Giovanni Gastel

Farideh Lashai

Copie conforme ? - [John De Andrea, Chuck Close, Jean-Olivier Hucleux , [exposition , 18 avril-11 juin 1979, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, [Paris

Mimmo Paladino

Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Floating Piers

Co-fondatrice, en 1972, de la revue artpress, Catherine Millet a contribué à faire mieux connaître en France l'abstraction américaine et son héritage : l'art conceptuel ou encore le groupe Support-Surface. En 1981 toutefois, elle organise pour l'ARC, musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, l'exposition Baroques 81, qui enregistre le retour en force d'une peinture principalement figurative. Elle a été commissaire de la France pour la Biennale de Sao Paulo en 1989, puis pour la Biennale de Venise en 1995, choisissant de présenter César dans le pavillon français. Outre des monographies (Yves Klein, Salvador Dalí), elle est l'auteur de l'Art contemporain en France (1987) et de l'Art contemporain, histoire et géographie (2006), régulièrement réédités. A partir de 2001, elle s'engage parallèlement dans une oeuvre littéraire autobiographique. La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. rencontre un succès mondial. Suivront d'autres titres : Jour de souffrance et Une enfance de rêve. En 2017, elle publie Aimer Lawrence, essai consacré à l'auteur de l'Amant de Lady Chatterley.

Catherine Millet

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

The monograph is the first to cover the life and artistic career of Michele Zaza in systematic fashion. After the introductory essay, which fills in the historical and critical background of his work, the volume documents his production from the 1970s to the present day through a chronology replete with illustrations, unpublished materials, texts and quotations of the artist.
This production ranges from the early sequences of photographs, with their symbolic references to the artist's own body, the figures of his parents, and his family home, to the creation of large installations, characterized by the presence of photographic elements and sculptures with pure and totemic forms that hold a direct dialogue with their architectural setting. In a vision of existence in which everything is interconnected, he aspires in his work to a transcendence of the contingent, immersing the viewer in an environment that has been re-created through images but is at the same time real.

Michele Zaza

his catalogue, edited by Germano Celant, documents the first exhibition in the Middle East by KAWS (Brian Donnelly, born 1974, USA). The solo show explores his career and vast oeuvre and features painting and sculpture made over the past 20 years. KAWS' imagery has long possessed a sophisticated, dark humour, revealing the interplay between art and consumerism, referencing both art history and pop culture. Donnelly began his career in street art in the 1990s, becoming synonymous with the name KAWS, a tag that became a staple in his ‘sub-vertisments' (modifications of commercial works). Later on, through his toy figurines and larger-than-life sculptures, KAWS has become a global phenomenon — not just of the art world, but in popular culture as well. KAWS : HE EATS ALONE is presented at the Fire Station in Doha. The exhibition begins in the Garage Gallery where over 40 sculptures and paintings are displayed in a labyrinthine space designed by the New York studio 2×4. Across the courtyard above the café, the Archive showcases a collection of the artist's limited edition works. At the centre of the courtyard, the 5-metre-tall sculpture COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH) is seated with hands covering its eyes. The journey concludes at the Dhow Harbour on the Corniche, where the larger-than-life inflatable sculpture HOLIDAY reclines against the backdrop of the Doha city skyline.

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