Franz Erhard Walther. A place for the body. Reina Sofia. Parque del retiro, Palacio de Velazquez
A retrospective or Franz Erhard’s work. Seen here static, but clearly intended to be interacted with, see here
Daniel Buren. L’Observatoire de la lumière. Fondation Vuitton
Dialogue between Frank Gehry’s architecture and Daniel Buren’s instalation, on an almost sunny Parisian day..
Icones de l’art moderne. La collection Chtoukine. Fondation Vuitton
Couldn’t resist a few shots of the sublime collection.. See if you recognise your classics 😉 ee
La règle et l’intuition, Tranquadi, Abbaye de Montmajour
The exhibition is also a good excuse for revisiting this imposing Abbey and detailing it’s fantastic medieval capitals
Rencontres photographiques d’Arles 2016
As usual, a special atmosphere in this charming town that open it’s door wide to all kinds of photography As in Avignon, the festival is now taking to the streets, the walls acting as galleries for the « off » Western Camargais, Eglise des frères prêcheurs, retraces the Camargue-made westerns, well before the spaghettis westerns. From the...
Venice Biennale, part 2: Giardino
German pavilion: making heimat, Germany, arrival country. Four large openings where made in the German pavilion to signify Germany’s openness towards refugees: the German pavilion will be literally opened for the duration of the Biennale (the Venice monument preservation board having accepted the opening for that duration). The exhibition analyses the condition for making Heimat,...
Venice Architecture Biennale: Reporting from the front. Part 1: Arsenale
Alejanadro Aravena, curator of the 2016 International Architecture Biennale: “REPORTING FROM THE FRONT will be about sharing with a broader audience, the work of people who are scrutinizing the horizon looking for new fields of action, facing issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, access to sanitation, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, informality, crime, traffic, waste, pollution and the participation of communities. And simultaneously it will be about presenting examples where...
Serpentine Gallery, London
Serpentine Pavilion Architect’s Statement For the Serpentine Pavilion 2016, we have attempted to design a structure that embodies multiple aspects that are often perceived as opposites: a structure that is free-form yet rigorous; modular yet sculptural; both transparent and opaque; both solid box and blob. We decided to work with one of the most basic...
Francis Towne’s watercolour of Rome @ British museum
Just back from Rome, so that was a perfect match ;-)… Francis Towne painted them in 1780-1781, but many do still look very familiar in the eternal town…
Frescoes in north Italy
After attending art history series with the Ecole du Louvre program, I was very keen on discovering the art pieces that were discussed during lectures. Thanks to the passion shared by lecturers, in particular Stefania Tullio Cataldo, it was a whole new way of rediscovering places we had visited years ago. I find frescoes very...
Ali Smith’s Ferrara
After reading « How to be both », I just had to plan a stop at Ferrara, on Ali Smith’s footpath, if only to visit the Palazzo Schifanoia and see Francesco del Cossa’s frescoes. Unsurprisingly, it was well worth the trip… Palazzo Schifanoia’s frescoes, allegories of months, gods and zodiac signs. The wall by Francesco del Cossa...