The Chilean artist Carlos Rivera was born in 1985 in Bettembourg, Luxembourg. He Graduated in Fine Arts from ARCIS University (2011, Santiago, Chile). He currently lives and works in Santiago de Chile. During his studies Carlos Rivera developed and experimented […]
Alejandro M. Parisi was born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His works and exhibitions were previously welcomed at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Tandil and Museo de Bellas Artes de Lujan, Fernán Félix de Amador and were widely […]
Opening Thursday September 6, 4pm – 9pm September 6 – October 6, 2018 Perrotin Paris Structured around a set of brand-new works and around the eponymous film, the exhibition interconnects sacred spaces, animistic beliefs and scientific theories. Each of these […]
FADING AWAY 22/06 – 28/07/2018 vernissage vendredi 22/06/2018, 18h 22,48 m. is pleased to announce a new project related to the notion of the horizon, curated by Rosario Caltabiano and the philosopher Céline Flécheux. The horizon is defined […]
Deconstructing the present is the path to understand reality. Jos Näpflin’s empiricism highlights the analysis of his environment : an object or an experience can lead to a reappropriation or a reinterpretation through
Art : Concept 4 passage Sainte-Avoye, Paris 0033 1 53 60 90 30 www.galerieartconcept.com Adam McEwen (b.1965 London / lives and works in New York) Adam McEwen has gained international recognition with the creation of a wide variety of works […]
ESPACES TÉMOINS 28 June – 28 July, 2018 VINCENT CHENUT, THOMAS FOUGEIROL, ALICE GUITTARD, LUCAS JARDIN, MANOELA MEDEIROS Curated by Célia Boldrini and Sarah Suco Torres. Praz-Delavallade Paris presents “Espaces Témoins”, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists working […]
ALAN VEGA, Universe TODD BIENVENU, Jaywalk June 23rd – July 28th, 2018 / Opening on Friday, June 22nd at 6:30 pm THE LONG, HOT SUMMER 1956: Release of Elvis Presley’s first LP, Pollock’s real-fake suicide, in Tokyo, Tanaka Atsuko wears […]
ANNUAL Magazine : Your previous show at Sobering Gallery is entitled Screen Memories (March 12th – April 14th, 2015) as a reference to Sigmund Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Do you consider the ambiguity
Neil Beloufa L’Ennemi de mon ennemi Palias du Tokyo From 16/02/2018 to 13/05/2018 Photo (c) Palias du Tokyo In Paris, it is not every day that you are hit with a racist video on entry to an exhibition. But […]
Chris Wiley: For your retrospective All last year at the Guggenheim, you hung every work you’ve ever made from a massive armature in the middle of the rotunda. It was like a giant puppet show or an elaborate mobile—a work […]
Kupka Pionnier de l’abstraction Grand Palais, Galeries nationales – 21 mars 2018 – 30 juillet 2018 The exceptional retrospective at the Grand Palais traces František Kupka’s journey, the beguining marked by symbolism and his gradual evolution towards abstraction, of which […]
8 JUNE – 20 JULY 2018 OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY 8 JUNE, 6:00–8:00 PM Galerie Marian Goodman Paris is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition with Tacita Dean and Julie Mehretu. This is the first exhibition to unite the work of […]
Kathleen Buehler: How do your works relate to the world we’re living in or to the reality we perceive? Would you say that you depict a possible different world or a world we can dream about, or that you are showing […]
The Chinese artist Junli Du is bridging a gap between the past and the future by letting the spectator appreciate the symbols and themes picked from Chinese custom and, simultaneously, new and creative renditions of them. Contrasting Souls discloses his […]
A year after the triumphant retrospective to celebrate his 80th birthday (Tate Britain,London– Centre Pompidou, Paris– Metropolitan Museum, New York), David Hockney is backwith a series of drawings produced on iPad and iPhone. The twenty-three works are collected under the […]
Jun 06 – Jul 28, 2018 Opening on Jun 06, 2018 – 6 – 8 pm Among the works on display for the John M Armleder exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery Paris, alongside murals from 2018, is a new series of […]
“The despot dies smiling, he knows that after his death, tyranny only changes hands, and servitude has no end “ Heinrich Heine, King David, 1851.
