Wednesday 17 October 2007

KENDELL GEERS Kannibale
@ YVON LAMBERT PARIS until decembre 8, 2007

Kannibale is Kendell Geers’ first solo exhibition at the YVON LAMBERT gallery.

In 1928, the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954) announced his “Manifesto Antropófago”: “Only Cannibalism unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically”. In this Cannibal Manifesto, Cannibalism is a powerful metaphor for the cultural incorporation of the values of “what’s not mine”, what’s stranger to me; as well as a radical vision for extremes of violence.

Kendell Geers uses Andrade’s “Manifesto Antropófago” and takes cannibalism as a symbolic practice, a metaphor for violent acts that occur in societies, risen from excess of power, domination (especially colonialism and class structure), economic exploitation, emotional impulses and traumas. This cannibalism makes no attempt to strive towards a reduction of tensions. However, its instinct focuses on what is positive; the creative flows, life drives, eroticism and cultural exchange.
The exhibition is equally a tribute to Francis Picabia's dada review ‘Cannibale’ in which he states his Dada Cannibal Manifesto:

"like your idols: nothing.
like your politicians: nothing.
like your heroes: nothing.
like your artists: nothing.
like your religions: nothing"

Geers consistently explores the collapse of belief systems and ideologies, using all possible media.


This exhibition will feature for instance razormesh phallic towers, symbols of the Cannibalist architecture. "Razormesh" is a razor blade security fence now exported globally to the prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq or Palestine. This particular fencing featured in Geers sculptures was developed in South Africa during Apartheid. It is highly symbolic in the sense that it is different from barbed wire, in his words "barbed wire is for cattle but razormesh is for humans and is the universal
symbol of the twenty first century".
A replica of the “Nike of Samothrace” will preside over the show just as the one in Samothrace. The original sculpture has been in the Louvre since 1884, cannibalized by another society.

KENDELL GEERS Kannibale
october 18 – decembre 8, 2007
Opening, thursday, octobre 18, 2007

YVON LAMBERT PARIS
www.yvon-lambert.com
108, rue Vieille du Temple F-75003 Paris
T 01 42 71 09 33 – Fax 01 42 71 87 47

FIAC, PARIS, FRANCE : STAND B-26

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Tuesday 16 October 2007

BETTER KNOWN AS BROOKLYN
@ THE LAZY DOG
An Exhibition of new work of Razauno feat. Grotesk

RAZAUNO & GROTESK @ The Lazy Dog Until November 10th, 2007
Another very good exhibition from the famous and so good bookshop "THE LAZY DOG". RAZAUNO and GROTESK give respect to their childhood neighborhood BROOKLYN and threw some impressives artworks.



Despite a really small and tiny exhibition space, the artwork of the two artists RAZAUNO and GROTESK on different materials is really great. They've work on wood, on paper, on tee shirts, on boards, or on patent... But it's really a refreshing work, with nice ilustrations, good taste of colors, and a real carefullness about details. A special ELEGANCE award for their laser work on the wood.
And even the tee shirts they've made for SIXPACK is worth a good look, one good classical all-over and two nice "fonty" one, don't forget to check the GROTESK hoodie.

THE LAZY DOG
www.thelazydog.fr/
2 Passage Thiéré, 75011 PARIS
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Monday 15 October 2007

JACQUES VILLEGLÉ - "La Lettre Lacérée" 1954-1992
until November 8th

Jacques Villeglé starts in Paris, as soon as 1949, with his friend Raymond Hains, to gather material and ripped a serie of lacerated posters, which shall only be shown at the Colette Allendyune gallerie in 1957.

Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (1926, Quimper, Brittany) is a French mixed-media artist famous for his ripped or lacerated posters (a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath) and for being a member of the New Realism art group (1960-1963). His work has primarily focused on the anonymous and on the marginal remains of civilization.

