Marisa Merz, a work in harmony with poetry

Marisa Merz, a work in harmony with poetry

Marisa Merz, 1996 in Florence. Gianfranco Gorgoni with kind permission of Archivio Merz CRITICAL – The Turin-born Arte Povera artist used simple materials to express innovative ideas. The LaM is dedicating a retrospective to him, the first in France in thirty years. Marisa Merz, these are two small slippers made of Vair, copper wire, knitted […]

our 10 favorites

our 10 favorites

Chu Teh-chun exhibition at the Cini Foundation on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Yvon Chu REPORT – The 60th Contemporary Art Event will showcase unique artists who step off the art streets. Special envoy to Venice Julien Creuzet, the Caribbean in the French pavilion Smiling, inscrutable face, a spectacular profile under his huge cinema […]

“Hopeless” puts obstacles in our way – Liberation

“Hopeless” puts obstacles in our way – Liberation

In this thriller, in which a high school student flees his stepfather’s violence and flees to a group of mobsters, it’s all just the barking and chatter of uninteresting traumatic psychology. The South Koreans are now unbeatable when it comes to excessive graphic violence and continue to push the boundaries that were largely pushed back […]

Everything you want to know about Lacan without asking

Everything you want to know about Lacan without asking

The human conditionby René Magritte, 1933. Adagp, Paris, 2023 CRITICISM – Forty years after his death, the Center Pompidou-Metz is organizing the first exhibition dedicated to the psychoanalyst and his relationship to art. She mixes ideas and works without taboos. Special envoy for Metz There are two options available to you to understand this “Lacan, […]

Julien Creuzet, Voice of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale

Julien Creuzet, Voice of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale

Julien Creuzet at the Liverpool Biennale in June 2023. PA Photos/PA Photos/ABACA OUR BACK-TO-SCHOOL NUMBERS – With this artist from Martinique, the French pavilion this spring will reflect debates about the island and its history. Julien Creuzet does not go unnoticed. His silhouette is topped by a mountain of dreadlocks, giving him a false impression […]

In Greece, a museum in the hands of women

In Greece, a museum in the hands of women

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens is dedicating a 10-month cycle of exhibitions to female artists, a first in Greece. “What if women ruled the world?”: The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST) dedicates a series of exhibitions to women artists, a first in Greece, a Mediterranean country with patriarchal structures, […]

Viviane Sassen, beauty as a lens

Viviane Sassen, beauty as a lens

Left: “Self-Portrait” (1990). To the right: GialloSeries “Pikin Slee” (2013). Viviane Sassen and Stevenson (Johannesburg / Cape Town / Amsterdam) PORTRAIT – The Dutch photographer spent her childhood in Kenya before becoming a model. She combines all her memories into a magnificent, sensual work that is close to painting and surrealism. The MEP offers him […]