06 - 27 November 2024

Opera Gallery Dubai proudly presents Pierre Dunoyer’s 'Object of Thought: Tableaux 1986 – 2008,' a landmark exhibition showcasing the artist's work for the first time at the gallery.

Renowned for his intellectual and philosophical approach to abstraction, Dunoyer’s art delves into the essence of painting as an object of thought, using form and colour as tools for conceptual exploration. This exhibition offers a rare chance for audiences in Dubai to experience a distinct body of work that has left a significant mark on contemporary art.

Spanning more than two decades of artistic production, the exhibition highlights several key periods of Dunoyer’s career. It traces his evolving approach to abstraction, composition, and the materiality of paint, reflecting his ongoing enquiry into the role of painting in modern art. Throughout his career, Dunoyer has sought purity in form and explored the power of painting to convey thought without relying on representational imagery. The selected works reveal subtle yet significant transformations in his technique and conceptual focus over time.

Curated to capture these transitions, the exhibition features 19 paintings that represent pivotal moments in Dunoyer’s artistic journey. Visitors will witness the progression from his early, structured compositions with muted palettes to his later works, which embrace more liberated forms and vibrant colours. 'Object of Thought: Tableaux 1986 – 2008' offers a deep exploration of Dunoyer’s evolution, immersing viewers in the complex relationship between thought and visual expression that defines his work.

Miró
Exposition jusqu'au 24 novembre 2024

La Banque, Musée des Cultures et du Paysage d'Hyères
En partenariat avec la Fondation Maeght 

La Banque, musée des Cultures et du Paysage de la ville d'Hyères (Var), présente jusqu'au 24 novembre 2024 l'exposition Miró. Organisée en partenariat avec la Fondation Maeght qui célèbre ses 60 ans cette année, cette exposition révèle des pièces exceptionnelles qui mettent en lumière l'œuvre prolifique de ce génie artistique

Vue in situ de l'exposition © La Banque, musée des Cultures et du Paysage - Hyères

74 œuvres créées entre 1956 et 1977

À la fin des années 1950, Joan Miró entame une période de profonde transformation artistique qui durera jusqu'à la fin de sa vie. Cette période marque l'apogée de son génie créatif et donne naissance à des œuvres d'une puissance expressive inégalée.

Nouvelles explorations

One of the most influential art styles of the early twentieth century, Cubism first emerged in 1907. The method abandoned the artistic replication of perspective from a single view point, instead creating images with geometric shapes and interlocking planes. Organized in part by French artist Jacques Villon (1875–1963), The Puteaux Group and their 1912 exhibition La Section d'Or were responsible for expanding knowledge of this early abstract method, cementing the group as crucial for the Cubist movement's influence and legacy.

Jacques Villon in his studio © Alexander Liberman Photography Archive, 1925-1998, Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 2000.R.19.

Né Jacques Duchamp, Villon changed his last name when he began submitting his art to various magazines in the 1890s. In 1895, he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts and frequented the Atelier Cormon. He became a graphic artist, contributing posters, cartoons, and illustrations to Parisian publications. Remaining an active figure in Montmartre, in 1903 he helped organize the drawing section at the first Salon d'Automne in Paris and from 1904 to 1905 he studied at the Académie Julian. After several successful salons and exhibitions in the early 1900s, the artist settled in Puteaux in 1906, where he devoted himself to painterly pursuits.

 Choisissez entre Cy TWOMBLY 58,863,000 USD ou ARNTBEE 300 € - Choose between Cy TWOMBLY 58,863,000 USD or ARNTBEE 300 € -

The Macklowe Collection Live Auction: 15 November 2021 • 7:00 PM EST • Sotheby's New York
Cy Twombly (1928 – 2011) Untitled initialed, dated 06 and inscribed Gaeta on second panel
acrylic and crayon on wood panel, in six parts 99 ¼ by 217 ½ in. 252.1 by 552.5 cm.
Executed in 2007.
Estimate: 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 USD
Lot sold: 58,863,000 USD

