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Chunk Paintings
by E-Slant Team
Paul Henry Ramirez at Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard
June 6th - July 25th
Posted
6/29/09
Jean-Luc & Takako Richard are pleased to announce the opening of Chunk, Paul Henry Ramirez’s third solo show in Europe. This young New York based artist will be showing paintings from his new series. Following a collective exhibition entitled Biomorphic Abstraction at the Curt Marcus Gallery in 1998, the term ‘Biomorphic Abstraction’ has since been used by art critics to describe the work of Paul Henry Ramirez. He draws and paints dynamic abstract compositions that look like internal an... [more]
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Seeing Through the Grand World
by Frances Guerin
Andy Warhol at Grand Palais
March 18th - July 13th
Posted
6/11/09
The idea of yet another Andy Warhol exhibition was greeted by me with a sigh of under-expectation. After the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, which I did not see, but heard was underwhelming, I was not expecting too much from the recent Warhol fever in Paris, including the current exhibition at the Grand Palais. However, I am pleased to say, I was pleasantly surprised, even excited, by the opportunity to rediscover my admiration for Warhol.
Even though I have seen hi... [more]
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Magic cast in stone
by Frances Guerin
Jimmie Durham at Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC
January 30th - April 12th
Posted
3/7/09
This is conceptual art – if indeed that is what it is – at its best. The exhibition surveys Durham’s last fifteen years, that is, since he moved to Europe in 1994. There are a variety of sculptures, paintings, installations, videos, performances and photographs, all of which cohere around the stone. Real stones are thrown, on display, used in performance pieces (for example as a passenger in a hand crafted boat), they are carved, imbued with metaphoric and symbolic meaning, ev... [more]
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The Zen-Appeal of Found Objects
by Kate Lemay
Ian Pedigo at Galerie Carlos Cardenas
January 31st - March 7th
Posted
2/9/09
Ian Pedigo’s solo show of his new work, “The State of Before As Its Form” at Gallery Cardenas Bellanger, is a sure treat for anyone interested in Minimalist sculpture. Not only is half-owner Carlos Cardenas friendly and delightfully conversant in art historical and other possible references for the work of Pedigo, but the gallery is located in one of Paris’s more picturesque streets, rue Quincampoix, in the 4th arrondissement.
Although Pedigo seems to have a barrage of foun... [more]
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