In english the title of the new Art-installation in the Junot suburban is even more teasing: the wave -the kiss and the star! On this picture Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Loïc Raguénès and Cécile Bart all look happy. Their feet and the feet of François Rebsamen and of all the politics cover the only mistake in this installation - the heavy looking zinc supports of the star behind them. One thing is for sure - here many adolescent skaters will change their first kiss in the sunshine
The hardend liquids here are aluminium, bronze or polyurethane foam. Foam goes form! But not really- everytime does the chemical material stays in a organical state as if it had its own behaviour which should be accepted. Corners of the room are not filles with fat but with something that looks like the last product of an digestion process of a colored winding worm. The wax paintings of Lynda Benglis have also an organic aspect but the most shiny piece of the exhibition is the last artwork made of urethane with orange pigment and only weakend by an neoclassical romantic and eclecticism arrangement of some columns and blue velvet
Take a look
At this picture you can see the painter Atsing with the art critic Alain Coulange, lurking at his paintings as only art critics do. Under the title “In the city”, the exhibition shows four works out of a larger series. First exposed at the archeologic museum in Dijon you can visit them now till the 15th of may at Jean Brollys Vitrine space - 16 rue Montmorency. Always representing a couple of people, everything seems strange in these paintings which are showing people between a freezing and a moving state, in their everyday life. Expressions and colors are reduced to their minimum in order to have maximum impact. It looks as if you where applying to a figurative painting the essential laws of abstract art, to create an essential figurativ art .“ 1. No texture - 2. no brushwork or callygraphy 3. no sketching or drawing, 4. no forms 5. no design 6. no colors 7. no light…“
El Greco. Coming from Greece to Venice to end in Spain, that’s a real european biography. But to be rediscovered by german scholars and to inspire the german expressionism is even more exiting. El Grecos paintings are showing a special perspective on faces from down under - he treats the clothes in an abstract way, neglecting the details in order to work out the impression as a whole. Only using primary colors and green in large perpendicular fields of drapery, abstract painting is not far away. Another sign of modernity is his atelier making cover versions of his paintings to sell them around the world, changing the perception of reality.
This was my third visite of the Juergen Teller show at the Consortium in Dijon with some of the EMA ART SCHOOL students in Chalon-sur-Saône. Do they have another look on the exhibition after a week of hard work in the workshop on german photography? Who knows?
Since three weeks I worked with my students on exhibitionsflyers of Julian Opie, Sigmar Polke and Rothko. They had to describe prices, biographies, pictures and so on. The last day had come and we went to the Juergen Teller exhibition at the Consortium. Even if at first they were not very interested, they saw directly that the pictures had a autobiographical-context and were trashy. In front of the self-portait with a Mercedes, they said it was Juergen Teller with my car. A real hint that germanness exists mainly through german cars and expresses international dreams of utopic luxury - as the last suvivoir of the island of utopia .
Hommage à Roger Passet. Exposition pour la présentation du livre au Consortium jusqu’au 03 janvier 2010. Livre aux éditions Terre en vues. Textes de Serge Lemoine et Fabian Stech. Photographies de Roger Passet. Photographies de la Collection Roger Passet d’Andre Morin et Marie Clérin.
Ruth’s Razor
The newest work by Ruth Hutter are simple.
It seems that, after an excursion into complex territories, she has returned to her beginnings, which primarily posed questions to solipsism, i. e. wether the human being is always cast back upon himself or if he stands in communication with others…
Text Fabian Stech
Slidesss is an exhibition at the Lieu Commun in Toulouse. A slide is everything that is gliding as a result it can’t be very precise at the end of it’s trajectory. You have slide guitars, and of the best slide guitar players is the great Elmore James, you have skateboardslides and now you have slidesss in Art. Jean-Marie Blanchet and Sébastien Vonier show us their slides on the second floor of the old shirt factory. To say it in one word the essence of the exhibition is its laziness! A sort of cool efficiency which doesn’t want to be more than what it is. So the space is ruled by the padpictures of Jean-Marie Blanchet, his similis and the steelgrids and concrete-surfaces which are lying, Caspar David Friedrich like, in the middle of the room. This room had been waiting for centuries to give birth to this exhibition!
Does this picture exposed in China already mean a critic of a political system?
Does this kind of picture – a slide in a woodenbox – reveal a reality or is it just a picture ? We see a persons symbolised by puppets being wrapped, tortured perhaps killed.
Is it only in China that such things happen? As a matter of fact in America everythings changes now, Guantanamo will be dismantled. No more mock– executions as torture and soon no more “state of exception” as Giorigo Agamben called it, in reference to the definition of power of Carl Schmitt. This picture by the young photographer Huang Shiyun (born in 1982) was exposed in the Photo Award 2009 of the Three Shadow Gallery. It is called „private room“ and it is part of an exhibition of young Chinese photographers at the Three Shadows Gallery in the Caochangdi district. Pictures of Ri Yue showing poor workers wrapped in a Chinese flag could be read either as a criticism of the Chinese policy or as a marketing mean. It is for sure that some young Chinese artists discovering photography for themselves, are willing to use the medium as a way of reflecting reality and perhaps not only to make money.