28/09/2024 - Brigitte Bardot fête ses 90 ans : femme libre au parcours ensoleillé exceptionnel  elle représente l’incarnation de la beauté féminine, du plaisir de vivre en créant du bonheur autour de soi. Le bonheur la défense et la préservation des animaux est une de ses préoccupations fondamentales qui s’accompagne d’un sens et d’un respect humain immense des animaux. Brigitte Bardot incarne une sensualité positive faite d’authenticité et d’audace, résolument française, elle a l’immense force l’intelligence et la bravoure de dire ce qu’elle pense, quoi qu’il lui en coûte : on aime sa voix, son naturel , en un mot sa personnalié et sa philosophie de vie. Les courriers affluent du monde entier vers Saint-Tropez pour célébrer les 90 ans d’une femme libre au parcours insensé auquel son village rendra un hommage public ce samedi 28 septembre à la Fondation Linda et Guy Pieters. - Patrick Reynolds

https://www.brigitte-bardot.fr/ 

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le 28 / 09 / 2024

Nous ouvrons ici un des débats les plus difficiles du monde de l'art : Qu'est-ce qui fait le prix d'une oeuvre d'art, le fantasme, la réputation, la communication, la financiarisation, le prix élevé pratiqué par le marché dont les ventes aux enchères ou bien la qualité de la création, l'imagination, la sensibilité que nous transmet une oeuvre - Afin de vous permettre de réfléchir, je vous rappelle un principe essentiel qui doit animer votre réflection : ce que l'on nomme LA THESE , L'ANTITHESE qui doit conduire à LA SYNTHESE - J'ai sélectionné les 2 dessins ci-dessous afin d'illustrer ce propos. Posez-vous la question au plus profond de vous-même. Lequel de ces 2 dessins préférez-vous indépendamment du prix du marché. "Regarder et aimer avant d'acheter ..." comme nous le rappelle Martine Manfré Itzinger

Nous avons publié dans LIRE LA SUITE vos points de vue, vos réactions sur ce sujet que vous voudrez bien nous adresser par mail. Merci pour leurs textes à Martine Manfré Itzinger et Hervé Le Goareguer.

 Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Dans les coulisses, danseuse rajustant son chausson, fusain portant le cachet de la signature en rouge en bas à gauche, 45 x 34 cm.
Adjugé : 114 950 €

Voici l'audience du site le-musee-prive.com entre le 22 / 04 / 2024 et le 29 / 04 / 2024 , en détail ci-dessus avec le nombre de visiteurs uniques chaque jour et le nombre de pages vues chaque jour :

Here is the audience of the le-musee-prive.com site between 22 / 04 / 2024 and 29 / 04 / 2024, in detail above with the number of unique visitors each day and the number of page views each day:

Aquí está la audiencia del sitio le-musee-prive.com entre el 22 / 04 / 2024 y el 29 / 04 / 2024, en detalle arriba con el número de visitantes únicos cada día y el número de visitas a la página cada día:

Cette audience correspond  à un nombre de visiteurs supérieur à 1.400.000 par mois dont 53% d'américains

This audience corresponds to more than 1.400.000 visitors a month, 53% of whom are American

A titre de comparaison et d'information , Le Musée du LOUVRE à été visité par 26301 personnes par jour en 2019

For comparison and information, The LOUVRE Museum was visited by 26,301 persons per day in 2019

Mohamed Melehi Untitled 1983 © Mohamed Melehi Estate

UNTIL 14 JANUARY 2024

A major exhibition about the artists of the renowned Casablanca Art School

Tate St Ives will be the first museum in the UK to explore the intense period of artistic rebirth that followed Morocco’s independence, forged by the experimental teaching methods of the Casablanca Art School in the 1960s and 1970s.

Led by Farid Belkahia alongside Mohammed Chabâa, Mohamed Melehi and others, this pioneering school paved the way for a new generation of socially engaged modern artists who formed an influential avant-garde network.

Works by 22 artists will be brought together to demonstrate the wide variety of the Moroccan ‘new wave’, from vibrant abstract paintings and urban murals to applied arts, typography, graphics and interior design.

The exhibition will also include a selection of rarely-seen print archives, vintage journals, documentary photographs and films.

