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Louis Vuitton and the metamorphoses of Korea


At the Espace Louis Vuitton, the contemporary Korean artists question the permanence of forms.

The theme of metamorphosis is a favorite theme of Art, 10 times, 100 times Treaty painting (see on a topic, the grotesque ), and especially the cinema (which it renders its dynamic aspect, for example in Cronenberg's The Fly: the metamorphosis is a process, the monstrous state). This fascination with metamorphosis in art is natural: it is obviously a great opportunity to address the question of forms and materials, their consistency and their mutations.

Metamorphosis and kingdoms of nature

Beware, however: the metamorphosis is not a simple transformation. Metamorphosis, in Ovid, Kafka, in the Golden Ass of Apuleius, is first a way to examine the organization of nature, the boundaries between the categories of forms, and what happens when you mix them. The boundaries between animal, vegetable, mineral, become unstable, gods in human shape change into animals, flowers, rocks dredged for Zeus takes the form of a bull, a shower of gold, a swan. In metamorphosis, it is not just about "change form", but to question and clarify the boundaries between levels, isolate objects limits, inter-kingdoms, taxonomic incongruities, of operate back and forth between classes frozen existence. The recent exhibition Arcimboldo at Luxembourg had already helped to address these formal collusion.

This is the sort of back and forth between different registers of reality that is at issue here. By juxtaposing images of the same place but from a variety of eras and sources, Yong Seok Oh creates striking effects of telescoping. On the surface of a screen, a country landscape is reconstructed from a mosaic of photos taken at this point to dozens of years apart: young people standing on the grass in 1960 and hold an umbrella could almost turn around to talk with others sitting not very far, but much later. This device millefeuilles (photo cons) responds directly to the aesthetics of the web, consists of dozens of independent modules and shows what can digital art. This aesthetic to the Minority Report continues the work of questioning the classic distinction between the arts of time and spatial arts since Lessing: owing a meta-metamorphosis, the arts also interpenetrate . Similarly Hyunkoo Lee, with his mini gallery of natural history of animal skeletons cartoon (Goofy, Bugs Bunny) has interference between levels of fiction and reality, the science of fossils and comics.

collusion rather than introspection

The work that opens the exhibition is, paradoxically, the highlight of the visit. Probably because it imposes a real presence aesthetics, while others are more oriented conceptual aspect of metamorphosis (culminating The art of transforming Beo Kim). Translated with vases, artist Sookyung Yee gets broken pieces of porcelain vases and re-create agency for almost organic forms, that looks like soap bubbles, clusters of cells or cells. Some groups suggest the algae of the southern seas which we can not say whether they are stemmed plants or animals wrong. Metamorphosis is an operation that puts at risk the well too many standardized layouts.













See also the fascinating book by Peter S. Stevens, forms in nature , Threshold

If metamorphosis is a reflection on identity, as it says somewhere on cartels and in the brochure, it does not go through introspection in any "depth" of the soul and body (the skeletons of Bugs Bunny Hyun Koo Lee is also an ironic way to denounce the absurd illusion of interiority: there is nothing under the skin of the animated characters). On the contrary outside by direct confrontation with the allied forms that can help light the components of his own.

It was natural that a country like Korea, divided by an internal border that cuts it in two, this type of thinking leads with acuity and sensitivity.

Espace Louis Vuitton 60 rue de Bassano / 101 Avenue des Champs Elysees (take the elevator to get sensory, and suggest to the hostess to keep quiet). The view over the fields from the panoramic terrace is a must.

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Van Dyck portrait


Some of the finest portraits of the favorite pupil of Rubens. The opportunity to be reconciled with the master.













The Jacquemart-Andre Museum until January 25, 2009 dedicated a magnificent exhibition of portraits of Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641), first be entirely devoted to the artist in France.

Visitors can admire the subtlety of his art in a very special year as the portrait. It's not every day that we offer the public a panorama of 40 paintings by such thematic coherence. Visitors can also see and especially the evolution of the artist over 20 years, there either is not common.

The Richard Avedon of the sixteenth century

child prodigy, brilliant painter, Van Dyck dynamite quickly Antwerp tradition of commonplaces of bourgeois portrait. Preferring to emphasize the emotional intimacy rather than the marital hierarchy ( Family Portrait - Hermitage Museum), emphasizing the greatness of the poses, the supéririoité a natural look or a gesture rather than the social status of a position (portrait of man, 1620-1621 - Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon), Van Dyck turns its back on restraint and composure petty bourgeois comfort. By emphasizing the psychological intensity of his characters, a portrait of the soul before that of decorum, Antoon van Dyck realizes perhaps painting is an artist like Richard Avedon realized in fashion photography in the twentieth century . If

quickens the portrait of the powerful, Van Dyck as a pupil his fellow commoners symmetrical movement to the dignity of princes, showing that nobility is first case of heart, will, character, and not an accumulation of medals and wealth. At the heart of this conception of the nobility, the notion of sprezzatura , this casually, enemy of the assignment, defined by Castiglione in the book of courtier as aristocratic virtue par excellence, and where the supreme art is precisely to forget to seem natural.

