http://www.cityoutmonaco.com Monaco culture, theatre, music & art Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:41:45 +0100 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:41:45 +0100 info@cityoutmonaco.com (Cityout Monaco) http://www.cityoutmonaco.com http://www.cityoutmonaco.com/images/cityout_logo.jpg en-US info@cityoutmonaco.com (Cityout Monaco) Look out for the new exhibition featuring over 35 artists
One of Monaco’s top art venues has opened a group show that features over 35 famous artists and over 60 works across painting, lithographs, drawings, sculpture, photography and jewelry. The exhibition at Galerie Marlborough runs from 6 December to 25 January 2013. It features important artists from the 20th and 21st Centuries including:Arman Laurent Baude Roberto Barni Davide Benati Claudio Bravo Grisha Bruskin Pol Bury Miguel Chevalier Chu Teh-Chun Béatrice de Domenico Richard Estes Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe Juan Genoves Konstantin Grcic Red Grooms Ellsworth Kelly François Kovacs Guy Laliberté Julio Larraz Benoit Lemercier Alberto Magnelli Fausto Melotti Jacques Monory François Morellet Robert Motherwell Tom Otterness Philippe Perrin Pablo Picasso Jean Pagliuso Beverly Pepper David Rodriguez Caballero Hedva Ser Sacha Sosno Takis Manolo Valdes Jacques Villegle Doug WadaThetis Circle (2011) by Beverly Pepper is on show in Gallery Galerie Marlborough is open Monday to Friday 11am to 6pm and on appointment. In December, it will open specially on 15 and 22 December from 11am to 5pm.CityOut Directory: Galerie MarlboroughDebut show for new Marlborough directorProfile of an artist: Tom Otterness10 years of modern art in Monaco
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The hunt is on once again to find the next art sensation who may be living undiscovered in the French Riviera.Open Des Artistes is an art competition devised and run by L'Entrepot Gallery and sponsored by Monaco Telecom. It is open to all up-and-coming Mediterranean artists – not only Monaco residents - and who work across any discipline. Now in its third year, the theme for this year’s competition is Le Fait Divers (news in brief). The closing date to submit a concept proposal for an artwork is 9 November 2012. Outstanding entries will be produced and put on show in a special exhibition at L’Entrepot, running from 7 to 15 January next year. The winning artist will be selected by a panel including Daniel Boeri, L’Entrepot owner. The winner will receive a public cash-prize to produce their work. The finished art will appear in photographic form on the cover of the Monaco Telecom Phone Book. The telecommunications company has sponsored the competition each year since its launch in 2009. Boeri said: “This year’s competition is a chance to find some new, unknown talent and for all the artists who enter the competition to gain exposure.” Past winners include sculptor Damian Paul-Jal (2009), conceptual artist and sculptor Michel Lavail (2010), and last year’s winner Italian Mimi Rep.More info about Open Des Artistes 2013L’Entrepot Gallery celebrates 3rd birthdayInterview: Daniel Boeri, L’Entrepot GalleryCityOut Directory: L’Entrepot Gallery, Monaco
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What: The Circle of Love: Sculptures by Kees Verkade Where: Salle d'Exposition, Quai Antoine Ier When: 29 June to 29 July 2012, daily 10.30am to 7pm From the prince's palace, where the early history of the Grimaldis is perfectly captured in the form of the cowled bronze figure known as 'La Malizia', to the rose gardens of Fontvieille, presided over by the matriarchal form of Princess Grace; from the leaping athletic forms at the Stade Louis II to the delightful Le Premier Pas at the Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco is renowned for its public art. What you may not know is that all the above, and more, are the work of a single artist. Sculptor Kees Verkade was born in Haarlem in 1941 and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. His bronzes fall into a number of categories, but he is best known for his deep appreciation of the human body in movement: acrobatic dancers, leaping lovers and children at play. His works have been exhibited and installed across the world, from New York to Nice; but it is here in Monaco - Verkade's home since 1979 - that one of the greatest concentrations of his work is on daily display.To celebrate the long-term relationship of Verkade and the Principality, a new exhibition in the harbourside gallery on Quai Antoine Ier takes a retrospective look at the artist's work over the last fifty years.  Circle of Love is named after one of Verkade's best-known works, which shows two lovers linked in a graceful hoop. As well as sculptures, his oeuvre is represented in a selection of colourful gouaches and silkscreen prints, all giving an insight into the style and technique of this master of the human form. This is the first exhibition of Verkade's work in Monaco since 1999, and is the perfect opportunity to examine close up the methods of one of the most exciting of contemporary sculptors. Oh, and if you're taking the plane to Monaco, don't forget to check out Verkade's 'Flight' (above), created specially for Nice-Côte-d'Azur Airport.
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What: Marc Quinn: The Littoral Zone Where: Oceanographic Museum, Monaco When: Saturday 12 May to Monday 15 October 2012 Open: Daily 9.30am to 7pm (7.30 pm in July and August)* Admission: €14 (€10, €7) Information: +377 93 15 36 00 Following the enormous success of Damien Hirst's exhibition 'Cornucopia' at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 2010, another controversial Young British Artist has picked up the baton, again seeking to unite art and nature in a building which is fast becoming one of the major focal points not just for marine biologists but also lovers of contemporary art. Marc Quinn, who was born in London in 1964, is no stranger to lurid headlines in the tabloid press, especially since his 1991 piece Self, described in catalogues as made using 'stainless steel, perspex, refrigeration equipment, and blood'. His own blood, in fact, 4.5 litres of which he sculpted into a likeness of his own head.  Today, there are several 'Selfs' in existence, since he repeats the exercise every five years. Remarkably, this gory but undeniably fascinating bust has fetched a great deal of interest - and money - in the international art market, with the original selling for £1.5 million to an American collector in 2005. Although this may sound like something from a gothic horror story, what propels Quinn's vision is something far more scientific. Other objects have included a 'portrait' made from the DNA of human genome pioneer Sir John Sulston, and 'Garden', a collection of plants which could not survive in the same habitat in nature, yet are happy to do so when cryogenically frozen and placed in an artwork. The Origin of the World (Cassis madagascariensis) Indian Ocean, 310Bronze, 2012 Quinn piqued interest in a more public way with his monumental marble statue for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. Statues in London typically celebrate the glorious deeds of male military leaders. This one sought to raise awareness of other members of society: it was of a pregnant woman, Alison Lapper, who was born with no arms and shortened legs. Throughout his work, the fascination with what makes is human is supremely evident. Recent projects include a new series of flower paintings executed in reverse colour and two large-scale orchid sculptures in white painted bronze. About the venue Built literally into the side of the legendary Rock of Monaco, the Oceanographic Museum has been guarding the ocean for over a century. It was designed as a palace dedicated to the sea, and a place to display the results of the oceanographic surveys carried out by its founder. These days, the museum is more a point of cultural exchange and discussion, with the common heritage of mankind at its heart. For Quinn's exhibition, sixty pieces will be on display throughout the halls of the museum, as well as in the front courtyard and on the panoramic terrace. Sculptures and paintings will gain particular emphasis from their juxtaposition with scientific displays, and of course visitors buying a ticket for the aquarium will have free access to the exhibition. In this way, the artist will be helping to fulfil the vision of HSH Prince Albert I, who had the museum constructed in the first place to 'gather together in one place the two driving forces of civilization: art and science'. *exhibition open daily except on the day of the Monaco Grand Prix
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Four years ago, the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco mounted a major exhibition of the work of photographer Suzanne Held. She has spent the last thirty years as a special correspondent, travelling the world and producing extraordinary and beautiful photographic collections of some of the most exotic places on earth. And now, visitors to Nice's Asiatic Arts Museum have the chance to share her vision of India in a new exhibition which runs till May. Ever the adventurer, Held was the first journalist to cross the 5000m-high Tibetan plateaux into Nepal when the border was first opened, and with the aid of the army she covered the discovery of the great Lost City archaeological site in Columbia, the first European to do so. She has published some thirty pictorial albums, including volumes on Vietnam, China, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Angkor, Thailand, Java, Bali, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Rajasthan and Japan, as well as the books 'Sur les routes de la soie' (On the Silk Route) and 'Himalaya - Monastères et fêtes bouddhiques' (Buddhist Monasteries and Festivals of the Himalayas) published by Gallimard. An expert on Asia, Suzanne Held has visited India over forty times and travelled its length and breadth, and the current exhibition in Nice, which runs till May 2010, is the product of those journeys. Revealed in all its squalor and splendour, her pictures show the vibrancy of a culture which had clearly captivated her - one in which the sacred and profane mingle in streets and landscapes filled with colour and rhythm. Fom the temple of the Sun at Korarak and camel racing across the lunar landscape of Pushkar in Rajisthan, from the floating dwellings of Kashmir to the lofty Taj Mahal, Held's pictures enable the visitor to this exhibition to imagine, for a transient moment, that they have been transported by magic carpet to the land of the lotus itself.  
