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Intuitively minimal with Yeachin Tsai

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Yeachin Tsai is best known for her rhythmic forms and decisive brush strokes made with a certainty rooted in Chinese calligraphy, and the infinite time and space dynamics of Chinese painting. She received her BFA at the National Taiwan Normal University and she holds a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Yeachin Tsai mostly uses ink and fluid acrylic on paper, canvas, and fabrics. The supports of the paintings are prepared to be absorbent like rice paper, so the color soaks in rather than sitting on the surface. She generates tension with the intimate scale of the smaller paintings and their colossal internal energy. Her large scale paintings use big brushwork to draw the viewer in and then explode joyously with energetic color and invigorating mark-making. Her subjects cover both the visible, for example still life, and the unseen as abstract movements evoking inner activity and emotions. Now based in upstate New York, Yeachin Tsai has exhibited her work at such notable venues as the Painting Center in …

Into the Wild with Ellis O’Connor

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Ellis O’Connor is a Contemporary Landscape Artist from Scotland living on the Outer Hebridean Island of North Uist working in the field of painting and drawing. The dynamic energy to be seen in the paintings are Ellis’ response to observed changes in the landscape; ‘the movement and rhythms of the sea and the land … the merging of sea with air, advancing rain and mist, ever changing light – elements that seem to be about something intangible.’ In order to immerse herself in the environment, Ellis makes much of the artwork on site where extreme weather and the elements find their way into the pieces. Ellis describes the process of working outdoors in wild weather as almost ‘performative’. Some of the pieces made on paper on site become the basis for larger works on canvas painted back in the studio. Here, Ellis usually works with oil paint, building up the surfaces using natural substances like sand and dried seaweed. By producing the art work she hopes it will give people a chance to connect with …

Brief encounter in an english garden with Rebecca Louise Law

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Rebecca Louise Law is a London-based installation artist known for her transformation of spaces using hundreds or thousands of suspended flowers. Trained in fine art at Newcastle University in England, Rebecca Louise Law has been working with natural materials for 17 years, a practice that involves a constant exploration of relationships between nature and humans.  The physicality and sensuality of her site specific work plays with the relationship between man and nature. Rebecca Louise Law is passionate about natural change and preservation, allowing her work to evolve as nature takes its course and offering an alternative concept of beauty. Over the past few years she has worked in numerous public spaces, museums (such as the Royal Academy and the Victoria & Albert Museum), and galleries. She has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been commissioned by brands like Hermès, Cartier, Gucci or Salvatore Ferragamo. Her notable commissions include ‘The Flower Garden Display’, (The Garden Museum, London),‘The Grecian Garden’ (Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens), and ‘Flowers 2015: Outside In’ (Times Square, New York).  1. Do you see yourself as a …

Art in motion with Erik Saglia

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Born in 1989, Erik Saglia lives and works in Turin in Italy. In his early works Erik Saglia, starting with the implications of the “modernist grid”, emphasizes and restructures it replicating it first with graph paper and spray, then with adhesive tape, that, perfectly laid in orthogonal lines, covers the camouflage spots; the tape is stuck in a precise and rigorous way, submitting the body to the discipline of the exact gesture that contrasts with the free aggregation of the spots below. In the recent works, the strictness that seems to disappear with the smoother motion of tape come back thanks to the precision of applying resin, revived with an almost sculptural thickness. The use of materials, spray paint, tape and synthetic resin, seeks to renew the concept of surface, deleting every biographical and pop aspect reconnecting the work by Erik Saglia to the Spatialist research by Lucio Fontana and the lesson of Alighiero Boetti. Erik Saglia has already participated at several group shows, among all: Too big or not too big at Thomas Brambilla …

“J’ai rêvé le Beau” avec le peintre vénitien Roger de Montebello

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Depuis « Venise la rouge » comme la décrivait Alfred de Musset, le peintre Roger de Montebello suit les traces des grands maîtres qui ont consacré leur don à la représentation parfaite de la Sérénissime. Explorant les liens entre la peinture métaphysique et le monde Méditerranéen, Roger de Montebello se situe à Venise, entre Orient et Occident, là où le cœur d’un Art en quête de sens bat au quotidien. Roger de Montebello découvre très tôt les lieux qui inspireront plus tard sa peinture : Venise, la Méditerranée, l’Espagne. Ses études l’emmènent à Séville où il acquiert les bases de la peinture à la faculté des beaux-arts, puis à Harvard où il étudie à la fois la pratique picturale et l’histoire de l’art. De retour en Europe, il ne tarde pas à se consacrer entièrement à son art. Ses voyages le portent souvent sur les rivages de la mer Méditerranée. Ses thèmes principaux sont les vues urbaines, notamment Venise, la corrida peinte sur le vif et le portrait. En 1994, René Huyghe, éminent spécialiste de la peinture …

