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 […]
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
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
Scene Interieure, Amandine Maillot, an exhibition in the lobby of La Criée theatre, Marseille. Interview of the artist here
Some pictures of a week long course in vegetal fabric dying at the prestigious Couleur Garance school, see website here And back home, at the studio:
A little game of guess who that is… I’ll only help with the ones I don’t know 😉 And the much more moving series of just people.. The original set up On « Nuit blanche » evening
The artist Prune Noury was invited to show a retrospective of her work in the Musee Guimet, Paris’ Asian Arts Museum. Her stunning and powerful pieces where shown dialoging with the museums’ regular exhibition: Holy daughters and Holy river, queries the place of girls in India today; Terracotta daughters recalls the faith of millions of aborted girls
Which other can metropole boast an authentic fish market most mornings of the year, bang in the middle of town? We follow Jose Potier, epicurean, and owner of « Rhizome, Les racines du gout », a high end epicerie in glamorous Endoume.
Ici, 2017 Cuve au mâchefer, Cuve au cailloux blancs, Cuve aux cailloux blancs et trou d’homme, 1968 Autoportraits, 1980-86 Sans titre, 1993 Sens interdit, 2009 And also, La Maison de jean Pierre Raynaud, a 31 min movie by Michelle Porte … and finally a bit of blue sky and citée radieuse to
If you are wondering where you should be on August 11th, the answer is simple: Dinard. This is already the 18th edition of this event, imagined by Alexandre Motte, which sees all art galeries open their doors until late (sometimes very, very late..) and in a festive mood. With his never ending imagination and gift
Rosa Barba, Solar flux recording
A retrospective or Franz Erhard’s work. Seen here static, but clearly intended to be interacted with, see here
The greenery, the old stone, all the cliches are there, it’s just a matter of reflex to manage to get them in-between downpours of rain 😉 …. effectively escaping Lucifer!!
Will spare you the coloured doors, let’s instead head up to Trinity college, home of the book of Kells And also to some contemporary art National Gallery Street art, the Dublin way, on walls, but also son some unexpected supports
Dialogue between Frank Gehry’s architecture and Daniel Buren’s instalation, on an almost sunny Parisian day..
Couldn’t resist a few shots of the sublime collection.. See if you recognise your classics 😉 ee
The has recently moved to it’s new venue and iconic 60’s landmark, the ex- Commonwealth Institute. Refurbished by John Pawson Himself, it is, unsurprisingly awesome.. A couple of shots from the free permanent exhibition. Clearly a must do while in London!
A blue edition, unsurprisingly, as the colour is unescapable at the moment, in all it’s variations and shades. I don’t really complain, as it is my favourite colour anyway, especially indigo..
Improving on improvement… adding kitchen shelving space Before: After: Sealing off an unused door, adding shelving space, a pretext to use that ubercool tin roof wall paper..