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What: Groupe Signe 1971–1974 Where: Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Paloma When: 21 April to 17 June 2012 Even before the Soviets rolled their tanks into Prague in late 1968, revolution was in the air. In the US, anti-Vietnam protests were swiftly followed by race riots sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King; in France, the greatest general strike in history took place, with ten million workers occupying the factories; and in Monaco, artists Claude Rosticher, Roland Marghieri, Michel Cresp and Pierre Lequienn were putting together their manifesto for a new cultural protest movement called 'Groupe Signe'. Between 1971 and 1974, in reaction to what they saw as the twin evils of advertising and social conformity, Groupe Signe organized a number of iconoclastic actions in order to broaden public awareness. Their aim, the re-casting of the world according to a greater poetic vision. Their art expressed itself in the street or other public spaces with pop-up installations in which everyone could take part, and in which everyone had a stake.Works were composed of scrap or recovered materials, and tackled themes linked to daily life and deviations in society.A new exhibition, curated by the Groupe Signe, opens this week at the Villa Paloma, one of the two hubs of the new National Museum of Monaco. Presenting documentation and archive materials from the group's original performances, the event gives an account of their activities in Monaco and environs, as well as in neighbouring France. The hope is to create a platform that will allow an exchange of opinion, hopes and dreams for a better future, however utopian. Schoolchildren will be invited to workshops to build hot air balloons, debates will be organized with students, and the public will be invited to voice their opinions on the exhibition, art and life. 'This retrospective is pertinent', the 140-page bilingual catalogue reminds the visitor, 'because the questions raised forty years ago are unfortunately still relevant today, and because the practice of art remains one of the best solutions' This exhibition has been organized with the support of the Government of the Principality of Monaco, the Association of the Friends of the Museum and UBS. - Villa Paloma, which dates from the early 20th century, is one of the finest patrician residences in the Principality of Monaco. Originally built for private use, it was sold to the state of Monaco in 1995. In 2008 it was donated to the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, which opened in 2010 under the direction of Marie-Claude Beaud. Since its opening, museum projects have been based in two locations, Villa Sauber (dedicated to performing and decorative arts) and Villa Paloma (showing projects linked to the cultural heritage and landscape analysis.) Participating artists: Jean-Claude Adam, Pierre Blanc, Stanislas Estrangin, Yvette Gournet, François Gross, Patricia Heine, Michel Isnard, Robert Lepine, Serge Macaferri, Yves Popet, Jacques Riousse, Gérard Serre, Vidéo Group 6
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What: The Passion of Christ Where: Gallery Cook, 10 ave Tournelli, Antibes When: until 15 April (closing 'vernissage': 13 April at 6.30pm) Hours: Mon-Fri 1pm to 5pmSTOP PRESS: The exhibition enjoyed huge success at Monaco's Galerie Entrepôt, with over 450 people at the opening vernissage. Following a magnificent expo in La Chapelle, Beaulieu, the Passion of Christ has now transferred to Chris Cook's gallery in Antibes. --Sarasvati is a locally-based group of international painters, photographers, sculptors, writers and musicians, all with a shared interest in the arts. Named after the Indian goddess of language and communication who stands as the antithesis of materialism, Sarasvati provides an opportunity for those of a similar persuasion to come together in their artistic interpretation of the world around them. Gigi Lopez, a founder member of the group, explains: "An artist's life can often be very solitary, and this is a way of bringing together like-minded people in a world where all too often people are looking out only for themselves." Whether you are a Christian or not, there are few images more compelling or universal than the death of Jesus. The story - depicted in catholic churches in the form of the 'Stations of the Cross' - is not only one of violence and tragedy but also of commemoration and forgiveness, a story which diverse artistic movements have treated in a thousand different ways over the centuries. For Sarasvati's exhibition, entitled The Passion of Christ, each of the artists in the group has taken the barbaric image of the crucifixion and used it to explore and meditate upon the wider human condition. Religion will always be a controversial subject in a society that appears more and more to be turning to science to seek answers. Patrice Woolley, who came up with the idea of the group, told us why they chose this particular theme. "It puts us in a position of risk, forcing us to create things that we would perhaps never have made ​​otherwise. The story is one which, in whatever way, challenges us, questions us, fascinates us." Gigi adds: "I believe that part of our culture is to question and seek answers. As artists we have a social responsibility but at the same time we should be able to have freedom of speech in order to express ourselves freely." The artistsChristopher Cook Born in England in 1971, Christopher Cook is a self-taught painter and sculptor who now resides in Antibes. He uses sand, earth, spices and the oxides of iron and copper to create unique combinations of traditional painting and natural elements. His watchword is 'freedom', the ideal state of mind for an artist.Gigi Lopez "What I love about painting is that it highlights a range of thoughts and feelings while working on the canvas. I can paint something, modify, delete, add, destroy or repair it. Rarely do I plan my work, and I approach the blank canvas with no preconceptions"Hannaka A graduate in Fine Arts from Paris, Hannaka's work occupies the space between painting and photography. She defines the secret of her work, including the series 'Soul and Matter', as one of constant searching, observing life with humility until one feels the moment is right"Mr One TeasAn artist 'in spite of myself', Mr One Teas is driven by what he describes as a consuming visceral passion, to which he devotes all his time and energy. Since being introduced to graffiti, he has developed numerous pieces based on aerosol painting, including 'Bless Our Petroleum' (below):Paulina Anna Luer Originally from Poland, Paulina worked