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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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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Category Archives: Gallery

Exhibitions in Paris

Grafitti and Linguistics – Casse-Toi

Candida Hofer at Yvon Lambert

TEN MUST SEE PARIS GALLERIES

Spring Studios London Gallery Inauguration

Tim Nobel and Sue Webster at Gagosian London

Costa Dvorsky at Engine Gallery

Michael Burges Reverse Glass paintings

Ruud Van Empel at Rabouan Moussion

Damien Hirst at Gagosian New York

Old School at Zwirner & Wirth New York

James Gortner at Pool Gallery Berlin

Jeff Wall at Guggenheim Berlin

SOPHIE CALLE

PAX PALOSCIA at Addict Galerie Paris

JEFF KOONS at the Gagosian London

Trine Lise Nedreaas installation Underbelly at Galerie Eva Hober Paris

ANSELM KIEFER Falling Stars at the Grand Palais Paris

RUT BLEES LUXEMBURG at Dominique Fiat Gallerie Paris

JAMIE SHOVLIN at Haunch of Vension London

London Street Graffiti