Painting
Jean-Michel Basquiat Retrospective @ Gagosian Gallery (New York)
Since the beginning of the month, New York’s Gagosian Gallery hosts an exhibition devoted to the short but prolific career of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Gathering about 50 works taken from public and private collections, the retrospective allows to comprehend the world of the american painter as his influence on the next generations. Indeed, with the hybridization of his [...]
Antoine Gamard – Sample @ Galerie Celal, Paris (Preview)
On March 21 will start Antoine Gamard‘s new exhibition at Paris Galerie Celal. Named “Sample”, the event gathers pieces continuing his former works and that, at the same time, mark a change, as, from figuration, the French painter passed to abstract art. But the basement remains the same. Indeed, references and tributes to the masters [...]
Guido van Helten
Australian street artist coming from Brisbane, Guido van Helten proposes portraits, mostly monochromatic, merging the energy of urban painting with the sculptural aestheticism of the Renaissance and the Ancient Greece and Rome. Working from photographs, he marks the lines, plays with the shades and the transparencies to highlight the peculiarity of each face. An approach both meticulous and powerful [...]
Icy And Sot New Murals @ Los Angeles, USA
Currently crossing the USA, the two Iranian brothers Icy And Slot went to California where they leaving their mark. After New York and Chicago, the city of Los Angeles so saw its walls covered with their characteristic stencils. Pieces sometimes symbolic, sometimes political, we invite you to discover [...]
Anselm Kiefer – Die Ungeborenen @ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris)
Since October 14th 2012, the new parisian space of the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery (Pantin) hosts Anselm Kiefer‘s “Die Ungeborenen” (“The Unborn”). The German artist presents works inspired by different myths about “the birth, the origin, the creation but also the rejection of life”. By this way, Anselm Kiefer explores the dimensions where existence, becoming and disappearance coexist. Artistically, [...]
FenX
Son of the 80′s parisian graffiti, FenX left the walls for the canvas while keeping his love for the appropriation and the diversion. Covering master pieces of the Pop Art -from Wesselmann to Liechtenstein and Warhol-, he reconstitutes its imagery inserting into it a calligraphic sense borrowed from Pierre Soulages. From these stylistic mashups rise enticing paintings that covertly [...]
Bartek Świątecki (Pener) – Work on Canvas 2012-2013
Zoom on the works made in 2012 and 2013 by the Polish street artist and painter Bartek Świątecki known as Pener. Born in 1981, Pener developed a precise, straight and angular style. Heir, as Augustine Kofie, of the Geometric Abstraction, he focuses on the creative process and finds in the rhythm given by the colors and the lines a large space [...]
Till Rabus – Fearless Realism @ Aeroplastics Gallery (Brussels)
Till Rabus will exhibit from January 24th to March 16th at Brussels Aeroplastics Gallery. The Swiss painter will present, under the title “Fearless Realism”, his recent works and pieces we already could appreciate at Lazarides Gallery. With the dexterity and the technical mastery he’s used to, [...]
Augustine Kofie – The Qualities of Light (Video)
Augustine Kofie brought up from his archives a little movie documenting his work. Directed in 2010 by Shane Sakanoi from Draftsmen Production which also made “Classic”, the superb clip of MED and Talib Kweli, this short-film about 7 minutes follows the Californian artist into his environment [...]
