| Ramuntcho Matta: Lucidtainment
Life is a variable. That is a fact. Sometimes sweet, cruel, light or complicated, it is definitely changing. It is undisputably tangible as well. This is another fact, you cannot escape reality,its alienating specificities: there, you are subjected to something vague and constant anyway.
Ramuntcho Matta has worked out his project in this context worthy of Camus. Since it is not... |
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| Traces du Sacré
With “Traces du Sacré,” already promising to be one of the major artistic events of the year, the Centre Pompidou returns to the tradition of major multidisciplinary exhibitions that made its reputation, offering a visual exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Following what has come to be called “the disenchantment of the world,” a significant strain... |
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| Cao Fei
Influenced by Manga comics, Hong Kong movies, American rap and video-games as well as traditional Chinese disciplines including opera, theatre and dance, Cao Fei combines these different cultures and examines their social consequences on present-day China.
Cao Fei is no doubt one of the most remarkable and powerful artists of this generation. Born in 1978 in Guangzhou, Cao Fei has... |
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| Christoph Weber
For his new solo show at galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Christoph Weber is presenting two new works that were created onsite. During two weeks, Christoph Weber used the gallery space as an art studio.
The first installation is composed of a group of 7 doors, each which has the upper section broken in a violent, yet identical manner. Six of the doors are exact duplicates of the original.
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| Laurent Duthion: Coefficients de réalités
Based in Rennes, artist Laurent Duthion is a confirmed experimenter with sensations, objects and environments. Intensely curious about scientific research, he works with soil and crop researchers and has spent time in the Antarctic collecting samples of odours and discovering new vegetable and
animal species.
For Duthion the question is not one of blindly applying scientific... |
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| Olivier Babin: TOUT SUR LE NOIR
Olivier Babin
Born in 1975 in Dijon, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2008 Tout sur le noir, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
2006 Nobody and Soul, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Home Sweet Home, CCC, Tours, France, curated by Judicaël Lavrador
2005 What If? So What?, Random Gallery (Air de Paris and Praz-Delavallade... |
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| Yuri Masny at Sutton Lane - Paris
Yuri Masnyj, born in 1976, lives and works in New York. His work was included in 'International Paper - Drawings by Emerging Artists' at the UCLA Hammer Museum, LA in 2002. He has had his first solo show with Metro Pictures, New York, last January and will be part of a group exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, at the end of June.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sutton Lane,... |
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| The Stamp of Fantasy
The Visual Inventivenesss of Photographic Postcards at the Start of the 20th Century
This exhibition, “La Photographie timbrée”, looks at what, several years before the illustrated press or the book, was the first medium for the mass distribution of photography: the postcard.
By 1900, photographic postcards had become hugely popular. In addition to views of towns and... |
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| Jeu de Paume Presents Eija-Liisa Ahtila
From the start of her career in the 1990s, Eija-Liisa Ahtila has been considered one of the leading proponents of “video art”. She makes films that she describes as “human dramas” in which the characters are seen grappling with their emotions, their entourage and an unstable environment.
Ahtila's working methods bring video close to cinema, notably by using its vocabulary and... |
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| David Renaud: Sagarmatha
David Renaud whose work examines the way geography is perceived and represented abstractly and concretely in map, relief, painting form, presents a personal exhibition from March 1st to April 12th in gallery anne barrault.
In the gallery space, a video, like a cloud of crimson suns, is projected and lights up two white and large
reliefs : Mount Everest, (Sagarmatha, “ the front... |
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| Impossible to Capture
Charlotte Charbonnel, Roland Cognet, Etna Corbal, Vanessa Fanuele, Pierre Fauret, Julie Le Guern,
François Guibert, G.wen et Frédéric Baldo, Linda Molenaar, Tony Regazzoni, Gwen Roc'h.
Vernissage le samedi 2 février 2008 de 16h à 21h
Exposition du 2 février au 8 mars 2008
« Impossible to capture » ; Impossible de saisir, d’attraper ; Impossible de qualifier ces... |
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| Van Dyck the Engraver - Prints and Drawings
Art of the Portrait
The Cabinet des Dessins, the Chalcography and the Edmond de Rothschild Collection at the Musée du Louvre bring together an exceptional grouping of works forming one of the finest series of engraved portraits by a painter: the Iconography of Antoine van Dyck.
Inviting the public to discover first-state etchings as well as a number of preparatory drawings and... |
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| 2008 GRAND PRIZE: DUPUY & BERBERIAN
The 2008 Grand Prize of Angoulême was revealed on Sunday January 27th at 1pm.
A four handed creation, under a unique trade-name - Dupuy & Berbérian -, who have, for over twenty years, offered an unusual configuration in comics: that of an almost fusional relationship between two all round authors, who work together throughout the whole creation process, but don't adhere to the... |
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| The Anxious. Five artists under the pressure of war.
Yael Bartana, Omer Fast, Rabih Mroué, Ahlam Shibli, Akram Zaatari
Curator Joanna Mytkowska
Assisted by Anna Hiddleston
The exhibition The Anxious presents the works of five artists who share a sense of personal involvement in dealing with the subject of the war in the Middle East. They are artists of a younger generation able to translate the oppression of a conflict into an... |
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| De Superman au Chat du rabbin
Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris presents De Superman au Chat du rabbin, on view through January 28, 2008. An exhibition created by the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (Paris), in cooperation with the Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam)
The Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris is delighted to be showing De Superman au Chat du rabbin, an... |
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