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January 2012
Word in Motion @ London Tube
The 16th of January the London Tube will once again be invaded by the 2nd edition of "Smile for London" (this year named "Word in Motion"), the video competition MemePartnership, CBS Outdoors, London Tube & friends organise each January to give commuters a few relaxed seconds away from the advertising torrent the Tube has become. This year the XTP Underground screens will be covered once again with short movies but not only to make us smile, an inspirational flow from…
Find out more »Glazed Paradise @ Gestalten Space – Berlin
When talking about street art 90% of the interviewees think of graffiti, stencils, murals & stickers, although some respondents point at new media like LED art. Urban sculpture doesn't mix within the traditional "public art" category and is usually left out. With the exception of some phenomenal installations, it usually isn't as well documented nor remembered (maybe due to the even more ephemeral nature of these "radical" installations), and many times has to be "rescued" from its true environment and…
Find out more »Optical sound and other tales
Our second favorite digital space in Paris is kicking off their cultural agenda for 2012 with a new exhibition and a couple of performances: starting Thursday 26th a dedicated "digital" night will take place at the southern Parisian center (strictly talking it's not Paris anymore but...). At 19h the Cube opens the agenda with a private viewing of Optical Sound and Other Tales exhibition, presenting work by Pierre Beloüin, as well as videos produced and distributed by his Optical Sound…
Find out more »February 2012
2062, back and forth to the future
Next Wednesday a door to the future will open in central Paris. No need to take Marty McFly's car but simply immerse yourself into the great selection of installations La Gaîté have selected for us, now that exams are nearly over nothing more refreshing and empowering than a good futuristic shot. Starting Feb 1st the digital arts center has concentrated a good bunch of digital masters & collectives to "recreate" the future (next 50 years), the present seen from the…
Find out more »Doisneau – Les Halles @ Hotel de Ville – Paris
Doisneau is world-known for his "Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville" photo, which despite being a posed photo it captured one of the most passionate kisses in photography. Who hasn't tried emulating the 1950s photo? Opening last week the central Parisian city hall (precisely the background scenario of the kiss) is now hosting "Doisneau / Paris / Les Halles", a concentrated and highly recommended free exhibition that brings out of the dust many of the series Robert Doisneau took from his…
Find out more »Planète Manga
Here's one of our quickies. It started last Saturday but it will be on-going for the next 3,5 months, a real luxury for Manga freak lovers! Parisian contemporary arts (and other things) center "Beaubourg" just opened an anime film cycle 1 week ago within their "13/16 studio" (you know... that "exclusive" part of the museum dedicated to adolescents). Not that many of the films they've chosen for the 4-month cycle are particularly adolescent-oriented but.... given the dimension and ambition of…
Find out more »Berenice Abbott @ Jeu de Paume – Paris
Berenice Abbott moved to New York in the early 1920s after giving up her journalism course at the University of Ohio. There she went about becoming a sculptor and mixed in the bohemian circles of Greenwich Village, meeting writers and artists, such a, Djuna Barnes, Sadakichi Hartmann and Marcel Duchamp. In the early 20s she decided to join a good bunch of American expatriates that would explore the cultural boom coming from Europem and in 1923 she became the assistant…
Find out more »The Jungle @ Jonathan Levine – NYC
New exhibition for Mr Castillo opening this month in the US, if this time last year Victor was presenting his little "Rebels with a cause" @ LA's Merry Karnowsky Gallery, this Saturday he'll drop by Jonathan Levine Gallery around 7pm to talk about the future, the credibility of power structures... and the survival jungle our western societies have transformed into (not that they weren't already, it's just now it's more radical). For Victor, this is his New York debut, and…
Find out more »March 2012
Mechanisms @ Flowers Gallery – London
London's Kinetica Art Fair finished a month ago, and kinetic sculpture expert Tim Lewis was there once again to fascinate (or scare) most of the mortals visiting the event... Starting yesterday the Englishman will bring his fascination for the robotic world and his endless list of nature and fabrication questions to East London's "Flowers Gallery". New man-animal-machine hybrids, new doubts and also new working processes.... Like for his greenish Jetsam sculpture, a Kiwi-like object whose mechanism is partially visible through…
Find out more »Gilbert & George @ White Cube – London
All three of White Cube's London galleries have something in common this month... they're accomplices of a crime... because even if some of those petty thefts may have prescribed... I'm pretty sure Gilbert & George could still be condemned for their latest works and series of robberies: "London Pictures". If an impeccably dressed gentleman in his 60s comes to buy some chewing gum or a mars bar comes to your newsagent shop you certainly wouldn't imagine that one another impeccably…
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