Transit Systeme, a young collective of dynamic artists, are about to embark on their second major event as a group. The eponymously titled exhibition, Transit Systeme, opening on Saturday, will include works by the artists of the collective: Antoine Alliot, Sophie Boniface, Liz Bullen, Molly SJ Lowe and Marine Nyiri and guest artists: Audrey Anastasy, Blo, Emma [...]
Things are not always as they seem with Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Silly you, Silly me is an exhibition of his suprising, painstaking compositions. Taking inspiration from pop culture and childish imagery, Moshiri’s pieces have a colourful simplicty from a distance, but on closer inspection morph into complex weaves of beads and jewels. 1950s style childrens’ picture book illustrations, jigsaw [...]
Jean Baptists François Desoria, male nude
The exhibition, L’Ecole de la Liberté: Etre artiste à Paris 1648 – 1817 (“the school of freedom: being an artist in Paris 1648 – 1817″), is a good way for l’Ecole des Beaux Arts to air some of it’s huge collection of past students’ work. Founded as l’Académie Royale in [...]
The flagship Galeries Lafayettes store on Boulevard Hausmann is famous for it’s holiday window displays. These twinkly animated scenes are not just there to attract custom but are an entertainment in their own right, with specially constructed platforms for kids to get up close and bask in the reflected warmth of festive consumerism. They are [...]
I have been patient with the Palais de Tokyo, but my patience is not limitless. Hot (or cold, you’ll see…) on the heels of Gakona and Spy Numbers, the Palais de Tokyo brings us another sci-fi-esque, difficult-to-interpret jumble of incoherent works.
“A wavering of interpretations, an inversion of values, and a paradox of situations… CHASING NAPOLEON recognizes [...]
Fellini, La grande parade is a lively show celebrating Fellini’s work. Innovatively displayed film clips, photos, posters, sketches and documents are assembled thematically rather than chronoligically to bring out different facets of the maestro’s work coming together to form the “Fellini myth”.
The show strikes a balance between Fellini’s work, life, inspirations and preoccupations, from his beginnings as [...]
Fernand Pelez, Grimaces et Misère – Les Saltimbanques, 1888, courtesy of the Petit Palais
La parade des humbles (“the parade of the humble”) is an exhibition of the little known nineteenth century painter, Fernand Pelez. Pelez’s paintings feature in the Petit Palais’s permanent collections. Regular visitors will recognise Grimaces et Misère – Les Saltimbanques, an immense [...]
Silvie Defraoui, Faits et gestes, 2009
Sombras electricas, the literal translation of the Chinese word for ‘cinema’ into Spanish, is a fitting title for Silvie Defraoui’s solo show at the Centre Culturel Suisse. Using installation, photography and video, Defraoui manipulates images that play on memory and expectations. Resonances et courant d’air, the film that pervades then [...]
The dining room of Château Gabriel
Following the incredible exhibition and sale of the contents of Yves Saint Laurent’s Paris apartment back in February, Christie’s is selling another important section of the Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé collection: the contents of their country pad, Chateau Gabriel. The interiors of this neogothic mansion in Normany were designed by Jacques Grange, [...]
Alain Bublex, P40 Mont Fuji canal, 2009, courtesy of Galerie Vallois
Mont Fuji & autres ponts is an exhibition of Alain Bublex’s photo-montages, in which the silhouette of Mount Fuji creeps into focus in the background of the most unlikely landscapes. Bublex’s grey-ish urban or industrial compositions are not unlike magic eye posters – you look [...]