Seen: le futurisme à Paris

le futurisme, Umberto Boccioni, Stati d'animo, quelli che vanno 1911 courtesy The Moma, NY

Seen the exhibition at Centre Pompidou.
A bit disappointed by the circulation of the works of art. Thought they would come from prestigious places, and so on and so forth (NB: the exhibition is part of the Saison Culturelle program...). Quite a lot of them came actually from the Centre Pompidou itself. The major parts of the works exhibited came from Milano.
Apart from that, lovely pieces by Carra (I'm not sure of the spelling)
Loved these words heard in the exhibition, from an old lady: "this painting by Sonia Delaunay shines in the heart". True...
See a slideshow from Le futurisme à Paris

Seen: Richard Avedon @ Jeu de Paume

Impressive. Reconciled for a while with Jeu de Paume...

A mouse tip: go to Jeu de Paume/Concorde on Tuesday evening, the last one of the month, entrance fee free for students ;)

Seen: Quai Branly

If you like design, I recommend it.
Shows the bridge between popular art and design.
Pieces from big names in design (Noguchi, Perriand)



Very nice scenography, especially for the first foot steps in the exhibition... Won't tell more.
Quite impressive piece of work, very delicate. The good surprise of the day

Superdrome @ PdT

Seen: @ galerie Kamel Mennour

Seen: flamenco @ Petit Palais

Exhibition at Petit Palais. La nuit espagnole: Flamenco, avant-garde et culture populaire
I'm what you call a "late-time fresh" Spanish language learner, so was quite interesting to get to know some bits of Spanish culture...
Particularly enjoyed the paintings from Picabia.
Unfortunately, there were only a couple of videos illustrating the art of flamenco, and no music. This sounds like smelling a cake and not tasting it...
The few dresses designed by Lacroix and displayed at the end of the exhibition are just gorgeous...

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Seen: Traces du Sacré @ Beaubourg

Bouhouhou. This is a dark dark dark exhibition. I can't say I enjoyed it. Why the hell should belief be depicted in such a dark way? Why should "sacré" be treated through an ethnocentric glance?
The only nice work I liked was Yazib Oulab's installation of smoke and light... The rest was too depressing, anxiety-stricken... though the thema could have been of interest. Dommage.



Then, there was that part about Dominique Perrault. Some part of his works are nice. But... think BNF, think studying at the BNF, and you'll feel like hunting the architect for the absurd construction, the far distances between the rooms that are useful (for the mouse), the slippery wooden front when it rains, the too strong cooler in the summer that makes you get a cold... etc etc. The only nice thing there is the table, the wooden surface is very agreable.



I enjoyed her falling black sand installation at the entrance...



This was the nice surprise of the day/visit at Pompidou. Sweet photographs, very naturalistic, naive... catching the very moment when the photograph-model is not conscious of being photographied and gives her body to the photographer's voyeuristic eye...

Seen: Oum Kalsoum @ IMA

This was a "during lunchtime" short visit to the Institut du Monde Arabe. Had been craving for so long to pay a visit to the place created by Jean Nouvel.
The exhibition is devoted to one of the most famous singers in Egypt.
The scenography of the exhibition is brilliant. I love the capsule-like lamps that let you listen to her Oum Kalsoun's voice, as if it were an angel singing from above...
A good discovery of Egyptian culture. A nice lunchtime break!

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Seen; Augustin Lesage & Elmar Trenkwalder @ Maison Rouge

Seen the exhibition at Maison Rouge. Quite scary and disappointing. I used to see so many good stuff there (above all, the opening exhibition on private collections).
The idea of confronting two artists was good, but the mixture's so strange. Finger like stuff with synchretic paintings; yerk.

Seen in the galleries

Bertrand Lavier @ Yvon Lambert







Céleste Boursier Mougenot @ Galerie Xippas






Elisabeth Ballet @ Galerie Martine Aboucaya








Philippe Bradshaw @ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac









Yasumasa Morimura, Requiem for the XX Century Twilight of the turbulent gods, @ galerie Thaddaeus Ropac









Xavier Veilhan, Furtivo @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin