In conversation with Patricia Kishishian
ANNUAL Magazine : « Aghet » means « catastrophe » in Armenian and it refers to the genocide of a million and a half Armenians within the Ottoman Empire organized by the nationalist Young Turk party...
View ArticleFocus / Rodrigo Arteaga
Rodrigo Arteaga’s work deals with the degrees of nature representation. The artist’s creation process is at the intersection of disparate sciences or knowledges such as anatomy, botany, cartography and...
View ArticleFocus / SetP STANIKAS
Verum corpus The aesthetics of rupture : From the communist totalitarianism to a liberalized world Trained in fine arts academy in Vilnius (Soviet Lithuania) S&P STANIKAS’s teaching was dominated...
View Article100 YEARS – 100 ARTISTS / Feedback
The project 100 YEARS – 100 ARTISTS took place on October 29th at Hôtel de l’Industrie in Paris. At the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Patricia Kishishian, Sobering Gallery...
View ArticleFocus / Lorenzo Puglisi
« Being can generate only being and if man is enclosed in this process of generation, only being will come out of him. » Besides, human reality can’t exclude the mass of being, but « man’s relation...
View ArticleFocus / Viet Bang Pham
Carried along in the furrows of coloured waves, the gaze gets lost in black punctuations stippling the work. However, splashing and springing colors leave a muddled impression: their swarm wipes out...
View ArticleFocus / Thomas Baumann
In his treatise Principles of movement and equilibrium as an introduction to mechanics and physics, Jean Trabaud defines the equilibrium as « the state of many forces and powers which act ones against...
View ArticleAgainst a conspiracy of invisibilities
Conversation between Rodrigo Arteaga, Raisa Bosich and Pablo Rodríguez Wednesday February 17th, 2016 In the context of the exhibition “Against a conspiracy of invisibilities” I was invited to curate,...
View ArticleFocus / Thomas Barbey
A rock. Its extremity points the ether and its thicker base merges into the stony ground. The giant stone opens its gaping mouth. Cloudy sky light emphasizes the reliefs of its armour. Is it a shadow...
View ArticleJust as the daylight was fading
In Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas distinguished « the vice of curiosity » from « studiousness » as the reason is studiously focused on the object. Although « the knowledge of truth is good in itself,...
View ArticleBeyond the visible
In L’Image ouverte1, Georges Didi-Huberman makes a distinction between the « visible » and the « visual ». The author warns against the superficiality of the visible, which attaches a screen to the...
View ArticleFrançois Arnal. Life through the prism of aerosol.
An object, a simple object of a daily life, what could be more mundane? What can it bring to our life apart from serving it’s purpose? How many pants do you own or how many shoes do you buy a year?...
View ArticleFocus / Nacho Martin Silva /Detrás de la política, el pueblo
«Detrás de la política, el pueblo» is built as a whole of 13 fragments. Analyzed, separated, making easier the introduction of fakes or external facts into the original tale of the image. The pieces...
View ArticleExhibition “Mon coeur est ICI”– Anya Belyat Giunta
Solo Show 23 mai 30 juin 2018 In this solo exhibition at the Galerie Henri Chartier, Anya Belyat-Giunta reinterprets the 39 portraits of friends of Voltaire’s that are visible on the 2 engravings of...
View ArticleOn the dark side. Kepa Garraza
“The despot dies smiling, he knows that after his death, tyranny only changes hands, and servitude has no end “ Heinrich Heine, King David, 1851. Sobering Galerie presents POWER, an exhibition of...
View ArticleJohn M Armleder at Almine Rech Gallery,
Jun 06 – Jul 28, 2018 Opening on Jun 06, 2018 – 6 – 8 pm Among the works on display for the John M Armleder exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery Paris, alongside murals from 2018, is a new series of […]
View ArticlePictures of Daily Life by David Hockney
A year after the triumphant retrospective to celebrate his 80th birthday (Tate Britain,London– Centre Pompidou, Paris– Metropolitan Museum, New York), David Hockney is backwith a series of drawings...
View ArticleJUNLI DU – Contrasting Souls
The Chinese artist Junli Du is bridging a gap between the past and the future by letting the spectator appreciate the symbols and themes picked from Chinese custom and, simultaneously, new and creative...
View ArticleVidya Gastaldon
Kathleen Buehler: How do your works relate to the world we’re living in or to the reality we perceive? Would you say that you depict a possible different world or a world we can dream about, or that...
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