"Entre nous" Marion Franzini at galerie Pascale Guillon
Marion Franzini

You will see there all new paintings by the artist. They are all free of any pressure. Marion Franzini continues to express her new writing/composition in big and small new formats. Always delightful! courtesy galerie Pascale Guillon clik

"Vies Imaginaires" "imaginary lives" at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Isabelle Cornaro

no image	In the Black Room of the Museum You will see the last acquisitions of the Museum: Les œuvres de Karina Bisch, Isabelle Cornaro, Alain Declercq, Mario Garcia Torres et Mark Geffriaud

"Passage à Faune" Bertille Bak and Damien Cadio at CRAC Alsace
Damien Cadio

Two different but complementary artists, one presents video, the other paintings. Because I know very well Cadio's paintings, I can suggest to you to go there, if you have the chance to go to France. Like we say for wine, this is a "bon cru" for Cadio. (to remember who he is read the Autopsy on chronique page of the menu) soon a video on the exhibit ci contre : Damien Cadio, Przepasc, d'après la vidéo de Bertille Bak,T'as de beaux vieux tu sais...  courtesy Crac Alsace clik et Damien Cadio

from november 4 to 8  / PARIS // FRANCE

"Jeune Création 2009" International Contemporary Art Show at Centquatre

More than sixty artists coming from Albanie, germany, Canada, korea, USA, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, République Tchèque, Slovaquie, Suède, Switzerland) two special guests: curator Lorraine Hussenot and artist  Pablo González Trejo www.jeunecreation.org

"L'image cabrée" curatede by Judicaël Lavrador, at Fondation d'Entreprise Paul Ricard
Damien Cadio

The Prize exhibit by "fondation d'entreprise Ricard" is always a good reason to go there. This time you will see one of our be-Art Talent Damien Cadio, who shows "carbo glass" whose autopsie can be read on be-art-website. image ci-contre courtesy fondation d'Entreprise Ricard clik

Michael Tierney at 5th Annual Larchmont Charter School Auction organized by Kopeikin Gallery clik

100 Photographs for sale in a silent and live auction starting at 70% of retail value.

Tamara Sussman at Rosamund Felsen Gallery

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"Tamara Sussman's work is a richly layered combination of two practices: visual art and fiction writing (....) The text applied to the inside surface of the plexiglass of the frame? is a translucent layer hovering in front of the photograph and appears and disappears as the piece is viewed from different angles." When you enter in the gallery -room dedicated to "tremble"- you are so impressed by the subtlety of the artist work. It is a balance between fragility of the form battling with strength of the meaning.

Brendon Monroe at Richard Heller Gallery

Amazing work by this young artist from Berkeley. He should have been a novelist as well as he is a great painter because his whole work is about a strange story of men and women lost in a strange world. This world is drawn with lines that compose the landscape. This is incredible what he can create with these thin lines of acrylic! Theses lines make the volume because of  the artist knowledge of colors laws , but these lines are also completely alive because they act in the landscape hiding persons or moving them etc... Unfortunately, for non resident persons, the works are pretty much better for real than on Internet! Hypnopompic, 2009  13 x 17 Inches  , Acrylic on Paper courtesy Richard Heller gallery clik

FIAC : Inernational Conte;porary Art Fair, at Grand Palais & Cour carrée du Louvre

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Usually a wonderfull art fair but this time much more because you will find be-art talents! Davide Balula: Galerie Frank Elbaz clik / Paris /FRANCE Rapahël Zarka : Galerie Michel Rein clik / Paris / FRANCE at Grand Palais booth A01, le 24 Stéphanie Nava : Galerie Riccardo Crespi clik / Milan / ITALIE at la Cour Carrée du Louvre, Stand : B02 Clément Bagot : Galerie Eric Dupont / Paris / FRANCE clik at la Cour carrée du Louvre stand D22 You should buy them to collect them, this is a be-Art advice!!