This exhibition is a collaboration between Tate St Ives and Sharjah Art Foundation, where it will open in February 2024. It is also part of a key moment of international research into the Casablanca Art School, which includes a collaborative project initiated in 2020 between KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Sharjah Art Foundation, in partnership with Goethe-Institut Marokko, ThinkArt and Zamân Books & Curating.

Tate St Ives Porthmeor Beach St Ives Cornwall TR26 1TG

https://www.tate.org.uk/

A Brief Guide to the Casablanca Art School | Tate

Richard Avedon, Brigitte Bardot, hair by Alexandre, Paris, January 1959,

gelatin silver print, 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm) © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Photography for me has always been a sort of double-sided mirror. The one side reflecting my subject, the

other reflecting myself.

Richard Avedon

PARIS, January 15, 2024—Gagosian is pleased to announce Iconic Avedon: A Centennial Celebration of Richard Avedon, at the gallery on rue de Ponthieu, Paris, from January 22 to March 2, 2024. The exhibition marks the centenary of Avedon’s birth in May 1923. Often attributed to his photographs, the word iconic applies equally to their maker, and is used here to illuminate his exceptional influence on culture today.

Soon after establishing his New York studio in the mid-1940s, Avedon developed an inventive, sophisticated, and instantly recognizable style. As a staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar (1944–65), and later Vogue (1966–88), he produced many of the publications’ quintessential images. As Avedon’s reputation grew, the defining figures of the twentieth century—performers, writers, artists, intellectuals, and other notables—were drawn to see themselves through his lens. Avedon produced images that became synonymous with the legends of his sitters. Featuring his photographs of subjects both renowned and obscure, the exhibition highlights the innovative role Avedon played as a creator of icons.

Avedon’s most incisive portraits manifest his uncanny ability to elicit the singular vitality of his sitters, inscribing their charged essences—even those of the already famous—in decisive frames extracted from the larger arc of living history. His portrayals of Marian Anderson (1955), Marilyn Monroe (1957), Bob Dylan (1965), and the Beatles (1967) are as indelible as they are timeless. “It’s not the way

I ,” Harold Brodkey remarked about his portrait by Avedon, “but the way I .” With an unerring eye, impeccable timing, and a prescient sensibility, Avedon vaulted the models Dovima (1955), China Machado (1958), and Penelope Tree (1967) to the pinnacle of their profession. He also recorded incomparable images of Charlie Chaplin (1952),

LA LA LAND by Naeemeh Kazemi

which helped her escape the confinement of quarantine and transported her to fantastical places. Living in Iran, Kazemi has had to take creative approaches to her meanings through symbols, so as to not get in trouble with the Iranian government. Her themes of environmental and virus anxiety, feminism, and humanity are disguised in her enchanting paintings through tokens and motifs of the natural world, classical paintings, and quotidian objects.

In her most recent "La La Land" series, she depicts a world that is intertwined yet fragmented. It is as if familiar pieces float strangely in space. In her complex yet highly composed paintings, Kazemi ponders the questions "Could the whole history of the world be a mere misunderstanding?" and "Is it possible that man, with all his discoveries, developments, culture, religion, and global wisdom is just lingering on only to the outward of life?" This series reflects Kazemi's feelings and anxieties towards the world, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic quarantine instated since March 2020. She says, "I'm incredibly scared because I know we will soon annihilate this enlivening life- giving planet. A planet that soon gets a shell from skulls, bones, and dead machines. No one can do anything for her. We lost the game!" Kazemi creates an oasis sheltered from these fears in this series. A "La La Land," clearly fictitious, but serving as a safe haven from the uncertain world.

Her work aims to reflect her constant state of questioning, anxiety, and interrogation with herself. She says "tense dreamy moments occur, which rushes blood to my cheeks." The viewer can see these feelings depicted in the flourishing flora and fauna and bright, enchanting colors. But then, "a moment later, silent, unsure, tired, and depressed." These juxtaposed feelings are sensed in the canvas through the lingering portraits- eyes hidden, hands floating, and plants tangled in a web. Ultimately, through these symbols, themes, and meanings, Kazemi is questioning life itself. For Kazemi, her works are not set in a final reality. She explores the system of meanings and understands that it is constantly changing and new realities are born every day. While first brought upon by the uncertainties of social and personal health by the pandemic, her investigation of finding meaning in life remains true for past, present, and future generations.

