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Barbara Prézeau and Inés Tolentino at JM’Arts

April 6, 2008 by ArtJetSet

I had never heard of the The JM’Arts gallery at 36, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, walking past I was loured in by the glittering icons in Barbara Prézeau’s painting in the front window. This exhibition featured to female artists of west Caribean origins, Prézeau from Haiti, and Inés Tolentino from the Domincan Republic. In an adherently feminist method, both artists use embroidery in their works. Prézeau creates complex alters to the Virgin Mary. Her use of mashup mixed media, found […]

Categories: Paris, Uncategorized • Tags: Barbara Prézeau, Inés Tolentino, JM’Arts

Galerie Agnes B PostPunk ColdWave

April 5, 2008 by ArtJetSet

DANSEZ!! Glowed in the entrance of the collective show at Agnes B Galerie du Jour!Featuring music, photos, and memoriabilia about the music scene in France from 1978-1983.This exhibition is a fun. Polaroids, concert posters, and listen rare or unreleased listening stations, gives a priviledged glance into a great musical era! Also a remarkable indicator of the current revival in Post punk ColdWave, seen in new music and fashion. I could relate to this show as North American doing Blondie and […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Agnes b, Cold Wave, Phillipe Huart, Post Punk

Toronto Sculpture Garden

April 3, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Since its inauguration 1983, strange and wonderful things have been growing in Toronto’s Sculpture Garden. The current exhibition is a giant mushroom, of which the interior serves as the artist Katie Bethune-Leaman’s studio space. Mushroom Studio, is a vague reference to the phenomenon-tradition of towns construct emblematic objects as tourist attractions (yeah…. we all have photos of the Big Apple off the 401West bound), which was recently parodied in beer commercial.

Categories: Installations • Tags: Katie Bethune-Leaman, mushroom studio, Toronto Sculpture Gardens

Fashion Photographers Bruna Kazinoti and Sara Wilmer

April 1, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Two great fashion photographers to keep our eyes wide open for : Sarah Wilmer Bruna Kazinoti

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Bruna Kazinoti, Sara Wilmer

Food For Thought

April 1, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Finally went to the Centre Culturel Suisse, in the heart of the marais, its a space dedicated to art culture and performance with lots of interestings thing happening all the time. I saw a disaster sculpture show, looks like it was run by toddlers of hardcore folkart enthousiasts!!! horrible horrible scarrrrrry pottery. I LOVED the banana peel sculpture and the snowman. Naive but it says something about temporality, banal jokes, and banana/carrot/ mmmmmm smoothie!!! I’m hungry, and I LOVE cake!!! […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: BlackBox, Centre Culturel Suisse, hand knit cake, Palais de Tokyo

Cellar Door Loris Greaud

March 27, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Cellar Door has two phases, ON and OFF. I had had the unfortunate yet sublime pleasure to experience Cellar Door on OFF. The entire of the Palais de Tokyo is assumed by the works of Loris Greaud. There is an industrial garage door, you stand in front of the motion sensor, and the door lifts. Combination of sound and light installations, I’m sure its spectacular when ON. The dark forest felt straight out of Tim Burton’s Nightmare before Christmas. Paintings […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Cellar Door, Loris Greaud, Palais de Tokyo

Mobile Art – Hermes HBox

March 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Director of Artists Space New York, Benjamin Weil and French fashion house Hermes, pair up in launching HBox, which was on view at Paris’ Centre Pompidou and will travel throughout Europe. In the Hbox, are presented video works by artists from various cultural backgrounds, discussing those exact issues, cultural diversity. Alice Anderson, Yael Bartana, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Dora Garcia, Judith Kurtag, Valerie Mrejen, and Su-Mei Tse. After Chanel and Hermes, do we see a future collaboration in fashion houses superseding […]

Categories: Installations • Tags: Hbox, Hermes

Mobile Art – Chanel and Zaha Hadid

March 23, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Everyone is excited about Chanel Contemporary art Container by Zaha Hadid. Its mobile art looks like a spaceship, and houses artworks by Nobuyoshi Araki, the Russian Collective Blue, Sophie Calle, Jean Cocteau, Lipchitz and Diaghilev. Designed by the hot architect of the moment Zaha Hadid, it is inspired by the “mattlasse” quilting of the iconic madamoiselle chanel bag. First landing in Star Ferry Car Park in central Hong Kong, and then travelling around the world.