"Uncontrolled Growth" Michel Huelin at Zurcher Studio clik

Nicolas Buffe "Mutations merveilleuses de divers trucs" at Schirman& de Beaucé

Solo show for this excellent artist.His paintings -only white colour on black board- are extremely detailed drawings. The whole looks like both decorative and narrative, taking ideas from the "grotesque". The artists picks up stories from legends and mythology "By adopting the ornamental structure of the Renaissance grotesques as a background to his compositions, Nicolas Buffe has chosen a type of decoration based essentially on his subjective choices : les grotesques are hybrids in which the most daring associations are permitted, if not recommended.  It was these grotesques that defined the structure used by Moliere in his ESSAIS, which were a heteroclite mixture of citations and original texts; the grotesques that a sixteenth century  author called ?pictorial daydreams?, in that they so imitated the thoughts that are shaped by our dreams.  The goal of Buffe is much more serious than it first appears, but is instead of born of a ?serious game? so prized during the Renaissance, that conjugates pure invention, pleasure and knowledge." courtesy gallery Schirman & de beaucé clik

"Sculpture d'accueil" Nicolas Guiot et Guillaume Alimoussa at galerie RLBQ
Nicolas Guiot

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Bernard Maricau

		What a career for "our" talent! This piece makes Bernard Maricau the finalist of URBAN LEGENDS EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK Is a gallery interested in our Master? Urban legends infos clik

"La contemplation de la flaque" Marine Joatton at galerie Eric Dupont

New personal exhibit in which you will dicover the strange universe of Marine Joatton. This time she presents her famous and delightfull works on paper and also oil on canvas and wonderful sculptures. no title - 2008 oil on canvas courtesy galerie Eric Dupont clik

FRIEZE ART FAIR at Regents Park

clik on the image	Usually excellent but ;uch ;ore this year because you will find:  Isabelle Cornaro : Galerie Balice Hertling Davide Balula: Galerie Frank Elbaz clik / Paris /FRANCE

Through September 13th 2009 /GRIGNAN 26230 // FRANCE

A selection of  some artworks collected by collector Antoine de Galbert at l'Espace François-Auguste Ducros

© Tetsumi Kudo & courtesy la maison rouge

"A l'invitation de l'association des enfants du facteur, animée par l'artiste Françoise Vergier, Antoine de Galbert propose pendant l'été une sélection de quelques œuvres de sa collection. L'exposition s'articule en trois salles en tentant d'établir des ponts entre art singulier et art contemporain. Dans la première salle, Roman Opalka et Henry Ughetto. Puis Arnulf Rainer et l'art brut (Lesage, Van Genk, Rattier, Dereux, ACM, Podesta, Crépin,...) Dans la dernière salle une photographie du champigon atomique de Nagasaki en 1945 face à quelques artistes japonais (Kudo, Majima, Kusama, Tsuchiya, Doï)." C'est toujours un vrai bonheur de découvrir une partie de la collection d'un oeil aussi exigeant que celui du collectionneur Antoine de Galbert. Après Paris et sa Maison Rouge, il prend, cette fois, le parti intéressant de décentraliser et d'exposer "en province", trajectoire décidément sans fautes. B.Ch Ouvert de 14h30 à 19 heures (sauf lundi et mardi)

Kim Mc Carthy chez Kim Light gallery

La comparaison avec Marlène Dumas est inévitable, que faut il en penser ? la technique de peinture à l'eau est identique, la maîtrise en est bonne mais un peu différente, elle semble mettre plus d'eau et fonctionne avec des tâches. Quant aux sujets ils sont aussi des nus mais là le traitement n'en n'est pas le même. Marlène Dumas est plus intérieure et dramatique que Mc Carthy qui est plus à la surface des choses.... "September 16, 2008" watercolor on Arches paper 60 X 44 inches courtesy Kim Light gallery clik

"LOVE FOR SALE", Jean Lowe à la Galerie Rosamund Felsen

Jean Lowe est une artiste qui met sur un même plan, un même intérêt, une même importance, les décors des châteaux de Bavière et les gondoles de super marché Américains. A chacun sa culture semble-t-elle nous dire, on fait ce que l'on peut avec ce que l'on a.... Elle travaille tout d'abord en effectuant des photos de chaque lieu marquant, puis elle fabrique des collages de petit format de la peinture qu'elle voudra réaliser. Un excellent travail qui dit énormément sur le gap irratrappable des Histoires de nos deux continents et bien plus encore.... infos rosamund Felsen gallery clik

