https://youtu.be/qtk20JhAhbg The experience For a long time photography was considered to be a secondary mode of expression. But we might say that in the early 21st century not only is this kind of consideration obsolete, but also that the...
Hydra: one of the most beautiful artworks Jeff Koons has ever made will be destroyed after 31 October
https://youtu.be/EylV6niUHss Guilty There is an old slaughterhouse on one of the chicest Greek islands. On this small landmass with no cars, where donkeys still carry the heaviest loads, the American painter Brice Marden regularly stays...
The Armory Show: In New York the art market is in between resilience and effervescence
Covid Crisis Since the Covid crisis New York has lost some of its glamour. There are higher rates of urban violence. Scores of professionals are fleeing the city… The ultra-dynamic metropolis continues, nonetheless, to be the leading city in...
Docent Art, the Tinder for art: an app to find the artworks you’re going to fall in love with
https://youtu.be/RmM1xioajZg Many fairs Between the end of August and the beginning of September there are fairs of a good standard taking place in Marseille (Artorama), Copenhagen (Chart), Monopoli in Puglia in Italy (Italics), New York...
Documenta in Kassel: the great intellectual void
Public opinion For the fifteenth edition of Documenta in Kassel public opinion of the art, since most people will not have travelled to the little German town, will retain what was the most publicized element of the show: the accusations of...
Bourse de Commerce, Paris. Philippe Parreno has created a masterpiece: the artwork for the ultra-present
https://youtu.be/h7l4KUEc3Ks Platform for experimentation In Paris, the spectacular rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce is currently turning into one of the major platforms for experimentation in contemporary art. Following on from the giant wax...
The Daskalopoulos collection: a XXL exhibition in Athens before the enormous donation
Athens With its attractive climate, low rents, large wild spaces but also, it must be said, its very alluring tax system, Athens could become a major platform for contemporary art in Europe. It is like a new Berlin complete with sunshine, where...
Ali Cherri: A 21st-century romantic from the Venice Biennale to the National Gallery in London and even the Cannes Film Festival
https://youtu.be/hyQUAN_lEwI Proust on his deathbed In his studio opposite his desk he has displayed the reproduction of a portrait of Marcel Proust on his deathbed. The French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri (born in 1976) talks about how when he...
Centre Pompidou: Diving into Tatiana Trouvé’s immense dream drawings
https://youtu.be/3XqOHlB25_8 In the corner of your mind Imagine that you were to give form, all in one place, to the fragments of ideas that you cherish, the ones that inhabit a certain part of your brain. Not the ideas that feed into...
Mondrian: The Beyeler Foundation masterfully analyses the mystery of his move from figurative to abstract art
Dormant mystery In all major visual creation there lies a dormant mystery. Why does the artist decide to change style as if overnight? For the occasion of its summer exhibition, the excellent Beyeler Foundation in Basel has chosen one of the...
Kehinde Wiley ahead of his exhibition at Orsay: “At the Louvre the history paintings are made to physically dominate you”
Errors of judgment Writing about contemporary art also involves making errors of judgment on art that is currently being made. The creative output of the major protagonists is still in gestation and the viewer’s framework for understanding it...
Donatello: the inventor of Renaissance sculpture. An exceptional exhibition in Florence
Exceptional men In the words of Vasari, the first biographer of the Renaissance talents: “All great artist evade historians’ classification. They are first and foremost exceptional men (…) Among these unclassifiables, Donatello is one of the...