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February 2013
Le collectionneur @ CCS – Paris
"The collector is the person who regroups what is scattered, it creates an order in the universe around himd and establishes his power with the control and gathering of the objects that belong to it". Marc Bauer, Le collectionneur, d 2012 Courtesy de l’artiste et de la galerie Freymond Guth, Zurich In this upcoming exhibition @ the Parisian Swiss Cultural Centre the visitor will encounter a series of drawings on paper, aluminum as well as murals, all belonging to Marc Bauer…
Find out more »Golden Shield by Combo @ Republic Gallery – Paris
French Street artist Combo, who got some headlines on the local press a year ago with his "Tchernobyl attaque", by basically getting inside the 60km security area around the plant and sticking some posters, is back to his old habits. Golden Shield tibet independance movement (Image via Republic Gallery) In exactly one week his latest photographic series will be shown @ the central Parisian gallery Republic in the 3rd arrondissement. Historical cartooning, mosaics, homeless street deaths... Combo keeps experimenting with…
Find out more »Where the lovers used to meet @ John Martin – London
John Martin welcomes Bristolian artist Richard Cartwright for the 5th time, since back in 2003 he presented us with those dreamy landscapes and romantic oils in "Reasons to believe". Richard Cartwright - The Bathing Pool (Elizabeth) (image via John Martin London) For his upcoming "Where the lovers used to meet", Richard presents us again with his spiritual and mysterious canvases proposing distant, sometimes impossible locations for us to meet... or to scape to. He has long believed that a picture requires…
Find out more »Homo Capax @ Galerie NeC – Paris
A double Swedish ceramic session starts next week with the arrival of Mårten Medbo's 2 exhibitions: one one side a retrospective (1999-2012) of his crazy, scary and sometimes controversial figures @ the Parisian Swedish Institute and at the same time a little expo with some of his latest works @ Gallery NeC. Stoneware objects for the exhibition Homo Capax at Galerie Nec, Paris 2013 (image via Medbo) His works continue to break the boundaries between art, design and crafts, approaching glass…
Find out more »Boyd & Evans @ Flowers – London
East-London art-pole Flowers's gallery recently celebrated their founders 80th birthday with a great selection of artists' exhibition. But as Angela enters a new decade FG also prepares their first expo of 2013 with a retrospective of one of the UK's most prolific artistic couples: Boyd & Evans. Body & Evans - Beside the sea 1973-74 (image via Flowers gallery) B&E Paintings will comprise works from the 1970s to the present day. Their longstanding artistic collaboration began in 1968 and was…
Find out more »Circulation(s) 2013
New edition of Circulation(s), and we'll be there to cover it another year... Vladimir Vasilev - From the Animal series (Photo via Circulation(s) festival) 3rd edition of young European photography fest. again @ Parc Bagatelle inviting some of the most promising (amd ambitious) names in our local photographic panorama. This year jury member and director of the Nicéphore Niépce museum François Cheval was given carte blanche to pick 4 photographers: Morgane Denzler, Stan Guigui, Philippe Pétremant, and Manon Recordon and joining these…
Find out more »Alan Brooks – City @ MOT International – London
Is there any other western European urban space more overwhelming than London? More crowded and excitingly grey? MOT - London - Alan Brooks - City Installation detail (image via MOT International) English artist Alan Brooks is back to London's MOT International with his latest expo "City". 100 drawings serve him to depict a collective idea of an un-named urban environment. The artist’s photo-litho like reproductions are obsessive in their labour and elaborately detailed: sourced from the internet, reportage and personal…
Find out more »Soleil Froid @ Palais de Tokyo – Paris
The new expo cicle @ Palais de Tokyo begins next Wednesday under a frozen sun umbrella. Titled "Soleil Froid", PDT invite us for the next 3 months to explore the surface of a strange world where nothing real must enter as French writer Raymond Roussel used to say. A sun which enlightens everything and everyone equidistant to all human beings and which provides with a generous number of works displayed at the numerous spaces @ PDT. One of the first…
Find out more »March 2013
No one lives here @ RCA – London
20 years of the MA graduate show @ London's RCA is a long period for the English institution, and what better way of celebrating than this year's expo? 2013 is all about our digital age and how it penetrates, impregnates and invades all aspects of our modern life, domestic, political... everything. Aleksandra Domanovic, '19.30', film still, 2010-11 (image Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery) "No one lives here" talks social engagement, visual saturation, trashy on-line worlds and even…
Find out more »L’hypothèse des halos non lumineux @ Galerie Gounod – Paris
If on their January exhibition on Thomas Lévy-Lasne we were attracted to GG by his voyeuristic take on the banal day-to-day life activities it seems we won't be able to ignore their new proposal for the spring. Galerie Isabelle Gounod brings this month a first to central Paris, Aurore Pallet's « l’hypothèse des halos non lumineux ». Aurore Pallet - La reunion II -2012 (image via Galerie Gounod) Dark and blurry Aurore Pallet's latest paintings present themselves as a series of horrifying scenes taken from a…
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