The Cosmic Joke by Georgia Fee Werner Reiterer at Galerie Loevenbruck
October 16th - November 21st
Posted
11/17/09
The intimacy of a drawing always appeals to me. The touch of the hand is near; the impulse of the artist reveals itself more easily in drawing. The fragility of paper further lends to this air of tender familiarity. Drawings allow for a conversation between the artist and viewer that is less distanced than other mediums; we peer in like a forensic investigator to observe the fine details, the lines, the erasures, the tremor in the hand or the ferocity of a mark. I often have the fe... [more]
I have to admit I had not heard of Pierre Soulages before I saw the poster for his latest exhibition at the Pompidou Center. This, together with the fact I didn’t feel as though I spent enough time with the later paintings in the final rooms of the exhibition, makes my thoughts and impressions of his work seem incomplete.My disclaimers aside, as I walked around the chronologically organized exhibition, watching the paintings get larger and larger, I was overwhelmed by how very un-Fren... [more]
I have never been a fan of Shirin Neshat’s work: she is one of those artists that I think is very overrated, someone who exploits her Iranian background to win the attention of those who matter in the art world. She is, afterall, an upper-middle class, Berkeley educated woman living in New York City who makes images about female oppression in the Islamic world, claiming legitimacy on the basis of her Iranian roots. Why then, do I keep going back to see her work? Because I keep thinking, w... [more]
Surrealist Photography by Abhilasha Singh Antonin Artaud, Hans Bellmer, Jacques-André Boiffard, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Claude Cahun, Paul Eluard, Benjamin Fondane, Artür Harfaux, Georges Hugnet, Léo Malet, Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, Raoul Ubac at Centre Pompidou
September 23rd - January 11th, 2010
Posted
11/2/09
Centre Pompidou presents La Subversion des images Surrealism, photography, film. This exhibition brings together nearly 400 works, giving us a rare overview of surrealist photography. A broad selection of the finest proofs by Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Raoul Ubac, Jacques-André Boiffard, Maurice Tabard will be shown alongside rarely seen images which reveal a number of surrealist ways of using photography, such as publications in magazines or artists' books, advertiseme... [more]
MAN WITH NO NAMEDuration : 52 minutesSupport: vidéoDirector : WANG Bing (China)
The film is still in production. Wang Bing presents a state of his researches in a study of this film. This study has been projected at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2008 in the frame of the Cahiers du Cinéma's Festival, where it meets with popular and critical acclaim. The final version will be presented at the Galerie Chantal Crousel in October 2009, on the occasion of the first solo show of the... [more]
The story of a tyro… or the extraordinary adventure of Monsieur Garcin seen by a gallerist who is still under the shockGilbert Garcin is a tyro who this year will be celebrating his eightieth birthday and fifteen years of a dazzling career. In honor of this event, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire presents a retrospective of Garcin's work and will publish a handsome volume from his favourite publisher, Filigranes.
It may seem absurd, or even out of place, to speak of Monsieur Garcin a... [more]
Praz-Delavallade is pleased to present a series of erotic drawings from Jim Shaw, Wet Dreams, Erotic Dream Drawings, which come from the larger series, Dream Drawings, that Shaw has worked on for years.
Jim Shaw began inventoryinghis dreams first by writing them down and then by recording them into a Walkman. In 1992 he initiated a series of pencil drawings based on these dreams (approximately five hundred drawings now comprise the series). On identical 12- by 9-inch sheets of paper, e... [more]
For his new solo exhibition at art : concept, Jean-Luc Blanc selected some paintings and drawings from 1986 to 2009.
The title of the show, You will make me happy, works as a biblical injunction, a reversed command. The works have been organized in two sections, the viewer first comes in the room where the 13 coloured drawings polyptych is hung in a single line, counterbalancing the random display of the next wall. Opposite to the polyptych, there are three black and white drawings: a fennec, a carafe and a... [more]
Following and following by ArtSlant Team Trisha Donnelly, Claire Fontaine, Liam Gillick, Ann Veronica Janssens, Ben Kinmont, M/M (Paris), Moriceau & Mrzyk, Philippe Parreno, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Lily van der Stokker at Air de Paris
September 5th - December 19th
Posted
10/27/09
One thing after another: an exhibition, an art fair, a glass of good wine, an episode from an American TV series. But each item on the list conjures up what follows: the next exhibition (will it be as good, or better?), the next art fair (who'll be there this time?), the next glass of wine (the last?), and the next episode (bring on the one after!). Each of these follow-ups has its own inner logic: each new element either replaces the previous one (the TV series), adds to it (the wine)... [more]
1) - Is Enz a pseudonym?
- Chose this name in 1978, while being psychologically wuxing (Japanese mushin), for phonetics: the noise which an object launched in l' could make; space. Then domiciled with Antwerp, j' noted qu' in Dutch the Enz orthography was the diminutive of and will cetera. Taking into consideration my successive existence in this life, this name corresponded to me perfectly.
2) Why Art of Self?
- In 1974, I noted by reading Essais on the Zen Buddhism, of Japanese Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, that... [more]
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