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London´s Blain|Southern gallery & Bill Viola have a good track of successful collaborations,  and for their latest production the American video artist is bringing nine new works to the central gallery in "Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures".  Bill Viola The Dreamers (detail) 2013, Video-Sound Installation Photo by Kira Perov (courtesy of Blain Southern) Created between 2012 and 2013, both on location and in the artist’s studio in Southern California, the exhibition presents three distinct bodies of works; the Frustrated Actions,…

American grotesque & fabulous photographer David LaChapelle is about to present 2 new series of his latest works next week in Paris for the first time: Still Life, and Last Supper. Still Life - Michael Jackson 01, 2009-2012 Courtesy of the artist & Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris World-renowned for his fashion photography and flamboyantly baroque portraits of celebrities, David LaChapelle proposes this time @ Galerie Daniel Templon a new approach that bears witness to his interest in the underside of the…

Having opened a couple of weeks ago, Pace´s latest exhibition "Psycho Nacirema" presents itself as one of the most attractive proposals for this first part of the summer in central London. James Franco - Psycho Nacirema - Installation view (courtesy of Pace London) P.N., Franco’s first major exhibition in the UK presented by the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon presents a mise-en-scène of director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho, remodelling the infamous Bates Motel where the intrigue of the film takes…

Kicking off the summer with a group exhibition in the Parisian centre, starting this weekend ‘It Means It Means!’ proposes a drawn group expo which will be staged in 2 locations simultaneously, once as a fiction, once as a fact. The first location is the Museum of Art Onomatopoeia on ‘The Island’, a fictional realm that has provided the backdrop to Charles Avery’s artistic and philosophical investigations since 2005. The second location is Galerie Perrotin, Paris. Charles Avery, “Untitled (It Means…

Central London gallery Rosenfeld Porcini is proposing a summer expo willing to explore the way in which an idea of a virtual cinema existed in people’s imaginations before the invention of the medium itself. Robert Muntean, Everest, 2013 (Courtesy of Rosenfeld Porcini) The Birth of Cinema…and Beyond presents a themed exhibition presenting mixedmedia works by old master and contemporary artists. Works which will be juxtaposed in an attempt to explore how narrative approaches have altered with the change in societies…

Rox & Rouky is the 31st animated film and the 24th "Animated classic" from the Disney Studios. It came out in 1981 and is based on Daniel P. Mannix´The Fox and the Hound which appeared in 1967, telling us the story of Rox the fox and Rouky the dog´s friendship. Roxy Rocky, title of this exhibition upcoming @ Galerie Bertrand Baraudou is therefore making reference to Disney´s film but at the same time Sylvester Stallone´s character Rocky Balboa and English…

Whether Niyaz Najafov is Francis Bacon´s or Goya´s true new successor is secondary, you may agree with the Huffington Post writer Lorenzo Belenguer´s judgement, but in any case the new expo @ central Parisian Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt is a summer must. Niyaz Najafov - Untitled 2011 Courtesy of the artist & Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris Extremely appreciated in the Parisian art scene, self-taught artist Niyaz Najafov is bringing to NDM his raw crude portraits. Najafov relates and suggests…