The lanscapes of Pierre Cornière
PIERRE CORNIÈRE Fenêtre, laque sur bois, 2016 (Croissance) I - laque sur bois - 2022 (Croissance)- laque sur bois - 2022 Des mosaïques murales des villas romaines jusqu’aux œuvres radicales de l’Arte Povera ou du Land Art, le rapport de…
Gwenhaël at the TReS Gallery
Gwenhaël à la galerie TrES Après un accrochage consacré à Guy Bigot, le galeriste Chang Rim Ji poursuit son hommage aux artistes nantais et régionaux avec une exposition d'une vingtaine d’œuvres du peintre Gwenhaël Boré, dit Gwenhaël.Pendant une trentaine d'années,…
Guy Bigot at TrES Gallery
Guy Bigot at TrES Gallery 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 at the Triphasé gallery.
archipel 1968-1980 Jean Billecocq, Solstice d'Été, détail 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 1960, P.…
Jackson Pollock, freedom and the CIA
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
Jacques le Brusq at the Gaïa gallery, Nantes. 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 de Lanvaux forest…
Luc Millet at the Triphasé gallery
Sans titre, 140x140, 2020 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…
Chang Rim Ji, surface and depth
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…
Take care of yourself
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…
Sam Szafran, a painter’s obsession
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…
Moscow, February 24, 2022
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…
Russian non-conformist painters
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…
Triest and literature
Château de Duin 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…
The winter of Culture
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…