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andrea mastrovito: 9000 papillons 0

Andrea Mastrovito, a hero of activism, works days and night, creating, organising, painting, cutting, cutting out, folding, borrowing, gluing, imagining, filming, dreaming, studying, realising, symbolising, drawing, writing, singing, playing, tearing up, and re-creating again. Re-symbolising… “I don’t like works that aim to express something” says Mastrovito, “I like them just to speak”. Prodigal and enlighted, [...]

Categories: contemporary art, fashion

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16/01/2010 – 2:11 pm
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la grande odalisque 0

Painting: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 – 1867), La Grande Odalisque (details), 1814, oil on canvas, 91 x 162 cm, Louvre, Paris. Ingres’ contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres’ break from Neoclassicism, indicating a shift toward exotic Romanticism. Grande Odalisque attracted wide criticism when it was first shown. It has been especially noted for [...]

Categories: history of art, painting

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08/01/2010 – 12:42 pm
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benjamin sabatier: manifeste 0

Manifeste (installation): white boards mounted on poles, slide projection of writings photographed in public toilets, sound track of flushing water. Manifeste is a solo exhibition by Benjamin Sabatier.
Replacing the slogans usually paraded at street demonstrations, anonymous messages written in the intimacy of public restrooms are projected onto the boards, displacing private experience towards public space. [...]

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08/11/2009 – 11:48 am
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paris in the rain 0

It’s raining in the afternoon. I open my windows to listen with a clear mind to this familiar sound of water drops, to smell the new scents it uncovers when it reaches the ground. Chimes play a delicate syncopated melody in someone’s balcony next door from the soft breeze passing through.
Time seems to be suspended. [...]

Categories: exclusive, word

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01/11/2009 – 3:31 pm
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the subversion of images: surrealism, photography, film 0

This exhibition brings together nearly 400 works, giving us a rare overview of surrealist photography.
A broad selection of the finest proofs by Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Raoul Ubac, Jacques-André Boiffard, Maurice Tabard will be shown alongside rarely seen images which reveal a number of surrealist ways of using photography, such as publications in [...]

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21/09/2009 – 10:03 am
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kendell geers: the waste land 0

Yvon Lambert Paris is pleased to announce The Waste Land, the second exhibition by Kendell Geers at the gallery.
T.S Eliot’s poem The Wasteland ( 1922) has much inspired Kendell Geers. A dark elegy Eliot’s The Wasteland is a revolutionary poem whose very form leaves the reader puzzled by changing register, subject, place and time, pushing [...]

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11/09/2009 – 11:25 am
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By The Pandorian