Month: March 2022

Reconciling genres and generations, Hippydrome brings together a collective exhibition featuring new acquisitions made by the Frac Normandie, including several donations, along with older works from the collection and others loaned for the occasion.

Hippydrome also nods to the central role of the racecourse in Caen’s urban planning. The majority of the works are interior landscapes or portraits that serve as miniatures of the world. They often share an eccentric or fantastic sensibility, loosely connecting them to surrealism and related art forms. The Hippie Movement, alluded to in the title, was a syncretic art form closely related to the Beat sensibility, while also drawing on Symbolist imagery, the Surrealist pantheon, and Pop culture.

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Kate Newby presents her new works created for the Palais de Tokyo in the group exhibition ‘Reclaiming the Earth’.

All works were created for the occasion during residencies in France. For her brick works, the artist collaborated with the brick factory Les Rairies-Montrieux.

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With Jean Claracq, Cecilia Granara, Miryam Haddad, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Simon Martin Madeleine Roger-Lacan, Christine Safa, Elene Shatberatshvili.

Curators Anaël Pigeat and Sophie Vigourous

A group of artists who look at each other and talk to each other is an ongoing phenomenon. What gave us the desire to bring these eight painters together, and to continue a series of exhibitions initiated in 2019, is to question how forms emerge today, not only in the solitude of the studio, but also through looks, words, or affinities. They have in common a practice of painting where images have their place. In their canvases, they assume their emotions and their pleasures, their desires and their claims, carried by a humanity devoid of cynicism. What binds them together is also their shared life and the organic and fluid relationships they have with each other. They are a portrait of a generation.

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Ulla von Brandenburg signs the concept, stage and costumes of Richard Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ third act at the Stuttgart Opera @staatsoperstuttgart. 

The Premiere, scheduled for April 10, 2022, marks the opening of the Staatsoper Stuttgart’s third spring festival; additional performances of ‘Die Walküre’ will take place on April 18, 23, 29 and May 2, 2022.

With the Dutch theater collective Hotel Modern (1. Act) and lighting designer Urs Schönebaum (2. Act). 

Read the article published on The New York Times

This free interpretation of esotericism was conceived around a dialogue between students of the Haute Ecole des arts du Rhin and twenty works of contemporary artists, in an inter-generational game of crossed glances, where videos and photographs, drawings and installations, sculptures and performances transfigure the space of the Chaufferie.

Curated by Julien Bécourt, journalist and art critic, invited by the group No Name.

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From the symbolism of flowers in the Middle Ages to the current issues of well-being and preservation of the planet, the garden has always fascinated artists who wished to inscribe the sensations that the garden inspired in them in Art.

Some forty artists of our time reveal their vision in the exhibition “The Garden, Mirror of the World”. An invitation to feel the soothing power of the themes linked to the art of the garden, and the ecosystems specific to gardens and to preserve, the inter-pollination between environmental movements and the earthy work of the gardener.

Since 2019, Julien Audebert has been painting and working on a a series of small works with oil on copper. His most recent series, Obsidionales, consists of small oil paintings on copper. These exogenous “flowers of war” moved by the soles of soldiers, railroad or horses, are painted, centred in the middle of the frame, as a child would do, done “alla prima” (a technique imposed by the adhesion on the copper). These works place the war and the decorative in tension, in create conflagration between the subject and an often invisible historical underpinning.

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