The Fondation Cartier is exhibiting Beat Takeshi Kitano’s work in an exclusive exhibition Gosse de Peintre (“Painter’s kid”). Kitano – best known for his arthouse films or cult TV show Takeshi’s castle – is a filmmaker, actor, comedian, presenter, and now artist. This is his first solo show in a gallery [...]
The new shows of two artists at Galerie Yvon Lambert’s challenge the way we see, and engage with, modern life.
Micheal Brown’s first solo show in Europe consists of an installation of cheap-looking broken lawn chairs, highly polished cans, broke mirrors and pornographic imagery. Combining readymade elements and deceptively manipulated materials, Brown comments on the easy [...]
The Razzle Dazzle of thinking presents the work of American conceptual artist Elaine Sturtevant. Sturtevant has built a career around appropriation – copying Warhol’s Flowers in the 1960s and continuing with duplicates of, or references to, some of the major figures in contemporary art.
As a whole this show is slightly incoherent, mixing references to modern [...]
Life Blood is the first solo show in France of Irish artist Claire Morgan. The nine large-scale sculptures and thirteen works on paper are all unique but consistently fascinating. The Great Exposition caught up with Claire at the opening.
Mixing invisible threads with lead, plastic, dead insects and taxidermy, the sculptures hover at eye-level as if [...]
Reset, a show of young artists curated by Christophe Kihm, aims to begin at the beginning. Instead of bringing together different completed works under one conceptual framework, and potentially limiting the individual expression of each, Reset is more of a starting point from which the art and the artists can interact with the exhibition space.
Bertille [...]
In Conjunction with Personnes at the Grand Palais, Mac/Val (Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne) presents Après by Christian Boltanski.
Elements of Après in Boltanski’s studio
While Personnes reflects on death and loss, Après (after) meditates on what might happen after death. An installation of dimmed lights, black architectural masses and mirrors (to the soul?) plunge the visitor [...]
Guatemalan artist, Dario Escobar, represented Latin America last year at the Venice Biennale, with his installation Kulkulkan. Kulkulkan has now taken residence chez Kamel Mennour, where a mass of undulating slashed and woven bike tires hang like a forest of snakes from the gallery ceiling.
Dario Escobar, Kukulkan, 2009, courtesy of the artist and Kamel Mennour
As [...]
Contemporary German artist Stephan Balkenhol is exhibiting new works at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. His technique of figurative wood-carving can be seen as a response to the Minimalist approach he encountered at the Hamburg School of Fine Art where he studied under Ulrich Rükriem. Although descriptive there is still something fairly minimal about Balkenhol’s blocky wooden [...]
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 [...]