lundi 30 mai 2011

Benar Venet





Bernar Venet is the new contemporary artist invited by Le Château de Versailles near Paris for 2011. Bernar Venet is a 70 years old french minimal artist based in New York but not so famous in Paris. After the controversy with Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami last year, Venet is not creating such a polemic with his “corten” steel rods. Indeed there are 7 sculptures only located in the giant garden and at the entrance of the Château. Here are, in exclusivity, the first pictures of this exhibition starting June 1st.

Photos : Marco de Rivera

mercredi 25 mai 2011

mardi 24 mai 2011

Paris - Delhi - Bombay


The Centre Pompidou in Paris Gallery 1-Delhi-Mumbai ..., a major exhibition to discover the contemporary Indian society through the viewpoints of Indian and French visual artists. Based on a groundbreaking collaboration between India and France, the event aims to generate discussion and build lasting relationships between the two cultures. As a confrontation unique artistic expressions, the project of a new kind thrives experiences and visions of the creators: how India is today perceived by Indian artists and the French artists?

Nearly fifty artists reflect the profound changes in Indian society through their perception of politics (the foundations of democracy, an issue of the score, rising middle class), religion (beliefs, spirituality ...), the identity (national, regional, linguistic, sexual, caste-related ...), urban (rural-urban migration, growth of megacities), crafts (ancestral traditions and modernity, heritage and current technologies) or domestic ( family, marriage, female emancipation, kitchen ...). Indian and French artists provide insights on India today and deliver their own interpretation of his company. Most French artists in the exhibition guests went for the first time in India in connection with this project. Over two thirds of the works are productions made specifically for this specific context, as many original ideas presented in a stimulating dialogue and unexpected.

Besides the abundance and effervescence of its art scene, India is the world's largest democracy, a new leading economic player and the second most populous country in the world. In this regard, it arouses intense interest, often of passions and growing attention from the French and European public, but it is still distant and poorly known. The ambition of Paris-Delhi-Bombay ... is to bring together the two cultures through their arts scenes, bringing them closer and understanding of this young company growing and vibrant contemporary art scene.

lundi 23 mai 2011

Flavio Lucchini

Invitato alla 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – la Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Regione Lombardia nella grande panoramica sull’arte italiana, a cura di Vittorio Sgarbi (giugno/novembre 2011 – Milano),
durante la Biennale di Venezia Flavio Lucchini è presente anche con una personale in progress e con una collettiva di sculture a Venezia cui si aggiunge un’esposizione contemporanea a Milano per uno spaccato più completo del lavoro dell’artista.



FLAVIO LUCCHINI

What women want(?)
personale, presentata da Alan Jones

Riva S. Biagio/ Arsenale Space,
Castello 2145, Venezia

1 giugno/27 novembre 2011

Vernissage 1, 2, 3 Giugno


La mostra
Un artista occidentale si cimenta con l’iconografia mediorientale. Immagini di donna. Sotto il burqa afgano, il niqab mediorientale. Che illuminano, rivelano, riflettono su il misticismo, il fanatismo, l’oscurantismo del presente. E l’insopprimibile voglia di esprimere se stesse. Sguardi velati per le ironiche copertine di riviste di moda o per i poster versione street-art. Moltitudini velate nei quadri che ipotizzano un futuro sempre più dominato dall’Islam. Veli che nascondono ma non sopprimono la voglia di femminilità, bellezza, giovinezza e sono discretamente o sfacciatamente decorati, ricolorati, griffati.
Grandi opere digitali, dove il mouse si sostituisce al pennello, l’unicità dell’arte si fa complice della serialità della tecnologia.
Contaminazione di culture. Crossing di linguaggi: l’arte si interfaccia con la moda, con la grafica, con la pubblicità, con la fotografia, con internet, con Photoshop, con il sociale.

Flavio Lucchini
Flavio Lucchini nasce a Mantova, studia Architettura a Venezia e Arte all’Accademia di Brera di Milano. Fin da giovanissimo si mette in mostra per l’audacia e la modernità del suo lavoro grafico. Trasferitosi a Milano, crea e porta al successo le più importanti riviste di moda Italiane (da Fantasia a Amica, Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, Lei/Glamour, Donna, Moda ed altre), scopre i nuovi talenti della fotografia, della grafica, del giornalismo e tiene a battesimo sui suoi giornali tutti i più grandi stilisti. Per trent’anni è il più influente personaggio dell’editoria di moda italiana. Nel 1990 abbandona tutti i suoi incarichi per dedicarsi esclusivamente all’arte. La sua ricerca si concentra sull’abito femminile come metafora sociale e simbologia della creatività, attraverso sperimentazioni new-pop che attingono alla sua vasta cultura nel campo delle arti visive. Vive tra Milano, dove ha il suo atelier di scultura, e Parigi, nella home-gallery di Saint Germain.

La curatela
Uno dei maggiori storici della Pop Art dei nostri giorni, Alan Jones è stato uno tra i primissimi critici d’arte a recensire artisti quali Jeff Koons.
Autore della biografia best-seller di Leo Castelli, è anche co-autore di “The art dealers”, che racconta cinquant’anni di lavoro dei più importanti galleristi di New York. Ha lavorato per Arts, Flash Art, Il Giornale dell’Arte, Bijitzu-Techu, Art Press, ed è stato a New York Senior Editor di NY TALK Magazine.
Ha curato diversi cataloghi tra i quali quello della Galleria Nazionale (Roma), della Larry Gagosian Gallery, della Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, della Fondazione Cartier (Flammarion), del Laforet Museum di Tokyo, e dello Studio Giordano Raffaelli.
È apparso anche nei panni dell’ “art cop” nel talk show “Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes” (MTV).