Categories: Installations • Tags: Chanel, Mobile art, Zaha Hadid

Philippe Bradshaw at Thaddaeus Ropac

March 23, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Philippe Bradshaw hangs coloured chains to create these stunning vibrant murals or more like tapistry.Using Pop Art Warhol-esque symbols and icons, other times superimposing video projections, the layers of chains which create a massive swaying tableau.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Philippe Bradshaw, Thaddeaus Ropac

Exhibitions in Paris

March 23, 2008 by ArtJetSet

April in Paris, its raining…. why not check out … Elmgreen & Dragset, amorphose sculptures dressed by the biggest couturiers in Paris, at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 76 rue Turenne, 3e. Allan Sekula, short films and photographic works about workforce and labour at Galerie Michel Rein, 42 rue Turenne, 3e Gilles Barbier makes the imaginary and fantastic visible in lifelike sculpture at Espace Claude Berri, 4 Passage Sainte Avoye, Paris 3e Laurina Paperina, cartoonesque, humouristic commentaries like how to kill a […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Espace Claude Berri, Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson, Galerie 208, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Galerie Magda Danysz, Galerie Michel Rein

Fashion Houses and Art

March 18, 2008 by ArtJetSet

It is not a secret that there is a relation between fashion and art. What is becoming a dominant trend is the obvious unions of great fashion houses with contemporary artists. In collaborations, as seen when fashion designer Marc Jacobs assumed creative direction of Louis Vuitton, hiring Takashi Murakami to design the prints for the 2005 Spring/Summer collection. An recent collaboration with painter Richard Prince for this season 2008 collection We have also seen Michael Elmgreen and Ingmar Dragset who […]

Categories: Foundation • Tags: Elmgreen and Dragset, Louis Vuitton, Prada Marfa

Grafitti and Linguistics – Casse-Toi

March 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

When refused a handshake, French President Nicolas Sarkozy angrily responded “Casse-toi Pauvre Con”. Shortly after, the non-French speaking world asked “what is the translation of Casse-toi, and the french newspaper Le Monde responded in a hilarious article of how this phrase was translated by newspapers around the world. The Herald Tribune wrote “Then piss off you bloody idiot” and the AFT as “Then get lost, you stupid bastard.” French profanity at its best, Casse-toi Pauvre Con in the ruelles of […]

Categories: Graffiti, Paris, Street Art • Tags: casse toi pauvre con

Art in the Streets of Paris – Buren and Bourgois

March 13, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Daniel Buren ‘s black and white marble columns were installed in the Cours de Palais Royale in 1986. C’est beau. A dominant theme in his works, a dialogue between the art in the museum confines and out, a modernized mirror of the columns and arcades which surround the works. In 1986 when the work was comissioned for the space, as typical French tradition, it created a scandal, modern art’s place within the cours behind the Comedie Francaise. Now, 2008 the […]

Categories: Ashley Higgins, Installations • Tags: ashley Higgins, Buren, Louis Bourgois, Palais Royale, Spider, Tuilleries

Candida Hofer at Yvon Lambert

March 12, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Candida Hofer is part of the new wave of large scale photographers. These massive photographs interogate the sensation, conditions, and the notion of space and how space is represented. At Yvon Lambert, the photos exhibited are locations in France, like the BNF national library, and the Hall of Mirrors in Versaille. The complete absence of human presence in these still historic lieux.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Candida Hofer, Yvon Lambert Paris

TEN MUST SEE PARIS GALLERIES

March 6, 2008 by ArtJetSet

1. La Maison RougeLocated in a former industrial building, the gallery was conceived by its founder Antoine de Galbert in 2003. The exhibitions are often organised by independent guest curators, providing challenging or controversial shows but nonetheless always notable in their contribution to the current contemporary art scene in Paris. Next door is a branch of Bookstorming – a great haunt for art book lovers.· 10, Boulevard de la Bastille, 75012, lamaisonrouge.org, +33 1 40 01 08 81. Artists: Luc […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Agnes b, Galerie des Galeries, Galerie Georges Philippe, Galerie Pierre Alain Challier, Galerie Xippas, Gallerie Agathe Gaillard, Le Plateau, Maison Rouge Paris, Marian Goodman, Rassage de Retz