Yi Chen chez Honor Fraser

Huile sur toile. Assez surprenants portraits qui sont consitués à partir d'un montage de plusieurs portraits photographiques. Pas ininteressant mais hors de prix ! "The Little Fierce One" 2008, Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches courtesy Honor Fraser clik

"First Show" à la galerie Cherry and Martin

Première exposition collective dans ce nouveau espace pour la galerie qui vient de déménager.Galerie à suivre avec de très intéressants jeunes talents comme Holly Coulis, Brian Bress ou Nathan Mabry,  à suivre donc Baby 2009 /dvd 9mn courtesy Cherry and Martin Gallery clik

"Obliteration and Memory" Mustafa Hulusi, galerie Patrick Painter

Peinture assez typée côte Ouest des US, alors que le peintre est britannique et vit et travaille à Londres ! Obliteration and Memory (Almond Blossom 4), oil on canvas, 210cm x 300cm, 2009 courtesy Patrick Painter gallery clik

Through May 25, 2009 /DOWN TOWN // LOS ANGELES

"Dan Graham: Beyond" at  MOCA Grand avenue

"Dan Graham: Beyond is the first North American retrospective of the art of Dan Graham (b.1942, Urbana, Illinois), examining his entire body of work in a focused selection of photographs, film and video, architectural models, indoor and outdoor pavilions, conceptual projects for magazine pages, drawings and prints, and writings." Very interesting exhibition that shows an artist must have a target when he searches, he thinks, he creates. Dan Graham has been obsessed all day long by the way a human being is seen and the way he sees himself. To dig more deeply in that direction he used all techniques: as mirrors, architecture and mirrors, camera and TV screens, three dimension as well as drawings or photography. Many artists of these days have to see this exhibition to understand the way they have to think and act to be an artist.

"Dortoir des filles" Haidée Henry à la galerie Figge Von Rosen

"dortoir des filles" courtesy galerie figge von rosen "ballons" courtesy galerie figge von rosen

"We show the large installation Dortoir des filles (2008), a work consisting of seven beds, hanging from the ceiling. The beds are poorly illuminated and they are covered with mattrasses filled with straw. From them water is dropping slowly into rusty buckets. The rhythm of the drops intonates a silent concert of tones, respectively of the necessities, anxieties, and longings of the girls that give the work a part of its title. The perception of the ensemble stimulates a bundle of associations that can have to do with the process of growing-up of young people, with emotions instigated by puberty, with mental or physical injuries, with hopes and lusts. However, these are associations that remain in the field of the implied and the contingent because of the high degree of abstraction of Henry's artistic language." "One of the ca. 25 current drawings that we are showing too (all 2008, each 50 x 70 cm), comes back to the fate of the dead boar. However, the pitch of these drawings is not limited to negative emotions, but Haïdée Henry plays with the different possibilities of expression ? from tragic through ironic. Like many of her sculptures, the drawings are characterized by an oscillation between sex and eroticism, violence and tenderness, lust and anxiety, man and animal. Mythical creatures, beings of fairy tales that are not reduced to only one meaning, one identity, but that are giving us proofs for alternative ways of life." galerie Figge Von Rosen clik

May, 14,15 and 16th, 2009 /Marseille // FRANCE

First spring of art in this wonderful city of the south of Fance

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"brooklintimate" Jerôme Lagarrigue at Galerie Olivier Waltman

Portrait series by this very young artist . Excelllent technique that matche quite well with the topics, A must be seen artist..... and keep him in your mind Notice the catalogue of this exhibition edited by the gallery owner. This is necessary and part of the job of the gallery, but.... never done nowadays, or too rarely done.....  so, good job !! "Kenneth" oil on canvas 200X200 courtesy galerie Olivier Waltman clik

