by Judith Benhamou | Oct 16, 2020 | Contemporary art
Transitioning Paul B Preciado was born in 1970 in Spain under the name Beatriz Preciado. Today he is one of the most influential philosophers in avant-garde circles. His writing is particularly distinctive. Without orthodoxy, he describes his process of...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Duchamp, Picabia, Bataille, Bunuel During the surrealist period, the visual organ was an obsession. Marcel Duchamp wanted to make “non-retinal” art, while in 1921 Francis Picabia produced a collage filled with pieces of text with the strange name “L’oeil...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Confined Generally, when speaking to artists during these extraordinary times – where the impact is felt on a global scale and involves a large part of the population being confined to their homes – they don’t really complain. They tend to say that they’re confined...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 7, 2020 | Art Fair, Art Market, Contemporary art
Saturation of events It’s a radical digital revolution. As the coronavirus crisis settles in for the long term across the globe, the virtual initiatives staged by major art-market players are multiplying. Whereas in France the FIAC – which was due to take place in...
by Judith Benhamou | Oct 4, 2020 | Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
Coming from the sky Didn’t you know? Everything comes from above. In the 1940s watching the sky meant looking for planes that were going to bomb you. That’s where the H-bomb came from, which reduced people to human torches and annihilated all warlike sentiment by...