"(...) for all human things that are done or that we said, we must flee as much as possible as a rock very sharp and dangerous, assignment, and, to use perhaps a new word in all things show a certain sprezzatura, which conceals art which shows that what was said and done came easily and almost without thinking. That's where I think especially with drift (...). "

So there is a real aristocracy, the heart and deserves, the gestures and glances. It is this that Van Dyck chose to highlight in the noble and portrait of the court in the richness of the costume. She chooses to reveal it yet among those of his friends commoners who can not fly in regalia, or rely on the social status of princes and the powerful.













The route of exposure can design a particularly significant shift in portraiture vandyckien. After installing his characters in fictional settings, sometimes heavily symbolic power or virtue (sheets, columns, stormy skies, etc.), Van Dyck, as and its work, and after his return from Italy, significantly tightens its palette of colors, clears setting and focuses on the central figure of the character on a neutral background, with a purity and intensity that clearly break the lessons of Titian (below the Portrait of Isabella d'Este ) . funds are limited to flat areas of dark colors, which release a face-to-face with the startling character. We have rarely seen eye most striking truth that the portrait of Maria de Tassis , or installing everything at once nonchalant and carried on brothers Wael . The tables in the end, for the activity as a portraitist at the court of England, reconnect with the pomposity firt of bourgeois paintings, in favor of political pageantry.

The corridor designs is another pleasant surprise and originality of the exhibition. Since the British Museum devoted to the drawings of Michelangelo, we had not seen any as beautiful. Many come from other British collections.

insensitive to the art of Rubens, his retinue of nymphets fat and pompous critics gloss enhancing his praise of the "flesh", I did not think Van Dyck find something for the eye . The dispersion of his paintings in the collections Museums - outside perhaps the portrait of Charles I to the chase - do in fact not really get an adequate view of the consistency and intensity of his remarks. So we should thank Jacquemart Andre to overcome this fragmentation. Those not lucky enough to encounter a real with the work will no doubt kick it, preferably at lunch time because they are not alone. Visit the mini-site exposure also very successful, to download the podcast guided tour.

Van Dyck, Museum Jacquemart Andre, until January 25, 2009, Paris.

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Grammar design

Beautiful design illustrated alphabet of all time.













house Phaidon has published in 2007 a magnificent set of three massive volumes devoted to the 1000 objects become "classics" of design: illustrated inventory of items particularly mature and become cult, with an aesthetic value, remained unchanged since their creation, combining stylish design with innovative materials or defined by their shapes simple, balanced and pure. This encyclopedia is now available as a small booklets with Le Monde on the weekend, adding to the dimension "toolkit" of the book, and finally "taschenise" a little bulky Phaidon art book.

Turn the pages of this book is to enter the alphabet illustrated plastic forms of everyday life and return to their original form elements back a thousand times, combined, copied, processed since their introduction. And just as it is intellectually satisfying to understand the origin of words or phrases idioms we use without ever paying any attention to, this huge design gallery is a unique opportunity to decipher the structures of our manufactured environment. It shows in its purest forms of some founders have structured our gaze on the chairs, lamps, cars, appliances ...













In this field as in others, we are often determined by our knowledge of the things we do not know the origin and which have so permeated the culture they seem to have always existed. The famous transistor Sony TR 510 or 610, of which we find the forms into the very latest Apple iPod, is an example of these objects founders. Illustration of the famous adage Assen in the terminal classes: the thought of an unknown philosopher can determine the very thought of those who have never read. Also another way of saying that objects are not manufactured purely physical, they are entirely steeped in fantasy, history, intentions ( see here for another version of this problem ). A few hours in this magnificent anthology enough to be finally satisfied.
Phaidon Design Classics
, 3 volumes, 2007, 150 euros, and currently available in 20 volumes with Le Monde on the weekend.

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Georges Rouault painting and meditation

The Pinacoteca of Paris offer until January 28 a splendid journey in the work of the painter Georges Rouault. Meanwhile Jackson Pollock, which looks great, you walk by the middle of masterpieces of rare intensity. Mountain landscapes, figures of marchers, many portraits, scenes of parade or circus, many religious scenes: there is no room in this magnificent journey that has her web mistress. Each time one is struck with the force of the Treaty, the strength of colors. Between children's drawing and the extreme sophistication, you do not miss this opportunity to (re) discover an artist so endearing, challenging, surprising.

Rather than a chronological approach would have been a little cold and school, the museum has chosen a thematic, where each section begins with the relationship between the painter and a poet, philosopher or artist encountered by chance in life and each time for determining the trajectory of the work. Professor Gustave Moreau, Matisse's classmate and friend, the writer Leon Bloy and Suares, the Christian philosopher Jacques Maritain and obviously Ambroise Vollard, the dealer.

