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...
Tishan Hsu, extraordinary paintings of the emotional dimension of technology
https://youtu.be/0zCZc6089tI?si=uXMW3DVOgT8baGVw Hypnotic monstrousness The first time I saw an artwork by Tishan Hsu (born in 1951) was in Hong Kong in 2019. I was visiting new galleries in the city and in a neighbourhood of warehouses and...
Pasolini: an erudite martyr in the land of the painters
https://youtu.be/qXe9fvV5qXI?si=q1eiSFYnNaPYyJmJ Angels and demons Diving into the filmic world of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) leads to the discovery of angels and demons, saints and martyrs, and plenty of thieves who are often in cahoots...
Picabia: complex for the art market, genius for contemporary artists
Berlin Gallery Weekend Although Germany is a particularly important country in the field of contemporary art, thanks firstly to its artists but also to its collectors and dealers, it doesn’t have an influential art fair on an international...
Fondation Vuitton: the odyssey of an unpopular painting by Matisse becoming a subject of fascination for Rothko
https://youtu.be/0uN8ADoYC5c Having the eye To describe the relevance of an art collector, dealer or curator we tend to say they have “the eye”. There’s only a very small number of figures in the current art world who belong to this category....