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After studying at the Fine Arts of Reykjavik from 1949 to 1951, then at the Academy of Art in Oslo, Erró leaves to learn mosaic in Italy. He moved to Paris in 1958 and thanks to his meeting and friendship with the poet and visual artist Jean-Jacques Lebel he rubbed shoulders with the Surrealists. > Book preview
The Belgian Flemish sculptor Johan Creten, born in 1963, is a pioneer in the revival of ceramics ln contemporary art. This bilingual catalogue explores the animality in his art. Creten's bestiary is a poetic and political human menagerie of new and past works... > See exhibition details > Book preview
Figures de cire is a journey through time and the vernacular, built around a set of three films and fifteen photographs made in camera, completed by a new sculptural work.
Between 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle clandestinely explored the then disused Grand Hôtel d'Orsay. She settled in room 501 and proceeded to photograph and collect whatever objects she encountered in the deserted hotel, following in the footsteps of a mysterious former handyman, Oddo.
A particular episode in the history of the European avant-gardes of the first decades of the 20th century, the Berlin gallery Der Sturm (The Tempest) run by Herwarth Walden in the years 1913-1932 left its mark on the international artistic field which underwent transformations affecting both its structure and its functioning.
This guide book serves not only as an initiation tool to make the visit a more meaning ful experience, but it also provides deeper insight into the art and culture of the continents represented in the museum.
Philippe Crochet and Annie Guiraud, experienced cavers, are undisputed authorities in the field of underground photography. Their images, often awarded in France and abroad, have already illustrated numerous publications. > Book preview
Kupka’s many extra-artistic interests – anatomy, astronomy, chemistry, natural history, philosophy, the phenomenon of synaesthesia, and esotericism – had long drawn him towards the abandonment of figuration. As was the case for Kandinsky, this transition was directly linked to music. > Book preview
François Vatel, maître d’hôtel and right-hand man to two of the most powerful men in France, was responsible for organizing wonderful and sumptuous feasts and banquets for the court of King Louis XIV. > Book preview
« Ador has been painting since 2003. He loves to tell stories and tales, to laugh, to bounce and to make fun of things. His paintings invading the pages as he covers the walls. » > Book preview
Originally from Brittany, Renk - real name Walig Nicolet - grew up in Rennes in a family of artists. He left school very young and began to paint in the street.
A revelatory glimpse into the passions and obsessions of 60 visionary artists through the medium of their personal sketchbooks, treatises, storybooks, grimoires, and journals.
Since the 1990s, Hassan Khan has developed a conceptual oeuvre that uses a wide variety of media: sculpture, photography, video, sound, text and in-situ installations. His constantly evolving body of work offers a subtly ironic perspective of the power relationships that define the political and social context of the contemporary world.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fondation des Artistes' patronage commission (support for creation through production grants), the book 461. Dix ans d'art contemporain offers a panorama of the works supported by this scheme set up in December 2011.
Antonio Seguí, peintre argentin (1934-2022). En 1962, lors d'une exposition à Buenos Aires, la satire sociale mise en scène dans ses oeuvres fait réagir le public. Le peintre bénéficie alors d'un véritable "succès du scandale" . Sa carrière est lancée ; son travail révélé en Europe à l'occasion de la Biennale de Paris et exposé en-suite dans le monde entier.
The exhibition "Jusque-là", jointly organized by Le Fresnoy - Studio des arts contemporains and the Pinault Collection, questions the way artists explore and appropriate the question of crossing.
Born in Kinshasa and dividing his time between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Belgium, Aimé Mpane describes himself as a modern nomad who casts a critical, lucid, and mischievous eye on today’s world, which is so often fraught with tensions.
Among Chinese artists who moved to France or the United States in the 1980s, sculptor Wang Keping stands out for his invention of a unique sculptural language, today recognized internationally. > Book preview
One of Paris's most iconic buildings, the Luxembourg Palace was the residence of Marie de' Medici before it became the seat of the French Senate. > Book preview
One of the main roles of design today is to invent new reciprocities. While modernity has forged the idea that humans could control their environment and make nature their own, we now know that this is simply not the case. The current crises are our confirmation that it is time to change paradigm. > See exhibition details
Communes is a photographic essay by Raymond Depardon on the villages of the French Mediterranean inland region. Witnesses to history, these villages have long been abandoned, threatened by the “Nant concession”, a shale gas extraction project.
"Edgy, elegant, abstract, derisive ; description like these are often attached to Pia Myrvold's art and design" (Bradley Quinn)
Two hundred masterpieces from the Duc d’Aumale’s (1822–1897) world-class collection, a rare access to an exceptional private collection of masterpieces by Raphael, Poussin, Ingres, Dürer...