Solo Show 23 mai 30 juin 2018 In this solo exhibition at the Galerie Henri Chartier, Anya Belyat-Giunta reinterprets the 39 portraits of friends of Voltaire’s that are visible on the 2 engravings of Voltaire’s room at Château de Ferney. […]
Conversation between Rodrigo Arteaga, Raisa Bosich and Pablo Rodríguez Wednesday February 17th, 2016
A rock. Its extremity points the ether and its thicker base merges into the stony ground. The giant stone opens its gaping mouth. Cloudy sky light emphasizes the reliefs of its armour. Is it a shadow or a cavity ? Blackness […]
«Detrás de la política, el pueblo» is built as a whole of 13 fragments. Analyzed, separated, making easier the introduction of fakes or external facts into the original tale of the image. The pieces all together introduce a whole story […]
MARINA AMADA ART PROJECTS is proud to announce its inaugurating project with artist MAKIKO TANAKA in Paris, France. Paysages de Portraits | Makiko Tanaka Juin 01 – Juin 12, 2018 Vernissage à Samedi 2 Juin 2018, 18h00-20h00
SOUFIANE ABABRI Haunted Lives 5 May – 16 June 2018 «His gaze was not someone else’s: it was my own that I was meeting in a mirror, inadvertently and in a state of solitude and self-oblivion.” — Jean Genet. […]
PROJECT ROOM #3 du 17 mai au 9 juin 2018 Exposition Vernissage jeudi 17 mai de 18h à 21h Nocturne du Jeudi des Beaux-Arts jeudi 7 juin 12 rue des Beaux-Arts – 75006 Paris paris@galerielaforestdivonne.com www.galerielaforestdivonne.com mardi-samedi 11h-19h 01 40 […]
Sobering Galerie is pleased to present POWER, an exhibition of paintings and pastel drawings by Madrid based artist, Kepa Garraza. “POWER” is a reflection about the representation of power in Western culture from classical Greece to the present. This show […]
Julie Estève: Your works use leftovers, everyday items and sometimes even garbage. What direction do you push them in? Pascale Marthine Tayou: We are into incomprehension, so that’s where I push objects. Choosing an object allows me to give it […]
In Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas distinguished « the vice of curiosity » from « studiousness » as the reason is studiously focused on the object. Although « the knowledge of truth is good in itself, this does not prevent a man from misusing the knowledge […]
An object, a simple object of a daily life, what could be more mundane? What can it bring to our life apart from serving it’s purpose? How many pants do you own or how many shoes do you buy a […]
In L’Image ouverte1, Georges Didi-Huberman makes a distinction between the « visible » and the « visual ». The author warns against the superficiality of the visible, which attaches a screen to the visual, therefore the viewers are deprived of their own personal projection […]
In his treatise Principles of movement and equilibrium as an introduction to mechanics and physics, Jean Trabaud defines the equilibrium as « the state of many forces and powers which act ones against the others in such a way that everything […]
Carried along in the furrows of coloured waves, the gaze gets lost in black punctuations stippling the work. However, splashing and springing colors leave a muddled impression: their swarm wipes out the spontaneous gaiety they spread. This movement, far away […]
« Being can generate only being and if man is enclosed in this process of generation, only being will come out of him. » Besides, human reality can’t exclude the mass of being, but « man’s relation with being is what can be […]
The project 100 YEARS – 100 ARTISTS took place on October 29th at Hôtel de l’Industrie in Paris. At the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Patricia Kishishian, Sobering Gallery Director, decided to imagine two projects
Verum corpus The aesthetics of rupture : From the communist totalitarianism to a liberalized world
Rodrigo Arteaga’s work deals with the degrees of nature representation. The artist’s creation process is at the intersection of disparate sciences or knowledges such as anatomy, botany, cartography and astronomy.
ANNUAL Magazine : “Aghet” means “catastrophe” in Armenian and it refers to the genocide of a million and a half Armenians within the Ottoman Empire organized by the nationalist Young Turk party (C.U.P) from 1915. At the occasion
At the occasion of the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide, Sobering Galerie created an event entitled 100 YEARS – 100 ARTISTS. The gallery invited 100 international and emerging artists to give a work for a special auction
Twenty one Murano glass sculptures form the mysterious heart of Invisible Powers, the work and installation of Triny Prada for the Bembo Palazzo. Leaned against a long wall and placed on small white shelves in two rows, these soft
Paul Winstanley, who paints from photographs, uses a process of accumulation of images and then, removing some parts of it or drawing the eye of the spectator to a detail he highlights, he redesigns them entirely.
