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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Palais de Tokyo

October 8, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Gallery was transformed into a dark water filled lake, listen for the soft music playing and the splashing of oars as visitors paddled their way through the space.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Paris • Tags: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Palais de Tokyo

Palais de Tokyo Korakrit Arunandondchai and Tianzhuo Chen

October 6, 2015 by ArtJetSet

The exhibition is a colourful, twisted, pop, neon, trashy commentary on contemporary global youth culture.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Paris • Tags: Korakrit Arunandondchai, Palais de Tokyo, Tianzhuo Chen

Foundation Louis Vuitton Paris

July 31, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Categories: ArtJetSet, Paris • Tags: Andy Warhol, Isa Genzken, Louis Vuitton, Olafur Eliasson, Philippe Parreno, Richard Prince

Paris Photo Fair 2014

November 16, 2014 by ArtJetSet

Categories: Paris • Tags: Katsumi Omori, Paris Photo, Pep Duran

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Ron Mueck at Foundation Cartier

July 15, 2013 by ArtJetSet

Ron Mueck makes hyperrealistic human figures in distorted and uncomfortable scale. From very small man on a tiny pool mat, to a larger than life couple under a beach umbrella. I wrote my graduating thesis on the exploration of Ron Mueck’s sculptures through Slavoj Žižek and Lacanian psychoanalysis… yes dark, deep, and very analytical. It was a great pleasure to visit his new works; seemingly relaxed vacation mis-en-scène intimate, serene, yet surreal and uneasy.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Foundation Cartier Paris, Ron Mueck

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Palais de Tokyo: Carte Blanche All of the Above

November 18, 2011 by ArtJetSet

On of my favourite contemporary spaces, the Palais de Tokyo, is undergoing massive renovations, and during this time are hosting selective exhibitions in the atrium and main auditorium. John M Armleder curated a All Of the Above, by presenting a variety of art works by 20 different artists (including sculptures, videos, and paintings) in an non-traditional manner.  He staged the works on a multilevel platform allowing the viewer only a frontal viewpoint. This intriguing display method gave me a whole different perspective […]

Categories: Installations, Paris, Paris • Tags: John M Armleder, Palais de Tokyo

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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