30/01/25

Exposition Raoul Dufy @ Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Nice - « Le miracle de l’imagination »

Raoul Dufy 
« Le miracle de l’imagination »
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Nice
Jusqu'au 28 septembre 2025

RAOUL DUFY
Portrait d’Émilienne Dufy, 1930
Huile sur toile
Nice, musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, N.Mba 2851
Don de Mme Émilienne Dufy en 1955
© Muriel Anssens – Ville de Nice

RAOUL DUFY
La Pêche, Vers 1919
Gouache sur papier
Nice, musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, N.Mba 6128
Achat de la Ville de Nice en 1986
© Muriel Anssens – Ville de Nice

RAOUL DUFY
Hommage à Claude Debussy, 1952
Huile sur toile
Nice, musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, N.Mba 5623
Legs de Mme Émilienne Dufy en 1962
© Muriel Anssens – Ville de Nice

RAOUL DUFY
Bateaux à l’Estaque, 1908
Huile sur toile
Nice, musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, N.Mba 5601
Legs de Mme Émilienne Dufy en 1962
© Muriel Anssens – Ville de Nice

Le Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, à Nice, présente une nouvelle exposition consacrée à l’artiste Raoul Dufy.

RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953) est aujourd’hui connu pour sa palette aux couleurs vives et la gaité de ses sujets, dont est bannie toute forme de doute ou d’inquiétude. Cette exposition invite à découvrir son cheminement artistique, depuis la révélation de Luxe, Calme et Volupté d’Henri Matisse, où la nécessité de faire advenir le « miracle de l’imagination » lui apparaît pleinement, jusqu’à l’élaboration de sa touche en regard de celle de Paul Cézanne et enfin l’épanouissement de son langage pictural propre dans son atelier de Vence.

Son style singulier se déploie au fil du parcours de l’exposition dans les paysages de Normandie et de Provence, le motif de l’atelier, les vues de ports et les baigneuses ou encore la musicalité des fêtes et des réceptions. Et si le Normand est avant tout un peintre, il cherche aussi très tôt à transposer les motifs récurrents de son imaginaire dans l’illustration d’ouvrages, la création textile ou encore la céramique.

Cette exposition est l’occasion de redécouvrir la richesse de la collection Dufy du musée des Beaux-Arts, due principalement à la générosité de l’épouse de l’artiste, la Niçoise Eugénie Brisson, appelée Émilienne, selon son souhait.

Commissaires de l'exposition :

Johanne LINDSKOG
Conservatrice du patrimoine, directrice du musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret

Jeanne PILLON
Responsable des expositions, de la documentation et des archives au musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret

Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret
33 avenue des Baumettes, Nice 

Exposition Raoul Dufy - Le miracle de l’imagination
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Nice
13 décembre 2024 – 28 septembre 2025

Artist Stephen Morrison @ Hashimoto Contemporary, NYC - "Dog Show #4: House Broken" Exhibition

Stephen Morrison
Dog Show #4: House Broken
Hashimoto Contemporary, New York
18 January - 8 February 2025

Hashimoto Contemporary presents Dog Show #4: House Broken, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist STEPHEN MORRISON. In his latest solo exhibition, the artist reflects on the chaotic messiness of home life through painting and sculpture, finding inspiration in the lively and jumbled environment he grew up in. Reminiscing on his childhood home, memories of dancing, yelling, slapdash crafting and a constant swirl of half-finished products all come to mind. Amid all the noise, Stephen Morrison found an odd sense of harmony - moments where the chaos seemed to hum along just right, as if disorder itself had a rhythm. 

Divided into two parts, the main gallery features seven trompe l’oeil paintings that transform chaotic domestic scenes into objects of reverence. Everyday items such as shopping bags, magazine clippings, broken dolls and items often destined for the trash are reimagined through the artist’s well-known dog character. On closer inspection, the dogs reveal themselves to be stressed, broken, precariously balanced and in various states of emotion. Interspersed with the paintings are a series of sculptures the artist refers to as “clump spirits” - assemblages of objects in a state of disorder. These sculptures are playful yet simultaneously unsettling; stacked, cracked and appearing on the verge of collapse. 