Through May 30, 2009 /PARIS 3ème and Nanterre // FRANCE

Catalogue published by Nanterre city,  text by Bernard Point , graphism Renaud Buénerd

/Paris 3ème

"La chair de l'objet" at galerie Véronique Smagghe. Curated by: Bernard Point, Aurélie Brame, Emmanuel Rivière

/Nanterre

"La chair de l'objet" à la Villa des Tourelles. Commissariat : Bernard Point, Aurélie Brame, Emmanuel Rivière

Galerie Villa des Tourelles ( face à la maison de la musique )

9, rue des Anciennes-Mairies 92000 Nanterre - 7 mn à pied du RER Nanterre-Ville

Ouverture mardi, jeudi, vendredi de 16 h à 19 h / mercredi, samedi de 14 h à 19h Finissage le samedi 30 mai 2009 à 17 h / performance sonore de Dan Charles Dahan

Aurélie Brame

Samuel Aligand, Erwan Ballan, Aurélie Brame, Léo Delarue, Michel Gouery, François Guibert, Laurence Nicola, Emmanuel Rivière Aurélie Brame  "Games" 2008, huile sur toile, 130 x 162 cm

"Le mythe & la marque Che Guevarra" at Galerie Suty
Philippe Pasquet

70 artists have been working on the Che myth. Thierry Agnone, Atypyk, Olivier Aubry, Elizabeth Barbosa, Tristan Bastit, Emmanuel Baudoux, Didier Bécet, Ana Benaroya,Yvan Benoit, Ulrike Bolenz, Marc Boutrais, Anne Brunet, Caroline Cesareo, Pierre Chanoine, Martin Chérel, Céline Churlaud, Nathalie Contenay, Pascal Courcelles, Philippe Croq, Olivier Crusells,GopalDagnogo, France de Griessen, Dix10, Ivan Duval, Jean Faucheur, FKDL, Katrin Fridriks, Cédric Geney, Laurence Gonry, Dav Guédin,Gérard Guyomard, Jean-Sébastien Ides, Jo Brouillon, Michael Kravagna, Pascal Laborde, Sylvain lang, Le Coup Du Lapin, Quentin Lëwn, Eric Liot, Lotie, Gwen Marseille, Eugenio Merino, Ivan Messac, Monsieur Deez, Daniel Nadaud, Nanan & Patrick, Philippe Parrot Lagarenne, Philippe Pasquet, Frédéric Périmon, Jérémy Pernet, Bernard Pras, Michèle Robine, Karine Roche, Noémie Sauve, Ville Savimaa, Marc Sich, Michel Soubeyrand, Strom & Doberman (LVL-studio), Ian Stuyve, Sunset, Philippe Szechter, Laurent Taudin, Titi From Paris, Patrick Thomas, Dai Dai Trans, Yves Ullens, Anne Van Der Linden, Drew Walker, Yasmina. http://www.philippe-pasquet.com www.galeriesuty.com

Aaron Young à la galerie Almine Rech

I have discover this artist at ARCO 08 art Fair, in spain. I was not the only one because Gagosian, Bartolomi galeries and now Almine rech gallery have aso discovered him also. This is great because he is excellent. I don't have to explain to american people the whole meaning of such a symbol, shown on left.... galerie Almine Rech clik image ci-contre courtesy Bartolomi gallery Excitement Is Just Around The Corner, 2008 Chainlink fence, dipped in 24k gold, Variable dimensions

"Oh quel beau déni que le débit de l'eau !" à l'Abbaye Saint-André - Centre d'art contemporain
Camille Goujon

collective exhibit with following artists: Pierre Ardouvin, Per Barclay, John Batho, Jean Bellissen, Jean-Luc Bichaud, Michel Blazy, Véronique Boudier, Yves Caro & Manoela Ferreira, Marcel Dinahet, Sophie Dubosc, Camille Goujon, Laura Henno, David Lefebvre, Pascal LiOvre, Pierre Malphettes, Olivier Masmonteil, Musée des Nuages, Bruno Pelassy,, John Pfahl, Philippe Pons, Loïc RaguénOs, Philippe Ramette, Dom et Jean-Paul Ruiz et Cédric Peyronnet, Gilles Saussier, Elisa Sighicelli, Muriel Toulemonde, Hans Van Den Ban. Artist Camille Goujon has the best knowledge about water problems, sepcially those of California and she is abble to transform this huge problem into an artistic way. courtesy de Camille Goujon renseignements:http://asso.info-limousin.com/cacmeymac/

