ANSELM KIEFER @Thaddaeus Ropac - TONY CRAGG @Thaddaeus ROPAC and LE LOUVRE

GAGOSIAN / RODIN and SUGIMOTO

The press release says the 2 artists association is unexpected and unprecedented: well... Nothing is said about what has driven the Gallery to do so.

It's not complicated to appreciate the "connection"- profiles, body, shapes, flesh, curves, texture, shadow and light, the sculptural nature, and, in the end, the allure that stands out.
I've seen last Fall, at La Punta Della Dogana in Venezia, a somehow more impactful installation, with the same idea/intention behind:

With the same serie of black-dark photographs from Hiroshi Sugimoto, were displayed, in one single long "corridor", giving at both extremities on the Grand Canale, lying on the floor, Maurizio Cattelan's famous white marble wrapped bodies (above): here, Sugimoto's models without head, disconnected from the human body, are direcly confronting Cattelan's deads.

Musée de la Monnaie, PEURS SUR LA VILLE

"Guerre ici" du grand reporter Patrick Chauvel, est l'un des 3 points de vue de l'expo "Peurs sur la ville", qui nous projetent "dans une fiction dramatiquement réaliste de conflits mis en scène dans Paris"

Patrick Chauvel rappelle que les conflits, si souvent banalisés dans l’actualité, sont plus proches que ce que l’on pense.

« Guerre ici » est une alerte. En superposant une image de guerre réelle sur une photographie du Paris actuel, il pousse à l’extrême le message que tous les journalistes de guerre veulent transmettre. Il faut rester mobilisé pour sauvegarder la paix.
(tiré du communiqué de presse)

Je vous recommande son livre "Rapporteur de Guerre"

GALLERY MAGDA DANYSZ, SHANGHAI : JR, WRINKLES OF THE CITY

December 2010

BIENNALE d'ARCHITECTURE DE VENISE

Great days, from Palazzo Grassi Piotr Uklanski "Dancing Nazis" to the Biennale Architettura super-great curation from my favorite SANAA co-runner, Kazuyo Sejima.
From la Punta della Dogana Tadao Ando's brilliant transformation to the deceptive Calatrava bridge at Piazzale Roma.
From Palazzo Ducale and Peggy Guggenheim Collection classic stops and a few other arty spots, ending at the airport with Tommy Hilfiger great suitcases celebrating with elegance the Biennale closing

Too bad, Italians in their kingdom, which most reputated houses commission the best architects, like Prada with its Foundation in Milan by Rem Koolhas, or differently, like Benetton with its "Fabrica", close, in Treviso, by visionnary Renzo Piano, didn't have the idea to celebrate the Biennale with such allure !

CY TWOMBLY @GAGOSIAN and WIM DELVOYE @GUY PIETERS

St STEPHANUS as the Goal keeper

At Guy Pieters gallery, Wim Delvoye is having fun in WORKS OF THE EIGTHIES

Great porcelaine-like gas cylinder and circular saws...

Blazoned ironing board and shovels...

Gagosian opening with colorful paintings from energetic 80 years old Cy Twombly