He first started producing art in 1947 in Saint-Malo by collecting found objects (steel wires, bricks from Saint-Malo's Atlantic retaining war). In December 1949, he concentrated his work on ripped advertising posters from the street. Working with fellow artist Raymond Hains, Villeglé began to use collage and found/ripped posters from street advertisements in creating Ultra-Lettrist psychogeographical hypergraphics in the 1950s, and in June 1953, he published Hepérile Éclaté, a phonetic poem by Camille Bryen, which was made unreadable when read through strips of grooved glass made by Hains. In February 1954, Villeglé and Hains met the Lettrism poet François Dufrêne, and this latter introduced them to Yves Klein, Pierre Restany and Jean Tinguely. In 1958, Villeglé published an overview of his work on ripped posters, Des Réalités collectives, which is to a certain degree a prefiguration of the manifesto of the New Realism group (1960) which he joined at its inception.

the new realism movement include 13 artists:

Arman >
César >
Christo
Gérard Deschamps >
François Dufrêne
Raymond Hains >
Yves Klein
Martial Raysse >
Mimmo Rotella
Niki de Saint Phalle
Daniel Spoerri >
Jean Tinguely
Jacques Villeglé > www.villegle.fr





"La Lettre Lacérée" - Affiches lacérées 1954-1992
Until November 8th, 2007
à la Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
36 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
Tel. +33 (0)1 46 34 61 07
Fax +33 (0)1 43 25 18 80

http://www.galerie-vallois.com
Lundi - Samedi
10h30-13h / 14h-19h

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FETISH by DAVID LYNCH
with CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN (Shoes, 2007)
until November 3rd, 2007

Last week, I missed the opening preview night for one of the most interesting and exciting artistic collaboration : the FETISH exhibition by David LYNCH and Christian LOUBOUTIN (the famous women's shoemaker).
A mix of amazing pictures and extraordinary shoes.

The work of Mr LOUBOUTIN is based upon the fetishism and the sexual myth surrounding women shoes. He started to collab with Mr LYNCH for his FONDATION CARTIER exhibition, and then he asked to the famous director to take pictures of his latest creation. The meeting of those two genius is the purpose of FETISH.

LOUBOUTIN says about shoes "People sees only shoes as walking or running items... But there are shoes that are made for sex. Women shoes are the ultimate sexual tool, even without heel..."

Each picture of Mr LYNCH will be made at only 5 ex. signed and numeroted, sold at 12000 euros. And each shoes by Mr LOUBOUTIN will also be sold at 12000 euros, and made at 5 ex by pair.

FETISH / PIERRE PASSEBON
Exhibition until November 3rd, 2007

GALERIE DU PASSAGE
wwww.galeriedupassage.com
20-26, Galerie Véro Dodat
75001 Paris

« David Lynch m’avait demandé de dessiner des souliers pour son exposition à la Fondation Cartier. Il peignit certains d’entre eux pour les montrer dans une cage. A mon tour, j’ai voulu lui demander d’en photographier d’autres, que j’aurai conçus dans ce but."
Christian Louboutin
Juillet 2007


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"STASH ! WHEN ADVERTISING MEETS ART..."
until' decembre 22nd

Exhibition until saturday decembre 22nd, 2007
Free entrance


What if, for once, one would give you the urge to watch TV commercials? the "Stash, when advertising meets art" exhibition is holding the bet and presents genuine creative films, art objects miles away from purely commercial advertising productions. Funny or dead serious, baroque or radical, complex or minimalist, every single film selected for the exhibition should be watched as a trule artistic creation, an artwork self-existing apart from the products or brands they're suppose to endorse...


Relationships between advertising and art forever fueled debates, cross-arguments and conflicts. Often criticized, even rejected because of its commercial and mercantile aspect, advertising is nevertheless a ephemeral art form feeding itself from every trends and sociological streams of the society of men.

Brands, for a long time, called for artist to often come up with creative jewels. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Arman or fashion designer John Galliano are example amongst other of artist working for major brands. Directors like Ridley Scott, Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Woody Allen, Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze also successfully faced the adverting challenge.


The "Stash!" exhibition invites you to a journey in the best advertising commercials (TV or viral) ever made those past few years. This selection was made collaboratively with the "Stash" DVD magazine, one and only monthly display for commercial animations, shorts, VFX and motion graphics work for design and advertising.