Through June 21, 2009 /Sérignan // FRANCE

"Comicstrip" au Musée de Sérignan

/ Abdelkader Benchamma / Belkacem Boudjellouli / Armelle Caron / Julien Cassignol
/ Sylvain Ciavaldini / Robert Crumb / Guillaume Dégé / Roland Flexner
/ Pauline Fondevilla / Jochen Gerner / Killoffer / Stéphanie Nava / Gérald Pagighi
/ Guillaume Pinard / Christine Rebet / Agnès Rosse / Jeanne Susplugas
/ Tarcop & Glabel

146 avenue de la plage - SERIGNAN F-34410

Exposition ouverte du mardi au dimanche, de 13h à 18h - Tel: 04 67 32 33 05

www.ville-serignan.fr/culture/musee/musee.swf

"SILENT WRITINGS" at Louis Vuitton cultural space

Louis Vuitton associates its name with the most mysterious and original exhibit settled in Paris! This is the showing of three glyphic tablets from Easter Island: ?Rongo Rongo?. Never having been deciphered to date. These tablets were storage at the Vatican Museum  (!) With these silent writings as a focal point, Espace Louis Vuitton is bringing together the works of  16 contemporary artists providing a series of different perspectives. You will find there all the ways of thinking to a topic by a contemporary artist. This is very interesting to see how they embrace such a topic really involved in the reflexion or not. Exhibition Curator : Hervé Mikaeloff Scenography : Nathalie Crinière Artists: Claude Closky Tracey Emin Guyton Walker Ni Haifeng Jenny Holzer Idris Khan Joseph Kosuth Barbara Kruger Ernesto Neto Giuseppe Penone Robin Rhode Marco Nereo Rotelli Charles Sandison Sun7 Lawrence Weiner

Through March 20, 2009 /Paris 3ème

"Catch" Katharina Ziemke à la galerie Zürcher

"Katharina Ziemke carries out a double displacement of reality as it is depicted in documentary images (the press, photographs, the Internet, etc.). They are broken up ? sampled ? then placed in a world that is without antecedents, though in certain respects it does recall the strange, slightly cruel atmosphere of the Grimm brothers' tales. What interests Ziemke is not so much humans as their attitudes, not so much stories as their contexts ? and above all the indices, however derisory, of the successive steps that take a civilisation from a given historical era through to our own." Bernard Zürcher At dusk, 2008 oil on canvas courtesy galerie Zürcher clik

DRAWING TIME IN PARIS

March 26 - 30,  2009 /Paris 13ème

Art fair dedicated to Contemporary art drawings

The location has changed. It's at the Carreau du Temple 1 RUE DU PETIT THOUARS PARIS 3ème 63 galleries this year

March 28 - 30,  2009 /Paris 1er

During the week of the Drawings in Paris, Slick is an art Fair dedicated to contemporary art drawings

at  l'Atelier Richelieu
60, rue Richelieu 75001 Paris

 

Du 27 au 29 mars 2009 /Paris 4ème

Foire Internationale du Dessin du 21ème siècle

Première édition infos clik sur leur site ici

Some galleries emphasis the contemporary drawing art fairs showing works on paper from their artists

do not miss :

Christian Lhopital à la Galerie Polaris   jusqu'au 18 avril / infos galerie clik galerie présente également au salon du carreau du temple		Jona Friedman & Jean Baptiste Décavèle à la Galerie Anne Barrault jusqu'au 26 avril / infos galerie clik galerie présente également au salon du carreau du temple
PIERRE MONESTIER / ELIZABETH BARBOSA / CLAIRE FANJUL / DAVID ROCHLINE / RUYTCHI SOUZOUKI / ARA STARCK à la Galerie ARTEGALORE galerie clik infos

