archipel 1968-1980 Jean Billecocq, Solstice d'Été, détail Jorj Morin, Jean Billecocq, baudruche japonaise Arnaud St Loubert-Bié In the United States and Europe, the 60s and 70s saw a frenetic desire for a clean slate and a passion for refoundation: in…
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 2000 la journaliste et…
Jacques le Brusq at the Gaïa gallery, Nantes. Jacques Le Brusq, Jacques Le Brusq Jacques Le Brusq Jacques Le Brusq's painting is the result of an intimate experience : being close to the powerful and mysterious nature of the Landes…
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 et de profondeur. La…
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 another, always the same, always…
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 de citations que j’accumule pieusement…
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 him away from the official…
From Kudrinskaya tower ©JLG ©JLG 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 is 20…
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, forced into exile like Alexandre…
Château de Duino 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 life of…
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 the artistic sphere, making collections…
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 of architectural traces of…
Renaud Camus, Le Discours de Flaran, Paris, P.O.L, 1997 Abbaye de Flaran 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…
Benjamin Olivennes, L'Autre Art contemporain, Paris, Grasset, 2021 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…
Egon Schiele, Mouvement organique de chaise et cruche, 1912 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…