Most of the time the Winter break, aka les vacances de Noël, is synonymous with family time, food overdose, overrated Christmas markets, and painful hangovers (ca c’était avant, ou presque), but it is also a good opportunity to take some time to catch up with anything culture related (or watching for the billion time Home…
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Par Antonio Malerba Un mot pour résumer l’expo et l’artiste : “provocation”. D’après moi, c’est un peu le leitmotiv de l’incroyable artiste italien, Maurizio Cattelan. Son œuvre allie à la fois humour, ironie et parfois une forme de mélancolie. Les sujets principalement abordés sont l’enfance, la religion et la mort. La peur ou la faiblesse…
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After seeing Richard Serra‘s exhibition at Gagosian last week, I was not sure if I was ready for another show dedicated to a sculptor. Because after all, when you had a taste of Serra’s work what else can you ask for? The way Serra constantly questions the nature of sculpture and his faculty of exploring our…
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Yesterday I went to visit the 2016 edition of Frieze London with conceptual artist Anna Fafaliou. After years visiting art fairs, I noticed that having good fair companions is very important as you are more likely to learn new things while having a good time walking around the 160 booths that took place in Regent Park.…
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If you follow me on Instagram you know that I have a thing for magazines. I always did (for the French speakers do you remember 20 ans? – yes I’m going wayyy back), and even though I’m also reading few of them online like most of us nowadays nothing beats the feeling of holding a…
Read MoreCela fait maintenant quelques années que je n’ai plus la télévision, et je m’en porte très bien. A l’heure de Netflix,du Replay, et des réseaux sociaux nous n’avons plus besoin de la petite lucarne pour assouvir notre besoin de série et notre quête d’information. Personnellement je ne me retrouvais plus dans la télévision qu’on…
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Despite its well established and flourishing contemporary art scene, and good quality art centres such as Wiels and Bozar, Brussels was missing something: a modern and contemporary art museum. After many talks and aborted projects, it looks like Belgium just needed a little boost from its French neighbours to finally offer to its capital the…
Read More“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
The Accessible Art Fair is turning 10 this year. To celebrate this milestone, Stephanie Manasseh (founder & director of the fair) and her team are not only about to launch the fair in New-York this upcoming November, but decided to organise this 10 years Brussels edition in a brand new location well known by the locals “Le…
Read More“Chère imagination, ce que j’aime surtout en toi, c’est que tu ne pardonnes pas.” – André Breton (Manifeste du Surréalisme)
Few weeks ago, while browsing around in my favourite East London bookshop, Artwords, I came across The Age of Earthquakes. Despite the not so aesthetic cover, I was attracted by the mention “A Guide to the Extreme Present”. Sometimes I wonder if the generations before us also thought that everything and everyone in our societies…
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Last week I (finally) discovered the oh so anticipated new building of the Tate Modern, which opened to the public on June 17. Under the slogan “Art Changes We Change”, the museum managed its transformation very successfully and convinced the skeptics of the need for an extension in order to reach this ideal of an ultimate…
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