http://www.cityoutmonaco.com Monaco culture, theatre, music & art Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:39:37 +0100 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:39:37 +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) Rare photographs by Italian Ferdinando Scianna on show in Monaco.
Entrepot Gallery opens a new autumn exhibition with photographs by Italian Ferdinando Scianna. 21 black-and-white photographs are on display and were all taken in the artist’s native Sicily.Bagheria (1962) by Ferdinando Scianna The collection includes religious festivals, social events, and bodies contorted by mysterious forces.Enna (1963) by Ferdinando Scianna Entrepot Gallery owner Daniel Boeri said: “Scianna takes a moment in time and through his images creates a visual event. His pictures were taken 40 or 50 years ago, yet they speak to us today."Prizzi (1964) byFerdinando Scianna Scianna was a Magnum Agency photo-journalist who worked worldwide and close friend of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Yet the Italian never forgets his native Sicily and always says he takes his photographs with his “Sicilian eye”.Siciliens runs from 12 October to 16 NovemberInterview: Daniel Boeri, L’Entrepot GalleryMonaco Art Competition: Le Fait DiversCityOut Directory: Entrepot Gallery Monaco
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L’Entrepot Gallery - one of Monaco’s best-loved and most daring art galleries - put on a world-exclusive music concert to toast its three-year anniversary. Hundreds of guest attended the Theatre des Varieties last night to enjoy Monaco’s very own musical maestro, pianist Nicolas Horvath. He performed a tribute to legendary composer Philip Glass, supported by world-renowned conductor Avner Soundry and the Ensemble Instrumental de Nice. The concert was followed by a cocktail party held at the gallery.Nicolas Horvath (third left) and Nice Ensemble take the stage The evening was a world-first for Glass’s compositions to be played by a pianist other than the American. The programme on the night included Glass’s famous tribute score to the classic 1931 Dracula film. Speaking after the performance, L’Entrepot Gallery owner Daniel Boeri said: “A marvelous concert. I am extremely happy. This was a truly spectacular way to celebrate all that our gallery has achieved over the years. This concert was for all our artists, staff and visitors who have made working at the gallery such a special experience.”L'Entrepot's tribute to the composer Philip Glass (above) Highlights of Boeri’s three years at L’Entrepot include: •    Bringing Street Art to Monaco with the 2009 exhibition StreetArt.IT •    Promoting little-known fringe artists such as Benjamin Spark •    Summer 2012 exhibition of world-famous installation artist Christo •    Charity auction 55 Riviera Artists, raising €60,000 for 2010 Haiti disaster •    Annual art competition Open Des Artists for emerging European artists The gallery - a favourite venue for Prince Albert of Monaco among others - is set to continue its status as a plucky pioneer within the Monaco art scene. An exhibition of Italian photographer Ferdinando Scianna will run 12 October until 9 November.Visit the L'Entrepot Gallery official websiteInterview: Daniel Boeri, L’Entrepot GalleryMonaco Art Competition: Le Fait DiversCityOut Directory: L’Entrepot GalleryCityOut Directory: Theatre des Varietes
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The Swinging London Years come to Monaco as Opera Gallery opens its latest exhibition to the public. Gered Mankowitz, the artist best known for his portraits of rock stars, brings his iconic photographs to the top art venue this October. The exhibition features celebrity portraits by Mankowitz, mainly from the music business, and focus on his most prolific period during the 1960s in London. Sitting pretty: An early portrait of Mick Jagger by Mankowitz The photography show includes images of Jimi Hendrix, Marianne Faithfull and the Rolling Stones. Mankowitz toured with the Stones during the 1960s and produced several album covers for the band. Marianne Faithfull, London, 1964. One of many images by Gered The two-week exhibition has been appropriately titled The Swinging London Years and is supported by Monika Bacardi Association for the Arts.Gered Mankowitz runs from 12-26 October Visit the official Gered Mankowitz websiteCityOut Directory: Opera Gallery Monaco  
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The fractured lifestyles of the rich and beautiful are the focus of an art exhibition set to rock and mock Monegasque society. The Beauty and the Beast is the new photography show from Monaco artist Calypso de Sigaldi.  It will feature shocking images of the “bad habits” of stereotypically beautiful women. The series of photographs - on display at the new Reis & Maas gallery in Monaco - features models in literal poses representing the worst complexes of modern-day society. Fashion Victim by Calypso de Sigaldi pokes fun at the industry “I am trying to make people think about their behaviour and how they represent themself,” says De Sigaldi. The artist defines herself as an “image maker” rather than a photographer, and someone who is trying to catch the emotions behind the good looks. De Sigaldi urges audiences not to take her work too seriously, and that humour and fantasy make up a huge part of what she does.  