The second gallery is taken over by an installation which takes on a more personal tone and reflects Stephen Morrison’s haphazard approach to home and habits. The imagined domestic interior features miniature self-portraits personified as construction workers, attempting to build but failing in various ways. They are lazy, distracted, intoxicated or, at times, driven by baser instincts. This self-deprecating critique aims to transform feelings of guilt and shame into something humorous, relatable and approachable. 

Together, these two spaces create an atmosphere of zany failure; a celebration of imperfection and production without resolution. Inspired by the playful trickery of dollhouses and miniatures, the artist attempts to transform chaos and clutter into something meaningful, finding beauty and value in the flaws and disorder of everyday life.

HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY NYC
54 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002

Todd Gray @ Lehmann Maupin, NYC - "While Angels Gaze" Exhibition

Todd GrayWhile Angels Gaze
Lehmann Maupin, New York
January 23 – March 22, 2025

Lehmann Maupin presents While Angels Gaze, an exhibition of new work by TODD GRAY. While Angels Gaze marks the gallery’s first New York exhibition with the artist and his first since joining Lehmann Maupin’s roster in 2023. Best known for his photo assemblages that feature subject matter ranging from imperial European gardens, to West African landscapes, to depictions of pop icons, to portraits of the artist himself, Todd Gray builds critical juxtapositions in his work that examine accepted cultural beliefs—particularly around ideas of the African diaspora, colonialism, and societal power dynamics. In While Angels Gaze, Todd Gray presents a suite of new pieces that combine images from his music photography archive, work made in the early 2000s, and photographs taken during his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 2023.

In addition to his recent fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, which he completed as one of the winners of the prestigious 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships, Todd Gray has been featured in many notable museum exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial in 2019 and the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA exhibition in 2016. His work is represented in numerous museum collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, among others.

In his newest body of work, Todd Gray integrates Roman Catholic imagery and architecture with photographs sourced from his own archive, including self portraits, images of the Ghanaian landscape, and figures from pop music. The mining of his multi-decade music photography archive is an important component of Gray’s practice and one that offers a view into the history of music, featuring recognizable figures from Al Green to Iggy Pop. In While Angels Gaze, Todd Gray combines these titans of the music industry with images of Roman Catholic cathedrals and ancient Roman statuary, drawing parallels between religious or mythical personages and the idols of today. In these compositions, modern pop stars are cast as the contemporary equivalents of historical figures—where societies might once have inlaid images of saints in golden basilica ceilings or erected statues of religious leaders on building facades, modern idols play on elevated stages to crowds of tens of thousands, becoming enshrined as mass media icons.

Throughout the exhibition, Gray’s lens extends beyond imaging pop icons, with some works devoid of figures all together. In Blues Ship (makes me wanna holla) (2024), for example, Todd Gray depicts an image of a ship in the foremost panel, which appears to sail out of an image of the cosmos captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Both photographs are set in circular frames against a rectangular foundation image that shows an ornately decorated ceiling. The ship is a model of a French slave ship from the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) museum on Gorée Island, a UNESCO world heritage site and former center of slave trading on the African coast, while the ceiling is located in Villa Torlonia, the former residence of Benito Mussolini in Rome. Here, Gray’s use of cosmic imagery functions as a conceptual bridge, condensing the time between the painting of the ceiling and the photographing of the ship. In works like these, Todd Gray moves beyond celebrity adoration to examine the veneration of other false gods—commerce, wealth, power—exploring the enduring nature and consequences of such idolatry across centuries.

While Angels Gaze also showcases Todd Gray’s use of formal compositional techniques. The curving ovals and circles the artist employs in this body of work disrupt his consistently rectangular format, creating portals through time that bridge the far past and the present. Throughout the series, Gray creates a sense of visual reverb—body gestures are mirrored from one figure to the next in works like Other tellings (Hollywood, Florence, Cosmos) (2024), architectural shapes blend across images in Gorée Island, Villa Torlonia (2024), and color palettes echo across compositions, from the gold-ground mosaics of St. Marc’s Basilica in Venice to the glittering sequins of Michael Jackson’s shirt in Glitter ’n Gold, 2(St. Marks) (2024).

