IDEAS #4
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Zamok & Fatrasies
The unsuspected origins and past of the paintings of Orsten Groom
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Fossil Light, Explosive Matter
Between July and November 2023, anthropologist TIM INGOLD and artist ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA exchanged ideas on themes close to their hearts. This conversation, which touches on chaos, the universe, fossils and strata, as well…
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Wind Study: the infinite and the infinitesimal
Mathematician Maria Cumplido Cabello focuses on the mathematical concepts present in Jitish Kallat’s drawings and installations, where natural elements, transience of time and human finiteness coexist with curves, fractals, and…
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Jim Dine, as words go
Returning from the Venice Biennale, art critic and curator Philippe Dagen meets Jim Dine in his studio in Montrouge, in the Paris region.
IDEAS #3
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Pop with pathos? George Segal’s phantoms
Art historian and curator Norman Kleeblatt illuminates the work of the most existentialist of Pop artists, George Segal, with a personal and retrospective vision.
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Eel Soup
Selen Ansen’s ten-day poetic and theoretical exploration of Jan Van Imschoot’s works exhibited at the S.M.A.K. An essay about ghosts, Aby Warburg, Georges Bataille and Edouard Manet, among others.
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Claude Viallat: a realist painter
Romain Mathieu takes an uninhibited look at realism in the work of Claude Viallat, one of the founders of the Supports/Surfaces movement.
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Conversation between Billie Zangewa & Daria de Beauvais
Conducted by curator Daria de Beauvais, this conversation with Billie Zangewa revisits the origins of the artist’s textile practice, her spiritual visions and commitment, the question of power and the…
IDEAS #2
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Gregory Crewdson in discussion with Bruce Bégout
The American photographer Gregory Crewdson and the French philosopher Bruce Bégout meet in the run-up to the artist’s exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles, ‘Eveningside’, and discuss the creation of an…
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Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota
Nika Chilewich traces connections between Chiharu Shiota’s work and the histories of the postwar Japanese Avant garde – a newly performative relationship to medium. She expands notions of early contemporary…
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Sculpture as epidermis, clothing as organ: a conversation with Jeanne Vicerial
Art historian Ida Soulard interviews Jeanne Vicerial on the origins and evolution of her practice. Their conversation takes in her research work in fashion design and her relationship to the…
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A conversation with Kehinde Wiley
Led by curator Claudia Schmuckli, this conversation with Kehinde Wiley revisits the artist’s exhibition ‘An Archaeology of Silence’ at the de Young museum (San Francisco) and explores his new body…
