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Adrian Paci “Lives in Transit” at Jeu de Paume, Paris

AdrianPaci_Center of temporary permanence_2007_564Adrian Paci, Centro di Permanenza Temporanea (Center for Temporary Permanence) 2007. Video still. Courtesy kaufmann repetto, Milan and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich © Adrian Paci 2013

Adrian Paci
Lives in Transit
26 February – 12 May 2013
at Jeu de Paume, Paris

The work of Adrian Paci (born in 1969 in Albania) underlines one of the paradoxes of human intelligence, which consists of becoming aware of reality through irreality. Often inspired by subjects close to him, stories arising from his everyday life, Adrian Paci lets them slide poetically towards a fiction, which in its turn creates one or more wider realities. The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume gathers extremely diverse works (videos, installations, paintings, photographs and sculptures) made since 1997 and shows the numerous interconnections that operate between these different media and means of expression.
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Basim Magdy “Confronting the Monster in a Monster Costume” at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

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Basim Magdy, Our hope reflected Jewels in the Sky, 2012. Spray paint and acrylic on paper. Courtesy the artist, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NY

Basim Magdy
Confronting the Monster in a Monster Costume
1 February – 3 March 2013
at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

Basim Magdy (b.1977 in Egypt, lives and works in Basel) has recently made himself known in France by his participation at the Palais de Tokyo triennial. CCS is presenting “Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship”. Shot on super 8, the film takes inspiration from amateur films of the 70s. Continue reading “Basim Magdy “Confronting the Monster in a Monster Costume” at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris”

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Christian Hidaka “Souvenir” at Galerie Michel Rein, Paris


Christian Hidaka, Canopy, 2012. Oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Michel Rein

Christian Hidaka
Souvenir
1 December 2012 – 2 February 2013
at Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

The derivation of the title of Christian Hidaka’s exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein, Souvenir, is from the French, ‘to come to mind’. This cognitive inference, which is inspired by a physical memento or form is in common with Hidaka?s different depictions of space within the exhibition and the various notions of the competing representational values which accompany them.
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Michel Blazy “Le Grand Restaurant” at Le Plateau, Paris


Michel Blazy, Sculpcure : bar à oranges (détail), 2009. © TB – Time Out

Michel Blazy
Le Grand Restaurant
20 September – 18 November 2012
at Le Plateau, Paris
Curated by Xavier Franceschi

Michel Blazy works with modest, perishable materials, coming from everyday life, and shows us some of the strange, sumptuous and monstrous things that they can contain. The live matter which he chooses for his works carries in it the potential mutations and deteriorations which make his art an ephemeral one, or, more exactly put, an art involving continual change. Michel Blazy likes to observe things, and he also lets time do its work on matter. Continue reading “Michel Blazy “Le Grand Restaurant” at Le Plateau, Paris”

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Newslinks

Art market
One of four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream, (pastel, 1895) fetched $119,9M (Sale price $107M + the buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s New York on 2 May, a record for auction history. The sale was dominated by two telephone bidders, over a tense ten minutes period. Sotherby’s auctioneer Tobias Meyer was caught exclaiming “I love you!” to one phone bidder when prices soared up to $106M. You can watch an excerpt here. We are all curious to know who won the bidding match for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Petter Olsen, the seller of the painting personally hoped the bidding winner to be MoMA NY…
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