Although Todd Gray’s scenes are overlaid and juxtaposed, his work is never meant to be dissected—rather, each image can be thought of as a discrete stanza that composes a poem of completed work, reflecting his deeply intuitive process. In The Song Remains (assumptions about the nature of time) (2024)—one of the exhibition’s smallest works, composed of just two panels—Gray depicts Iggy Pop in black and white, his image overlaid against a statue from Villa Torlonia of a figure holding a pan flute. The gesture of the statue’s outstretched arm on the left is mirrored in Iggy’s raised hand on the right, connecting the two figures across time as if by an invisible thread. The image suggests an enduring human archetype, different and yet unchanged over the course of many centuries, and invites wider questions about the essence of human nature. Throughout While Angels Gaze, Todd Gray invites us to ask not only who we are, but who we have been—and how much, if at all, this has changed over the course of millennia.

LEHMANN MAUPIN NEW YORK
501 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011

29/01/25

Mon petit Chantilly par Marie Sellier - GrandPalaisRmnÉditions - Jeunesse

Mon petit Chantilly par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions - Jeunesse
Parution : 29 janvier 2025

Pour les plus jeunes, GrandPalaisRmnÉditions propose une collection qui leur permet une découverte ludique et largement illustrée des grands Musées et lieux du Patrimoine. Marie Sellier est l'autrice des textes et use de son talent pour présenter l'Art et les lieux prestigieux qui les exposent, avec des mots simples, adaptés au public Jeunesse. C'est à Chantilly que nous emmène le dernier livre de cette collection.

Mon petit Chantilly
par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions 
Relié, 22 x 22 cm - 48 pages - 40 illustrations
Code EAN : 9782711880768 - Prix : 10 €

Mon petit Chantilly
 par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions 

Mon petit Chantilly
 par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions 

Entre le château, le parc et les grandes écuries, impossible de s’ennuyer au domaine de Chantilly ! Il y en a pour tous les goûts : fans d’histoire ou d’art, amoureux de la nature ou encore passionnés de chevaux.

Ancienne forteresse médiévale complétée d’un château partiellement détruit à la Révolution, ce n’est qu’au XIXe siècle qu’est construite la partie la plus moderne du château, dans un style inspiré de la Renaissance qui lui confère une allure digne d’un conte de fées.

Le dernier propriétaire du château au XIXe siècle s’appelle Henri d’Orléans, duc d’Aumale. Il a pour ancêtre le frère de Louis XIV, et a eu une vie particulièrement romanesque ! Il a consacré son immense fortune à réunir une incroyable collection d’art et de livres. Le château, outre une somptueuse bibliothèque, abrite la seconde plus grande collection de peintures anciennes après le Louvre. Dans la galerie de peintures, on peut voir des chefs-d’œuvre signés Raphaël, Clouet, Ingres ou Delacroix, accrochés comme on le faisait au XIXe siècle.

Les Grands Appartements, à travers des lieux emblématiques comme la galerie des Batailles ou la Grande Singerie, permettent de découvrir le faste des grands seigneurs de l’Ancien Régime. Le Parc comprend un jardin anglais romantique, un jardin anglo-chinois avec un hameau ainsi qu’un grand parterre à la française dessiné par le fameux jardinier de Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre. Il abrite également les Grandes Écuries, construites au XVIIIe siècle par le prince de Condé, qui sont encore aujourd’hui l’un des hauts lieux de l’art équestre.

Marie Sellier est l’autrice d’une centaine d’ouvrages jeunesse sur l’art. Romancière et scénariste, elle a consacré livres et scénarios à des artistes majeurs (Camille Claudel et Auguste Rodin, Van Gogh, etc.) et a travaillé avec de nombreuses illustratrices contemporaines. Au GrandPalaisRmn, elle a signé de nombreux succès, parmi lesquels L’Afrique, petit Chaka… (2001, avec Marion Lesage) ou, plus récemment, L’Arbre de Sobo (2018, avec Charlotte Gastaut) et Où vont les lapins la nuit ? (2022, avec Marie Assénat). Officier des Arts et des Lettres (2013) et Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (2014), elle a également présidé le Conseil permanent des écrivains (2012-2014) et la Société des gens de lettres (2014-2019).

