https://youtu.be/vf-yRayDV-Y Incomprehensible words The relative danger of contemporary abstraction made by famous artists is that it engenders among art critics an outpouring of words that are most certainly lyrical, but also...
Xinyi Cheng: when attitudes become colours, at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris
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...
Villa Medici: the art of doodling and scribbling from Leonardo to Cy Twombly
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...
She was the granddaughter of Matisse and the stepdaughter of Duchamp: her collection at Christie’s
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...
Maryan: the forgotten Polish artist’s “truth-paintings” at Moca in Miami and Kamel Mennour in Paris
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,...
Palazzo Grassi, Venice: Drink in the paintings of Marlene Dumas
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 https://youtu.be/a-VOuV1POEA She lays herself bare and in doing so plunges you into a certain...
Mark Bradford: his breathtaking new series of paintings in Porto on the hunt of the unicorn
https://youtu.be/_3THFMe0qow Without paint For centuries, art was the result of an almost identical action: applying layers of paint with varying degrees of thickness to produce forms and create artworks. The American artist Mark Bradford has...
The private life of Andy Warhol from T to V
https://youtu.be/aeC76ncf66w The Andy Warhol diaries It’s hard to find a more fitting idea than that of a TV documentary made about the artist who wanted to be a television star: Andy Warhol. Netflix has just released a documentary series made...
The sale of the Loïc Malle Collection: Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Yves Klein and early Rashid Johnson
https://youtu.be/O3TJaji4dVs 17 billion dollars in 2021 at auction Through hell and high water the world still has faith in art, or at least in the art market. The global public health crisis was not yet over when 17 billion dollars’ worth of...
Michael Armitage in Madrid before Basel: beauty makes the social message even more powerful
https://youtu.be/PW4IZ8UlY70 Opulent It’s an opulent kind of painting. Contrasting and shimmering hues, shapes arranged in spirals seemingly the product of reflections or anamorphoses. And these blurred representations, which even seem to have...
Art Dubai: from revisiting the region’s modern masters to exploring NFTs
The future “We know the future is a source of anxiety. To greet visitors we have therefore created an avatar to accompany them on their journey.” Brendan McGetrick is the creative director of the museum that has just opened in Dubai: the Museum...
Boilly: the 19th century artist who fascinates the 21st century
It's just an illusion Seeking to create illusions is one of the great virtues of art. It is a process that is often practiced in current creation. Without mentioning the entire hyperrealist school, we might think for example of Gerhard Richter,...