31 janvier 2011

Richard Phillips, Most Wanted, 2009. Colour pastel on grey toned paper. Five parts, each: 12 13/16 x 10 1/2 in. (32.5 x 26.7 cm). Photo: Christopher Burke, New York © the artist. Courtesy White Cube LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents 'Most Wanted', an exhibition of new work by Richard Phillips(on view until Mar 5 2011), his third with the gallery. Phillips' strikingly distinctive paintings are drawn from found imagery, which he uses to address the marketability of our wishes, identity, politics, sexuality and mortality.... [Lire la suite]

Bill Viola, Incarnation, 2008. Color High-Definition video on plasma display. Performers: Oguri, Roxanne Steinburg. Courtesy galerie Yvon Lambert © Bill Viola; Photo: Kira Perov Lʼexposition «L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être» reprend à la fois le titre et les thèmes de lʼouvrage éponyme écrit par Milan Kundera en 1984. Kundera confronte dans son ouvrage les experiences de la vie de lʼhomme, quʼelles soient intelectuelles, émotionnelles et artistiques, à sa quête incessante dʼharmonie et dʼéquilibre.Les artistes présentés dans... [Lire la suite]

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660), El bufón Don Sebastián de Morra, c. 1646, Oil on canvas, 106 x 81 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid © Museo Nacional del Prado - Madrid - Spain. LONDON.- Every month during Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. February sees the arrival of El bufón Don Sebastián de Morra by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599 -1660). Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, the two founders... [Lire la suite]