Third Mind at Palais de Tokyo

March 4, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The exhibition Third Mind, curated by Ugo Rondinone, is what he considers a “way to harmonize exhibition of various works was to imagine, by a mode of self reflection, the global concept of organic chaos”. Basically means everything and nothing at the same time, giving way to an interesting assortment of artistic endeavours. With many random abstract sculptures, installation rooms with nothing notable. The works I found the most compelling were the paintings Madonna, and Birch Trees by Joe Brainard, […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Joe Brainard, Palais de Tokyo, Sarah Lucas, Third Mind, Ugo Rondinone, Valentin Carron

Spring Studios London Gallery Inauguration

March 4, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Spring Studios in London is where many of the important fashion editorials are shot. With great anticipation Spring Studios has launched a gallery exhibition space, inaugurating the opening is impressive Norwegian photographer, Solve Sundsbo. Sundsbo’s portraits are often very simple, constructing an architecture of the body. This is a great concept for the state of contemporary photography. As fashion photographers gradually gain esteem in the acedemic threshold, launching galleries in conjunction with studios!! bravo Spring Studios!!

Categories: London • Tags: Solve Sundsbo, Spring Studio London

Tim Nobel and Sue Webster at Gagosian London

March 3, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Gagosian on Davies Street London, its more of a Vitrine than a gallery. The perfect location to exhibit the works of Tim Nobel and Sue Webster, famous for their trash heap sculptures which produce hyper realistic shadows on the wall. Their sculptural works are a sardonic commentary on narcissistic nature of consumer society. Sacrificial Heart, is a large rotating sculpture, it spins as the lights roll on and off. A take off on Vegas and tatoos, shot gun weddings […]

Categories: London • Tags: Gagosian London, Sue Webster, Tim Nobel

Unviersity of Arts London

March 2, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Good Work is a collection of paintings by students who studied under professor of painting Clyde Hopkins, at University of the Arts London. We see all the local London heros of the contemporary painting, like Peter Doig, Chris Ofili. As well as some stunning works by recent graduates and masters teacher assitants. Chantel Joffe’s tiny paintings, her use of think palet knife strokes and somber colours conveys a solmness of the lone seated girl. Martin Westwood pen an ink graphic […]

Categories: London • Tags: Chantal Joffe, Chris Ofili, Nicky Hoberman, Peter Doig, University of Arts London

Highlights from the Tate Modern

February 29, 2008 by ArtJetSet

In a recent visit to the Tate Modern, there are almost interesting nouveaute!! I really liked Dieter Roth’s 6 Piccadillies (yes, I liked these 4 of the 6 the best). An interogation of different ways of representing and painting the same scene. Steve McQueen’s Drum Roll. McQueen won the Turner Prize in 1999. This inovative video he put 3 video cameras in a steel barrel and rolled it through the streets of New York City. Negotiating our way through a […]

Categories: London • Tags: Cheri Samba, Dieter Roth, Steve McQueen, Tate Modern

Turbine Hall Tate Modern

February 27, 2008 by ArtJetSet

There are always interesting things happening in Tate Modern Turbine Hall. LIVE : LIVING CURRENCY, a two-day exhibition of performance art in contemporary dance. X-Event 2 autonomous units imposing the limitations of the individual in awareness of a place. The dancers move slowly and thoughtfully around and towards each other. Subtly touching, holding, posing, spitting, creating the distance and the interconnections between the whole and the individual. Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth, a crack that starts at the entrance of the Turbine […]

Categories: London, Uncategorized • Tags: Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth, Turbine Hall Tate Modern

Kim Dorland at Angell Gallery

February 25, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Kim Dorland, fantastic landscape in gestural dynamic technique. The colours are intense and the shadows are better. The layering effect seems to be a new trend in contemporary painting. Like Daniel Richter, Dorland uses a spray paint grafitti technique which gives these large works a dynamic relevance. Angell gallery is one of my perfered galleries in Toronto.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Angell Gallery, Kim Dorland, Toronto Art

