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TULSA VS HARLEM Larry Clark in Martine Barrat’s neighbourhood

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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 at the Gagosian London

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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Trine Lise Nedreaas installation Underbelly at Galerie Eva Hober Paris

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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ANSELM KIEFER Falling Stars at the Grand Palais Paris

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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RUT BLEES LUXEMBURG at Dominique Fiat Gallerie Paris

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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GIACOMETTI at the Centre Pompidou Paris

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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JAMIE SHOVLIN at Haunch of Vension London

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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DANIEL RICHTER German New Expressionist painters

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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

December 6, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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FIAC – Highlights

December 3, 2007 by ArtJetSet

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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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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