as a lawyer before deciding, thirteen years ago, to devote herself full-time to painting. Living and working in Monaco, she also continues to hone her skills in France, Germany, China and Singapore.Raimond Hommet Born in Nice in 1966, Raimond Hommet studied art in Paris before becoming a Tai Chi instructor. He is responsible for large mosaic decorations in the administrative offices of the Louvre, and a number of other public monuments. Fascinated by ancient symbolism and travel writing, Hommet's paintings are expressive combinations of art and movement. EdytaBorn in Poland, Edyta has lived in Monaco for fifteen years. A semi-symbolist in style, she is attracted by traditional sacred painting, as well as depictions of childhood in all its forms.Woolley Having spent years as a graphic novelist, stage designer and singer-songwriter - in fact pretty much every conceivable kind of creative expression - Woolley has now returned to painting works on canvas - abstract, figurative and experimental. It's a move back to the visceral - a move, he adds, that fulfils a need.Tuula Hirvonen Finnish artist Tuula Hirvonen studied in Germany as an architect and over a ten year career was responsible for more than fifty projects across Europe. Now a member of Monaco's National Committee for the Plastic Arts under the auspices of UNESCO, she is a multimedia designer, with specialisms including slate carving. MenHP 26-year-old visual artist and sculptor MenHP takes an often offbeat look at the world around him employing themes from the historical to the anecdotal, and interpreting them in techniques related to those of other dynamic new forces such as Mr One Teas, with whom he shares a passion for graffiti and street art.SAWA photojournalist with the French press for many years, Stéphane Willard went on to work in international business in Montreal, at the same time photographing and writing on motor racing, his passion. He now lives in Monaco, where he continues to cover international sporting and cultural events, as well as preparing exhibitions of his own photography. --- If you missed the Passion of Christ in Monaco, you can also see the group's work at the following venues and times:19 to 30 March, La Chapelle, Beaulieu Church. 1 to 15 April, Galerie Cook, 10 avenue Tournelli, Antibes. To find out more about Sarasvati and its members, please visit their facebook page
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What: Works by George K and Tobia Ravà Where: Adriano Ribolzi Gallery, 3 avenue de l’Hermitage When: 14 June 2011 The Ribolzi Gallery in Monaco is putting together an exhibition of two artists for whom numbers and written characters are an essential part of their art. 43.7385771|7.425624700000071||3 Avenue de l'Hermitage, 98000 Monaco George Kuruvilla (George K) was born in Chennai and began his professional life as a chartered accountant before making the transition to photography, painting, and - most recently - sculpture. Now in huge demand across the world, George K's work has been exhibited in London's King's Road Gallery, and is now coming to the Ribolzi gallery in a show entitled  'Appearance… beyond appearance' K draws his inspiration from from the world around him. employing motifs from popular culture, kitsch and graffiti. His canvases, often showing a single isolated figure, are inscribed with relevant verses or a single word repeated across the entire canvas like a mantra. And in the artist's vividly lifesize fibreglass busts there is a strong sense of the real world, too, covered as they are with a collage of newspaper representing the skin of the world, each clothed in words recording the present, past, and future.George K will be present at the gallery in person on 14 June - Italian painter Tobia Ravàis already known to Monaco audiences as the winner of last year's 'Gemluc’Art' prize. Born in Padua, he was educated at Bologna University by, among others, the novelist and semiologist Umberto Eco. He has been painting since 1971 and has exhibited since 1977 across the world. He is represented in both private and public collections in Europe, the United States, South America and in the Far East. He will be also exhibiting his work at the Venice Biennale 2011 in the Italian Pavilion. In 1998 Ravà was among the founding members of the Contemporary Art Concert, whose aim is to remind us of the relationship between history and art, by showing art in the interactive setting of parks, villas, historic buildings and city squares. His focus for the last twenty years has been on Hebrew culture and iconography, a subject on which he has lectured since 1999, and which forms the basis of his exhibition 'Algorithms and the Gematriot' (Gematriot is the name given to numerological codes and messages in the Torah). the work of both artists will be
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What: Masami Takemoto Where: Carré Doré Gallery When: 12 May to 4 June In the aftermath of the terrible disaster that beset Japan earlier this year, a number of events have been taking place in and around Monaco to raise money for reconstruction and aid. There is a longstanding link between the two countries, best exemplified in Princess Grace's Japanese Garden and the thriving Monaco-Japanese Association; and to celebrate this already positive twinning, the Carré Doré gallery is this month exhibiting the works of two artists which confirm and cement this important relationship. Born in 1976, Masami Takemoto left his original monastic calling to study contemporary art at the prestigious Villa Arson in Nice, from where he graduated in 2005.  Takemoto's particular style aesthetically combines Japanese traditional figure and landscape painting with bleak post-industrial landscapes of a world ravaged by human intervention. Like his subject, his method also combines old and new, employing digital processing to establish a certain distance between the subject and his own personal perception of it. As he says himself,   'My painting is unable to say anything about its maker; the picture is not a projection of the painter and does not reflect his point of view.'  Using photography as the basis for his paintings allows him to achieve the required objectivity. In tandem with Takemoto's work, the gallery will be displaying a number of photographs of contemporary Japan by Swedish artist Hermine Björkman. And to put both artists' work in context, a display of nearly thirty of Japan’s most highly rated artists forms an overarching structure to the exhibition. A portion of the profits from the sale of the works exhibited will be donated to Japanese organizations involved in the reconstruction of the regions devastated by the earthquake.
