Category Archives: Museum

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Category Archives: Museum

Third Mind at Palais de Tokyo

Unviersity of Arts London

Highlights from the Tate Modern

Turbine Hall Tate Modern

David Rokeby Profiling at Whitney

Pierre and Gilles double je at Jeu de Paume

Rudolf Stingel at the Whitney New York

Stephen Andrews Cartoon

Steven Shearer at Power Plant Toronto

ROMAIN OSI exhibition Uscita at Maison Europeenne de la Photo Paris

TULSA VS HARLEM Larry Clark in Martine Barrat’s neighbourhood

GIACOMETTI at the Centre Pompidou Paris

DANIEL RICHTER German New Expressionist painters

Paulette Phillips

Victor Alimpiev at Belgrade City Museum

Walid Raad

Jennifer Allora + Guillermo Calzadilla