She says: “I don’t like to treat serious subjects in a serious way, I believe, like the writer Jean de la Fontaine or Molière did in their times, that you can have more impact using humour and fantasy.”Obsessive Desire by Calypso de Sigaldi De Sigaldi swapped the fashion scene for the art gallery over a year ago. The ex-model and advertising art director said: “My experience in each of the roles in fashion contributes to my photographic style which in turn benefits from my knowledge of the 'tricks of the trade'. The Beauty and the Beast is a fusion of fashion photography with fine art sensibilities, creating a set of images that both celebrate and critique the female form. Her previous photography show Kiss Me, bang bang! was the artist’s take on the great heroines of the last century, including Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, and French actress Sarah Bernhardt. “Someone asked me if I was a feminist, as most of my work speaks about women. I am not a feminist, but I am a woman! I enjoy speaking about the world from a woman’s point of view,” defends de Sigaldi. The show is the artist’s first collaboration with the Reis & Maas Galerie. The gallery opened in May of this year. Gallery owner Ramon Reis said: “We are very pleased to welcome Calypso to our gallery. Her collaboration with so many other artists to get the work done is impressive. From Italy to France and Monaco she has created a beautiful environment of creativity. Reis & Maas will always welcome artists with such energy and passion.”The Beauty and the Beast opens at Reis & Maas on 16 October and runs until 15 November. Reis & Maas Gallery, 4 rue Princesse Caroline, 98000, Monaco Visit the official site of Calypso de SigaldiProfile of an artist: Calypso de Sigaldi What’s on Winter 2012: Reis and Maas CityOut Directory: Reis and Maas, 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: From Impressionism to Pop Art Where: Opera Gallery When: 7 July 2012 (opening 6.30pm) to 12 August 2012 For its annual summer show, Monaco's Opera Gallery has assembled some sixty paintings by the great masters of modern art, from impressionism to pop art and beyond. Following the success of their Picasso exhibition in 2011, which brought together 32 of the master's works, Opera Gallery have chosen this year to expand their portfolio to embrace the wider international scene, recognizing that the art market remains one of the most stable against a still unsteady economic backdrop. The exhibition, whose works span at least a century, includes such masterpieces as Monet's 'The River', a gouache by Magritte, three works by Raoul Dufy, and a pair of silkscreen portraits of the Prince and Princess of Wales from 1982 by Andy Warhol (below).Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Other works of note include Marc Chagall's 'King David', a work on paper from 1948-9, as well as his 1968 painting 'The Circus'; Fernand Léger's 'Still Life'; a late painting by Georges Mathieu entitled 'Vaires' from 1965;  an untitled Joan Miró of 1960; and a much sought-after Picasso, 'Bust of a Man with a Pipe', from 1969. The Monaco opening will take place under the patronage of HSH Albert II, in his role as honorary president of the humanitarian association Mission Enfance Monaco. The partnership is based on the assumption that artistic expression and acts of generosity are intimately linked as part of our common humanity. Claude Monet (1840-1926) The River (signed bottom right)About the Gallery Opera Gallery Monaco is part of Opera Gallery Group, comprising twelve galleries worldwide. It is one of the few international networks of galleries present on several continents: North America (New York and Miami), Europe (Paris, Monaco, London, Geneva), Asia (Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul) and the UAE (Dubai). Each gallery is located in the heart of a major international art capital, in the neighbourhood's most active and most prestigious area. About Mission Enfance Monaco A proportion of the sale price will be donated to this important association, which since its foundation in Monaco in 1991 has been helping children in distress throughout the world. Under its president, Anne-Marie Fissore, the organization has already given assistance to more than 500,000 children, giving them a proper education to help lift them out of their difficult situations.Domitille Lagourgue (Director, Mission Enfance), HSH Prince Albert II de Monaco, and Anne-Marie Fissore (President, Mission Enfance)
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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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What: Accademia Fine Art Auction Where: Hôtel de Paris When: Fri 13 to Sat 14 April 10am to 8pm (public view) Auction: Sunday 15 April at 5pm Web: http://www.accademiafineart.com A number of Monaco-themed posters by Jean Cocteau, Alfons Mucha and others are among the lots to go under the hammer at this month's superb Accademia Fine Art auction in the Hôtel de Paris on 15 April. The extensive catalogue also contains hundreds of objets d'art, items of jewellery, original paintings and - a special focus for this auction - Asiatic artworks, with an emphasis on Chinese sculpture. Among the Chinese pieces are an important 16th century Ming dynasty statue of a warrior, which it is hoped will fetch in excess of €8000, an attractive lavender jade