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What: Street Pop, Benjamin SPaRK Where: Galerie L'Entrepôt, Rue de Millo When: 5 to 29 April 2011Galerie L'Entrepôt in Monaco, in association with Galerie Bertheas-Les Tournesols, is proud to present its next exhibition: 'Street Pop' by urban artistBenjamin SPaRK, from 5 to 29 April 2011.Benjamin SPaRK is a Franco-Belgian artist and painter living and working in Brussels, whose work is made up of a series of spooky characters derived from the universe of strip-comics, caricature and advertising as well as ancestral symbolism. SPaRK is a driving force of 'street pop' culture, a movement that grew from a synthesis of European urban art and of American pop art. Now Monaco's forward-looking Galerie L'Entrepôt invites you to discover the many colourful and dreamlike works of this extraordinary artist. Accompanying the exhibition will be a one-off performance entitled '24h Erik Satie', which will take place without a break from 4pm on 14 April to 4pm 15 April. During these 24 hours, the pianist Nicolas Horvath will play (for the first time ever in Monaco) the noted composition 'Vexations' by the celebrated French avant-garde composer Erik Satie. As directed by Satie, the artist will perform the piece 840 times in succession. At the same time, the Gallery will be transformed into a life-size work of art by the painter Andrea Clanet Santarossa. Visitors will be invited to enter literally the piece of art, and become actors in an extraordinary 'happening'. It's an experience, so come prepared! The all night performance will raise money for the Monégasque charitable organization 'Nuit des Associations'. Tickets for the performance are priced at €20, €10 of which will go to a fund to relieve suffering in Japan. The Gallery is open, as usual, from Monday to Friday, 3pm to 7pm
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What: Looking Up When: 8 June 2010 - 20 April 2011Where NMNM, Villa SauberWeb: www.nmnm.mcAt long last the New National Museum of Monaco has opened. with two new spaces and three exhibitions which will appeal to all artists, photographers and car-lovers. The first big show is devoted to the work of Nigerian-born Yinka Shonibare. For years the 'fourth plinth' in London's Trafalgar Square has lacked a statue, and the empty space has become the staging post for any number of innovative artworks and performance pieces. The latest sculpture to adorn it is a huge ship-in-a-bottle, a scale model of Nelson's HMS Victory, constructed by Nigerian-born British artist Yinka Shonibare. A model for the Trafalgar Square piece is on show as part of Shonibare's opening exhibition at the newly-reconstructed Villa Sauber. ‘Looking Up’ - which runs till next January - is the first in an annual series of exhibitions in which contemporary artists take a fresh look at the Principality and its artistic heritage. Taking as his starting point the theatrical and operatic heritage of Monaco - and possibly with a nod in the direction of Monte Carlo's fashion and jewellery houses - Shonibare has chosen to re-stage his already well-known headless mannequins. Looking for all the world like shop dummies, these aristocratic forms are clothed in Dutch wax printed cotton and leather riding boots, then placed in positions which bring to the fore questions about European colonialism and its impact on African culture. In the most notorious example, each of two headless females points a loaded gun at the other. Putting the exhibition in context will be a display of some of Monaco's greatest treasures, including architectural maquettes of Charles Garnier's Monte Carlo Opera (he also designed the Villa Sauber, incidentally), sculptures and etchings by the Bosio brothers, Eugène Frey's beautiful landscapes of the Monaco coast from the 1930s and any number of curiosities that would have graced the cabinets of gentlemen and ladies of the Enlightenment. A costume conservation workshop will run throughout the exhibition, demonstrating the latest conservation and restoration techniques. Meanwhile the garage of the Villa Sauber is playing host to an extraordinary exhibit: a Ferrari 308 GTS 're-styled ' by Bertrand Lavier, who for forty years has been daubing everyday objects (including cars, crashed and uncrashed ) with heavy layers of paint in order to point up and transform our relationship with the modern world. The exhibition continues until at least the official opening on the NMNM on 8 June. The Villa Paloma in the Exotic Gardens forms the second major hub of the new Museum. On 18 September 2010, the curtain will rise on its inaugural exhibition 'La Carte d'après Nature’, featuring the work of a selection of contemporary artists: Martin Boyce, Tacita Dean and Rodney Graham as well as the surrealist René Magritte - from whose art revue the exhibition takes its name - and Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri. The works have been specially selected by the noted German photographer Thomas Demand, Exploring the theme of art and territory, the exhibition continues until 22 February 2011
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What: Reg'Art, paintings by Sylvia TailhandierWhere: Galerie L'EntrepotWhen: 22 November 2010 to 24 December 2010 Born in 1956 in Chamalières, Sylvia Tailhandier lives and works in Paris and the South of France. Following her early career in world of Italian haute couture, she set up her own 'style office' in Paris in 1982, with a client list as diverse as Yves Saint Laurent, Saks and Bloomingdales as well as deluxe houses in Europe and Japan.  She was the first woman to be awarded a 'Laurier d'Or' for her design work. Since then, she has turned her attention to the visual arts, and as well as searching out new materials and metals for jewellery, she has sought to broaden the traditional palette of artists' materials, making use of natural substances and pigments derived from the land, from plants, and other sustainable sources. For Tailhandier, such colours, the colours of rock-paintings or of the pre-Raphaelites, have always resisted the ravages of time. Pendant in organic glass, gold wire, rigid necklace, gold plated. Limited signed edition The title of her new exhibition, Reg'Art, plays on the verb 'regarder', with good reason.  'Looking at something, ' says Tailhandier, 'is simultaneously a beginning and an end. Anything observed, whatever it is - earth, life, tree, land, sky - becomes a work of art in the hands of the artist.' Galerie l'Entrepot presents this fascinating artist in the context of the past thirty years of her artistic endeavours, highlighting the wealth of her painting but also sculptures and jewellery.
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What: Photo Menton 2010 Where: Palais de l'Europe, Menton When: Saturday 20 to Sunday 28 November 2010 Times: Mon to Fri 10am-12 noon and 2-6pm; weekend 10am-7pm Web: http://www.photomenton.comThe sixth annual Photo Menton Festival takes place in the last week of November, with nearly 120 photographers from Menton and further afield displaying their best competition pieces. Prizewinners will receive their awards at a special ceremony on the opening day. As well as the main competition, there will be a chance for anyone attending the festival to enter a spontaneous marathon photo challenge at the start of the week, with generous prizes for the winners. As usual with this event, all profits will be going to the charity HAMAP, which campaigns against anti-personnel landmines and seeks to improve the lives of those who have been damaged by war. Winning portrait by Belinda Bussotti (Monaco) The remainder of the week is devoted to illustrated talks, including one on the ascent of Everest by Eric Bataillou, and a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the Inuit by Nathalie and Alain Antognelli, who last year undertook a 1100km kayak expedition around the coast of Greenland.Photomenton Marathon, sponsored by Epson One of the highlights of the week will be a marathon photo challenge on 21 November. Throughout the first Sunday of the festival (at 10, 12 and 2 o'clock) themes will be announced, and teams will then have an allotted time in which to come up with the best relevant shots illustrating the three topics. Bring your own camera of at least 5Mpx, with a blank memory card if you wish to take part. Participation in this event is €15 per teamProgramme Saturday 20 November 2.30-4.00pm: slideshows from the first Menton Photo Night (June 2010) 4.00-5.30pm: 'The Educated Eye' talk on how to 'read' photography 6.00pm: Opening of the Festival by Jean-Claude Guibal, Deputy Mayor of Menton; awards ceremonySunday 21 November 9.00am: 'Marathon Epson Photomenton' 2.30-4.00pm: Q&A with Lucien Clergue Monday 22 to Friday 26 November Permanent exhibition by high school students from MentonSaturday 27 November 2.30-4.00pm: 'A Mentonnais on Everest': illustrated talk by Eric Bataillou 4.00-5.00pm: 'Long exposures', presented by Marc BiancheriSunday 28 November Flea Market of old photographic materials 10.00am to 12.00pm: 'Tips and Advice on Photography' workshop 2.30-4.00pm: Adding value to a region through photography' illustrated talk by Suzanna Perrechino 4.00-5.00pm: Meeting Greenlanders: Nathalie and Alain Antognelli 6.00pm: Public Awards and Marathon Epson Photomenton Awards 7.00pm: Festival closes
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What: Why Not You? Photographs by Guillaume Barclay Where: Metropole Commercial Centre When: until 19 November 2010 Web: http://www.barclay-photo.com Entry: free 43.7410346|7.4286003||17 Avenue des Spélugues, 98000 Monaco'Why not you?' is the title of Guillaume Barclay's latest exhibition of portraits, which continues at Monaco's Metropole Centre until 19 November. Andy Warhol predicted that in future everyone - no matter what their background - would enjoy fifteen minutes of fame; Barclay has take this idea one step further by combining portraits of well-known celebrities with those of personalities perhaps not so immediately recognizable even to a Monaco audience.  The idea is to show a very human side of celebrity. In addition, he asked each of his subjects for the present exhibition to pose with a favourite object, again giving a personal initmacy to the process.  The most interesting aspect of the exhibit from an aesthetic point of view is the fact that in recent years Barclay - a well-known photogapher, and only son of flamboyant French music producer Eddie - has adopted the technique of lighting his subjects using directional fibre optic light sources, allowing for some appealing and surprising highlighting not usual in conventional portraiture. Normally found in commercial environments, fibre optic lighting gives the artist an 'axis' of light, and the ability to pinpoint precise areas of the portrait. Liza Minelli, by Guillaume Barclay Past series have included a series of nudes and 'still lifes' of dishes created by top gourmet chefs. A future project will involve subjects dressing in a green veil; but the current portarits, each of which is set against a dramatically black background, are more conventional in scope, and include among the more well-known subjects, HSH Prince Albert of Monaco, Liza Minelli, George Benson, Tom Jones, Eddy Mitchell, Charles Aznavour and Florent Pagny.
