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FIAC – Highlights

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 so easily with.

Breakfast reconsidered. Table is cigarettes and cherry pie by Hans Op De Beeck or Cherry Pie by Claus Oldenburg…. yummmmy and still reflective of the still life and the collective memory and the pop contemporary ideals of family and consumption.

Nelio Sonego, the only new abstract works I was drawn towards.

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FIAC – Paris Body Politics

26 Nov

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 + Me
Black 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 so the duration filled 24 hours) creating film installations renegotiating concept of fluidity, time, and memory.

This photographic work maintains the same ominous Gordon feeling, staying tres film noir. I love the titles, bravo Douglas Gordon.

Thomas Hirschhorn, Every Wound is My Wound Bullet riddled gruesome photo collage montage of pornography, tits and ass in the typically Hirschorn way.

Kendell Geers. We saw 7 Deadly Sins at the Venice Biennale. The walls and Buddah were covered using the same mirrored geometric typography as 7 Deadly Sins, Geers approaches with a more explicit, the word FUCK creating this very linear pattern.