Chiharu Shiota: 'Memory of Books' at the 54th Venice Biennale

I love this japenese artist, and will be too late in Venice to see her exhibition by british gallery Haunch Of Venison

Here is a short film (click on the photo as well), of her installation at Gervasuti Foundation

Anish Kapoor / LEVIATHAN at Le Grand Palais: Monumenta(L) !

Monumental Kapoor for MONUMENTA

Musée del Novecento, MILAN

Architect: Italo Rota

Arte Povera Forever: Kounellis, Boetti, Fontana...

LIU BOLIN, Galerie PARIS-BEIJING: "HIDING IN THE CITY"

MIRO au Musée Maillol

"C'est dans la sculpture que je créerai un monde véritablement fantasmagorique. ce que je fais en peinture est plus conventionnel"

"Sans son oeuvre en 3 dimensions, Miro ne réinvente pas le monde, comme dans la peinture, mais il la réenchante. Sa poésie innattendue fait "exploser l'atome de la joie". (Texte Expo)

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.