Costa Dvorsky at Engine Gallery

February 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Engine Gallery was so kind as to let me take a last glance of the Costa Dvorsky exhibition after it was finish and half taken down. The title of the show is Jump. Children diving and jumping into colourfield abstractions. Vivid and explosive, the temperment of fearless youth. I love this exhibit, great work. Its refreshing to come out of an exhibition and feel dynamic. The movement of the figures, the explosive energetic texture of the grounds, the fluidity and […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Costa Dvorsky, Engine Gallery, Jump

Michael Burges Reverse Glass paintings

February 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Stunning technique on display at Galerie Lausberg. Michael Burges paints energetic layers on to plexiglass, once dried they are sandwiched together resulting in a tenacity of movement in abstraction.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Galerie Lausberg, Michael Burges

David Rokeby Profiling at Whitney

February 1, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Such a pleasure to see an exhibition by David Rokeby, I went to see a lecture given by him when I was a university student at York University.Profiling is an interesting commentary on ‘the war on terrorism’ and the use of technology and survielance videos and photography to create digital profiles. Commenting on privacy and identity. The space with two large screens, one traces ghostly shadows by a camera which registers heat emmisions within the room. This projection is looped […]

Categories: New York • Tags: David Rokeby, Profiling, Whitney New York

David Lynch The Air is On Fire

January 30, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Foundation Cartier presents The Air is On Fire, the first and unique exhibition of paintings and artworks created by the celebrated cult film maker David Lynch. The exhibition was massive, and divided into rooms according to media. The main floor was dedicated to massive paintings which incorporated paint, clothing, found objects, and at times human waste into a life size ground positioning the viewers in the midst of a conflictual moment. The use of text as dialogue narrated the paintings […]

Categories: Foundation • Tags: David Lynch, Foundation Cartier Paris, Paintings, Photographs

Ruud Van Empel at Rabouan Moussion

January 30, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Ruud Van Empel sweet tender photo portraits of children in a fantastic mythical landscape created by layering digital images. This show was just sickly sweet. Children and innocence in a techno-coloured Garden of Eden. Always a great presentation from Rabouan Moussion Gallery

Categories: Paris • Tags: Rabouan Moussion, Ruud Van Empel

Pierre and Gilles double je at Jeu de Paume

January 21, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Jeu de Paume is an ideal lunch break gallery, The lightness of the structure and the upbeat exhibitions is always a pleasure to see. Especially, Pierre and Gilles, dynamic duo of French photographers that fit together better than Batman and Robin. Super Kitch, vibrant colourful, almost plastic quality of their photos. Their use of icons and subjects or celebrities as icons, Pierre and Gilles manage to create an extraordinary body of work on display in this retrospective. Partners in […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Jeu de Paume, Pierre and Gilles

Tabaimo at Fondation Cartier

January 21, 2008 by ArtJetSet

At Foundation Cartier, Tabiamo uses videos and narrow space to reconfigure the gallery into the interior of a Japanese commuter train. The layout of the space, films projected onto the walls, gives the participatory sensation to the viewer of actually being a passanger in the hallucinatory train. As the landscape streams past in the windows, passengers board and disembark, strange things begin to happen. People sleep, disembodied hands fly through the train compartments, giant sushi roll through the wagon, riders […]

Categories: Foundation • Tags: Foundation Cartier Paris, Tabiamo

Damien Hirst at Gagosian New York

January 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

St. Paul’s, Duomo, set of 8 silk screen prints, glazed the sprinkled with diamond dust. Damien Hirst interprets famous church stain glass by kalidescopic butterfly silkscreens. This is a refreshing change from typical Damien Hirst oeuvre. The Gagosian Madison Avenue, gives us a small Hirst show romantic illusion to relgion, beautiful works. I saw a recent exhibition at the White Cube where Hirst used the same technique with silkscreened blood cells, collaging human hair and scalpel blades upon the canvas […]