ANNUAL Magazine : Inspired by your imaginary travels, you create landscapes in which are superimposed plant and animal patterns, textures and techniques. Your technique explores the limits of the pictorial tradition
Because attending an exhibition with an imposed duration is a bit like when he’s ready to launch into a film, concert or play and has a specific time period set apart for that, outside the usual sequence of time. The […]
In 1910, Rudolph De Leeuw, a publisher in New York City, photographed every building on Broadway in Manhattan from Bowling Green to Central Park and published the photographs in a book called Both Sides of Broadway. In his introduction, De […]
This is only a short extract, the full conversation is available in the fifth issue of Annual Magazine. Shop it here! Chris Wiley: Your most recent works constitute something of a shift in your thematic focus, away from the history of French colonialism […]
On August 4, 2012 I interviewed Kirk Putnam in his garage in West Hills, California. Kirk is deeply involved with a small community of surfers who ride a very unique kind of surfboard, the Displacement Hull. The beginning of this […]
Fabian Stech: You have also a kind of a scientific approach. When you are working, your research is often based on science. Simon Starling: It has something to do with curiosity I suppose. To find out why something is like […]
Condensing and synthesizing experience into simple, dynamic forms – that’s the challenge. The manifestation can often seem quite simple; that doesn’t mean it’s a simple concept. I used these elements as a way of projecting whatever my sense of the […]
À 7 ans, Claire Zeller croit au cercle, à la sphère et à la spirale. Comme le docteur Mensendick, Claire Zeller est avant tout à la recherche de la tension dans le mouvement, à la poursuite attentive et bienveillante d’une […]
Timothée Chaillou: Talking aboutCoro Spezzato: The Future Lasts One Day(2009), you once said that ‘the installation consists of five 16mm projectors forming a chorus. The idea behind the installation is the Venetian polychoral style of the late Renaissance and early […]
Timothée Chaillou: What does the pedestal/podium evoke for you? What does it allow you to achieve? Guillaume Bijl: I have sometimes used pedestals or podiums to accentuate the realism of my form of realism – in installations like Miss Hamburg […]
This is only a short extract, the full conversation is available in the fifth issue of Annual Magazine. Shop it here! Sylvain Menétrey: Your latest projects seem to intertwine around each other. Primitive (2009) was a prelude to Uncle Boonmee (2010). In Mekong Hotel (2012), we see you […]
Laurent Montaron is a french artist, based in Paris. He is represented by the Schleicher + Lange gallery. In this interview, he talks about his last film Short study on the nature of things and gives us personnal thoughts about its relationship […]
Timothée Chaillou: To quote Victor Chklovski, ‘Art is a way of reliving the production of the object.’ Bertrand Lavier: I agree. There’s a widespread idea that Art is Life. Not to my mind. I feel that Art is something just next to […]
Timothée Chaillou: In the gardens of Versailles in 2009, you presented sculptures of architects who are important to you, using ‘pedestal frames’ – hollowed pedestals with only the framework remaining… Xavier Veilhan: It was a way of putting sculpture in the air, […]
Jason Farago: You use the model of a book composed of chapters. But because you’re working through time, you know when you’re composing the later chapters what came before. R. H. Quaytman: Every artist thinks that way, I guess. As for me, […]
Marie Maertens: Your paintings are always based on existing images, yet paradoxically you don’t have a computer or access to Internet – today’s source of images par excellence… Jean-Luc Blanc: Precisely, the choice makes you dizzy. I don’t use gimmicky digital research for my […]
Timothée Chaillou : When it comes to painting a picture using a different color from the one you intended, is the result as valid as if it had been painted with the color you wanted? John M Armleder: Perhaps we should put it the […]
Paul Ardenne: Love can help pacify things… Adel Abdessemed: The negative and the positive co-exist in violence. The violence or impact of a work of art is always positive, as it never leaves us. My images are not closed. They […]
Aram Moshayedi: You have conducted quite a few interviews recently, and it seems more and more that a few ideas have already started to be repeated, even though the body of work has continued to shift its role and relationship […]
Jim Shaw. Photo: Lee Ann Nickel. Jim Shaw: The End Is Here (7 October 2015–10 January 2016), the first New York survey show of Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw’s work, reads like a cabinet of curiosities as much as it […]
Left – Right – Straight ON The Fate of Abstract Painting in the Art of Blair Thurman ‘With the Great Game, there’s no going back. You only play once.’ ν Roger Gilbert-Lecomte: foreword to first issue of Le Grand Jeu, 1928 […]
One of my college friends introduced me to The Smiths at the end of March 1984. She had gone to London for spring break. During her trip, she walked into a record store and asked for something typically English, something […]
Le dialogue entre Roman Ondák et le Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris a débuté au moment de la Biennale de Venise de 2009. L’artiste, représentant la Slovaquie, avait conçu une intervention très remarquée, on s’en souvient, pour […]
