This is a wonderful tale of the Haitian people. The show ranges from naive art to contemporary art, with paintings, sculptures and more. You can participate in cultural evenings that will take you on a trip to Haiti spanning 500 years of history and creativity. Come and move to the soothing music as you join [...]
MECENAVIE’s private show at Galerie Thuillier came to a close on July 16, 2015, after two weeks with more than 30 artists on display: all the many facets of today’s art world! At the heart of the Marais District in Paris, the temporary exhibition welcomed art lovers, visitors, tourists, and more, over the course of [...]
Grégory Chiha was born in Algeria. His Lebanese grandfather and his father were both soldiers in the French army. After having born the full weight of the past, an exhausted Grégory now flies in the face of it. His art is a series of pieces from the great tragicomic theater of his existence. The artist [...]
On July 1st, an exhibition began on the theme of a “novel reinterpretation of the Pope of Pop.” Since 1964, Andy Warhol painted in an immense collective studio. This exhibition reinterprets the work of Andy Warhol, in another version of the 1960s, against a background of opposition to the Vietnam War, and of drugs, excess and [...]
Anne-Marie Casenaz designs her sculptures from simple, clean, basic geometric shapes. She chooses modular forms like cubes, with their right angles, and cylindrical shapes, to combine straight lines and curves. The artist favors this style, which brings out an immediate, elementary strength. She uses the rough texture of earth for its rudimentary appearance, reminiscent of stone. [...]
On Tuesday, June 23, Christie’s Auction House in Paris blew its previous sales record away. Thanks to the William Rubin Kota, sold for €5.47 million, the auction house boosted its record to €11.5 million. The relic of Gabon was presented as the centerpiece of African, Oceanic, and Native American art. Three-fourths of the lots were sold, [...]