Yet Another Art Blog

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…

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…

A gasoline stain? . . . What am I looking at exactly? But it couldn’t possibly be that, I’m at a gallery right now and even though art has become a fairly peculiar thing, I can’t be looking at a stain! It hasn’t come to that… But this is exactly how the canvas looks like,…

A Pietà at the right end of the gallery – a quite unorthodox one at that -, a corpse floating in front of us, encircled by a small flock of hovering eggs. The whole captures the spectator’s attention and seems to lure her or him. But the fragile soaring eggs make us recede. We must…

Valentin Guillon is a young French artist exploring the boundaries of space and colour. He graduated from the school of Arts Décoratifs in Paris recently, and has been since working on a variety of projects including the exhibition Les Trois Pistes at the gallery Florence Loewy in Paris.* Valentin Guillon, Le Peloton, 2018, acrylic on…

Nostalgia to some is a feeling leading to sadness, a yearning for the past accompanied with regrets. American writer Michael Chabon defines it rather as a straight connection with the past: “is the emotional experience – always momentary, always fragile of having what you lost or never had. (…) It’s the feeling that overcomes you…