Mara Hoberman
Julia Rometti and Victor Costales
June 2013
Julia Rometti and Victor Costales’s exhibition “El Perspectivista” was born of a sociological and philosophical exploration of what the Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro calls “Amerindian Perspectivism,” a naturalist… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2013 [TOC]
Nancy Rubins
Nancy Rubins on her latest large-scale public sculpture
May 2013
Just steps from the Seine, a tangled mass of aluminum rowboats, kayaks, and canoes arches across a typically busy courtyard on l’Université Paris Diderot’s campus. Echoing the steely gray Parisian skies under which it was unveiled this… READ ON
500 WORDS
Jockum Nördstrom
Lille Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne (LAM)
April 2013
Son of an art professor, graduate of the Konstfack (Sweden’s largest art school), and married to painter Karin Mamma Andersson, Jockum Nördstrom is no outsider artist. However, because of his naive-style drawings and collages, he’s often… READ ON
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Merlin James
April 2013
Spanning more than fifteen years, the twenty-one works collected in Merlin James’s exhibition “Painting” epitomize his signature blend of dizzyingly diverse subjects, styles, and techniques. From a faux-naive still life with bird rendered… READ ON
IN PRINT April 2013 [TOC]
Julio Le Parc
Palais de Tokyo
March 2013
For the past half century, Julio Le Parc has created disorienting and elating sensorial experiences by manipulating light and reflection with kinetic constructions. The entry to the artist’s largest-ever survey in France is via a dense … READ ON
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Amélie Bertrand
March 2013
Featuring a limited palette of matte oil paints, whose saturated hues channel something of the bright, flat light of David Hockney’s Los Angeles poolscapes, Amélie Bertrand’s surrealist environments are as enticing as they are disconcerting.… READ ON
IN PRINT March 2013 [TOC]
“Une brève histoire des lignes”
Centre Pompidou-Metz
February 2013
Writing in 1926, Wassily Kandinsky defined “line” as a force that “hurls itself upon the point which is digging its way into the surface, tears it out and pushes it about the surface in one direction or another.” This energetic … READ ON
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Elsa Sahal
February 2013
Over the past decade, French ceramicist Elsa Sahal has conceived a universe where ostensible contradictions—abstraction versus figuration, male versus female, adorable versus abject—are reconciled into a variety of unsettling biomorphic … READ ON
IN PRINT February 2013 [TOC]
“Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris | Marais
December 2012
Befitting the author of the show’s title—a poem by Marilyn Monroe (who knew?!)—this survey of contemporary collage is stylish and star-studded. And like Monroe, who struggled to be taken seriously in spite of her sex appeal, this … READ ON
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Michael DeLucia
Galerie Nathalie Obadia | Paris
December 2012
Michael DeLucia’s latest wall-mounted and freestanding sculptures, collectively titled “Projections,” combine DIY aesthetics (planks of plywood fastened with visible screws) with a high-tech—and, to a certain extent, hands-off—process.… READ ON