vase from the later Qing period, and this 19th century eight-fold screen:Lot 156: eight-leaved Coromandel screen, Chinese 19th century Items with the highest estimates include a 1986 bronze deco-style chess set and table by Arman (€55,000-€60,000), a 17th century Italian renaissance bust of a woman attributed to Pocetti (€25,000-€30,000) and two remarkable bronzes, 'Young girl of Bou-Saada', by the Parisian sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias (€28,000-€30,000), and a 17th century Amphitrite, or sea-goddess, valued at €45,000 but likely to fetch much more given that a similar one sold at a Pairs auction for nearly twice that that amount. Lot 86: Arman and Boisgontier: Double Gambit - Chess set and table There will be a public viewing of all 250 pieces on the Friday and Saturday, and the auction itself takes place on 15 April. Jean Gabriel Domergue: Girl on a diving board (poster, 1950)
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What: The Silence - A Fiction Where: Villa Paloma, New National Museum of Monaco When: 10am to 6pm daily, February to April Tickets: €6.00 Contact: +377 98 98 48 60 Imagine you were an archaeologist or historian from another planet looking back at human existence from some point in the far distant future.  What would signs might we have left behind? What evidence would remain of our one-time great civilizations? Would there be anything left? Or would there be just a wasteland? That was the brief for a new exhibition of photographs, videos and installations by twenty-five international artists invited to exhibit their work at the New National Museum of Monaco's Villa Paloma from February to April. Photo © C. Gallo - Centre de PresseThe Silence - A Fiction gathers together a body of contemporary artworks - from Arman's 'Accumulations' to the images of Hiroshi Sugimoto - to paint a picture of a world familiar yet foreign. In the space between science and fiction, the new exhibition invites the visitor on a journey of enormous imaginative power. Curator Simone Menegoi believes that the exhibition offers a 'fantastic account, a form of narrative décor which tells the story of a planet that has become uninhabitable for reasons unknown'. These are landscapes - but not as we know them. Landscapes formed and re-formed by environmental disaster and economic collapse. Some, like the sculptures of the young American artist Michael E. Smith - are disturbing in their ordinariness. He specializes in putting together everyday items of waste collected in the urban desert of his home city, Detroit; his 'fossils' of our consumer culture present the viewer with a strong sense of a world completely abandoned. Most apocalyptic is the work of Adrien Missika, whose journey to the gas-filled crater known as the 'Gateway to Hell' in central Turkmenistan is the subject of his video projection called Darvaza, which forms a major part of the narrative of this new exhibition. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, but also, unusually, by a work of fiction specially written by author Chris Sharp. List of artists Dove Allouche Vladimir Arkhipov Arman Bartolomeo Bimbi Maurice Blaussyld Michel Blazy Karl Blossfeldt Brassaï Peter Buggenhout Carlos Casas Romeo Castellucci Lourdes Castro Tony Cragg Daniel Gustav Cramer Geert Goiris Jochen Lempert Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Adrien Missika Linda Fregni Nagler Walter Pichler Rudolf Polanszky Pierre Savatier Erin Shirreff Michael E. Smith Daniel Spoerri
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What: Piterskie: Artists from Saint Petersburg Where: Galerie Carré Doré When: Tuesday 4 to Monday 31 October 2011 This new exhibition at Monaco's Galerie Carré Doré embraces two generations of artists living and working in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s 'northern capital' and the country’s second most important cultural hub after Moscow. The exhibition is entitled 'Piterskie' (питерский in Russian), the affectionate name for the city. The first generation is represented by Vitaly Pushnitsky and Gregory Maiofis, the two best-known artists of Saint Petersburg’s contemporary art world. They are heirs to the traditions of classical art - but both Pushnitsky's paintings and Maiofis's photography skilfully combine these disciplines with other media. The maturity and emotional and intellectual density of both artists have led to their being considered among the best contemporary artists worldwide. The second, younger 'Piterskie' generation comprises Ivan Plusch, Irina Drozd, Tatiana Podmarkova, Veronika Rudieva Riazantzeva and Andrei Gorbunov, a group who have established their position by combining the art of the 20th century with the most recent artistic trends. The intellectual and creative centre of this new generation is the Nepokorennie 'art squat', with its exhibition halls and studios. They, too, prefer painting, but frequently also work with installations and videos. Despite their comparative youth, some of them have participated in the world’s most prestigious art events. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is where much of country’s new art first sees the light of day, in the tradition of this city’s rich cultural heritage. Nowm under the patronage of Baroness Cécile de Massy, the Carré Doré Gallery has brought together those artists that best represent the blossoming of this art.