MARK ROTHKO

Du 18 octobre 2023 au 2 avril 2024

Première rétrospective en France consacrée à Mark Rothko (1903-1970) depuis celle du musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris en 1999, l’exposition présentée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton à partir du 18 octobre 2023 réunit quelque 115 œuvres provenant des plus grandes collections institutionnelles et privées internationales, notamment de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, de la famille de l’artiste et de la Tate de Londres. Se déployant dans la totalité des espaces de la Fondation, selon un parcours chronologique, elle retrace l’ensemble de la carrière de l’artiste depuis ses premières peintures figuratives jusqu’à l’abstraction qui définit aujourd’hui son œuvre.

“Je ne m’intéresse qu’à l’expression des émotions humaines fondamentales...”

Mark Rothko

L’exposition s’ouvre sur des scènes intimistes et des paysages urbains – telles les scènes du métro new-yorkais –, qui dominent dans les années 1930, avant de céder la place à un répertoire inspiré des mythes antiques et du surréalisme à travers lesquels s’exprime, pendant la guerre, la dimension tragique de la condition humaine.  

À partir de 1946, Rothko opère un tournant décisif vers l’abstraction dont la première phase est celle des Multiformes, où des masses chromatiques en suspension tendent à s’équilibrer. Progressivement, leur nombre diminue et l’organisation spatiale de sa peinture évolue rapidement vers ses œuvres dites « classiques » des années 1950 où se superposent des formes rectangulaires suivant un rythme binaire ou ternaire, caractérisées par des tons jaunes, rouges, ocre, orange, mais aussi bleus, blancs...  

En 1958, Rothko reçoit la commande d’un ensemble de peintures murales destinées au restaurant Four Seasons conçu par Philip Johnson pour le Seagram Building – dont Ludwig Mies van der Rohe dirige la construction à New York. Rothko renonce finalement à livrer la commande et conserve l’intégralité de la série. Onze ans plus tard, en 1969, l’artiste fera don à la Tate Gallery de neuf de ces peintures qui se distinguent des précédentes par leurs teintes d’un rouge profond, constituant une salle exclusivement dédiée à son travail au sein des collections. Cet ensemble est présenté exceptionnellement dans l’exposition.

Crédits : Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960 - Huile sur toile, 289.6 x 266.7 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Helen Crocker Russell Fund purchase
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko - Adagp, Paris, 2023

Anna Weyant Biography

Born in 1995 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she is one of the most talented artists of her generation - Thanks to Larry Gagosian, great talent discoverer she is taking an important place among the great creators of our time.

Lives and works in New York, NY.    -   https://gagosian.com/

About Anna Weyant

The hapless subjects of Anna Weyant’s indelible paintings and drawings are recurrently tested by everyday circumstances, weathering what the artist has described as “low-stakes trauma.” In these precisely rendered scenes, figures—most often young and female—find themselves embroiled in tragicomic narratives with an ironic twinge, offering a dreamlike insight into the capacity of popular culture and social convention to manufacture and distort gestures, rituals, and signifiers of femininity. But far from presenting her protagonists as merely symbolic, Weyant remains sensitive to their human idiosyncrasies and contradictions, picturing characters who are endearing, mysterious, and wholly themselves. In her crystalline still-life compositions, meanwhile, everyday objects adopt an uncanny, portentous air.

Weyant was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1995. After earning a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, she relocated to New York, then studied painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Moving back to New York, she worked as a studio assistant while pursuing her own practice. Among her first exhibited works is a sequence of darkly cinematic canvases depicting a dollhouse—modeled after one that she owned as a child—and its young female inhabitants. A later series deconstructs the appearance of American suburbia in Lifetime’s made-for-television movies, casting it as a surreal realm in which violence and disaster lurk just beneath the surface. In her still lifes, Weyant depicts fruit, flowers, and other items in a similarly unsettling light; Lily (2021), for example, juxtaposes the titular bloom with a revolver bound in gold ribbon.