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What: La Carte d'après nature Where: New National Museum of Monaco, Villa Paloma When: 18 September 2010 – 22 February 2011 Munich-born photographer Thomas Demand is an extraordinary artist whose works asks provocative questions of the way in which we perceive and interpret the world around us, from a historical and moral perspective as much as an imaginative one. At first sight, his large-scale photographs are objective records of the human world of the kind that we have become used to seeing in the context of contemporary aesthetics. Abandoned offices, impersonal, bland exteriors, empty stairwells. Up close, however, we realize that there is something artificially crisp about these urban landscapes and details. And that's not surprising, because what Demand has been photographing is his own painstakingly recreated life-size models of the scenes.  So we are looking at two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional models of a three-dimensional reality. In this example, everything, even the plants, is manufactured - a representation of a representation of nature:Thomas Demand: 'Hydrokultur' If this seems a strange, even absurd way, of looking at the world, consider the French surrealist René Magritte, one of whose most famous paintings was of a smoker's pipe, so artfully reproduced that it appears to leap in three dimensions from the canvas. But it doesn't, because, as the artist's caption reads 'This is not a pipe'. Magritte was playing with Plato's concept of ideal forms. Is the picture of a realistic pipe any more 'real' than a pipe? And in what ways is a pipe itself 'real'? Do all pipes have the same 'reality'? and so on...René Magritte: 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe' Magritte wrote down many of his philosophical musings on the nature of art in a periodical called 'La Carte d'après Nature' - whose title emphasized the way that art 'maps' the real world.  His own paintings achieved a similar 'realism' to Demand's photographs while remaining weirdly surreal. So his famous bowler hat and apple look 'realistic' but put them together, and they're absurd. Demand has been asked to curate the opening show at Monaco's splendid new exhibition space, the restored Villa Paloma, in the grounds of Monaco's Exotic Garden. This is the sister building to the Villa Sauber which opened a few months ago, and where Yinka Shonibare's controversial works - which also blend memory, history and art with tricks of perception - have been showing. The two exhibitions complement each other beautifully. But Demand's exhibition doesn't simply focus on his own work. Rather, it embraces a dozen or more artists who share his obsession with visions of reality - or the inter-connection between reality and art - and who use similar techniques to represent it. Architectural photographers such as Luigi Ghirri and Anne Holtrop feature, as does the master himself, René Magritte. But even more interesting is to consider Demand's own fascination with Monaco, a world where the exterior world of nature - the rock, the sea, the gardens, lives cheek-by-jowl with a different kind of man-made 'reality': the apartment block, the terrace, the superyacht.  Maybe the exhibition would have been better staged in Fontvieille, the man-made extension to Monaco's natural coastline. Anne Holtrop: 'Floating Island - Spa'
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What Damien Hirst's Cornucopia Where Oceanographic Museum, Monaco When 2 April to 30 September 2010 Appropriately enough for the artist one of whose first and most controversial works is a pickled shark, Damien Hirst is currently mounting his latest exhibition at Monaco's world-famous Museum of Oceanography as part of that institution's centenary celebration, from 2 April to 30 September.  The six-month-long exhibition has been drawing large numbers - and these are expected to increase to 500,000 as the exhibition enters its final days. Over sixty paintings and sculptures are on display as part of his Cornucopia exhibition, including a number of cabinets of human skulls, displayed in as if in a museum. The only difference with these ones is that they are plastic and painted in psychedelic swirls. Hirst's fascination with human anatomy as well as that of fish is well known: his piece 'For the Love of God', a diamond-encrusted skull, is one of the world's most valuable contemporary art works. The biggest draw of the exhibit, though, has undoubtedly been the sharks. There are two on display, both new pieces modelled on Hirst's original, 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the mind of Someone Living'.  One of them, 'The Immortal', is a Great White, suspended in 24,000 litres of formaldehyde, a massive 30-tonne object that required special strengthening of the floor of the museum.  Another, on display at the entrance to the museum, is a hammerhead shark, similarly suspended, in a work called 'Fear of Flying'   I wonder what the Oceanographic Museum's prize exhibit, a 150,000,000-year-old ichthyosaur called Anna, will have to say about her neighbours?SharkAnna An interesting footnote: many of Britain's most celebrated artists are concerned about the present government's proposed 50% tax on high earners, and several - including Tracy Emin - have been considering a move to France. Speculation has been rife that the exhibition, which is the artist's first in Monaco, may also give Hirst the opportunity for a little house-hunting in the region.
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What Leonardo da Vinci's Codex AtlanticusWhere: Grimaldi ForumWhen: 1 to 12 September 2010, 10am-8pm, 13 to 24 September 12-7pm Late opening: Thursday 2 and 9 September until 10pm Tickets: €8 (or €15 to include Kyoto-Tokyo exhibition) 'He who engages in practice without theory is like a sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may end up.' True enough, and had Leonardo da Vinci, who uttered these words, been alive today, no doubt he would have been designing his own superyachts, and possibly coming to see his own drawings on display at the Grimaldi Forum! The Codex Atlanticus (or Atlantic Code) is a set of nearly 1200 sheets of meticulous notes and drawings by the renaissance genius who also painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Covering a great range of human, social and scientific topics - botany. cookery, music, the secrets of flight and of course Leonardo's own inventions - its name alludes to the vast ocean of knowledge contained within its pages.Leonardo: Design for a flying machine. Photo: Luc Viatour Concerns that discoloration of some pages might be due to mould and mildew have, thankfully, proved unfounded, and the original manuscripts are presently on display in the Codex's home city of Milan, where the entire collection will be gradually revealed over the next six years. This September, a selection of pages will travel to Monaco, where the last three days of the exhibition will coincide with the 20th Monaco Yacht Show. Given that some of the drawings show diving suits and equipment for walking on water, as well as naval cannons for use against an enemy fleet, the exhibition should prove fascinating to all those coming to Monaco for the yachting spectacle of the year!