Michal Rovner




Two monumental works of Israeli artist Michal Rovner arose next to the Louvre Pyramid in Paris: one of the buildings is made of stones found in the ruins of houses Israeli and Palestinian, who still whisper the stories of their inhabitants .
For three weeks, Israeli and Palestinian masons rose stone by stone the two "Makom" ("spaces" in Hebrew) in the court Napoleon , near the entrance to the museum exhibition devoted to this contemporary artist.


The first "Makom" cube-shaped, is composed of limestone, the artist, born in 1957 in Israel, found in the rubble of homes in Jaffa, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Nablus and Bethlehem.
This compact structure of 40 tons, made of white stones not resized, touching, was presented in New York in 2008 by the Pace Gallery. It was back in Paris for the occasion.
"It's a collage of different times, different stories, different biographies, told AFP Michal Rovner, who lives near Tel Aviv.
"These are real people who have lived among these stones. Their stories are touching. It speaks of living together, "says the artist influenced by the socio-political conflicts in the Middle East whose origin dates back, she says, in very remote times.
The second "Makom", 70 tons, is a new creation, designed specifically for this exhibition at the Louvre. Made of black volcanic stones, the building is split diagonally, half in ruins.
Michal Rovner went to get the stones in the Golan, on the border with Syria on a fault, says Marie-Laure Bernadac, in charge of contemporary art at the Louvre curator.
"It took me a year to build this building in my garden," says the artist. The work was then disassembled, transported by boat and rebuilt next to the Pyramid of the architect Pei.
"Construction, Deconstruction. It is a mystery. Should he break the walls to bring people together? Is this the ruin? "Asks Ms. Bernadac.
Michal Rovner is a photographer, videographer and creates installations. The Whitney Museum in New York devoted a retrospective in 2002. The artist has represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 2003.
She has already exhibited in Paris at the Jeu de Paume in 2005, which allowed the French public to discover.
The two "Makom" the court Napoleon, who will remain until 24 October, are a little "iceberg of exposure," says Ms. Bernadac. It continues in effect until August 15 at the museum with two giant projections on the walls of the medieval moats and the Department of Oriental Antiquities.
The artist has titled his exhibition "Stories." "I'm looking for different periods, by historical standards here but also in terms of the place where I am," she said. "It's important to incorporate my work in other places," she adds.
To allow its structures to be displaced, Michal Rovner uses a classic technique in archeology: the numbering of each stone. Each building can be deconstructed and reconstructed.
The exhibition has received support from LVMH. Until 29 May,? Espace Louis Vuitton in the eighth arrondissement, this behind the scenes of the construction of these Makom.

Photos: Marco de Rivera

jeudi 19 mai 2011

Paris by Marco de Rivera


Paris by Marco de Rivera

François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne




JGM Galerie

79,rue du Temple 75003 Paris

Until 18th June 2011

Photos : Marco de Rivera

mercredi 18 mai 2011

Anish Kapoor's solo exibition is on show at the Chapelle des Petits Augustins of the Ecole nationale




Anish Kapoor's solo exibition is on show at the Chapelle des Petits Augustins of the Ecole nationale

superieur des beaux-arts. 14 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris.

12 May - 11 June 2011 Photo: Marco de Rivera

IN PARRALEL

"Almost Nothing" Solo exhibition at galerie kamel memour 47 rue Saint André des Arts 75006 Paris

May to 23 July 2O11

Later,

Marco de Rivera

dimanche 15 mai 2011

Peter Lippmann




PETER LIPPMANN

Photographers Agency / Anne Marie Gardinier

samedi 7 mai 2011

Experimental Close ups



Erwin Blumenfeld, Le Poudrier, étude pour une publicité, 1944 AD: Alexander Liberman

© The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld

Gilles Pernet , étude pour le catalogue Vannina Vesperini , 2011 AD: Marco de Rivera

Anish Kapoor / Monumenta / Paris



Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn
their vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais and to create a new
artwork especially for this space. MONUMENTA is an artistic interaction on
an unparalleled scale, filling 13,500m² and a height of 35m.
The first three MONUMENTA exhibitions were hugely successful, drawing in
150,000 visitors over five weeks. In 2007, the first challenge was met by
German artist Anselm Kiefer, who resides in France, followed by American
artist Richard Serra in 2008 and French artist Christian Boltanski in 2010. For
its fourth incarnation, the French Ministry for Culture and Communication has
invited Anish Kapoor, one of his generation’s greatest artists, to produce a
new work for the Nave’s monumental space, from 11th May to 23rd June
2011.

jeudi 5 mai 2011

Royal Monceau




Case in Plexiglas, stitched seams, the whole art direction has been realized by al dente Paris.

From « the demolition Party » to its reopening, « the rebirth of a Palace » allows to follow step by step the adventures of the Royal Monceau. Meet every craftsman who contributed to make this palace an exceptional place designed by Philippe Starck.

Special thanks to Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Amanda Lepoutre, Sophie Henley-Price and the great Lionel Charpentier.

Patrizio Miceli, the founder and CEO of the agency Al dente has also created artforbreakfast.com, an on-line cultural agenda offering the guests an exclusive selection of the Parisian cultural and artistic current events: exhibitions, openings, private viewings, live performances, concerts, shows...