This bias has the advantage of not redistribute lot of cards and make visible how many parallel lines coexist within a lifetime, and concurrent with the whole constitution of a work. We find the rest, and not surprisingly, two of the major concerns of the curator Marc Restellini: the taste of the Orient on the one hand, anti-academic second. The circle of friends are all Rouault pariah figures, writers ignored, condemned, forgotten, evolving away from conventions, or nearly disappeared from collective memory. This is not the slightest interest in exposure to revive them.

Another curiosity: Georges Rouault, painter known in France (not a figure of speech, and from this point of view, the visibility of this exhibition will suffer no doubt that massive, Picasso at the Grand Palace) is a huge star in Japan, which houses several museums devoted specifically to his work, including that of oil company Idemitsu. One of the challenges of this course is to understand the reasons for this fascination for Eastern Catholic French painter, a priori far from the Japanese aesthetic heritage. The composition

very graphic paintings of Rouault immediately evokes the calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing and layout features. The important thing is not what the lines represent, but their arrangement on the canvas, the path they propose to the eye, and finally when they invite meditation. It is precisely this meditative character of the work that fascinates: Rouault's paintings are primarily as supports for meditation and contemplation. And while Western art criticism is the report focuses strictly aesthetic at work, an intellectual vision or iconography (the table is a symbol ... it refers to ... it says that ...), the 'Japanese art lover plunges as if contemplating a calligraphy or a roll of ukiyo-e. This is not the outward appearance lies the interest of the work, but in the inner journey and return home that the work permits.

This dual relation to the work of art is an absolutely vital that this exhibition rightly points out, and is reflected in the historical development of the report to written text and reading . The contemporary era, mainly preoccupied with the technological or literary texts, conceived as objects to manipulate, forgot the medieval practices of reading, the questioning turned to ethics. In his superb book on the "Inner Bilbiothèques," Brian Stock has shown the importance meditative practices of reading and writing for the constitution of self. A tradition born of Augustine considers the text as the first holder of a meditation, an opportunity to adopt a particular posture (meditation, silence). The important thing is not to learn, be entertained or surprised, but to ruminate on the text.

It's such a beautiful exhibition that I will update my other desolation to the poor arrangement of space and of wandering, which seems to be becoming a habit, though it does not appear due to space, which is of good size. Georges Rouault, 70 paintings from the collection Idemitsu to Pinacoteca Paris, until 18 January.

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Trilogy (I do, and Sleep Red Reneiges)

Theatre - World premiere at Usine C (Montreal)
Trilogy blur (I do, Sleep and Red Reneiges)
From November 11 to 15 at 18 pm / November 16 to 16 h

Trilogy blurs Daniel Danis consists of three texts: I do , Sleep and Red Reneiges . This poetic creation-performentielle will stage a dancer, actants, performers and technologists. This experiment, about 1 h 40, will attempt to further manifestation of the representation by questioning the presence of being, gesture, speech, and the passage of time.

The trajectory of the acts will vary with the different landmarks associated with the poem, the behavior of images or sound sources.

idea man, creator, author Daniel Danis
Sound Design Jean-Michel Dumas
With as main actants Daniel Danis-Huy Phong Doan
Visual Artists Guerrera, Martin Dufrasne
Computer engineers Sébastien Roy, Lucie Bélanger

Production Company Daniel Danis, Arts / Science (Quebec) produced jointly with the Laboratory of Museology and engineering culture (LAMIC) at Laval University in Quebec, Department of Computer Science and operations research, Vision3D Laboratory, University of Montreal The Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts (France) and the Usine C (Canada).

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Bled

Bled is written and directed by Daniel Danis

Bled is the youngest of seven boys. "I wear my name because my grandfather, without a country, which had the bad corn. "

Lacking home, his parents asked him to leave in search of a house. Cunning, to ensure his return, he pilfering his brother's cell phone to film the way it borrows. It starts with a heavy heart, but feet firmly on the ground.

face hunger that tormented him, Bled throws his heart that he attaches to his leg so it does not leave him. Throughout his career, he feels pursued by Shed, the alter ego of his fears. Bled traveled a road filled with pitfalls. He dreams the world and sharing with Ti-Coeur its joys and sorrows, ambitions and fears. He meets a biker who wants to kill a deer, he delivers. It seizes a golden key that will open the door to his future home. He hits the road with determination.

After facing her fears, the bold and courageous Bled, faces Shed, Part
dark and hidden within her. Route between realistic and poetic imagination of Bled dominate the surrounding features and enable it to fulfill its mission.

Text editor published by the Ark Collection TYP.

World Premiere of Bled January 29, 2009 at the Center for Arts and Leisure Buchelay in the seventh edition of Odysseys en Yvelines, biennial Creation Theatre for Children and Adolescents conceived by Theatre Sartrouville-CDN with support from the General Council of Yvelines.

design, text and direction by Daniel Danis.
Composition, sound environment: Jean-Michel Dumas.
Cast: Vincent Nadal and Antonin Lebrun.

Production: Theatre Sartrouville-CDN, the company co-produced with Daniel Danis, Arts / Science, supported by assistance for the creation of dramatic texts of the National Theatre and the participation of International Institute of Puppetry in Charleville-Mezieres.

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