Museum quality The most powerful galleries on the planet currently have the luxury of staging exhibitions that could just as well be taking place in museums. Not everything is for sale and the visit inevitably whips up desire in art lovers...
When Turner’s landscapes resemble a Rothko
Like a firework It’s like when you’re awaiting the grand finale at the fireworks display: the Turner exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco has 80 works by the illustrious British master (1775-1851) and has travelled from London’s Tate...
Bill Viola: Homage to the inventor of grandiose videos
https://youtu.be/SRY_n2ujxdc?si=iRMyLW6B9toIUzgQ Pioneer Even today, in the eyes of the general public, what is known as video art (which in fact takes many forms) still seems like the poor relation compared to sculpture and painting. But if...
Louise Bourgeois: Roman Holiday
https://youtu.be/vtlKXdKSrWQ?si=5SD2JbAj9vAeokVx Treasure of Roman art As soon as you arrive there’s a powerful visual impact. We are at the Palazzo Borghese, a treasure of Roman art, a villa created by the Cardinal Scipion Borghese...
Chinese artists who are inventing a new way of painting
Extraordinary inventiveness There are certain periods when artists from a particular country show evidence of an extraordinary inventiveness. The training they’ve followed, along with the political and sociological conditions in which they...
Luc Tuymans: the “crime” paintings that will disappear in under a year
https://youtu.be/0Q4T5z_5TJA?si=mrsO1XLwxMLaNU32 Countdown The scene takes place at the Louvre. The countdown has already begun. In less than a year it will be nothing more than a memory. Imagine a fresco doomed to obliteration, handmade by...
Matthew Barney: “football is an extension of American culture”
https://youtu.be/rVSvuNMzwGs?si=ykGUndyrnrPzgP7W In the history of contemporay art The American artist Matthew Barney (born in 1967) created an extraordinary series of five films between 1994 and 2002 that have gone down in the history of...
Impressionism: a 21st-century movement
https://youtu.be/0e-f27oq0Ww?si=El27_JdL--oZYNS3 Chocolate boxes and greeting cards In our collective unconscious, impressionism is often linked to childhood memories, flashbacks featuring bad reproductions of images on chocolate boxes,...
At the Louis Vuitton foundation in Paris, the extraordinary parallel universes of Lu Yang
https://youtu.be/gj-I4KGDGKY Otaku In Japan they call them Otaku, referring to the young people who stay shut away in their bedrooms lit only by a computer screen that transports them to invented worlds. The Chinese artist who lives in...
Art Basel: a show of strength in time of crisis
Always dynamic The art market is showing signs of an unusual level of dynamism. In times of growth, galleries with their structures of all sizes fearlessly strike out to conquer new territories, from China to the Middle East. And in times of...
Julie Mehretu at full speed: from the 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit to Venice, the painter expresses the impossible
Sensations Trains, planes and automobiles… From Robert Delaunay to Marcel Duchamp, modern painters have always been fascinated by the sensations produced by new forms of locomotion. It’s in this same spirit that on 15 June 2024 a car completely...
The exhibition of the future is at the Beyeler Foundation
The stuff of dreams When the superstar of French culture André Malraux (1901-1976) - the former minister with a lyrical turn of phrase - stated in his book “Les voix du silence” (The Voices of Silence) that “the museum is a confrontation of...