Mixed marriages, cohabitation and barbarian weddings is a solo exhibition, at the Abbey of Maubuisson, of new installations by Orlan, feminist hybrid extraordinaire and Grand Dame of French contemporary art.
Orlan with one of her new installations
The abbey, situated in the Val d’Oise region to the north west of Paris, hasn’t been used for religious purposes [...]
Takashi Murakami paints self portraits is an exhibition of Murakami’s trademark “superflat” paintings. His new Chrysanthemums series, inspired by Japanese painter Ogata Korin and reminiscent of the decorative floral designs of traditional Japanese painting, is a departure from his usual garish compositions of made up characters.
Takashi Murakami, I Recall The Time When My Feet Lifted [...]
After his retrospective, The Air is On Fire, at the Fondation Cartier in 2007, David Lynch returns to Paris to dress up the windows of Galeries Lafayette. The theme is Machines, Abstraction and Women, and the effect is typically Lynchian – strange and surreal, teetering on the fine line that separates enchanting and foreboding.
David Lynch, [...]
This autumn Mac/Val and The Parc Saint Leger present France’s first solo exhibition, Thereherethenhere, of Turner Prize winner Simon Starling.
Simon Starling, Exhibition poster featuring Rockraft
The Mac/Val section, ‘oeuvres 1997 – 2009′, includes ten heterogeneous works. The pieces, including amongst other things, a dry stone wall (Mirrored Wall Head), a car suspended on the wall (Flaga) [...]
David Lefebvre, Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 2009, courtesy of the artist
Dans le Désordre (“In disorder”) is an exhibition of David Lefebvre’s brightly coloured canvases. The paintings are strangely photographic in the way the light falls and some seem almost school project-like in their naive reproduction of figures, houses and cars. It turns out this is [...]
Sam Samore – Schizophrenic portrait 1973-2009 includes a variety of the artist’s work, the most arresting of which is The Suicidist. This series of black and white photos presents a new take on the self-portrait, with the artist himself posing as suicide victim in various constructed scenes.
As the press release claims, these fake suicides are [...]
Palestine: la création dans tous ses états (‘Palestine: all states of creation’) is an eye-opening and well-constructed exhibition of contemporary art by Palestinian artists. The pieces on show (photos, videos, installation, painting…) are imbued with the upheavals and suffering of a people, without being overly sensational. Suha Shoman’s videos and Noel Jabbour’s photographs deal [...]