News
Anthony Caro
CARO IN YORKSHIRE
HEPWORTH WAKEFIELS, YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK CENTRE AND OPEN AIR, GREAT BRITAINFrom 07/18/2015 to 11/01/2015
Caro in Yorkshire is a major Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle project that celebrates and commemorates the extraordinary career of SIr Anthony Caro (1924–2013). Distinct yet complementary exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park consider respectively Caro’s concerns with the horizontal plane and painting, given context through an academic programme at the prestigious Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
Jan Fabre
TRIBUTE TO HIERONYMUS BOSCH IN CONGO
ESPACE CULTUREL LOUIS VUITTON, TOKYO, JAPANFrom 07/08/2015 to 09/23/2015
The Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Tokyo is showing for the first time in Tokyo a set of mosaics from the serie: Hommage à Jérôme Bosch au Congo, fruits of an artistic process that ran from 2011 to 2013. Using his materials of predilection, beetle wing sheathes – or elytra – Fabre decided to turn his focus to his country’s colonial past. He also summons his predecessor Hieronymus Bosch — Fabre is fascinated by his superlative creativity and the power of his images. He draws inspiration from scenes depicted in the Garden of Earthly Delights, reinterpreting them as allegories of injustice, cruelty and indifference.
Chiharu Shiota
ARTIST’S ROOM
K21 (KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALE), DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY From 07/07/2015 to 27/02/2016
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota created two new installation pieces especially for K21, A Long Day et State of Being (Dress), on view from July 7th.
GROUP SHOW: LA CHINE ARDENTE, CONTEMPORARY MONUMENTAL SCULPTURES
LES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS, MONS, BELGIUMFrom 07/04/2015 to 10/04/2015
Monumental sculptures by 20 Chinese artists, from the pioneers of the late 70’s to contemporary generations, will be presented as so many artistic proposals to ‘change the world’ .
Philippe Cognée
AUX ORIGINES
ABBAYE SAINT-JEAN D'ORBESTIE, LE CHATEAU D'OLONNE, FRANCEFrom 07/04/2015 to 09/06/2015
The exhition at Château d’Olonne focuses on a more confidential aspect of painter Philippe Cognée’s artistic creation : sculpture. The title of the show ‘Back to the roots’ is very evocative, as the works brought together at the Abbaye date back from the 1990’s. Curator Philippe Piguet
Jean-Michel Alberola
GROUP SHOW: LA FIGURATION LIBRE, THE HISTORY OF AN ADVENTURE
MUSEE PAUL VALERY, SETE, FRANCEFrom 07/03/2015 to 11/15/2015
The exhibition brings together works by the French painters who initiated the Figuration libre adventure such as Robert Combas or Hervé di Rosa, as well as international and American painters along with whom they came to light – such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Crash, Kenny Scharf…
Gérard Garouste
EN CHEMIN
FONDATION MAEGHT, ST PAUL DE VENCE, FRANCE
The Maeght Foundation dedicates its summer exhibition, which will exceptionally run until the 29 November, to French painter Gérard Garoust. En chemin is an opportunity to discover a set of about 80 paintings, sculptures and drawings with new works, specially created in 2015. The exhibition’s retrospective dimension is completed by a strong focus on the current researchs of Gérard Garouste. It also presents unpublished notebooks, offering the visitor a look behind the scenes of the painter-alchemist. The exhibition layout proposes a provocative journey of interpretations and free associations. Gérard Garouste’s popularity is only equaled by his singularity. “Never ask directions from someone who knows the way, you risk not getting lost”*: this quote tells all about the whole process of the artist, who chooses figuration, the study of myths and founding archetypes to better explore human intimacytoday. *Rabbi Nachman
Jan Fabre
PERFORMANCE: MOUNT OLYMPUS, TO GLORIFY THE CULT OF TRAGEDY, A 24 HOURS PERFORMANCE
WORLD PREMIERE BERLINER FESTSPIELE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, BERLIN
Mount Olympus. To glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24-hour performance is one huge slab of history dipped in a sea of time. It is humanity’s time, time of the birth of tragedy.
Simultaneously distant and nearby, we recognize outlines of stories and characters taken from Greek tragedy. These characters have their faults torn open by Fabre, are left intatters, beaten by violence and Homeric laughter and fervent ecstasy.
Mount Olympus is shaping up to be a unique experience. Come climb that mountain, dive into that ocean. This will be unforgettable.
The creative process of this major project is also worth sharing. Follow the rehearsals online on the website with testimonials, snapshots, videos, quotes and much more.
Oda Jaune
GROUP SHOW, WHO’S AFRAID OF PICTURE(S)
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN 'A CENT METRES DU MONDE', PERPIGNAN
With Gilles Balmet / Marcos Carrasquer / Marc Desgrandchamps / Léo Dorfner / Erró / Hervé Ic / Oda Jaune / Kosta Kulundzic / Jean-Jacques Lebel / David Lefebvre / Frédéric Léglise / Thomas Lévy-Lasne / Li Tianbing / Simon Pasieka / Stéphane Pencréach / Nazanin Pouyandeh / Johann Rivat / Lionel Sabatté / Claire Tabouret / Davor Vrankic / Duncan Wylie / Lamia Ziadé.
The exhibition questions the way that painters deal with the images today, how they capture or defy them.
Curator Frédéric Leglise volontarily chose to exhibit artists from different generations, most of them based or having been based in France.
Pierre et Gilles
GROUP SHOW, ÊTRE ÉTONNÉ C’EST UN BONHEUR
CHAPELLE DE LA VISITATION, THONON LES BAINS
The exhibition concept resides in this statement by famous English writer Edgar Allan Poe : ‘It is a happiness to wonder’. It questions the spectator’s point of view through a selection of artists whose both approaches and visual processes are idiosyncratic. With Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Ardouvin, Clément Bagot, Gaelle Chotard, Nicolas Darrot , Gael Davrinche, Jean-François Rozier, Samuel Rousseau, Jacques Villeglé