"RAAD O BARGH" 17 artists from Iran at Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac

As many times, culture does much more to link the people together, to know each other than any law or political. Here is an exhibit twice remarkable: because of the intention of remembering to everyone that Iran, is not olny a war  and people angry. This is also a strong culture with artists like in other countries in the world.  And  twice remarkable because it comes from a gallery owner very well known, international, who shows to us that to be a gallery owner is not only a business.mind. Art can highlight the best part of humanity. Many thanks Mister Ropac ! courtesy gallery Thaddaeus Ropac clik infos

Through March 28, 2009 /Paris 6ème

Hervé Abbadie at Galerie Arcturus

"In between" this is the most representative expression for Hervé Abbaddi'swork. He likes to capture things when they are in between. His very well know photography work is all about archtiecture when buiding are not finished when to see them is an everyday changing show. landscape courtesy galerie Arcturus clik infos

Through April 11th, 2009 /Paris 3ème

"Bijoux de famille" at gallery Chantal Crousel

Isabelle Cornaro

Isabelle Cornaro Savane, autour de Bangui et le fleuve Utubangui 2007 Pigmentary printing on Archival paper 35 x 50 cm each unframed Edition of 4 numbered and signed Credit photo: Isabelle Cornaro

exposition des oeuvres de : Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Filliou, James Lee Byars, Sigmar Polke, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Georg Herold, Isa Genzken, Richard Prince, Mona Hatoum, Mike Kelley, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jutta Koether, Heimo Zobernig, Fabrice Gygi, Tonico Lemos Auad, Wolfgang Tillmans, Seth Price, Isabelle Cornaro, Ligia Dias Danh Vo , Figure de reliquaire Byeri (Fang-Ntoumou) images, courtesy galerie Chantal Crousel clik

Mona Hatoum Testimony 2002 - Edition of 3 Video projection 2 min 37 (loop) Photo credit: Mona Hatoum

Through March 14, 2009 /Marseille

 "convoi exceptionnel" at La Friche Belle de Mai

Elvire Bonduelle

opening : February 17th at 6.30pm - address : La Friche Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin, Marseille, France		image courtesy Elvire bonduelle

Through February,28 /Paris 3ème

"A Fleur de Peau II, le Dessin à l'épreuve" à la galerie Eric Dupont

Exposition collective avec d'excellents artistes :  Daniel Alcala, Clément Bagot , Damien Cabanes, ThierryCostesèque, Gil & Moti, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Marine Joatton, Laetitia Legros, Siobhan Liddell, Myriam Mechita, Didier Mencoboni, Paul Pagk, Yazid Oulab image courtesy galerie Eric Dupont http://www.eric-dupont.com/

Etienne Chambaud, Color Suite  - Palais de Tokyo / Module

		Must be seen, very interesting emerging artist and excellent gallery owner.. Les Coloristes Coloriées (2008), pigment print and acrylic paint on canvas, 150 x 110 cm courtesy Galerie Lucile Corty clik

LOS ANGELES, CA

Through May 16th, 2009 /CULVER CITY

Through April,11th 2009 /Santa Monica

Through February 14, 2009 /Culver City

Kee Sook Lee, Michael Tierney, Derek Buckner at the George Billis Gallery

Group exhibition and First exhibition for Michael Tierney, a young photographer. He seems to have learned all about photographic art from Hiroshi Sugimoto. He uses the same overexposure but he shows a pop version of it, with deligthful colors, almost yellow. Very subtile work. "L.A. Law Library" Michael Tierney courtesy Michael Billis gallery clik

Amy Bennett " At the Lake" at Richard Heller gallery

Amy Bennett  Search Party, 2008  18 x 24 Inches  , Oil on panel courtesy Richard Hellker gallery clik

