(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Jun 20, 2013Nature and Stuff: Giuseppe Penone at Chateau de Versailles(Versailles.) I like Penone. Honestly. For the past forty years, the Italian artist has created Arte Povera's least pauper bronzes,...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Jun 8, 2013Colour photography. Lorna Simpson and Ahlam Shibli at Jeu de Paume(Paris.) Times are changing. Hardly any stereotype proves true anymore, and still we hold on to outer appearance, to an empty shell. For...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)May 31, 2013Simon Hantaï's long March to Abstraction(Paris.) Some days ago, on my way to the Centre Pompidou, I ran into a female friend who reacted with a somehow disconcerted smile when I...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)May 22, 2013On the playground: Dynamo at Grand Palais, Paris (a satire)(Paris.) Leaving the Dynamo show at Grand Palais, I felt exhausted and overwhelmed with impressions. Sitting down on a bench, I wondered...