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What: 'On aura tout vu' presents the Galéa collection Where: National Museum of Monaco, Villa Sauber When: 11am-7pm, 22 June to 30 September 2011 10am-6pm, 1 October 2011 to 29 January 2012 Admission: €6, groups (minimum 15 people) €4 Web: http://www.onauratoutvu.tv Afficionadoes of design will instantly recognize at least part of the title of the latest exhibition at Monaco's New National Museum at the Villa Sauber: 'on aura tout vu' - whose name roughly translates as 'you ain't seen nothing yet'  - have been the creative spirit behind some of the world's greatest couturiers, including Lacroix, Dior and Givenchy. Since 1995 they have developed their own range of pret-a-porter, accessories, design objects and cosmetics, and today are responsible for a wide range of co-branded products with some of the greatest Parisian institutions such as Caron, Le Moulin Rouge, La Maison Fabre, and the Galerie de l’Opéra de Paris. Now, in an extraordinary collaboration with the National Museum of Monaco, chief designers Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samouilov are breathing new life into one of Monaco's most famous attractions - the Galéa collection of dolls and automata, by showing off the original mannequins alongside their own amazing 21st century creations. This Lilliput-sized version of the real world will appeal to everyone interested in seeing how fashions have changed between the 19th century and today - with some fantastic juxtapositions like this one showing the contemporary nightclub scene and its equivalent - a Second Empire 'rout'.Clubbing - 21st and 19th century-style! Madeleine de Galéa was born in Réunion, the French island off the coast of East Africa. Brought up in Paris, she became a lover of Second Empire style and of antique dolls' costumes in particular. Widowed at a tragically young age, she began to collect in earnest, first traditional porcelain dolls and later an unrivalled pageant of accessories and furniture. At a time when the world was becoming fascinated with robotics, she extended her already vast collection to included animated puppets and automata, and towards the end of her life hosted frequent elegant tea parties attended by her devoted guests, and robots dressed in - among other items - scottish tartan. For all the eccentricity of this venture, Mme de Galéa is today remembered as one of the great collectors, whose unerring eye for the quirky and unusual was tempered by a genuine fascination for fashion. After Mme de Galéa's death in 1956, the collection was offered in its entirety to - and accepted by - HSH Prince Rainier III, who himself displayed a similar passion for collecting, as Monaco's museum of automobiles testifies. The Villa Sauber, now newly refurbished as the National Museum of Monaco, became home to her collection. So it's appropriate that 'on aura tout vu', in conjunction with the Villa Sauber, has taken the opportunity to revive the collection in the National Museum of Monaco's latest exhibition in its 'Looking Up' series, initiated by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare. The aim of the series is to connect the often bizarre world of Monaco's history with the wider artistic visions of today. Last year's hugely successful Shonibare exhibition placed his 'anti-colonial' art in the context of the aristocratic Monaco of the the late 19th century.  The aim of this display is similar, comparing some of Mme de Galéa 's most exquisite objects with today's fashion designs. Since 2002, 'on aura tout vu' have displayed their fantastic creations twice a year on the catwalks of the French capital. This latest extravaganza, in Monaco, is rather different but just as thrilling!
