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ORLAN a toujours fait œuvre de son corps et incarné dans sa chair toutes les complexités identitaires. Opérée, scannée, remodélisée en 3D, virtualisée, hybridée, clonée… ; son corps interroge et fait débat. Pour chacune de ses œuvres et performances, elle convoque nouvelles technologies – qu’elles soient scientifiques, médicales ou biologiques –,...
Daniel Boudinet (1945-1990) was one of the first artists to emancipate himself from photojournalism, playing an important role in the photographic renaissance of the 1970s.
Exhibition catalogue Country of the dreaming : contemporary Aboriginal art & ghost nets artworks from the Torres strait islands, presented at the Foundation Pierre Arnaud, Lens in Swizterland (Dec1, 2017 - May 10, 2018).
Bilingual album of the exhibition UAM, A Modern Adventure, presented at the Centre Pompidou from the 30 of May to the 27 of August 2018.
Monkman’s artistic practice is based on a resolutely anti-Modernist mastery of the fine arts, an in-depth knowledge of the “dominant” art history and a critical approach to its representations.
Founder, in 1984, of the artist collective Nuklé-Art and the electro-punk group Les Envahisseurs, today, Kriki still embodies punk culture in French contemporary art.
The year 1989 was a turning point in Chinese art: it shifted from modernism or avant-gardism to so called «contemporary art.» However, this shift, unlike that in the West after World War Two, wasn't the logical result of post-modernist theories.
This comprehensive volume examines the little-known relationship—both artistic and personal—between two of the greatest avant-garde artists of the twentieth century.
Gupta (b. 1964) lives and works in Delhi and had trained as a painter before going on to work with a variety of media including painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and installation.
At the Musée d'Orsay, we meet visitors who comment on a work by exclaiming: c'est connu ! (It's famous !). What made this artist or work famous? Why is this well-known? The answers are many, sometimes comical.
Obscure clarté est plus que le titre d’une monographie. C’est une boussole pour les lecteurs qui s’aventureront dans l’univers de l’artiste franco-chinoise Li Chevalier. > Book preview
Fort du succès des expositions numériques immersives des Carrières de Lumières, aux Baux-de-Provence, l’Atelier des Lumières ouvre ses portes en plein cœur de Paris, au printemps 2018. > Book preview
Impressionist Treasures: The Ordrupgaard Collection, organized by Paul Lang and celebrating one of the outstanding northern European collections of 19th century French and Danish art, exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa (2018).
Laure Prouvost's work mixes several stories that answer one another, clash: fiction can then embrace reality. In her immersive installations and films, she gathers various mediums to develop a fable that addresses the visitor directly.
The nineteenth-century saw the Napoleonic Wars bring about an end to the traditional art market in Germany, thereby leaving the artists with an opportunity to establish a new identity. > One of the corner of the book is sligtly damaged
“When I am asked why I paint, I reply that art is part of the process of life. It comes from this process and goes back to it.” Maxime Zhang. > Book preview
In the mild climate of Côtes d'Armor, Le Kestellic benefits from special geographical features. The granite slopes, facing south, receive abundnat light, as show the native Mediterranean plants. The forest offers shelter for plants originating from woodlands climates all over the world. The luxuriant vegetation along he stream gives the tropical touch.
Sculpter le règne animal permettrait-il d’interroger l’humanité et de questionner une époque qui tente d’éradiquer la différence au profit d’une normalité déjà trop établie ? L’animal, sujet artistique de choix, transmet l’intuition d’un monde magique, étrange ou dérangeant.
The Fondation Louis Vuitton's unprecedented exhibition brings together one hundred and thirty masterpieces, among the most iconic of the collection created in Moscow by the great Russian art patron, Sergei Shchukin.
Vera Röhm's work is a crossover between concrete, geometrical abstraction, minimalism and conceptual art. > Book preview
Le musée Bonnard accueille Pierre Lesieur, artiste majeur de la seconde école de Paris, très lié à Pierre Bonnard. L'exposition réunit une quarantaine de tableaux de grands et petits formats autour des Intérieurs si sensibles de Pierre Lesieur. > See exhibition details
Discover in this bilingual book (in French and English) Jim Dine exhibition at Le Centre Pompidou
“Black Dolls” will be the first time the Neff Collection is shown outside the United States. Comprising an outstanding ensemble of several hundred handmade African-American dolls and a set of photographs from the 1850s to the 1940s.
