by Judith Benhamou | Feb 16, 2024 | Architect, Architecture, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Paintings, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/NoGANqQNVvA?si=Kz_70c8Zc7W4YK3h Breath of an architect It is a true experience. This exhibition stirs in the visitor an unusual sensation of tranquillity and harmony. “Bijoy Jain. Studio Mumbai. Breath of an Architect” is on display until 21st April...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 11, 2024 | Art History, Art Market, Exhibition, Modern Art, Video interviews
Vulgar money For a long time money had a sulphurous smell as far as art historians were concerned; a vulgar reputation that prevented them from examining the artist’s preoccupations and market. People just liked to talk about the genius creators who sacrificed and...
by Judith Benhamou | Feb 5, 2024 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Photography, Photos, Video interviews
Between painting and cinema In the 1970s, when photography had yet to be seen as a “noble” art, he invented a new kind of artwork. The Canadian photographer Jeff Wall (born in 1946) had the idea of magnifying his large-scale images using huge, heavy...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 28, 2024 | Art History, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modern Art, Old masters, Paintings, Video interviews
https://youtu.be/5D4kTB8rfiA Supernatural powers of the artist We have a tendency to endow great artist with quasi-supernatural powers. The most illustrious theorists of psychoanalysis claim that certain painters and other sculptors have, in their works, anticipated...
by Judith Benhamou | Jan 25, 2024 | Art Market, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Video interviews
A little niche Over the past eleven years the Artgenève fair has slowly but surely grown into a key event in the contemporary art world for this international city, famous for its free port among other things. Helmed by its director Thomas Hug, it found a little niche...