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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: Fly, by Konstantin Khudyakov Where: Galerie Carré Doré When: 4 February  to 12 March 2011 Vernissage: 3 February 2011 at 5.30pm ALSO SHOWING AT MONACO TOP MARQUES 14-17 April 2011 It's difficult to put your finger on the work of Konstantin Khudyakov. Actually, it's very easy to put your finger on it - whereas traditional painting is not to be touched, Khudyakov's positively invites the viewer to do exactly that. For years before the iPad, and the increasingly familiar pinch-and-zoom, Khudyakov has been developing 'multi-touch' art, collaborating with programmers to produce interactive images which adapt according to the hand movements of the viewer. Fascinated by the ways in which the viewer sees the world around him, Khudyakov - who trained as an architect - has worked in the past with large-scale panels that play with peripheral vision, and stereoscopic images of the kind favoured by early photographers. But it is in the world of multi-touch that he is now making his name. His latest piece 'Fly ... in High Resolution', which is being exhibited until mid-March here in Monaco, makes use of many of the techniques which are only just now being introduced into the latest touch screen computers.  The pictures are built up out of superb three-dimensional renderings of virtual worlds as they might be might seen through the complex structure of a fly's eye, with its thousands of optical lenses.  The fly has been a symbol in art for many centuries, not least as an emblem of man's vanity. Now it has become not only the 'hero' of Khudyakov's art, but also a medium through which the viewer experiences his surroundings. It's not for nothing that critics have dubbed Khudyakov 'The Observer'. Khudyakov is already well-known to the Russian public through large scale projects such as 'Hotel Russia' 'Deisis' and 'Panoramas', which have been exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Outside Russia, he is only just starting to be discovered, but a showcase at the Venice Biennale (June to November) is due to change all that. Before then, why not come and take a fly's eye view of the world at the Galerie Carré Doré?
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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: Evgeny Ghorokovsky Where: Galerie Carré Doré, 5 Rue de la Princesse Caroline, Monaco When: until 20 January 2010 Contact: +377 97 77 12 86 Throughout December, the Galerie Carré Doré has been showing the works of celebrated Moscow artist Evgeny Gorokhovsky. The exhibition continues until 20 January. Gorokhovsky was born in 1951 in Odessa, the son of an equally great artist, the architect Edward Gorokhovsky. The art of the sixties, with its masters such as Ilya Kabakov, Victor Pivovarov and Eric Bulatov, was also a major influence, and through them he soon located his own personal style, which combines photorealistic images with metaphysical content.  The artist is fascinated by geometry, in which he finds the key to the symbols of life.  His immensely engaging works are full of the power of thought. 'I myself was surprised', says Ghorokovsky, 'at the accuracy with which I could choose from thousands of images (be it an architectural detail, a photograph from a fashion magazine or a real landscape from the other side of the world or even - as is often the case - just next door) which would later form a picture.Opening of the Ghorokovsky show at the Carré Doré I paced around for a while - three steps to the right, six forward, four back - circling my object (often something that would appear quite commonplace), seeking a unique aspect, like a facet of a crystal where I could sudddenly perceive a whole physical and spiritual structure, its nerves and junctions filled with esoteric meaning.   Never having had a love for the exact sciences, I began to respect and even love geometry, not in the Cubist sense of Picasso and Braque, but rather in its own hidden meaning, symbolism and mysticism.' As well as at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the works of Ghorokovsky are exhibited across Russia and throughout the world. - Simultaneously with the Ghorokovsky exhibition, there will be an accompanying showing of a younger artist. Julia Malinina (born 1980) graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Moscow. Winner of several art competitions, she received the gold medal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Russia (2006). Julia continues the tradition of Russian avant-garde art from the early 20th century, with its clean and monumental lines. The young artist is also influenced by the 'rigorous style' of the 60s, which showed the reality of Soviet life with restraint, using terse linear rhythms. She continues to push her boundaries with architecture, showing urban landscapes with painstaking attention to detail. The series 'Life After Life' is based on ruins, decomposed architecture and broken geometry. From the pen of the artist, this 'afterlife' takes on new forms, the faded energy fills the space, and an apocalyptic force arises out of geometric constructions. Both exhibitions officially run until 20 January, though it will be possible to continue to view the paintings for a while after that date -  please contact the gallery for details.
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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 GemlucArt 2010Where Auditorium Rainier IIIWhen 10am-6pm, 30 September to 15 October Gala dinner: 20 October, at the Automobile Club de MonacoGemlucart is an international contemporary art exhibition organized annually in support of cancer research.  This year the theme All together (Tous unis) is the inspiration for the works of art, which include pieces by over seventy artists. The exhibition will be open to the public from 30 September to 15 October in the atrium of the Auditorium Rainier III, every day from 10am to 6pm.Gemluc, the Group of Monaco Businesses in the Fight Against Cancer, was founded in 1973 by Princess Caroline with the hope that one day mankind will be able to wave goodbye to this terrible illness, which  - despite the considerable progress realized in recent years - has become the main cause of death in many industrialized nations. To date, through events such as GemlucArt, the organization has raised over €1.58m to aid research, innovation and patient care. Each artist exhibits a single original work which has not won any other prize or commendation in any other competition.  The public will be invited to participate vote by placing slips of paper into urns. The winner of the GemlucArt prize will be exhibited for a fortnight next year in the Ribolzi Gallery  The second will receive the public prize and the third place a special jury prize. All exhibited works will be bought or donated to the NMNM and part of the proceeds will go to Gemluc.