"Really  charming" This is the very first impression you have when you see the paintings of Amy Bennett at the Richard Heller Gallery. You could leave because it seems too classic, but, as you are in the gallery, you look at the canvas more closely. You look at them all....and you fall in love with the paintings, with all of them. A very strange mood emerges from these simple themes of "quiet days on a lake". It doesn't look like other paintings. You feel something more or something less: a sort of vacuity, of timeless. The landscapes look like a place you know but not exactly, it could be... You search your mind.. You search on the canvas details that could remind you something. The only thing you discover is that it is an ideal landscape, like the life you dream sometimes, the holidays you would like have with your family and friends. The fact is you're right; it can't remind you a real place because nothing is real on this canvas. The landscape is fake.The artist uses a singular way of working. As lmany contemporary painters take pictures to inspire themselves, Amy Bennett, makes, for every canvas, a three dimensions model and she creates her own  landscape. She makes the water, the trees and the figurines.  She goes much more beyond these elements. Actually, she's enough inspired that she creates also the day light, a bright or delicate light that reflects on and in the trees, on the lake. She paints trees in the manner of a sculptor. You "feel" the volume of each tree, impressive. To finish, she uses a very thick lacquer coat that put distance between you and the landscape, to keep the mystery of it, like a secret.

through january 5th, /Los Angeles downtown

Martin Kippenberger at the MOCA

One of the most significant and influential artists of our time, German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953?97) produced a complex and richly varied body of work from the mid-1970s until his untimely death in 1997 at the age of 44. Kippenberger's life and work were inextricably linked in an exceptional practice that centered on the role of the artist in the culture and within the system of art. With references, subjects, and sources as wide-ranging and diverse as his production, his oeuvre examined and expanded upon that role as he also cast himself as impresario, entertainer, curator, collector, architect, and publisher. The first major retrospective exhibition to be mounted in the United States, Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective includes key selections and bodies of work from Kippenberger's entire career: paintings, sculpture, works on paper, installations, multiples, photographs, posters, announcement cards, and books. image courtesy MOCA ask be-art-website for more informations

LOS ANGELES ART SHOW & IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
at the Los Angeles Convention Center

"Now in its 14th year, the move, to the Convention Center, will nearly double the size of the LA Art Show and increase the number of international galleries to 175 exhibitors"

infos & site clik here

ART L.A.
at Barker Hangar

"The New Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair.... The fair presents a select roster of 60 top international and Los Angeles based galleries representing an informed cross-section of today's contemporary art trends and directions."

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Louise Bourgeois, at the MOCA, grand avenue

Great tour for the wonderful French sculptor. The exhibition has been produced by both Tate Modern, London, with the French Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Here in LA, on display new pieces from the artist collection The show is not the same as in Paris. We don't feel the dramaturgy of the pieces shown because there is no scenario intention from the curator. In the mind of the sculptor each piece has a special meaning, family meaning, sexual meaning, father meaning, mother meaning that we don't even feel here. but go there anyway, the works are wonderful image courtesey le MOCA clik

ABROAD


Through April 24th, 2009 / New York / USA

"AMERICAN WALL NUT" DAVIDE BALULA at Fake Estate

It seems that New York inspires the artist who multiplies the exhibits, wonderful ! "Emptied of its usual markers of labor and display, the interstitial space of the transfigured, hardly150 square foot exhibition venue evokes, with its parqueted floor and bare walls, an abandoned domestic space. In the back of the room, as though the perpendicular planes of the floor and the wall had folded onto each other and left a trace of their unlikely encounter, fragments of walnut lumber encrusted in the dry wall and strips of plaster inlayed in the parquet floor mirror each other in a strict inversion of matter. The reflective motif reveals itself as inherently site-specific, as it is determined by the modular relationship between the wood paneling and the general structure of the ground it covers. Paradoxically, despite its three-dimensional embodiment, Balula's geometric intarsio prevails as an essentially bi-dimensional delineation: the artist draws here with space, like others draw with ink or graphite. Les Trous (Window Holes Series) : #302, 2008-2009 Baseboard, sheetrock, artificial light projection, electrical socket Courtesy Gallery Frank Elbaz s Fake Estate is open Thursday - Saturday, 12-6PM and by appointment www.fakeestate.us

