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Mess With Texas
Naming an exhibition of young French artists "Dynasty" would seem to suggest a suggest a cynical or sarcastic likening of its content to the children of the 1980s. The current group exhibition in question is held at the Musée d'Art Moderne and neighboring Palais de Tokyo features work by 40 artists who may or may not remember a French-dubbed Alexis and Krystle. Each contributed one piece to each museum: All of them are somewhat French (by birth or country of residence), and under the age of 35. What it has in common with the notorious television series is an interest in the underpinnings of American Empire, and the left-over from its spectacular and ostentatious triumphs.Read More
History Books
Anselm Kiefer's (b. 1945) work brings to mind ruins and monuments, canvases coated with crumbling impasto, lead, tar and straw to depict the rich, mythical mnemonic layers of tragedy and regeneration. Yet a small-scale, even understated side of the artist is currently revealed at the Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris. "Unfruchtbare Landschaften" ("Barren Landscapes") is an exhibition that for the first time shows books made by the painter at the aged 24, in late 60s Germany.Read More
A New Promised Art
Parisian house Pierre Bergé & Associé seems determined to introduce the nation of France to Israeli contemporary art, through a series of multiple efforts: On May 6, the house held France's first ever Israeli-dedicated sale, featuring 70 artists and 150 works, all made in the past decade. This also marked the launch of a branch of operations dedicated to art from that country, to be followed by a second Israeli department at their Brussels branch in 2011. Fabien Béjean-Lebenson, director of contemporary art at Pierre Bergé & Associé and founder of the Israeli Department, talks to Art in America about the emergence of the country in the international art scene, Tel Aviv's golden age, and gender equality.
Worth the Trip
"Not every building is a dwelling," wrote philosopher Martin Heidegger to suggest that if home is where the heart is, it doesn't fit just anywhere. Dwelling and the often alienated response to architectural encasing is key in Jeanne Susplugas' artwork, and core to her current solo how, "House to House," at Le Wharf in Caen, France.Read More
The Studio of Lucian Freud
In 1987, Lucian Freud was given a retrospective at Paris's Centre Pompidou. And then he was gone. Despite his popularity in salerooms, the painter went missing from France's contemporary art scene for 23 years. Perhaps it was a fortuitous leave of absence: Painting was "dead" and Freud's classical technique and ruthless depictions of flesh were nowhere to be seen.Read More
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Two slide carousels, 80 slides each, approx. 9-minute loop. Courtesy Callicoon Fine Arts, New York.
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