Yet Another Art Blog

Hidden in a quiet street at the Marais – one of the most concurred neighborhoods in Paris – is located a small artist run space called Rinomina, a location honouring the term “artist run space”. The first time that I visited the space was during the vernissage of the exhibition “Courage! Near Infra Red”. I…

Art fairs are demanding and fatiguing parallel worlds. I remember the first time I visited an “encyclopedic” museum, it was the Met and I was old enough to bare with the queuing, the noise and the commotion of bodies. After 4 hours of seeing and absorbing the most I could, I descended to the cafeteria…

L’exil est une obligation, un déracinement forcé qui nous arrache de notre habitat naturel pour nous éjecter vers des terres étrangères. Toujours dur et difficile à digérer, l’exil est à l’origine d’une transition brutale et d’une cicatrice indélébile.   L’exposition Ana Mendieta, Le temps et l’histoire me recouvrent au Jeu de Paume, explore la production…

Disposable pictures linger in our smartphones for far too long, it’s only when we have to erase them because the storage of our devices are full that we venture to see our collection of pictures. We then remember that ludicrous night when we thought painting our faces with wax was a good idea, or other…

For the 5th edition of Emerige Mécénat’s grant, the Villa Emerige opened its doors to the general public to showcase an eclectic selection of French young artists around a thematic: what lays outside of the art world and its norms.   Until December 2nd, the villa hosted an exhibition named “Outside Our”, where the curator…

This year the Palais de Tokyo has chosen to give it’s 4th “carte blanche” to the Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno. The carte blanche is not a normal retrospective, as the name indicates its a once in a lifetime opportunity giving artists total freedom to fill 13,000 m2 as they please. This year, Saraceno together with…

The 4th edition of the international exhibition of art students was presented this year at the Magasins Généraux in Pantin. This time, the committee decided to put under the spotlight young creators from the eastern scene, an art scene resurrecting from the dead. More and more, and after the frenzy caused by Asian art, eastern…

The quarrel to defend abstract art is completely overruled nowadays. Pollock and Greenberg won – oh, so graciously! – and there is no one willing to question abstract art’s position in the art world. Yet today, with the technological advances and  there are few young artists enthused about old mediums. But fear no more, painting…

A Doll House, an artwork by the Japanese artist Amanouz Taturo greets us at the entrance of the museum inviting us to enter an otherworldly space. Like Cerberus, the house is a portal where the laws of our stiff and tragic sphere no longer have a say, and if we are to enter we have…

I recently finished a book by the American author John Green called Turtles all the way down. It was a nice discovery – I often go to the bookstore to buy books by unknown authors – to try to understand the evolution of literature. Anyway, what matters here is that the main character – Aza…