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What: Southern MeetingsWhere: Exotic Gardens, MonacoWhen: 9am-7pm, 4 August to 24 September 2010 Tickets: €7 (€3.70), Tel: Tel.: +377 93 15 29 80 Imagine a journey of 19,000 miles, crossing ten countries from the sub-Sahara to Botswana and South Africa. The range of people and sights encountered en route would be astonishing.  Now you can see the results of just such a voyage in the work of Monégasque photographer Sébastien Darrasse. Each summer an exhibition of photographs is held in the Exotic Gardens in Monaco, and this year it's the turn of some home grown talent. As co-founder of the Monaco photographic agency Realis, M Darasse is well-known for his book Faces of Monaco, a collection of 200 black-and-white portraits of daily life in the Principality, as well as his photos of the Rolex Tennis Open and the Circus Festival, a particular passion.  Now he has turned his attention to a completely different group of people, notably those living in remote tribes in the southern region of the African continent. This fascinating and beautiful exhibition runs till September in the appropriate landscape of Monaco's exotic gardens.
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What : Kyoto-Tokyo, from Samurai to MangaWhere:: Espace Ravel du Grimaldi Forum Monaco When: 14 July to 12 September, except 10 AugustAdmission: €12 (€8, children up to 11 years old, free) With the world expo currently taking place in Shanghai, all eyes are firmly fixed on China in 2010, but Monaco’s relationship with the Far East has always been defined by Japan, a land whose culture and traditions were so much admired by Princess Grace that she planned a Japanese Garden for the principality, opened after her death by Prince Rainier. Recently, award-winning chef Joel Robuchon opened his celebrated Yoshi Japanese restaurant; visitors to the Yacht Show witnessed Kabuki, the traditional Japanese dance drama, performed by artistes from Tokyo; and this March saw the fourth annual Japan-Monaco art show. So it's hardly surprising that the Grimaldi Forum is preparing a major exhibition, Kyoto-Tokyo, from Samurai to Manga. Ask most people why Japan is so fascinating and they will probably point to the combination of tradition and modernity, the marriage between ancient warrior societies and today’s forward-looking consumer industry. Nowhere do these two cultures come together more evidently than in the powerful and multi-faceted world of anime and manga. At the new summer exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, you will be able to travel from the eighth century to today along the historic Tokaido Road, which links the ancient capital Kyoto with modern Tokyo. The axis of communication between the two poles, its views are dominated by the iconic Mount Fuji, which has continued to inspire artists across the centuries. Kyoto is defined by its medieval appearance, its art treasures and also through key individuals who ensured its supremacy until the sixteenth century: samurai, monks and scholars who preserved the gems of Japanese literature In the same way, Tokyo has been the hub of any number of cultural revolutions – in film (think Kenjii Mizoguchi and Akiro Kurosawa), in architecture, in sport (with the country’s participation in the Olympics), and of course in the technological revolution including the emergence of robotics. Against this backdrop, the production of animated films has put a particular slant on Westerners’ understanding of this extraordinary culture. Nearly six hundred items will illustrate the story of Japan, including nationally-renowned works of great value, from the collections of the National Museums of Tokyo and Kyoto, the Seikado Bunko Art Museum in Tokyo, and the Edo-Tokyo Museum. Loans are being made from Western institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, and museums from as far afield as Italy, Berln and San Francisco. For the curators of the exhibition "Tokyo-Kyoto, the Samurai to Manga, Jean- Paul Desroches and his Japanese counterpart, Mr. Hiromu Ozawa, the exhibit will provide ‘an unprecedented journey through Japanese culture,’, showing how Japan’s avnt-garde culture has made it one of the key players in our understanding of the modern world. The team at the Grimaldi Forum are well-placed to take on the challenge, having been behind two similarly significant exhibitions in recent years, ‘China, the first emperor’ featuring the famous terracotta warriors from Xi'an (2001) and "China: treasures of everyday life" (2004). The exhibition underscores the ties between traditional culture with its roots in 8th-century Kyoto and the forms of artistic expression in today’s Japan. It will delight both those who love traditional Japanese culture and an entire generation that grew up with the fictional world of mangas, animated films and other high-tech phenomena, the heirs to this ancestral culture.  Kyoto-Tokyo: Samurai to Manga, opens on 14 July. Novotel Monaco  is offering a special package for visitors to Monaco who would like to go to this exhibition  
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What: The Dream Life of ButterfliesWhere: Exotic Gardens, 62, Boulevard du Jardin ExotiqueWhen: 17 June - 21 July 9am-1pm, 2-5pmContact: Tel: +377 93 15 29 80 - Fax: +377 93 15 29 81Tickets: €7(€3.70), under 6s free; group concessions   Stéphane Hette is one of France's foremost nature photographers. His work has won numerous prizes, including three awards at the Prix de la Photographie in Paris for his book 'Wings of Desire'.  'The Dream Life of Butterflies', his latest exhibition of gigantic prints of these beautiful creatures, is on display in Monaco's Exotic Gardens from 17 June to 21 July All Hette's photos are made without retouching or special effects, but the patience of the photographer has been rewarded with images that make it look as though the insects have 'posed' specially for him. Set against a pure white background, Hette's photographs are considered works of art in their own right. The influence of oriental art is considerable, and each piece is signed with Hette's distinctive ideogram punning on his name 'e-te', which in Japanese means 'he who makes the image', followed by 'shizen' and 'byousha' - 'nature', 'description'   Tickets include a visit to the Exotic Gardens, the Grotto, and the Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology, so why not make a visit to the exhibition part of a relaxing summer day in Monaco?
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A major exhibition, 'Treasures of the Icons of Bulgaria', which has drawn 85000 visitors to Paris this summer, will come to Monaco next year, it has been announced. Over eighty of these luminous works of the orthodox tradition will be on show, demonstrating an unbroken 1500-year-long tradition of religious art in the Balkans. Never before been seen outside Bulgaria, they will travel back to Sofia via Monaco and Prague.  Venue:Auditorium Rainier IIIDate: to be announced  
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Owing to the success of the exhibition ''Robert Longo 1979-2009' at the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, the City of Nice has decided to extend the display for all those who have not yet had the chance to admire the range of this extraordinary artist Longo's internationally-famous works in pencil and charcoal are being shown as part of MAMAC's ongoing exploration of contemporary American art. More than forty of the artist's works from public and private collections around the world form the subject of this retrospective covering the years 1979 to 2009. Since the early 80s, Robert Longo has been impressing his audience with a series of full-size graphite drawings with the subject Men in the Cities, depicting men and women frozen in their movement in often theatrical postures, drawn from real life as well as film, television, magazines and comics. Even though he works in a variety of media, including drawing and sculpture, it will be these large-format charcoals that  will remain the hallmark of the artist. The artist's works have been exhibited in major contemporary art events such as Kassel's 'Documenta' (1982 and 1987), the Whitney Museum Biennial in New York (1983 and 2004) and the Venice Biennale (1997). Now you too have the opportunity to see them  - for just a few more days.
