Eblouissante Venise @ Grand Palais
Having inherited a multisecular tradition, at the dawn of the 18th century Venetian civilisation dazzled in the visual and decorative arts, music and opera alike. The presence of great talents, such as the painters Piazzetta and Giambattista Tiepolo, the urban landscape painter or vedutista Canaletto and the sculptors Corradini and Brustolon, to name but a...
Mucha @ Musee du Luxembourg
Just trying to get into this exhibition through the thick crowds shows how popular this artist is. I’ve always liked him a lot, much more after discovering his unknown generous utopian side with the « Epopee slave, unfortunately only shown through videos of the huge canvas only visible (at some point) in Pague, definitely on my...
Ai Wei Wei Fan-Tan @ Mucem
THE 2018 event in Marseille, a must see! Some descriptions taken from the Mucem website, link here Ai Qing’s funerary mask. Ai Qing was Ai WeiWei’s father, a major poet, his father was a low-key activist and was consequently detained by the Nationalist regime on the suspicion that he was a Leftist. He was also...
Kohei Nawa, Throne @ Louvres
2018 marks the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and France, as well as the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Meji period, when Japan opened up to the West. As part of the Japonisms 2018: souls in harmony cultural season, Throne will be displayed under the Pyramid of the Musée du Louvre....
Manoussos Chalkiadakis
A beautiful discovery, in a perched village of Crete, the house and studio of Manousos Chalkiada. A fabulous ceramist, but also a painter and photographer. And such a nice, welcoming person :)! Some shots of his studio: And of course we couldn’t leave empty handed… The Cretan ceramics found their place with ease...
The Crete Postcard
From sea… … to mountain… From archeology… … to monasteries lost in the mountains.. Withe everywhere splendid places to stay: From über hip Hotel Amos in Chania: To the truly ecolodge literally at the top of the hill: The Milia mountain retreat With adorable people always happy to help you discover the treasures of...
Salon Cote Sud 2018
My pic of the pics… Ceramiste Cecile Gasc, my favourite stand, I bought my favourite coffee cup ever :-), see website here: https://www.arts-de-fronze.fr Bazane design Atelelier Benex, those jugs are amazing, when used outside, the air movement cool the water several degrees in the heat of the summer, an ancien low tech and efficient technique rediscovered...
Affiches en lutte, 68-75 @ Beaux Art, Paris
When the Beaux Arts where at the center of protests, printing every evening the posters that where to be placarded during the night.. ^*
Picasso, voyages imaginaires @Vieille Charite, Marseille
A Picasso temporary exhibition at La vieille Charité where Picasso dialogues with some of the museum’s pieces. An invitation to imaginary travels. La vieille charité is Marseille’s museum of mediterranean archeology and museum of African, Amerindian and Oceanic Arts Tet de faune gris, 1946 Oenochoe minoeene (Cretoise) Tanagra aux mains jointes...
Delacroix exhibition @Louvre
Some shots of the Delacroix exhibition at the Louvre, Mai 2018 Reunion de la Saint Sylvestre: Delacroix, Felix Guillemardet et les frères Pieret Dante et Virgile aux enfers, 1822 Scenes des massacres de Scio, 1824 La liberte guidant le peuple, 1830 Jeune orpheline au cimetière, 1824 Une cour a Tanger, 1832 Autoportrait au gilet...
Kupka @ Grand Palais
The exhibition takes us through a fascinating trip into abstraction and colours… bon voyage! When Charlie Hebdo seems mild compare to those caricatures, one might think that maybe we have a problem with religions… In « L’assiette au beurre » 1904 (!) Le Dieu du Vatican La Déesse de la raison Dieux Turcs La mendicité n’y est...
Amandine Maillot @ La Criee3
Scene Interieure, Amandine Maillot, an exhibition in the lobby of La Criée theatre, Marseille. Interview of the artist here