Categories: London • Tags: Damien Hirst, Gagosian New York, White Cube

Old School at Zwirner & Wirth New York

January 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Zwiner & Wirth Gallery in New York summer exhibition, Old School, presents an imaginative look at Dutch old masters reinterpreted by the phenomenon of contemporary artists appropriating and re-interpreting these old school themes and imagery. Showing how contemporary painting has borrowed from historical cannons of portaiture creating a very beautiful and thoughtful show. Glen Brown’s paintings with a sultry velvty texture of painting. Glen Brown’s use of Dutch momento mori iconography, of still life and musical instruments. Djordje Ozbolt […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Berlinda de Bruyckere, Djordje Ozbolt, Elizabeth Peyton, Glen Brown, John Currin, Zwirner Wirth

Rudolf Stingel at the Whitney New York

January 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Rudolf Stingel an awe inspiring exhibition at the Whitney in New York is a visually tactile experience. Stingel interogates the surface and integrity of painting in several forms, creating an exhibition that at once reflective, velvety, dull, punctured, yet vibrant and constantly radiating. Golden wall paper of a sultry velour like texture prints, mirrored floors, large black sultry portraits titled Portraits of Sam. Soiled carpets for wall paper. Abstract paintings of silver varnish layered on red and white grounds. Aluminum […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Rudolf Stingel, Whitney New York

Sander Gallery Berlin

January 13, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Sander Collection has an extensive collection of German Expressionist like artists Nolde. I was met by a pleasant surprise to see an impressive show considering Women and the Female prespective, curated by Monika Nowak. Brilliant harmony of strong female artists, like Marlene Dumas ink was portraits which I adore, Vanessa Beecroft photos, and a sculpture by Kiki Smith. A nice harmony of representations of women from this very interesting private collection.

Categories: Private Collection • Tags: Kiki Smith, Marlene Dumas, Sander Gallery, Vanessa Beecroft

James Gortner at Pool Gallery Berlin

January 13, 2008 by ArtJetSet

I came across The Pool Gallery by chance and was really impressed by the Darkside Portraits by James Gortner. Very obviously american painter, Gortner portaits document and simultaneously personify the lives of the living in a Harlem crack house. Created by layering paintings, found objects, with the mix of materials, canvas, wood, and gaps, Gortner’s paintings have a true life. With the worn and dejected feeling of his choice of media contrastly the figures represented are jovial and dignified.

Categories: Berlin • Tags: James Gortner, Pool Gallery Berlin

Jeff Wall at Guggenheim Berlin

January 13, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Guggenheim Berlin, I am always slightly surprised at how tiny the floor space is in this gallery. The gallery shop is nearly the same size as the exhibition space. Jeff Wall is most recognized for his large scale photos mounted on light boxes. Thematics dealing with a cinematographic stolen moment of subtle chaos or uncomfortable intimate situations which displaces the viewer amongst the scene. These black and white works by Jeff Wall at the Guggenheim, the solitude of seemingly […]

Categories: Berlin • Tags: Guggenheim Berlin, Jeff Wall

Stephen Andrews Cartoon

January 10, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Stephan Andrews exhibit lined one wall in its entire longer with hand drawn film stills the other projected a short animated film. Using crayon drawings on mylar he creates stills relating to media and internet. One wall cover in still frames, starting off dark and obscured, mounting into a rolling hill cut by a dark path, a deer , headlights, and a bumper. On the facing wall, a 45second annimated film the accumulation of all the stills. The grain technique […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Power Plant Toronto, Stephen Andrews

Steven Shearer at Power Plant Toronto

January 10, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Vancouver’s Steven Shearer presents three artistic themes in his colourful exhibition at the PowerPlant. Massive collage of pictures and photocopies archived from off the internet portrait a sublime allusion to the movement looks and attitude of 1970s heavymetal. Taking the form of one large framed montage or entire walls filled with individually framed photos of retouched artifacts, setlists, photos and anecdotes. Heavy metal hairdoes, youth culture and the proliferation of a subculture on the internet. Contrastly, Shearer draws (in bic […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Power Plant Toronto, Steven Shearer

SOPHIE CALLE

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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

ROMAIN OSI exhibition Uscita at Maison Europeenne de la Photo Paris

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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

PAX PALOSCIA at Addict Galerie Paris

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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