VERSION FRANCAISE By Charlotte Le Grix de la Salle Translated by Brianna Reed Can light have a morality? Or rather virtue, like silence, a way of enveloping living beings and objects to reveal what’s hidden, or even divine? Thanks to Vermeer, we are familiar with and can recognize chiaroscuros, the shine of a…
VERSION FRANCAISE Alexei Jawlensky : An iconic figure of Russian expressionism collected by Ronald S. Lauder. It was with much impatience that I awaited the monographic exhibit of Alexei Jawlensky at the Neue Galerie of New York. In March of 2012, I happened upon this emblematic figure of Der Blaue Reiter during the exhibit called EXPRESSIONISMUS…
VERSION FRANCAISE The discovery of a life that we could have only dared to imagine! The path to discovering a masterpiece that was believed to have disappeared often resembled a police investigation. The expert, a specialist of old masters and fine arts, was often a detective of history who had to collect clues and facts,…
VERSION FRANCAISE What I quickly perceived in Hans Hartung’s painting was his force and strong will that appear throughout his work. The paintings become animated when one looks at them, and I personally feel that the life-loving artist’s movements are actually a dialogue between himself and the viewer. When Hartung was…
Florence Briat-Soulié VERSION FRANÇAISE “It’s instinctive in a certain kind of painting, not as if you were painting an object or special things, but it’s like coming through the nervous system. It’s like a nervous system. It’s not described, it’s happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from…
By Jacqueline Knox Fabienne Verdier is a French artist who is currently showing in London at the Waddington Custot Gallery, 11 Cork Street. The exhibition features her most recent large-scale abstract paintings that have been produced over the last year. Following graduation from art school, Verdier chose to move to Sichuan in China, for…
Version Française – Musée Cernuschi’s exhibit of Walasse Ting presents a kaleidoscopic display of the artist’s creative evolution, tracing his Chinese roots to his experiences abroad. Each room introduces a new element of his artistic vocabulary, the layers accumulating until the end of the visit, when a seamless synthesis of his work is finally achieved. From…
