Anxious observation After years of exponential growth, in light of a very difficult economic, political and social context, the entire modern and contemporary art world is anxiously observing a potential sharp drop in market prices. In...
Picabia: complex for the art market, genius for contemporary artists
Berlin Gallery Weekend Although Germany is a particularly important country in the field of contemporary art, thanks firstly to its artists but also to its collectors and dealers, it doesn’t have an influential art fair on an international...
Fondation Vuitton: the odyssey of an unpopular painting by Matisse becoming a subject of fascination for Rothko
https://youtu.be/0uN8ADoYC5c Having the eye To describe the relevance of an art collector, dealer or curator we tend to say they have “the eye”. There’s only a very small number of figures in the current art world who belong to this category....
Venice Biennale (2): extraordinary collateral exhibitions at a prison, a palace and a little house
Strong impact Venice’s impact during the period of its Biennale is inimitable. These days the 60-year-old art showcase attracts visitors in such large numbers over the course of its vernissage that all the various strata of the art world now...
Venice Biennale (1): looking at human history differently to discover some new art
330 artists, 82 offsite exhibitions This year the Venice Biennale is a very "serious" show. Serious because the world is in crisis and contemporary art is reflecting this. The most colossal global showcase of contemporary art, which this year...
Only in Paris. Brancusi’s ever so beautiful universe
https://youtu.be/Z4wy_oPCLcY?si=X2ESoaoV22ygyXdA The myth of the artist's studio The artist’s studio is a world of its own where they can make and unmake their great universes of visual art. From Rembrandt to Lucian Freud, many of them...
Sugimoto/Giacometti: a meeting in the land of the great spirits
https://youtu.be/l7qyp412eE8?si=WlLIiKJNgqHyevMF Here’s a little gem of an exhibition, all delicacy and spirit. Moma sculpture garden The story starts like this. There was once, in 2013, a famous Japanese artist who spent most of his time...
Nathanaëlle Herbelin at the Musée d’Orsay: a marriage of love between the young artist and the Nabis paintings
https://youtu.be/QhVRXoLlB9s?si=PLUioEweUbp4cvry True love There are practical marriages and there are love marriages. The second category includes the exhibition by the Franco-Israeli artist Nathanaëlle Herbelin, born in 1989, whose forty-odd...
Art Basel Hong Kong is back in force with Chinese artists in fashion as far at the West
Political context Since Covid, the art world has changed. 2024 is the first year that Art Basel Hong Kong (ABHK) has readopted its habitual format following the pandemic, featuring 242 exhibitors who are showcasing their finest wares at the...
Pierre Huyghe at Punta della Dogana invents a technological romanticism
French touch The story often goes (in France) that French artists aren’t internationally successful. But there are at least two artists who contradict this theory. They represent a contemporary “French touch” that’s as ambitious as it is...
Arco Madrid: making a case for less expensive contemporary art
Average and exceptional art There isn’t just one art market but many – and they meet different demands. They are stratified with distinct ways of being and rules of functioning. It is common to say, for example, that during times of crisis only...
Tefaf Maastricht: the museum where anything can be bought
Rare quality For some time now each new edition has provoked the same reaction. Against all odds, Tefaf Maastricht is of a rare quality. Through the standard of artworks displayed it induces a kind of state of stupefaction. This year, from 9 to...