibrantly colourful exhibition featuring subject matter seemingly stolen out of a toystore. We have seen inflatable balloons by Jeff Koons in sculpture, but the exhuberance of the collaging of trains, monky heads, and the Incredable Hulk playful in a poprevolution way so uniquely Koons.
Categories: London • Tags: Gagosian London, Jeff Koons
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A tiny little gallery, Eva Hober specializes mostly in video installation works. Trine Lise Nedreaas video installation titled Underbelly, a swimmer treading water, contrasted seconds of the surface by seconds of below the water. The most provoking part of the work is the mumured underwater sound track cut by the thrashing chaotic brutal sounds from above the water’s surface. For the most part brutal, but there was a gental serenity in the moments of calming and placid legs spinning in […]
Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Eva Hober, Trine Lise Nedreaas
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The Grand Palais is stunning, the domed ceiling and the intensity of the day light adds a quality to everything it houses. So stunning and immence as Kiefer’s Sternenfall. The combination of the architectural structures and the housed spaces with walls filled from top to bottom with paintings is exemplified by the title of this series Monumenta. Anselm Kiefer was inspired by the poetry of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann whose writings reflect on the horrors and sentiments oaround Auschwitz […]
Categories: Installations, Paris • Tags: Anselm Kiefer, Grand Palais Paris, Monumenta
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At Dominique Fiat Gallery in Paris on a mild automn afternoon we meet London’s underground and the rain. Rut Blees Luxemburg follows along the Picadilley line photogaphing reflections of the tube station signs mirrored in puddles on wet sidewalks.Partly erie, partly lonesome, irridescent warm and glowing, Luxemburg adds a dimension to seemingly banal subject.
Categories: Paris • Tags: DOMINIQUE FIAT GALLERIE, Fiat Gallerie, Rut Blees Luxemburg
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A beautiful retrospective of Giacommetti’s oeuvre at The Centre Pompidou in Paris. My favorite of his works are his drawings which I find expressive and thoughtfilled. Seemingly raw and gestural, Giacommetti’s drawings are a brilliant prelude towards his sculptures. My true secret pleasure was this notebook of preliminary drawings and jotted ideas.
Categories: Paris • Tags: Centre Pompidou, Giacometti
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At London’s Haunch of Venison Gallery, a witty humorous exhibition by Jamie Shovlin. Using a wall sized map of the USA Shovlin runs a hilarious and insightful commentary on the Miss America Pagent and the famous question ” What would you do if you won Miss America?” Flagged by fortune cookie wisdom sized tags, tacked to the map with a single pin, it was hard to overlook the abundance of winners from California
Categories: London • Tags: Haunch of Venison Gallery London, Jamie Shovlin
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On my recent trip to Berlin I stopped by the Vonderbank Gallery, saw a painting exhibition by Christian Awe. The works were strongly reminiscent of Daniel Richter. These Daniel Richter paintings are part of the permanent collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. I love Richter’s paintings. The first large scale exhibition I saw of his work was Pink Flag White Horse at Toronto’s PowerPlant. It was immediately enamoured by the intensity of contrast between the grafitti like technique of […]
Categories: Paris • Tags: Christian Awe, Daniel Richter, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
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Yvon Lambert is one of my favorite commercial galleries in Paris. Few highlights from recent exhibitions there. Barbara Kruger wall paper piece in the entree. Kendell Geers carved stars into this human skull. Working with skulls seems to be the new medium for contemporary sculpture, seeing as how successfull Damien Hirst’s collaboration with Swarovski .
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Barbara Kruger, Damien Hirst, Kendell Geers, Yvon Lambert Paris
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The immense glass domed roof of the Grande Palais envelopes the stands with a warmth and increadable light that illuminates the darkest of paintings, or alternatively these fun asthetically calming pieces. Loris Cecchini, Cloudless uses plastic balls and metal wire, creates these massive organic sculptures suspended which seem to hang so naturally in the space. Nice compliment to Julian Opie’s flat landscape. Opie easily identified by his linear drawings, he represents not realism but the symbols and signs we identify […]
Categories: FIAC - Foire Internationale D'Art Contemporaine Paris • Tags: Claus Oldenburg, FIAC, Hans Op De Beeck, Julian Opie, Loris Cecchini, Nelio Sonego
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