The works of Guy Bigot gathered at the gallery very are characteristic of his second period. While preserving the chromatic range of gray and earth from its figurative period, it evolves towards an “abstract landscape”(1)….

archipel 1968-1980 Jean Billecocq, Solstice d’Été, détail In the United States and Europe, the 60s and 70s saw a frenetic desire for a clean slate and a passion for refoundation: in 1960, P. Restany invented New Realism,…

Frances Stonor Saunders, Qui mène la danse ? La CIA et la guerre froide culturelle, Paris, Denoël, 2003.Titre original : Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, London: Granta Books, 2000. En…

Jacques le Brusq at the Gaïa gallery, Nantes. Jacques Le Brusq’s painting is the result of an intimate experience : being close to the powerful and mysterious nature of the Landes de Lanvaux forest in Morbihan….

Le peintre Luc Millet présente actuellement son travail à la galerie Le Triphasé*. Luc Millet peint sur papier marouflé sur bois. Cette technique spécifique lui permet d’obtenir une surface très lisse, propre aux effets de transparence…

The Korean painter Chang Rim Ji exhibits his latest works at the gallery tRes, in Nantes, France. The exhibition shows paintings with yellow dominant, infinite variations on a floral theme taken from one painting to…

Au début de l’année 2024, est paru un essai d’Alain Finkielkraut, texte brillant, passionnant, émouvant : Pêcheurs de perles, (Gallimard, 2024). Il nous en livre lui-même les ressorts :« Je me suis plongé dans les carnets…

It is little to say that we are delighted to be able to admire the pastels and watercolours of Sam Szafran at the Musée de l’Orangerie, after a “long institutional purgatory” * which had kept…

From Kudrinskaya tower Here we are. Kudrinskaya Tower, sixteenth floor, Moscow, huge, as far as the eye can see. Our small delegation for Art for Europe has landed at 23:00 local time at Sheremetievo airport. Today…

From the end of the 1950s, Russian painters opposed, sometimes risking their lives, the formal straitjacket of Soviet official art, socialist realism. Regarded with contempt as “painters for the poor” by the communist nomenklatura, flouted,…

The city of Trieste was the birthplace or residence of many writers: James Joyce lived there for many years, from 1904 to 1915, where he taught English and immersed himself in the culture and literary…

Thirty years after his Considérations sur l’état des beaux-arts (Gallimard 1983), Jean Clair gives us a disenchanted essay in which he first rebelled against the now established domination of the law of the market in…

From February 11, 2022, Lumiere Gallery presents photographs by Danila Tkachenko. A display of 30 superb author prints of delicacy and density. Danila Tkachenko travelled for four years in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan in search…

Defining contemporary art, or more precisely trying to define the notion of contemporaneity in art, seems all the less like an easy task because it must guard against any normative temptation. It is nevertheless to…

Benjamin Olivennes gives us here an analysis and a documented panorama of what he himself calls “another twentieth century, another history of art”. In this joyfully polemical text, Benjamin Olivennes castigates the “official” history of…

Much has been said about this text published more than forty years ago, in 1983. If this Critique of Modernity still finds its place today, it is because it puts at the centre of its…

These Ecrits sur l’art gather the various texts of Mark Rothko from 1934 to 1969 : numerous letters to his friends painters, manifestos, interviews, educational articles, various notes, etc.Of this composite ensemble, one will remember…