André Boubounelle, la confession d’un homme du siècle

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André Boubounelle, un nom qui paraît sortir tout droit d’un roman de Gustave Flaubert. Un nom aux formes arrondies, aux consonances gourmandes qui nous mènent d’office aux portes d’un univers référentiel familier et rassurant. A une époque mettant par principe l’art figuratif de côté, le peintre André Boubounelle ose manier sa palette à la semblance d’un gouvernail traçant son sillage parmi les courants déchaînés du monde. Ancien élève de l’Ecole Nationale des Arts appliqués de Paris, puis de l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, il expose quelques années à la Galerie Anne Blanc puis obtient le prix de la Casa Velázquez et de l’Institut de France en 1991, avant de devenir pensionnaire de la Casa Velázquez à Madrid de 1992 à 1993. Héritier de Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes et de Camille Corot, André Boubounelle peint d’un œil très contemporain ses paysages de la campagne et de la montagne, des vues urbaines ou des marines. Empreinte de grâce et de gravité, sa peinture transcrit la vision d’un monde magnifié : ses huiles évoquent le silence – le silence …

En attendant Godo

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Ecrivain, poète et essayiste, Emmanuel Godo envi­sage la lit­té­ra­ture comme “expé­rience inté­rieure”. Agrégé de lettres, docteur ès lettres, Emmanuel Godo enseigne la littérature en classes préparatoires au lycée Henri IV de Paris et à l’Institut catholique de Lille. Ses premiers travaux sont consacrés à l’œuvre littéraire de Maurice Barrès. Sa thèse est publiée en 1995 aux Presses universitaires du Septentrion sous le titre La Légende de Venise, Maurice Barrès ou la tentation de l’écriture. Il y étudie le rapport très ambigu que Maurice Barrès entretient avec la création littéraire, passion dont il craint la dimension destructrice. À partir de 2001, Emmanuel Godo élargit son champ de recherche : de Victor Hugo à Jean-Paul Sartre, de Gérard de Nerval à Paul Claudel, d’Alfred de Musset à Léon Bloy, il s’interroge sur la manière dont l’acte d’écrire implique une traversée des apparences, une expérience des limites et engage celui qui l’accomplit véritablement dans un face à face avec l’inconnu. Grâce au soutien amical des écrivains Jean-Pierre Lemaire, Sylvie Germain et Colette Nys-Mazure, il publie, en 2012, son …

Eugenio Recuenco, the painter of modern times

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Eugenio Recuenco was born in Madrid in 1968 and graduated with a degree in painting from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Pursuing photography, he began collaborating with fashion magazines such as Vogue Espana, GQ, View, Madame Figaro, Vogue UK, Vanity Fair and Kult in Spain and Paris in the context of campaigns for brands like Diesel, Wilkinson or Nina Ricci. Eugenio Recuenco produced his first advertising piece in Paris for Boucheron, and since has become one of the most highly sought after young artists in the advertising and luxury fashion industry. Eugenio Recuenco’s fresh take on high fashion is rich in cinematic drama and emotive impulse. With other-worldly narratives, his complex signature style uses elaborate handmade scenery and contains multiple references to art history and film. With a sensibility towards light and dark, concept and drama, his work is reminiscent and yet transcends the grand masters of Spanish classical painting like Goya, El Greco and Zurbarán. As a director, his elaborate, detailed and cinematic style have brought him much praise and won him many awards and …

Dream of flesh with Rosy Lamb

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Rosy Lamb grew up a homeschooler in a family of artists in the deep woods of New Hampshire, in the northeastern United States. In 1999, she graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 2001, she established her painting and sculpture studio in Paris.  Rosy Lamb is best known for her intimate paintings, often painted on hand-cast plaster panels, which sometimes combine irregular contours, undulating surfaces or sculptural elements in their surface.   In recent years, she has been working on a new series of sculptures and bronze furniture, at the foundry Fusions located in Auvergne. These new sculptures use innovative techniques for making unique forms out of hot wax, drawing inspiration from her training as a painter and her intimate knowledge of bronze casting.    Rosy Lamb has received multiple awards and travel scholarships for her painting and sculpture and has exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia. She has also published a children’s book called “Paul meets Bernadette” (she was listed as one of the Publisher’s Weekly Flying Starts in 2014). She is …

Chorégraphies végétales et architecturales avec Ramon Enrich

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Après des études aux Beaux-Arts de Barcelone ainsi qu’un cursus en arts graphiques, Ramon Enrich décroche une bourse à la fin des années 1980 pour peindre et exposer à l’étranger. D’abord à Francfort, Marbourg et Berlin, où il travaille avec d’autres artistes autour de différents projets d’installations et d’expositions. Ramon Enrich s’envole ensuite pour les Etats-Unis afin de se former auprès des artistes qu’il admire. Il séjourne quelques mois à la Fondation Donald Judd, puis à la Fondation Chinati, avant d’y exposer son travail dès le début des années 1990. Il poursuit son voyage jusqu’à Los Angeles où il rencontre Ed Ruscha ainsi que David Hockney avec lequel il collabore. Il s’installe ensuite quelques années à New-York et devient l’assistant de Julian Schnabel. A son retour en Europe, il occupe un atelier à la Künstlerhaus Mousonturm de Francfort avant de revenir dans sa catalogne natale où il vit depuis lors. De retour en Europe, il s’établit en France puis en Allemagne où des institutions publiques et privées font l’acquisition de ses œuvres : Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, …