Rose, c’est Paris is a photography, film and story-telling project by photographer, Bettina Rheims and writer, Serge Bramly. The series follows a young woman’s search for her lost sister, the action taking place against the sumptous backdrop of oldy-worldy Paris. In addition to the main protagonists, there are cameos by Naomi Campbell, Monica Belluci and [...]
Van Gogh, Self-portrait as an artist, January 1888
The real Van Gogh is hard to pin down, so many and various are the accounts and interpretations of the artist’s life. Famous for cutting off his own ear and dying penniless only to achieve inordinate posthumous fame and recognition, Van Gogh is the ideal incarnation of “the [...]
Robert Frank, The Americans, first published in Paris by Robert Delpire, 1958
Delpire & Cie is a show dedicated to the career of Robert Delpire. It feels a little disorganised, is due in part to the nature of the exhibition space and in part to the varied nature of Delpire’s career.
Starting out as a publisher he worked [...]
Michael Kenna’s black and white photographs, 200 of which are on show in his retrospective at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Richelieu), are almost too good to be true. His unpopulated landscapes and cityscapes have an ethereal quality, which is so consistent that, taken as an ensemble, his work can appear excessively romantic. Often working at night [...]
La Description d’Egypte is a small show next to the hugely over-the-top tomb of Napoleon (ridiculous considering he was such a small man) under the dome of Invalides. Celebrating 200 years since the publication, the exhibition displays engravings from the great book, La Description d’Egypte, a result of Napoleon’s expedition to Egypte (1798 – 1801). [...]
Cris et Chuchotments, or ‘Crys and Whispers’ shows the work of twenty-three women artists focusing on the themes of intimacy and identity. Highlights include work by Sophie Calle, Annette Messager and Ana Mendieta amongst others.
Sophie Calle, The Bronx, book-installation, 2002
Taken from Bergman’s eponymous 1972 film, the title ‘Crys and Whispers’ is meant to suggest [...]
Dans l’oeil du critique – Bernard Lamarche-Vadel et les artistes is a fresh concept for an exhibition – a number of artists brought together neither by theme nor by movement but by the essays and criticisms of Bernard Lamarche-Vadel (1949 – 2000), art critic and cult intellectual.
The difficult with this exhibition concept is its wordiness. [...]