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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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What: 2000-2010Where: Marlborough Gallery, 4 Quai Antoine IWhen: 24 June-17 SeptemberContact : Tel: +377.97 70 25 50Web:www.marlborough-monaco.com Monaco’s Marlborough Gallery is organizing an extensive exhibition to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Marlborough Fine Arts, founded in 1946 in London, opened in Monaco in 2000 on the first floor of a renovated quayside building. Enthusiastically welcomed by collectors, critics and arts organizations, it continues to be a significant driver of cultural innovation in the Principlaity, displaying the work of renowned international names alongside established artists of the region. ‘2000 – 2010’ includes works by artists whose work has been exhibited at the gallery over the last decade, all of whom enjoy an iconic reputation in the international art world, from Francis Bacon to Zao Wou-Ki, whose work was shown in a major retrospective last year. Marlborough is also reponsible for major exhibitions outside the gallery space itself - in the gardens by the Place du Casino in Monaco, and also in Venice and in Saint-Tropez. Contributing artists: Arman, Francis Bacon, Roberto Barni, Davide Benati, Fernando Botero, Claudio Bravo, Chen Yifei, Dale Chihuly, Stephen Conroy, Thierry Despont, Richard Estes, Genovés, Red Grooms, Kcho, Jacques Lipchitz, Alberto Magnelli, Tom Otterness, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Tomas Sánchez, Sacha Sosno, Manolo Valdés and Zao Wou-Ki.  
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Englishman John Dyer is one of the most prolific artists working on the Côte d'Azur.  His permanent presence here at the Galerie Monaco means you can barely avoid him or his bright and vibrant canvases  And if you were lucky enough to be in Menton in June you may have seen the extraordinary performances of the ballet 'Palais de Cristal' in which the performers danced against vast blow-ups of his paintings. Now Dyer has been putting together his new project to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth in the form of an array of bright tropical landscapes, filled with the variety of what the father of evolution called 'the endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful' of the natural world. If you're in Monaco this summer, pop along to the Galerie Monaco, where you may wish to purchase one of Dyer's paintings or prints.  He is always very happy to discuss individual commissions
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The works of Belorussian jewish artist Marc Chagall, who is buried in the cemetery at St Paul de Vence, have always excited international interest, so the news of a previously unknown piece - Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio - is making waves throughout the art world. Chagall, who was described by Picasso as 'the only painter left who understands what colour really is', was born Movsha Shagal in 1887 in Vitebsk, then part of the Russian Empire.  In 1910 he moved to Paris, where he fell under the influence of his French contemporaries Robert Delaunay and Fernand Leger. In turn, his own paintings of circuses, fantasies and religious scenes inspired by his cultural roots, became a defining style of twentieth century art.  Chagall's floating, rhythmic forms and his trademark use of vibrant colour, have made his work immensely popular with collectors and the general public alike. After the war Chagall moved to the Côte d'Azur, where he found inspiration, as did the impressionists before him, from the natural brilliance of the landscape, and also developed his work in the field of ceramics.  But despite his jewish background, Chagall also drew heavily on the Christian tradition, and he was responsible for many stained glass windows for churches and cathedrals in Europe. The newly-discovered work, bought at auction in Paris for a mere £26,000 by a London gallery - less than a tenth of its probable value - again fuses the two traditions. It is one of several works produced by the artist between 1938-1945 in which he employs a distinctly Jewish Christ in order to show his personal distress at the Nazis' destruction of his people. The painting will go on show at the Osborne Samuel gallery, in Mayfair, on Friday. To find out more about Chagall and his association with the Cote d'Azur, click here
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In early February 2010, one of Alberto Giacometti's Walking Man sculptures sold at Sotheby's for $104 million, a record for any work of art sold at auction, and no doubt an indicator to the majority that concerns about the world economy were over - if only for the minority. The fact that Walking Man was bought by a bank might - a few years ago - have reassured us of that institution's self-confidence. I wonder whether it still will, or whether it will be seen in time to come as a waste of money? They say that investing in art is always a risk, principally because tastes change, and today's hot buy may be a hard sell a few years down the line. Again, the one-off nature of many works of art makes them essentially incomparable. Their uniqueness may be the selling point, but they could as easily and as uniquely fail to fetch a price. Again, you could argue that Walking Man is not