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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
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The colors have arrived… go fetch here
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A Cuban in Venice, the other day I was able to see the catalogue raisonne of Wifredo Lam and saw that he shot lots of what looks like super eight in Venice back on his days… It is a shame that this, my favorite and most influential Cuban artist is dead… to know that Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Cuban-born American artist who died in 1996, has been chosen to represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale is a testimony of how important his work is today… some may say that their collectors promote his work to give value to the artwork… but you can see in the pictures, people were crazy to get his prints… proof that his ideas of social artwork do work.
Read more here
The Venice Biennale is the 52nd International Art Exhibition with the subtitle Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind … it was interesting… yet it let me empty… It ends in a few days and here are a few pics (379) for you to review the artwork shown at this survey of contemporary art. enjoy virtual tour here
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Here are 441 pictures of the French art fair FIAC 2007 in Paris for you to review and see what I saw… I hope you can enjoy it.
Denied to participate but always fascinated by the superflat culture… Congratulations to the TM Sisters and David Leroi… Take a look at this video about Takashi Murakami’s theory of the super flat done by the BBC: Toying with Art
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Here are a few pictures of the art works currently on exhibition at Young Creations 07 happening at the Bellevilloise in Paris, France.
See the slideshow here
Opening Reception / Vernissage
Jeune Création 2007
Friday November 2nd 2007 starting at 6:00pm
at the Bellevilloise at 19-21 rue Boyer 75020 Paris
Metro: Gambetta
Exhibition runs from Nov 2nd to Nov 11th 2007
more information here
Read the press release (french), they flatted me by using one of my art works in their press release …
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
HuO: Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Interviews by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud
Neo Rauch: Arbeiten Auf Papier Works On Paper 2003-2004 by Neo Rauch
Vitamin D : New Perspectives in Drawing by Emma Dexter
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow
Art and Discontent: Theory at the Millennium by Thomas McEvilley
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
Collecting Contemporary by Adam Lindeman
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting by Robert Storr
Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism by Thomas McEvilley
Tom Poulton: The Secret Art of an English Gentleman by Jamie Maclean
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting by Barry Schwabsky
Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney
Greater New York 2005 by Alanna Heiss
51st International Exhibition of Visual Arts 2005: Venice Biennale by Rosa Martinez
Julian Schnabel by Julian Schnabel
Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/ Ghosts/ the Locked Room by Paul Auster