STASH DVD MAGAZINE
Every year, STASH delivers the planet's most innovative and outstanding commercial animation, VFX and motion graphics plus insightful behind-the-scenes extras in a monthly DVD magazine. Also tucked inside the STASH DVD case is a companion book of color stills, details on the featured work, credits and tech notes.

STASH is the essential resource for ad agencies, broadcasters, animation and VFX studios, designers, post houses, production companies and schools.

Exposition realized in partnership with avec Stash DVD Magazine.
Greg Robins (Publication), Steven Price (Edition) and Thomas Pilicer (Marketing)

Contact

stash DVD magazine online

LE CUBE - ART3000
www.lesiteducube.com
20, Cours Saint Vincent
92130 Issy-les-moulineaux
Tél. 01 58 88 3000
Fax. 01 58 88 3010
E-mail


How to get to the CUBE ?

Public transports
Metro : Ligne 12 - arrêt « Mairie d’Issy » + bus 123 - Arrêt « Chemin des Vignes »
(5 mn de trajet au départ du métro, bus toutes les 5 mn).
RER C - station « Issy » - sortie « allée des Carrières » puis suivre les indications.
(à 5 mn de la gare)
Tramway : T2 - station « Les Moulineaux » – (à 2 minutes en face de la gare)

By car
From Paris, take the Quai de Stalingrad, Exit La Ferme-Billancourt. after the roundabout, take the Aristide Briand street , then Cours Saint Vincent is the first street on your right.

Sunday 14 October 2007

Fragonard, a century of pleasure
until January 13th, 2008 at the Jacquemart-André Museum

Following the bicentenary of the death of Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), the Jacquemart-André Museum pays homage to one of the greatest painters in the history of art, highlighting a greatly neglected aspect of the artist’s work: illustrations.

From 3 October 2007 to 13 January 2008, the Jacquemart-André Museum will be presenting a unique collection of around one hundred works by the painter Fragonard from all over the world. The exhibition paints the picture of an artist who was far more cultured than one could imagine and who, beyond the atmosphere of an age of which he is the most brilliant interpreter, knew how to illustrate and translate the thoughts and tastes of his time: alternating between pleasure and artistic refinement.

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Fragonard (the artist died in Paris in 1806 at the age of 74), it was important that Paris, the city where Fragonard spent his entire career, should pay homage to one of the greatest painters of the eighteenth century. In France, this anniversary celebration was not marked by any major events and no major exhibition of the artist’s work has been put on for twenty years.










Through around one hundred works taken from around the world, the exhibition highlights the work of one of the greatest painters of the eighteenth century who is an eminent representative of the tastes and the culture of his time. The Jacquemart-André Museum, which has a wealth of works from this period, was designed in an entirely natural manner so as to provide an appropriate setting to host an exhibition which proposes to revisit the artist’s work and show it in a completely new light. Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, an art historian and author of two books on Fragonard, is the curator of the exhibition.


Photo credits:
Les débuts du Modèle - Musée Jacquemart-André Institut de France © Culturespaces - C. Recoura - JL Tamisier
Jeune Fille délivrant un oiseau de sa cage © Photo Jean-Jacques L'Héritier
La Petite Sultane - Ball State University Museum of Art_E. Arthur Ball Collection_Gift of the Ball Brothers Foundation 1995 © Trustees of Ball State University. Photo Steven J. Talley


Jacquemart-André Museum
www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com
158, bd Haussmann
75008 Paris

Tel. : +33 1 45 62 11 59
Fax : +33 1 45 62 16 36

contact

Access:
RER Charles de Gaulle - Etoile
Metro Miromesnil or Saint Philippe du Roule
Bus : 22, 28, 43, 52, 54, 80, 83, 84, 93

Coach parking:
Coaches can park outside the museum for free, on the boulevard Haussmann.

Situation:
The Jacquemart-André Museum is situated in the 8th arrondissement in Paris, close to the place Charles de Gaulle-Etoile and the Champs-Elysées.

Opening hours:
Open daily throughout the year, without exception, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Jacquemart-André Café is open daily from 11.45 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.