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April 2013
A momentary rise of reason @ Beers Lambert – London
A Momentary Rise of Reason is the first UK-solo exhibition of the work of Romanian painter Dan Voinea which constitutes a deliberated exercise in sanity and the absurd in the realm of the surreal. Hailing from a new school of contemporary realist painting, Voinea and his contemporaries have not only endured an early 20th century phase that appeared to prefer whimsy and liberty over realism but have prevailed, spearheading the recent reinvigoration of realist painting occurring on an international scale to…
Find out more »Ron Mueck @ Fondation Cartier – Paris
Exactly one year ago we had the occasion to attend to Australian animatronics expert Ron Mueck major exhibition @ Hauser & Wirth in central London. And because he has always deserved much more exhibiting space Parisian Fondation Cartier is organizing their most important expo of the year in what is considered his first major exhibition in Europe since his previous show @ the Fondation back in 2005. Ron Mueck at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain on April 10, 2013. Photos ©…
Find out more »LEAP after The Great Ecstasy
English Filmmaker & photographer Melanie Manchot gets a new exhibition in central London opening today @ CARSLAW St* Lukes with a new video installation Leap after The Great Ecstasy. Melanie Manchot LEAP after The Great Ecstasy, Spray I Lambda C-type Print, 2011 (courtesy of Carslaw St Lukes) Inspired by Werner Herzog’s film ‘The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner’ (1974), the work observes a range of physical and psychological situations in the quest for a brief moment of perfection. Set on the…
Find out more »Liu Dahong @ Rossi & Rossi – London
Chinese artist and professor Liu Dahong, one of the most prolific and representatives artists born under the influence of the Cultural Revolution is about to get a new exhibition @ London's Rossi Rossi opening next Thursday. For the following 5 weeks RR will be presenting a selection of his artworks, that have been made into a book ‘Childhood’, exploring themes on childhood, rebellion, nationality and myth. Liu Dahong Ping Pong Egg 2012 Oil on wooden table tennis bat (image courtesy…
Find out more »May 2013
Jane_Doe 22 @ Galerie Rabouan Moussion
How can you exhibit graffiti in an art gallery without being accused of trying to comoditize it? Without accepting that street-art movement has already been institutionalized? Not an easy task... and Jan_Doe 22 is willing to offer us a concrete proposal... an exhibition about graffiti without graffiti... is this possible? Jane_Doe22 Poster (Image courtesy of Galerie Rabouan Moussion) Jane Doe is the name of this exhibition, because it's a perfect name and fits in perfectly with all descriptions you could…
Find out more »Feelings @ Maria Lund – Paris
In a troubled social context where the ground foundations of Western society and its motto of always more are challenged by a mutation beyond mere economic destabilization, Peter Martensen emphasizes the only constant element of human history: our feelings, our emotional capacities, a reality both subjective and concrete for each of us. A way of showing in a time of uncertainty and of questioning that this is what is a given, this is what we have... The Danish painter comes…
Find out more »One piece at a time @ Semiose Gallery
Parisian writer and painter Laurent Proux gets his 4th solo exhibition with some of his latest works @ central Parisian Semiose Gallery who've been supporting him quite actively for the past few years. Laurent Proux - Akron 2013 (Photo - A. Mole) Courtesy Semiose galerie, Paris. In both his drawing and his painting, Laurent Proux has developed a singular relationship with photography. In the same manner as numerous artists since Richter and Polke, the photographic image acts as a neutral…
Find out more »Open studio 2013
Second edition of the Madrilian "Open studio" initiative which started last autumn with the simultaneous opening of 38 important artistic studios during 4 days filled with talks, workshops and a good number of expo presentations & concerts. This new edition aims to be more ambitions while willing to promote local artists at the same time. 6 routes that go from the "young artists' studios" proposal to district-by-district routes... the whole lot in Spanish, a good way to practice if you're…
Find out more »Never Odd Or Even @ Carroll / Fletcher – London
Thomson & Craighead, two of the UK artists who've most experimented and mixed Internet art for the past 2 decades are coming to Carroll / Fletcher again, this time for a survey exhibition bringing together a range of new and recent works. Interested in how information about the world is filtered through the prism of the world wide web, and other forms of information technology, Thomson & Craighead play with this data to create works that ask fundamental questions about what it is…
Find out more »Phantom Home @ Jeu de Paume, Paris
The photographic work of Ahlam Shibli (Palestine, 1970) addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home. The work deals with the loss of home and the fight against that loss, but also with restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on the individuals and groups marked by repressive identity politics. Examples of places where the problematic is encountered include the occupied Palestinian areas; monuments that commemorate members of the French Resistance against the Nazis together with French…
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