Sur la route du Tokaido @ Musee Guimet
It seems as I haven’ really come back from Japan… keep looking for indigo everywhere! On a busy day in paris, I managed to stop at the Musee Guimet to catch an exhibition showcasing a flurry of etchings from the famed Tokaido route. The Tokaido is the east and most famous of the Gokaido routes. It started...
Natalia Goncharova @Tate modern
In the words of the Tate modern: « A leader of the Russian avant-garde, Natalia Goncharova blazed a trail with her experimental approach to art and design. Goncharova found acclaim early in her career. Aged just 32 she established herself as the leader of the Russian avant-garde with a major exhibition in Moscow in 1913. She then...
Le Talisman et les Nabis, Musee d’Orsay
Paul Serusier’s Talisman or Paysage au bois d’amour was the fruit of a conversation between Gauguin and Serusier and the foundation of the Nabis group, object of this temporary exhibition at the musee d »Orsay Paul Serusier, Le Talisman, 1888 Edouard Vuillard, Le liseur 1890 Maurice denis, Le christ vert, 1890 Maurice denis,...
Têtes des rois de Juda @ Musee de Cluny
Following the fire at Notre Dame de Paris, the Musee de Cluny exhibited for a limited time, the heads of the Kings of Judah, discovered in 1977 at the Moreau hotel they had probably been buried there after the revolutionary iconoclastic period. They where very moving to look at, because of the remains of polychromy...
Erwin Wurm @ Musee Cantini, Marseille
Master of absurd, as this very good article of Numero un describes it
Les Nabis et le decor @ Musee du Luxembourg
True pioneers of modern décor, Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Sérusier, Ranson and Vallotton defended an art relating directly to life. They created original, joyous and rhythmic works, intended to decorate contemporary interiors in reaction against the aesthetics of historical pastiche that were in vogue at the end of the 19th century.The decorative arts of the...
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...