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A retrospective at the Louis Nucera library in Nice follows the 40 year career of bassist, composer and improviser Barre Phillips. Such a retrospective is rare for jazz musicians (one thinks of Miles Davis as an example), and this one attempts to recreate forty years of Phillips's stellar career by means of posters, record sleeves, rare recordings and personal items.  The highlight, however, is that Phillips will be giving live concerts in the coming months to complement the exhibition. Born in 1934 in San Francisco, Barre Phillips has made his home in the south of France in a house adjoining a 12th century chapel near Puget-Ville in the Var, which he has painstakingly re-built., stone by stone, since the 1970s.  Now,  Nearly forty years on, Phillips is still performing, more powerfully than ever. At 65, he continues to play around the world, performing and recording as often as possible, in order to document the evolution of a style. Jazz critic Richard Williams, writing in the British weekly Melody Maker in 1970, said of Phillips 'He is quite simply the best bassist I've ever heard. He has the technique of a great classical player and the jazz feeling of a Mingus' a eulogy that's hard to beat given that Charles Mingus was himself one of the great musical masters of the twentieth century. It's hard to imagine a more eclectic career path. As well as composing, playing and running workshops, Phillips has also worked in the fields of dance, with choreographer Carolyn Carlson; film, alongside American director Robert Kramer (for whom he wrote several memorable soundtracks), the Nouvelle Vague cineaste Jacques Rivette, and Hollywood's William Friedkin; and opera, in collaboration with the Paris Opera.  But it's for his jazz that he's best known, especially for his collaborations with Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, John Surman, Terje Rypdal, Paul Bley,Chick Corea, Ornette Coleman, Lee Konitz and Joe Maneri. In 1962, having moved from the West Coast to NewYork, Phillips met Paul Bley, with whom he participated in a workshop run by Don Ellis, a trumpeter who blended jazz and classical. By 1964 he was playing as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, under Leonard Bernstein, and a year later he was playing at the side of Archie Shepp the latter's Matin des Noire (yes, it is spelt that way) a piece whose title reflected the burgeoning civil rights movement. Thence to Europe, where he collaborated, a first for a jazz bassist, with the psychedelic rock group, Gong; and teamed up with John Surman and Stu Martin, performing with themat the renowned music festival in Amougies,Belgium. His first disc with Dave Holland was recorded in 1971. It was to mark the beginniing of a fruitful relationship, still alive and well, with the prestigiousGerman label ECM, under whose aegis a number of albums first saw the light of day: Mountainscapes,Three Day Moon, Call Me When You Get There, - all solo albums - as well as recordings with his band Music By, which include vocals by his daughter Caudia Phillips; and particularly albums with Terje Rypdal, Alfred Harth, Evan Parker, Paul Bley,Robin Williamson (of Incredible String Band fame)and Joe Maneri. In the mid to late 70s,. Barre Phillips worked with choreographer Carolyn Carlson and the Groupede Recherche Théâtral of the Paris Opera, fired up by a single objective: to give free rein to improvisation. In a similar way in 1980, he worked with filmmaker Robert Kramer, in whose hands music becomes, like dance, a universal rhythmic space. Throughout the 90s, Barre Phillips conntnued to team up with great artitsts: from Joëlle Léandre to BarryGuy, by way of Derek Bailey, Urs Leimgruber,Malcom Goldstein and Keiji Haino, with whom heplayed most recently in July 2009 at the festival of Luz, in the South-West of France. This retrospective pays homage to a man who is still regarded very much as one of the most significant creators and improvisers of contemporary music. Concerts in the Albert Camus auditorium Saturday 12 December 3pm 'In the beginning' - Barre Phillips solo, recalling his album of that name, the first improvised solo bass recording. Saturday 19 December 3pm 'Angles' -  Phillips improvises wiith choreographer Emmanuelle Pépin Saturday 16 January 3pm 'RK' - Barre Phillips plays live against a backdrop of images from the film Berlin 10/90 by his friend the director Robert Kramer Saturday 6 February 3pm Ça boum ! - Barre Phillips (bass) Laurent Charles (saxophone), Patrice Soletti (guitar) et François Rossi (drums).
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Calling all budding photographers! 4 January is your last chance to enter the World Photography Awards, which will be judged in Cannes at a week-long gala event from 19 – 25 April, with the awards ceremony itself on the 22nd.  The competiton, which has been hosted on the Côte d'Azur since 2007, is organized by the World Photography Organisation, sponsored by Sony.  The WPO supports professional, amateur and student photography across the world, showcasing current initiatives in Photojournalism, Fine Art and Commercial Photography. As well as running programmes within the photo industry itself, the association prides itself on the many commercial, cultural and educational activities which it undertakes Unlike many such competitions, the WPA is free to enter, and is open to amateurs and professionals alike. You can find the application form by clicking on this link. The jury for the event has just been announced: Judging the Commercial categories are: Chair, Mark Sealy (UK), Director of Autograph (The Association of Black Photographers); Nadav Kander (UK), photographer; Scott Thode (US), freelance curator and photo editor and Chloe Limpkin (UK), Picture Director of Harper‟s Bazaar. Judging the Photojournalism and Documentary categories are: Chair, Aidan Sullivan (UK), Vice President Getty Images; Pablo Bartholomew (India), photographer and educator; Roberto Koch (Italy), Publisher, Contrasto and Founder of FORMA (the international Centre of Photography in Milan) and Monica Allende (UK), Picture Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine. Judging the Fine Art categories are: Chair, Bill Hunt (US), Co-founder of Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York; Trisha Ziff (Mexico), curator, scholar, film-maker; Michelle Dunn (USA), Co-Publisher of Aperture Magazine and Editor-at-Large at Chronicle Books, and Bohnchang Koo (Korea), photographer.
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Where Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, NiceWhen 13 Feb - 23 May 2010, Tue-Sun 10am -6pmEntry free Born in1965, Wim Delvoye lives and works in Ghent. An important artist on the international scene, Delvoye approaches the history of art and the Flemish tradition in an often eccentric way. From a football goal included in a stained glass window, to a fake marble floor made of bacon, to birdcages hung with sadomasochistic accessories, to tattooed pigs, his inventiveness and taste for the ridiculous know no limits. At MAMAC, Delvoye has chosen to develop three themes of his art: tattooed pigs, gothic maquettes and one work based on the theme of the twisted body of Christ crucified, The whole exhibition is a dialogue between pictures and sculptures, based on the idea that all drawing is a projection of the soul, the evocation of some future object.  It takes as its guiding principle the idea that to know how to draw is a symptom of knowing how to imagine. The exhibition is filled with pieces which challenge the viewer to look at objects at the juncture of the single and multiple, the everyday and the otherworldly, the ordinary and the bizarre.  The artist has chosen details which attract and ask questions, which make the viewer stop in his tracks. Why are certain details precise while others are left vague or indefinite?  A journey through the works of Delvoye is like a game of tag as well as a game of the mind.  Descriptions are helpful, but the underlying meaning goes far beyond a mere label. The exhibition is enervating, exhausting. Perhaps that is its aim. Throughout his work, Delvoye occupies a critically distant standpoint from which he observes the follies of the world - his work presents a parody of reality, shifted away from normal classification. He emphasizes the deceit of art, the trompe l'oeil, the artifice, the lie. Reality blends with fiction, reflecting a world which is the end equivocal and dissembling.  Between the image and the simulacrum, he points with a tragic gesture at a world that has become overly dependent on the machinery of a society to which we have sold our souls. Delvoye is, in the original sense of the world 'eccentric' - that is to say out of orbit, or, in normal English, opposed to received tradition or habit.  On his blank screen he describes a vision of an alternative world which cannot be expressed directly.  His is the art of the balancer - or a parabola which charts the rise of technical mastery but also its necessary fall. 
