The Ministry of Culture conducted a survey with a view to analysing the typical profile of a French contemporary art collector and found that such individuals were generally more academically qualified than average, over fifty years of age and living in the Ile-de-France region or another major city. Nearly half of those surveyed made [...]
This photographic artist is one of the greatest specialising in marine photography. Through his illustrious and varied career, Kurt has notably entered numerous high-level international sailing competitions, swum with hammerhead sharks and even undertaken environmental projects from the Galapagos to the Himalayas. Born in 1969 on the Mediterranean island of Malta, the artist’s passion for all [...]
Jesse was 18 years of age when she began painting. With her Gothic teenage years behind her, she turned her attentions to studying the plastic arts after taking the baccalaureate, starting by joining a life drawing workshop, before going on to study illustration at a private college and later completing her education studying painting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
•MECENAVIE: How did you come up with the idea of working on penguins? •Nathalie Faintuch: I had the opportunity to salvage some penguins. I wasn’t the one who made them. Talking to you now makes me think of Baudelaire’s poem, The Albatross. Penguins are the most touching animals to me: they’re both chic and [...]
A graduate of ESPCI ParisTech, Frédéric Imbert was born in Monaco and now lives and works in Paris. His novel, innovative concept is endlessly surprising, because of the challenge the artist has set for himself : to compatibly meld electronic components from different countries and different eras. Mission accomplished ! Frédéric Imbert’s clocks are true [...]
On Monday, June 1st, a fresco by street artist Banksy, measuring 10 x 2.5 m and painted on a tractor-trailer in 1998, was sold to Hôtel Drouot for €600,000. The piece depicts the spirit of “raving” with these texts in English: “It’s better not to rely too much on silent majorities… for silence is a fragile [...]
In 1980, the SNCF agreed to rent out space in 19 rue des Frigos in the 13th arrondissement of Paris to artists. In spite of the bricked up, dilapidated, squatter inhabited setting, many artists flocked to this industrial wasteland. In 1985, a Parisian property agency offered to manage the site for the SNCF with a [...]