UnORTnung V
Liddy Scheffknecht

ehemalige Ankerbrotfabrik
Puchsbaumgasse 1
1100 Wien
www.unortnung.net

"Iregular Landscapes" Patrick Rimond at Plaza Gallery ( Tokyo Art Museum)

French Photographer to see at Plaza Gallery curated by Valerie Douniaux info@tokyoartmuseum.com www.plaza-gallery.com

THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND at the MOCA), North Miami, curated by Ruba Katrib

With: Cory Arcangel; Davide Balula; Tobias Bernstrup; Heman Chong; Peter Coffin; Matias Faldbakken; Cao Fei; Kim Fisher; Claire Fontaine; K48; Chris Kraus; Cristina Lei Rodriguez; Nicolas Lobo; Martin Oppel; Philip (a novel written by Mark Aerial Waller, Heman Chong, Cosmin Costinas, Rosemary Heather, Leif Magne Tangen, Francis McKee, David Reinfurt, and Steve Rushton); Lisi Raskin; Julika Rudelius; and Mungo Thomson.

March19 through 8 May 8, 2009 / MILANO ITALY

"MORELLET-MILAN 49 ANNÉES" A ARTE STUDIO INVERNIZZI

Never miss an exhibition from one of the most important artist over the world! "On 19 March 2009, an exhibition of works by the French artist François Morellet will open at the A arte Studio Invernizzi gallery. The exhibition - which will take place in the gallery's enlarged and renovated premises - will centre around a group of important works reflecting the artist's most recent output and designed in relation to the exhibition space. In order to stress the close relationship of the works with their setting, Morellet will also create a site-specific intervention in the large new exhibition room on the mezzanine floor: the spatial dimension and physical and perceptive involvement of the spectator as part of the surroundings, of which he or she experiences a special and specific moment, are crucial aspects of his poetic practice. The forms and balances of Morellet's interventions always involve a variety of elements, such as the graphic sign, sculpture, painting and installation, and are founded on rational and cognitive systems that are the basis for their coming into being and construction. The rationality of their development is grafted onto the emotivity of the particular moment when they are observed: the works are formed in space as a means for capturing the energy that pervades the surroundings, never failing to open themselves up to emotivity that is entirely free and varies with the endless coming into being of time. Created from 1963 onwards, Morellet's neon works are a means for inscribing his forms - now consisting of vital light - more forcefully in the occurrence of events. The artist's approach to life - allowing him to create a vibrant and dialogical relationship with it - involves participation in the events of the world and their coming into being, which takes the form of specific and always unique fragments. Works representative of Morellet's output from the 1950s to the 80s will be on display in the gallery's other spaces." Catalogue with essay by Luca Massimo Barbero image courtesy a arte invernizzi clik

 
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MAY-JUNE 2009

BERTRAND JOLIET has re-designed his website clik here
CAROLINE GAVAZZI has a great new website, clik here

MARCH-APRIL 2009

CLEMENT BAGOT is in the French gallery Eric Dupont great !

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2009

JULIE LEGRAND has a new website
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DAVIDE BALULA is in New york

NICOLAS BEAUD belongs now to a Swizertland gallery, la galerie Speerstra clik

PHILIPPE JACQ clik belongs to the collection of the MUDAM clik, which bought a video "Oran"

AURELIE BRAME clik has published a new catalogue of her last works

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MAY-JUNE 2009

BERTRAND JOLIET has re-designed his website clik here
CAROLINE GAVAZZI has a great new website, clik here

MARCH-APRIL 2009

CLEMENT BAGOT is in the French gallery Eric Dupont great !

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2009

JULIE LEGRAND has a new website
http://www.julielegrand.com/index.html

DAVIDE BALULA is in New york

NICOLAS BEAUD belongs now to a Swizertland gallery, la galerie Speerstra clik

PHILIPPE JACQ clik belongs to the collection of the MUDAM clik, which bought a video "Oran"

AURELIE BRAME clik has published a new catalogue of her last works