In these and other works, Weyant employs a somber, muted palette of deep greens, dusty pinks, and deep black. She also draws on art historical and present-day influences, from seventeenth-century Dutch masters such as Frans Hals and Judith Leyster to twentieth-century mavericks like Balthus to contemporary painters Jennifer Packer and Ellen Berkenblit. As revealed in her contributions to group exhibitions including and I will wear you in my heart of heart at FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2021); Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2022); and Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2022), Weyant displays a deep understanding and appreciation of her work’s roots and parallels while eliciting an immediate and emotional response.

STANLEY WHITNEY

Dear Paris

January 10–February 28, 2024

GAGOSIAN GALLERY 9 rue de Castiglione, Paris https://gagosian.com/

Gagosian is pleased to announce the exhibition of Stanley Whitney’s painting Dear Paris (2023) at 9 rue de Castiglione, Paris, from January 10 to February 28, 2024.

Inspired by the artist’s extended stay in the French capital, Dear Paris is the latest of Whitney’s lyrical abstractions. Balancing systematic structure and expressive spontaneity, he composed the painting in his characteristic manner, one roughly rectilinear block at a time, starting at the top left and progressing in rows across and down the canvas. Whitney forms each shape with energetic brushwork, choosing its vivid hues and shaping its boundaries in relation to its predecessors. The painting’s subtly shifting freehand geometry is further demarcated by linear bands between its rows that both divide and unify the composition.

Pursuing abstraction since the 1970s, Whitney established his mature style in the 1990s while living and working in Rome. The compositional framework he employs allows him the freedom to improvise, facilitating the emergence of surprising chromatic harmonies and dynamic visual rhythms. The artist’s wide-ranging influences include the polyphonic call and response of jazz, the transformative effect of light cast on historic buildings, the traditions of American quiltmaking, and artists from Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian to Giorgio Morandi.

Whitney’s recent residency in Paris offered him the sustained opportunity to observe the city’s architecture and urban fabric, and to connect with its expansive cultural history. As he observes:

There’s a history of African Americans going to Paris that dates back to after the First World War. Jazz musicians, writers, and artists like Beauford Delaney, James Baldwin, and more recently, Ed Clark, went to Paris for a creative freedom they couldn’t find in the United States. I’ve always wanted to spend more time in Paris, and in 2023, I finally did so. It was incredible to be in the city where so many of the great artists of the twentieth century, artists who were integral to my development as a painter, had lived and worked. In Paris, there’s a play between different periods in a long history; you just don’t have that in the States.

Dear Paris coincides with Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, the artist’s first comprehensive retrospective, organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York. The exhibition will be on view from February 9 to May 27, 2024, before traveling to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2024–25), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2025). Spanning the entirety of Whitney’s career, How High the Moon traces the evolution of his practice through paintings, drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. VOIR DANS LIRE LA SUITE le texte en Français

Over The River, Project for Arkansas River, State of Colorado - 1998 - 38 x 165 cm & 106,6 x 165 cm - collage in 2 parts

Linda et Guy Pieters ont le plaisir de vous convier à l'exposition Christo and Jeanne-Claude
du 5 septembre au 5 novembre 2023
Fondation Linda et Guy Pieters
Place des Lices - 28 Boulevard Vasserot – 83990 Saint-Tropez
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Ouvert tous les jours
de 10h à 13h30 et de 14h30 à 18h
Fermé dimanche et lundi

A l'occasion d'une exposition d'oeuvres préparatoires de l'artiste Christo dans la galerie Guy Pieters dans les années 2010, Patrick Reynolds, Directeur du Musée Privé, et Sébastien Lecca, plasticien et performer, ont eu l'opportunité de poser quelques questions à l'un des artistes les plus monumentaux et influents de notre époque.
Compte-rendu en images...https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg2c4y 

Une interview réalisée et préparée par André-Charles Idier / andrecharles.idier(at)gmail.com

Remerciements à Christo, Guy Pieters et Isabelle Lelievre.