exactly unique, because like all bronzes it is one of several casts from the same mould. The one which sold wasn't even the first edition, which is held by the Carnegie Museum in Pennsylvania. There's another in Buffalo, New York State (lthough New York City, where the sculpture was originally supposed to have stood, remains without its own statue). So where does that leave us? Will Walking Man turn our to be a sound investment or will it be  (it seems odd to refer to one of Giacometti's emaciated figures this way) a white elephant? Well, unique or not, the fact is that on the whole works of art, and particularly great works of art by acknowledged great artists, tend to retain their value extremely well - that has certainly been the case with the art market during the current recession. So although Walking Man went for a price far in excess of its estimate (£12-18m), it should turn out to have been money well spent. But one thing for sure is that the sale will raise the level of interest in the artist's other sculptures. And particularly in other examples of 'les hommes qui marchent' - the walking men - two very fine examples of which, including a first cast, are to be found here on the Cote d'Azur in the Fondation Maeght. In fact it was in his studio in St Paul de Vence that Giacometti worked on the sculpture which was to become world famous. The picture here shows him creating a maquette for the eventual life-size sculpture in his Vence studio: A nice story is told about the French sculptor Jean-Claude Farhi, who was Giacometti's assistant in St. Paul de Vence. So pleased was he with his help that Giacometti persuaded Farhi to accept one of his Walking Man sculptures as a gift, and Farhi arranged that he would come and load it on his truck the next day. It was January 1966.  Unfortunately for Jean-Claude, Giacometti died during the night, and his widow refused to let Farhi take the statue. His descendants are undoubtedly kicking themselves. If you want to see Walking Man for only a handful of euros, go to the Fondation Maeght, If you want one of your own, you may be able to get a loan from one of the banks in our directory. If your means are more modest, there may still be some original works of art to tempt you at one of the Riviera's many galleries.
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John Dyer and Joanne Short are well known for their bestselling paintings inspired by their lives in Cornwall and on the Cote d'Azur. Jilly Bennett asked them what makes them tick. John Dyer and Joanne Short: Where to start? Our work comes from within us and also from our environment. It encompasses our life and records what we do: the landscape and environment, family, nature and colour. Our styles have very much evolved - we don't consider our work to have a 'style' but inevitably it does. It isn't however a prescribed style or even something consciously decided on - it is more like our handwriting. The way we naturally compose and apply our paint isn't a deliberate action but a natural response between hand and eye. We thrive working outside when we can - just our paints and the subject, and the subject is dynamic, changing, living, breathing and something to engage with. Once you've spent time immersed in the landscape watching the world go by, you form a relationship and deep memory of the place - a moment in time. This painting and memory often fuels a larger series of works that are sometime completed in the studio, but we always like to start outside on location.CO: Where were you both born? Did you study painting, and where? JD: Joanne was born in Oxford and I was born in Taunton, but we were both raised in Cornwall. In fact funnily enough we've known each other since we were babies! Life brought us together in Cornwall and we have a shared memory of our childhood and similar experiences, which is fantastic as we have everything in common. We both attended the same schools and then Falmouth School of Art. After Falmouth Joanne studied Fine Art and Printmaking in Italy for her degree and I went to London to study Design. We both eventually returned to Cornwall as artists and set up our home and studio together in the early 90s. Cornwall has long enjoyed an international reputation for excellence in the arts. Joanne is an elected member of the Newlyn Society - one of the UK's oldest and most respected group of artists. CO: What brought you to the south of France?JD and JS: Menton was on our radar because of the plants and gardens. As resident artist for the UK's - and probably the world's - most important ecogarden, The Eden Project, we've become increasingly interested in botanical situations. We first visited for a week and stayed at William Waterfield's garden, the Clos du Peyronnet, and were enchanted. We met with Carolyn Hanbury and viewed the Hanbury Gardens and she very kindly lent us a studio for a year - so we had to move to Menton to take up this kind offer. We've lived in Menton for three years now but we've also painted extensively in Brittany and Provence - our collections of Provençal works have been shown in Cork Street, London, and we had a show at the Eden Project for World Food Day, based on the major harvests of the Côte d'Azur and Provence. Eden commissioned contemporary creative writing to accompany each painting and the stories were 'performed' to a live audience.CO: Where can people see your work or