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An exhibition devoted to the work of Laurence Aëgerter runs from 13 February to 23 May at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Nice. Born in Marseille in 1972, Aëgerter studied at the Académie Gerrit Rietveld in Amsterdam, where she also lived and worked. Addressing video, performance, and publishing as well as photography, Aëgerter appropriates systems that categorize and govern our society: encyclopedias, yearbooks, newspapers, and modifies their function or structure to give an entirely new way of looking at them. In 180-degree Encyclopedia (2007), for example, she reproduces a facsimile 1970 edition Larousse, but with more than 200 pictures of landscape and buildings replaced by reversed versions of themselves. In Opening Soon/Opening Now, she transforms her artist's studio successively into a library, a golf club, a Turkish snack bar and the Anne Frank museum. In her new exhibition at MAMAC, Aëgerter presents a series of portraits of gallery-goers in the Louvre as they contemplate works of the great masters: Ingres, Watteau, Chardin and de la Tour. The portraits bring together a shared cultural object and the idea of intimate contemplation, while our first-hand view projects the secondary viewer into the pictorial space itself. What is so interesting is that this approach makes the work of art seem the victim of a parasite. Because the subject hides part of the work of art, the presence of an 'intruder' gives an entirely new reading. Frequently the specator's stance, hairstyle or dress sense creates a resonance with what is going on in the 'hijacked' painting, creating a formal and often colourful relationship. Aëgerter thus questions the limitations of objective reproduction and subjective perception. In the 'play within a play' of her contemplation, the artist asks what it is to be a spectator. In this sense she depicts the visual strength as well as the significance of masterpieces of art history. The exhibition of work by Wim Delvoye continues in the main gallery.  
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The work of Eve Pietruschi is about to go on show in Nice Where: Galerie a, 4 rue Sainte-Réparate 06300 à Nice When: 12 February to 12 June 2010Telephone: +33 4 93 80 07 48 Eve Pietruschi, born in Nice in 1982, attended art school at ENSA at the Villa Arson. In 2007 she helped form the KIT collective, along with three of her fellow graduates, who have been highly active in undertaking numerous projects and commissions in the last two years. Now, visitors have the chance to see Pietruschi's solo exhibition, Periscope, which shows one of the directions in which her thoughts are currently taking her. Based on images of waste ground,  abandoned industrial landscapes and lumber yards, her work presents a picture of constant environmental change, and through their dynamic combinations of space and form show something of our human processes. Notably, humankind itself is always absent from her environmental portraits, based on photographic surveys. This new exhibition experiments with the relationship between drawing and sculpture by displaying the pieces in a space in which they respond to different viewpoints, levels and rhythms of light. Sketches and paintings occupy a central space, with the sculptures are set up as if to question or respond to them. In 2009, Pietruschi received a grant from the Fondation CARI , a France-wide organization supporting sustainable development in architecture and construction. 'Periscope' begins on 12 February and continues until June  
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Stealing  a march on the major exhibition of Bulgarian icons which will come to Monaco later in the year, the principality is this month mounting a more modest but no less fascinating display,  'Windows into Heaven', presented in collaboration with the Orthodox church in Nice, is at Monaco's  Maison de l'Amerique Latine for the next two weeks. The icons presented in this exhibition are of particular interest in that eighty of the hundred-or-so handpainted religious paintings are done not on wood but on glass. Originating in Transylvania in the early 1700s, this folk-art form spread to other areas of Central Europe, in particular to Bohemia, Austria, Silenzia, Moravia, Slovakia and Galizia.   But it was Romanian craftsmen above all who adopted orthodox Byzantine iconographic images, and for a period of two hundred years from the start of the eighteenth century, paintings on glass, or glàjà, were by far the most common form of icon in Romania, replacing the more expensive wooden versions. Glàjà demanded a very special technique of reverse painting, in which the the outlines were drawn with black ink before the colour - oil or tempera - was applied.  The technique was passed from generation to generation, and many of the artists remain anonymous. But their strong colours and primitive forms are particularly striking to the modern viewer.  Now you have a chance to see some of the most exquisite examples at this fascinating exhibition, which runs from 3rd to 20th February.      
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To most art lovers, the 'plastic' arts mean simply those which involve sculpture, ceramics or modelling in three dimensions rather than painting, but for Nice-born Edmond Vernassa, the expression is all to do with the material. Preferring the label 'researcher' he models, explores and crushes plexiglass, studying its properties to better understand its physical phenomena. And although his work is largely unknown to the general public, his contribution to the arts has just been recognized with the award of Nice's €15000 'Grand Prix'. Born in 1926 in Nice, where he still lives and has his studio, he is a founder member of the Arts Plastiques Méditerranéens, a member of Paris-based COMO (Constructivisme et Mouvement), and a member of the Association for the Encouragement of Art and Industry. 'I am the great unknown', he says, grimly. Edmond Vernassa. And it's an extraordinary fact that some of the greatest artists of the last century, including Miro, Calder, Giacometti were all his regular visitors in St Paul de Vence at the time when he was creating furniture for the Fondation Maeght, along with Arman, César and Yves Klein all of whom he inspired and advised in his studio. So why did Vernassa remain unknown to the vast majority? It seems largely to do with a deep modesty and discretion. The son of an electrician, he was launched early on his chosen career: when he wasn't helping by turning a screwdriver or passing a hammer, his hands were busy with charcoal or pencil sketching incessantly whatever took his eye: portraits, landscapes, still lifes. Given freedom, those same hands gave form to a universe of imagined images. The process is well described by his close friend Michel Dray: 'Edmond has developed a unique technique of observation, a way of using materials to stimulate perception and which opens our eyes to the function of things as they change. He's one of those quiet travellers of the creative mind who can't be pigeonholed - he's neither a scientist nor an artist, nor a philosopher, but someone who awakens the consciousness before anyone else has stirred.' The time has now come to pay much greater attention to the progress of Edmond Vernassa. Today, when creativity is seen as the key to knowledge, a whole new generation are able to tread the routes which he has trodden and signposted, and make use of the methods he has developed. And Vernasse himself is a crucial part of transmitting his own message: he is engaged countless projects - from setting up conferences in the region's technical schools, to creating a studio where science meets art, to encourage the combination of the two disciplines. Called Le Chantier Sang Neuf (the name sounds like '109' in French, but puns on the fact that the building was once an abbatoir, filled with 'sang' - blood), the vast studio space of 40000 square metres will form a base for exploring ways in which art and industry can combine to the benefit of both. More information, including an excellent biographical video (in French), is available by clicking here    
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