Ceija Stojka was born in Austria in 1933, the fifth of six children. Her family were Lovara Roma horse traders from Central Europe. Ceija was ten years old when she was deported with her mother, Marie Sidi, and other family members. She survived three concentration camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen.
A pioneer of abstract art starting in 1915, Alberto Magnelli created the whirlwind of color that was the series Explosions Lyriques from 1918-1919, amid postwar exuberance.
The exhibition Corot. The painter and his models brings together an exceptional ensemble of figurative paintings and highlights the most intimate, secret, and modern aspects of the artist’s works.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the legendary Bateau-Lavoir—located on Place Émile-Goudeau, near the present-day Musée de Montmartre—, where the artists Picasso, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Rees, Matisse, Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and many others would meet and exchange ideas in an independent spirit, became the cradle of modern art. > See...
Farid Belkahia is one of the pioneers of contemporary art in the Maghreb. Beginning in the 1960s, he focused his attention on new ways of self-expression, examining his own identity and relationship with the “other.”
After studying at the School of Fine Arts in Saint-Etienne, Djamel Tatah took up painting and, since the late 1980s, has opted for large-format polyptychs with monochrome background featuring real-size human figures who share the museum space with the spectator in a poetic and unusual way.
The Salon de l’Abondance, the smallest of the salons in the Grand Apartments, served as an antechamber to Louis XIV’s Cabinet of Rarities. This book traces the salon’s history and pays tribute to the expertise of all those involved in its restoration.
The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is paying tribute, in a major retrospective, to Jean Fautrier (1898–1964). > See exhibition details
Follow Detective Damian in his investigations ... Enter with him in the studio of Matisse, Giacometti, Gauguin, Keith Haring and many others ... Find his forgotten magnifying glass on Monet's desk ... Look for the owls on the works of Picasso ... Play with Andy Warhol's flowers ... Find apples in Cézanne's studio ... Color a Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons ...
Le musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers invite 5 collectionneurs de la région à dévoiler une partie de leurs acquisitions et invite ainsi le public à entrer dans leur intimité.
130 works, most of which previously unpublished, by Moroccan contemporary artist Farid Belkahia in a rich and comprehensive monograph.
Monographie. Si les installations en plumes d’Isa Barbier (née en 1945) sont éphémères, elles nécessitent que nous en gardions une trace. Si ses travaux antérieurs sont moins connus, ils imposent que nous les redécouvrions à la faveur de liens tissés dans l’œuvre.
In the last ten years, Michel Frapier has been developing a very original photographic work. As image rights restrict the photographers work field, he chooses to place the human being in the very center of his work. By removing their background, he makes his subjects barely recognizable : just silhouettes along with their shadows, notes taken off a...
A contemporary artist of international renown, Alain Godon (Bourges, 1964) has been given carte blanche at the Musée Départemental Matisse to focus on the founding journey made by Matisse in 1930 from New York to Tahiti and to draw us into his colourful and joyful universe.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Bonnard, the Musée Bonnard in Le Cannet is paying tribute to the painter with an exhibition of an exceptional set of his masterpieces. > See exhibition details
This dynamic new appraisal of the painter Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) looks beyond her association with Wassily Kandinsky and completely reevaluates her art on the anniversary of her 140th birthday.
Fotofever est née de la volonté de créer une plateforme de promotion de la photographie. à travers une sélection pointue, chaque édition porte les valeurs de Fotofever : audace, passion, et partage. > Book preview
Catalogue raisonné of the Printed work of Antoni Clavé (1913-2005). One of those great 20th-century artists who found in printmaking a crucial complement to painting and sculpture.
If he collaborated with some of the other great architects of the twentieth century, the photographer Lucien Hervé (1910-2007) is above all famous for his work with Le Corbusier.
Like Rembrandt’s great engravings in the 17th century, Picasso produced some of the most powerful engraving work of the 20th century thanks to his expressive and inventive richness. > See exhibition details
La maison rouge continues its cycle of exhibitions showing private collections. Marin Karmitz unveils a significant part of his collection, with close to 400 works that question how we are in the world.
To date, there have only been two exhibitions devoted to the sculptural work of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920): in 1911 at the Parisian studio of the Portuguese painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso and in 1912 at the famed Salon d'Automne. Modigliani Sculptor is the product of six years of painstaking research, which uncovered unpublished and...