get in touch with you? Are your main buyers here in France and Monaco or elsewhere?JD and JS: For the past twenty years we've exhibited in many galleries and also been very widely published: our work has been available in Habitat and Athena shops worldwide. We've sold hundreds of thousands of art prints globally and have over 2000 private painting and print buyers who follow us and collect our work  - so we are in a very privileged and fortunate position now to be able to use this momentum to represent ourselves with our online galleries. We work with high-profile organizations to exhibit and promote our paintings. This year I am the resident artist of the UK's Girl Guides for their centenary, and last year the Darwin artist in residence for the Heritage Lottery Fund -  and we have both been resident artists with many other organizations. Our buyers are generally normal families and couples who love what we do and what our paintings celebrate. We have major corporate clients including Save the Children, the National Trust and the Heritage Lottery, who all have pieces in the permanent collections - and the odd rock star too - we held an exhibition in Kim Wilde's house which was great fun, and Toyah is a new fan. We also take on commissions for collectors, which works well in Monaco as people often have a home in the country that they want us to capture for them in one of our paintings. Commissions are fun as they bring something new to the artist.CO: And you've embraced the digital world, so your art can now be bought in many other forms?JD and JS: Yes - in recent years 'art on demand' raised its head - for a long time we refused to play and then last year all our working partners in publishing either went bankrupt or changed their business model to 'on demand' (or no stock holding). Also artists are less able to control reproductions of work in this digital age so we made a decision to embrace and run with the technology rather than continue our  head-in-the-sand approach. See this link for more! CO: Where do your children go to school?JD and JS: Here In Menton - our eldest daughter was given the option to 'home ed' or as we called it 'self ed'. She loved the idea for three months - and then she asked to go to a French school! She's never looked back and is now fluent in French. She also attends the amazing Conservatoire of Music in Menton and has developed a passion for music over the past three years. She has gone from a beginner to a grade 6 musician in just over twoyears - it's been wonderful to see her flourish and expand her horizons so far beyond her contemporaries back in the UK. CO: You're both pretty prolific- do you find time for anything other than painting?JD and JS: We love the Italian countryside and have good friends who have an olive grove. Given the chance we head up there to eat outside - cook pasta and lace it with oil they have just pressed. The children love it too - tree houses, ropes, dens, tree-climbing and biking: we like them to learn to take risks - something so many children miss out on now. We also love the town of Apricale - the bar there  has the grumpiest bar man in the world - but the best hot chocolate! To find more about John and Joanne's paintings, visit them online at www.johndyergallery.co.uk and in Monaco at www.galeriemonaco.com
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What: Place and MaterialWhere: Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain Promenade des Arts When: 29 May to 26 September 2010Admission: free British artist David Tremlett is exhibiting his work at the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC) in Nice from 29 May to 26 September; the opening takes place on 28 May at 6.30 in the presence of Muriel Marland-Militello, who has special responsibility for cultural affairs in Nice. Tremlett was born in 1945 in Saint-Austell in Cornwall, and lives and works in Bovington, Hertfordshire. At 19, unhappy with the life of study at the Royal College of Art, he travelled to India, searching out the sounds, images and experiences which ultimately he transcribed onto paper, paintings and murals. Tremlett takes on the role of a nomadic artist, a walker, led by instinct to reach out to other cultures. His work is deeply structured both by his journeys, observations and encounters, and an expatriate’s sense of being both in and outside that culture. His use of materials such as chalk, pastel or earth, reinforces the close physical contact between artist and landscape. Notebook and pen in hand, David Tremlett travels the world and records the events of nature, landscape, architectural forms, the track of creative man, while at the same time expressing the quality of impermanence and transience: as he puts it, his work is about 'the fugitive, the intangible, almost nothing'. Back in the studio, sights sounds, events and colours become works on paper, sometimes very large ones: the new series of nineteen pastels done over the course of the last two years. is based around abstract compositions in which coloured areas are juxtaposed with lines carefully determined by the geometric principles he cherishes. This is not the first time that Tremlett has exhibited at MAMAC. Past shows have included a monumental mural, part of the ‘Intramuros’ exhibition, and his vividly coloured 2004 staircase ‘Drawing for S’.  
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