Pierre Huyghe’s work works!

Don’t miss this animated movie Waltz with Bashir

I was invited to see one Pina Bausch’s pieces this week and it was truly something to admire and to reflect upon. images here, read more on her here

Check out Alex Prager’s photos here

Looks familiar?

Mark Wallinger at Mac/Val Contemporary Art Museum on the outskirts of Paris.

Richard Serra currently at Monumenta 2008 at Grand Palais Paris. See set here

Francis Bacon at Tate Modern was still great to see… I was very surprise not to see any Lucian Freud’s

Listening to Santogold

New Young Pony Club inspired by Tate Modern installation… here

Take a look at the artwork by Sylvain Rousseau at Galerie LH interesting entitled Panoramic view of a daily walker. The music in this place was experimental and very sticky… I liked it…

Check out the artwork of this artist living and working here in paris.

Check out Peter Doig at Tate Modern. See him talk about his artwork here.

Check out Doris Salcedo at Tate Modern, see her talk about her artwork here.

Xavier Veilhan at perrotin’s. I liked this shark…

Jim Dine at Galerie Daniel Templon. See set here.

Gilles Barbier opens with the Espace Claude Berri in paris, the newest art collection rubell’s style. See the set here.

One to divide, one to gather… so is the effect of Bert Rodriguez’s art work in Paris and it worked… more on the artist here

Check out my latest website for a non profit art center from france Jeune Creation also find 100 pics in the homepage from previous group show.

Antony Gormley at White Cube in London… take a look.

Loris Greaud’s Cellar Door at Palais de Tokyo here in Paris leaves me with no emotion… but people like it, so here it is for you to leave me a few comments on what you think about it… slideshow

Paris is specially nice today… the Contemporary Drawing Art fair opened yesterday and I visited it today to give you guys a little taste… once again I got in for free with my Maex press pass… take a look a the slide show here, more on the Salon du Dessin Contemporain here

Take a look a the artwork of a good friend of mine Laurent de Raucourt:

Yesterday I went to see my upstairs neighbor Designers Interactifs‘ project called Pecha Kucha… their fourth Paris installment about design and art , 20 artists, 20 images, 20 second per image… cool concept, cool artists. My favorites were Vadim Bernard, Area 17, SL Co, Nathalie Brevet & Hughes Rochette, Jocelyn Cottencin, Arrache-toi un oeil, Fanette Mellier, typo.gras.free.fr/, La Bonne Merveille.

There is a little webcam at Tate Modern in London where you can take little video sequences and send it to your friends… a bit hard if you really dont know your friends email addresses…

London is calling and so I am going, I really want to see Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern, The Courtauld Gallery, the ICA and Serpentine Gallery.

Yesterday I went to a cool Vernisage of a group show called Corps à Faire at Galerie Jeune Creation were I saw a cool performance I did not understand where the shapes reminded me of an old Max Ernst painting.

The poetics of an empty landscape. I am happy to congratulate my good friend Guillaume Lemarchal for being awarded the HSBC grant. He is currently showing at Galerie Michèle Chomette and you can see a couple of shoots of his show here below. more on him here

Check out the art work of Ivan Navarro currently showing at Galerie Daniel Templon.

Checkout the Tate’s podcast of Jeremy Deller where he talks about the two works that helped him win the Turner Prize in 2004, “a wall drawing called The History of the World, a sort of mad-professor’s mind-map of the history of Britain through music; and a film called Memory Bucket that he made during a visit to Texas and which explores American paranoia”. check out other Tate shots videos here

If violence was this light… take a look here

Recently, I saw an exhibition by Shirin Neshat at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont where we can see two amazing new color cinematographic videos entitled Munis and Faezeh, these two videos were of an enigmatic beauty rare in contemporary art today. Those of you who saw her work at MAM may remember how most of her videos were black and white, youtube her here if you want to catch a few reminders, but these new color films are color corrected in such a fine and delicate way that I was surprised and immersed in it… like a boy with cartoons… The colors were soft pastels colors. The subject matter of the two videos are based on Women Without Men, a novel by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipu depicting the perception of a young Iranian woman during the summer of 1953 in Iran’s political unrest and a psychological breakdown of a Muslim woman following a sexual assault. The two videos are stuning and remain in my mind even a few days later. I recommend you try to see this recent works when it comes to your town.

The new large scale photographs, some seen here below, which mainly feature portraits of middle east men and women have been hand tagged in Persian calligraphy. The large images take a position of a face to face confrontation with a culture that remains covered by the Media and rarely seen in contemporary art. I liked them!

Take a look at the work of this painter and performance artist Benoît Pingeot.

youtube one of his performances here

Take a look at work of Nathalie Bibougou, an artist I have met here in paris that paints portraits of Melvin Van Peebles and other interesting subjects.

more on Alfred Barr here

Take a look at this artist I just discovered Mona Hatoum at the Galerie Chantal Crousel.

Here are a few pics of Gerhard Richter’s artwork at a recently opened exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris… Some abstract paintings have titles like NETZ (Net), WEISS (White), DICKICHT (Thicket) and GESTEIN (Stone) that make discreet allusions to nature. Take a look…

Take a look at this contemporary artist Harald Fernagu. I went to school with him and I appreciate him very much, also the site was is my latest using css, flash and php, take a look here

Domfestner is a 20 meter high stained glass window at the Köln Dom Cathedral based on Gerhard Richter’s 1970 abstract work titled “4096 Farben” or 4096 Colors for those like me that don’t know German… this artwork features, squares of colors rendered from the color palette of a printing ink manufacturer and you can see it in a previous post. Deconstruction of iconography are the keywords here but it works refreshingly well at the church, it is one of those few places where you can see contemporary art in a Gothic church. You can see more of this window on flickr