by Judith Benhamou | Apr 14, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/wHFpfwlMM7w Harald Szeemann “When attitudes become forms.” In 1969 the great exhibition curator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) came up with this expression as a title for an exhibition on the actions of artists, their performances. Since then, this title...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 10, 2022 | Art History, Video interviews
Suspending their attention The subject may seem trivial, but it is both unprecedented and fascinating how when the artist suspends their attention for a moment and their hand continues to work alone, it produces something unique. Gribouillis The French speak...
by Judith Benhamou | Apr 4, 2022 | Art Market, Auction
Jackie Matisse-Monnier She belonged to a circle located at the heart of the 20th-century avant-garde. Once upon a time there was the daughter of Pierre Matisse, the great dealer of contemporary art in the United States. Jackie Matisse-Monnier (1931-2021) was therefore...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 29, 2022 | Art History, Art Market, Exhibition, Gallery, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/tqRrN8CRO_E Zeitgeist Success in art is quite often linked to an element that may be considered superficial, and which is described in all languages using a German word: the zeitgeist. For a very long time Pinchas Burstein, also known as Maryan, the...
by Judith Benhamou | Mar 28, 2022 | Contemporary art, Exhibition
A punch in the stomach This exhibition is like a punch to the stomach. No taboos. No filters. Marlene Dumas (born in 1953) is like that. South Africa She lays herself bare and in doing so plunges you into a certain state of stupefaction. At the Palazzo Grassi in...
