The increasing polarization of Swedish society made an impact on the art scene in Malmö last year. Due to two election campaigns and an increase in fascist action, I was just as likely to meet with artists at openings as [...]
In May 1970, at a time when the first warm rays of the Californian spring were beginning to be felt, Swiss artist Dieter Roth organised an exhibition at the Eugenia Butler gallery (Los Angeles) that was remarkable, to say the [...]
We remember Martin Kippenberger (Dortmund, 1953 – Vienne, 1997) for his humour and irreverence. His motto was “Jeder Künstler ist ein Mensch”1, subverting Joseph Beuys’ famous maxim “Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler”2. By switching the words, the citation is used [...]
H – Do you know it by heart, Blanqui’s phrase used as copy-and-paste in all the press releases from our association? H – I’d say it’s something like: Same monotony, same immobility (…). The universe repeats itself endlessly and paws [...]
Roland Barthes was one of the first to consider our everyday life attentively. With his Mythologies in particular, he revealed the way in which consumer objects and social practices shared en masse produce a discourse that speaks volumes about the twitches and [...]
The deformed shadow of Pinocchio, the mirroring mises-en-abyme of Blade Runner and the Arnolfini Wedding,1 the grimacing face of Aphex Twin by Chris Cunningham, the hyperbolic chignon of Madeleine… all of these figures were present in the exhibition Enchanter la matière vulgaire and have recurred several [...]
We are at the very beginning, you see.As though before everything.The night is hot and humid, wild, perhaps.You advance, masked. A mask in the image of your face, Cruise face to face, seeing Kidman escaping, ready for anything in order [...]
Concerning philosophers of French Theory, the newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné once stated that it was “the equivalent of Post-its in stationary: apparently they’re stuck onto everything” (8 October 1997). This was an accurate statement that was far from ill-founded. From [...]
La belle revue has chosen to inaugurate its new thematic section with an old subject. It does not intend to say everything about citations (that would be repetitious) but instead to glance into a few corners (in the studio and [...]
Annabel Rioux — What are you working on at the moment ? Christian Andersson — I’m preparing for my exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland that opens in June. It will consist of a selection of older works together with [...]
In the car, you cross the landscape in curves; each bend leads to a new perspective of the forest, steep cliffs and plains, alternately hidden and revealed by the fog. The trees losing their leaves, brushed by the last bronzes [...]
At the Transpalette in Bourges, Jean-Luc Moulène is presenting, with “Disjunctions”, the first of his photographic series, with the same exacting approach underpinning all of the artist’s latterday work and, in particular, his photography. The “Disjunctions” are enigmatic and not [...]
“The egg and the sandals”. It sounds like the title of a fable, the announcement of the protagonists – who often have nothing to do with one another before the story begins. It is an impromtu meeting, worthy of a [...]
The Assaut de la Menuiserie presents “Blank”, a monographic exhibition by Juliana Borinski.When she works on photography or cinema, Juliana Borinski never uses a camera or video camera. She creates images that are generally abstract, using photosensitive paper or film [...]
La Belle Revue presents the words of one sculptor on another sculptor: Emilie Perotto explores the recent production of Stéphanie Cherpin, on the occasion of her solo exhibition in the vaulted rooms of the Frac Limousin. Stéphanie Cherpin has presented [...]
The Museum of Modern Art and the Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne joined forces for the first time this spring, within the framework of the multidisciplinary festival Nouveau Siècle combining visual arts, dance, and music… The 2014 edition entitled “The New [...]
Gabriel Kuri’s practice stems from the assembly of a small number of founding axioms, which he adapts, recontextualises and renames according to the site in which he intervenes. Among the elements that compose his plastic vocabulary, there are three major [...]
