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« Previous EntriesVinyl, Records and Covers by Artists / La Maison Rouge, Paris / Interview with Guy Schraenen
Monday, March 8th, 2010From February 19th to May 16th 2010, La Maison Rouge in Paris, France presents Vinyl, an exhibition of records and covers compiled by the British collector, publisher and curator Guy Schraenen. For more than 30 years, Guy Schraenen’s fascination with artists’ multiples (objects, catalogues, books, magazines) has led him to amass a unique and highly [...]
Pierre Molinier: Oeuvres Inédites / Kamel Mennour, Paris / Interview with Jean-Luc Mercié
Monday, February 15th, 2010French artist Pierre Molinier (1900 – 1976) began his career by painting landscapes, but his work turned towards a fetishistic eroticism early on. Pierre Molinier started his erotic production around 1950. His work has influenced European and North American artists since the 1970s, including Jürgen Klauke, Cindy Sherman and Ron Athey. Pierre Molinier’s work continues [...]
Christian Boltanski: Personnes / Monumenta 2010 at Grand Palais Paris / Interview
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Monumenta is series of monumental exhibitions at the Grand Palais, one of the great historic buildings of Paris created for the 1900 World Fair in the heart of the French capital. After Anselm Kiefer (in 2007) and Richard Serra (in 2008), French artist Christian Boltanski was invited by the Ministry of Culture and Communication to [...]
Jim Hodges: Love, etc. / Centre Pompidou, Paris / Interview
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Currently, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, is showing works by the American artist Jim Hodges, titled Jim Hodges: Love, etc. It’s the first personal exhibition devoted to Jim Hodges by a major European institution. On display are around sixty of his works, offering a panorama of the unique world of this artist.
On occasion of [...]
JR: Women are Heroes / Ile Saint-Louis, Paris / Interview
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009“Women are Heroes” is a project and an exhibition by the artist JR that coincided with this year’s Nuit Blanche in Paris, France.
For the Women are Heroes project, JR has been traveling to such countries as Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone, to take portraits of more than 70 women around the world. It’s the [...]
Veilhan at Versailles / Interview with Xavier Veilhan
Friday, September 11th, 2009Last year, American artist Jeff Koons presented his works at the Chateau de Versailles near Paris, France. This year, French artist Xavier Veilhan shows his works in the Gardens, Royal Court, and apartments of the Versailles Palace. Xavier Veilhan: “My project for Versailles mainly addresses the outdoor realm, following an east/west axis across the estate, [...]
Vraoum! Treasures of Comics and Contemporary Art / La Maison Rouge, Paris
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Mickey Mouse, Superman, Little Nemo, Spiderman, Tintin, Blake et Mortimer, Astérix, Iznogoud, Blueberry, Batman, Le Chat… These characters and heroes bron from the pen of the great authors of comics have not only delighted millions of readers around the world, but have also influenced artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Basquiat, [...]
HF | RG (Harun Farocki | Rodney Graham) / Jeu de Paume, Paris
Monday, May 4th, 2009The exhibition H F | R G at Jeu de Paume in Paris / France brings together the visions of two contemporary artists, Harun Farocki and Rodney Graham, whose work has a great deal in common, not least their film and video and their interest in the medium and its history and in self-representation.
Harun Farocki [...]
Warhol TV / La Maison Rouge, Paris
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Until the 3rd May, La Maison Rouge in Paris presents an exhibition about Andy Warhol’s ventures in the world of television: Warhol TV. Curated by Judith Benhamou-Huet, the show zaps through Andy Warhol’s TV universe. For Andy Warhol, television was an ideal tool for artistic, social, and self-promotion.
As early as 1964 Andy Warhol made an [...]
Gakona / Palais de Tokyo, Paris / Interview with Laurent Grasso
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Gakona is a small village in the center of Alaska. Gakona, that’s a few houses, a service station, a post office – and the American research program HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program). Inspired by the work of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), researchers there are studying the possibility of the wireless transmission of electricity by means [...]
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