The Al Thani Collection brings together an exceptional array of works of art, representing a wide range of cultures and civilisations.
This publication focuses on the early career of the sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861-1939) at the beginning of the 20th century, aided by his encounter and subsequent collaboration with the dealer, Ambroise Vollard, who encouraged him to produce and sell his sculptures, then of small or medium
Two worlds rich in culture, arts and sciences: China, and the Islamic world. Reaching far beyond their horizons, this is the untold story of how China, ‘the dragon', and the Islamic world, ‘the phoenix', exchanged ideas between 8th - 18th century.
1958-1974 marked a period of intense collaboration between Sottsass and Poltronova. Against a troubled political and social background, the architect established the formal style that made him famous. His productions are highlighted in this book, which also presents archives from this period, annotated sketches and personal photographs viewed through...
The work of Mohamed Hamidi (b. 1941) is part of the history of Moroccan modernity. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was associated with the now-famous School of Casablanca, which proposed one of the most successful aesthetic models of the post-colonial era.
Monograph dedicated to the sculpted work of contemporary artist Simone Pheulpin. Her work is distinguished by a work of assembling strips of a traditional raw cotton from the Vosges.
Fiona Rae is a contemporary British painter known for her work involving abstract forms, bright colors, and psychedelic designs. Considered an integral member of the Young British Artists, a group including Damien Hirst and Liam Gillick, Rae emerged in the early 1990s.
Rachel Labastie, French artist born in 1978, lives and works in Belgium. Sculptor, manipulating paradoxes and playing on the ambiguity of shapes that are both seductive and disturbing, she takes a critical look at physical and mental alienation produced by a society increasingly inclined to control bodies and minds.
This catalogue invites us to explore the entire span of the Colombian artist Fernando Botero's career and the origins of his distinctive style, which seeks, regardless of subject, to exalt the formal qualities of volume.
Maëlle Dufour creates complex systems. It seeks to question the progress at the heart of past eras, known but also those to come. The visual artist explores the traces of decadence as the beginnings of hope by questioning progress.
The exhibition aims to revisit this idealising vision of the figure of the self-taught artist in the history of contemporary art in an attempt to grasp what actually happens when artists learn by themselves.
Photographe plasticien français, Antoine Schneck adopte très tôt les outils de prises de vues numériques dont il apprécie l’extrême qualité et le potentiel créatif. Son œuvre se développe dès lors par séries, au fil des voyages, des envies, des projets, toujours sous le signe de la rencontre. > Book preview
Guy Rottier (1922-2013) is the man behind a multifaceted, unclassifiabie body of work in which art and architecture, poetry and technology, are in constant interaction. Dazzlingly uncompromising, Rottier set out to radically renew both the language of architecture and the discipline's standardised lifestyles.
Omar Victor Diop is a self-taught artist and at forty-one he is one of the leading photographers of his generation. His work is part of the African tradition of studio photography, which includes the pictures of Seydou Keïta, Mama Casset and Malick Sidibé.
Togo, long before German colonization and Franco-British rule, experimented several ways of managing people and territories. The exhibition describes this management, its hierarchy, the role of chiefs or kings goes hand in hand with the cultural history of the territory and its relations with the neighboring countries of West Africa.
Barbara Chase-Riboud is a French-American sculptor, poet and novelist. She lives in Paris. She met Alberto Giacometti in the early 1960s. Throughout the decades, both artists have traced different paths as sculptors - as man and woman artists too. > See exhibition details
Capturing the glow the night engenders, as if by magic certain works of surpassing beauty reveal the colours of the shadows. The collections in the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art are packed with these rare marvels, attracting visitors from throughout the world.
Nicolas Eekman (1889-1973), figurative artist of international renown. His work develops expressionism tinged with cubism, later with phantasmagoria.
From catwalks in Lagos to music festivals in Casablanca, and from "image makers" in Marrakech to infl uencers in Johannesburg, a new generation of African creatives-fashion designers, photographers, bloggers, and hair and makeup artists-are redefi ning the continent's aesthetic grammar. > Book preview
The Collection Lambert has invited Abdelkader Benchamma. Under the title of Rayon fossile the exhibition takes form around an initiatory trip into possible, past, imaginary, future, written, or dreamt worlds.
Experimenting with all forms of artistic creation, from painting to photography, from drawing to sound creation, David Lynch’s work appears to be the most protean of our time.
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), along with Poussin and Cezanne, is probably responsible for one of the great turning points in the evolution of French art.