Dans la même collection : 

Mon Petit Orsay
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Mon petit Louvre
, par Violaine Bouvet-Lanselle et Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Mon petit Picasso
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Mon Petit Cluny
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Ma petite Orangerie
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Mon Luxembourg
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Mon petit Guimet
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Mon petit Versailles
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

Mon petit Fontainebleau
, par Marie Sellier
GrandPalaisRmnÉditions

28/01/25

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC & Shanghai Museum

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
February 28 – September 28, 2025
Shanghai Museum 
November 12, 2025 – March 16, 2026

Incense burner in the form of a goose, China
Ming dynasty (1368–1644), early 15th century. Bronze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 
Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2020

In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vessels were rediscovered as embodiments of a long-lost golden age that was worthy of study and emulation. This “return to the past” (fugu) was part of a widespread phenomenon across all the arts to reclaim the virtues of a classical tradition. An important aspect of this phenomenon was the revival of bronze casting as a major art form. Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900 aims to be the most comprehensive study of Chinese bronzes during this period. This exhibition, co-organized by The Met and the Shanghai Museum, where it will open following its display in New York, will present the new aesthetic represented by these creative adaptations of the past, while exploring their cultural and political significance throughout China’s long history.
“While bronze as an art form has long held a significant role throughout China’s history, this exhibition explores an often-overlooked time period when a resurgence of craftsmanship and artistic achievements revitalized the medium,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. “Bringing together major loans from institutions in China alongside works from The Met collection, this exhibition offers viewers an important opportunity to better understand the lasting aesthetic and cultural impact of bronze objects.”
The exhibition is divided into five thematic and chronological sections that explicate over 200 works of art—an array of bronze vessels complemented by a selection of paintings, ceramics, jades, and other media. Some 100 pieces from The Met collection will be augmented by nearly 100 loans from major institutions in China, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States to present the most comprehensive narrative of the ongoing importance of bronzes as an art medium throughout China’s long history. Featured in the exhibition are around 60 loans from institutions in China, including major works such as a monumental 12th-century bell with imperial procession from the Liaoning Provincial Museum, documented ritual bronzes for Confucian temples from the Shanghai Museum, and luxury archaistic vessels made in the 18th-century imperial workshop from the Palace Museum, Beijing.

The exhibition begins with the section “Reconstructing Ancient Rites,” which introduces how emperors and scholar-officials commissioned ritual bronzes from the 12th to the 16th century as part of an effort to restore and align themselves with antique ceremonies and rites. The exhibition continues with “Experimenting with Styles,” illustrating how the form, decoration, and function of ancient bronzes were creatively reinterpreted from the 13th to the 15th century. The next section, “Establishing New Standards,” explores further transformations in both the aesthetic and technical direction of bronze making from the 15th to the 17th century. The fourth section, “Living with Bronzes,” features a display in the Ming Furniture Room (Gallery 218) to demonstrate how bronzes were used in literati life from the 16th to the 19th century. The last section, “Harmonizing with Antiquity,” examines how the deep scholarly appreciation of archaic bronzes during the 18th and 19th centuries led to a final flourishing of bronze production.
Pengliang Lu, Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art at The Met, said: “This exhibition attempts a long-overdue reevaluation of later Chinese bronzes by seeking to establish a reliable chronology of this art form across the last millennium of Chinese history. The exhibition will also distinguish outstanding works from lesser examples based on their artistic and cultural merits.”
This exhibition provides visitors with a captivating experience as they follow the shifting cultural roles and evolving canons of beauty represented in later bronzes.

Later Chinese bronzes have long been stigmatized as poor imitations of ancient bronzes rather than being seen as fundamentally new creations with their own aesthetic and functional character. This exhibition redresses this misunderstanding by showcasing their artistic virtuosity, innovative creativity, and wide cultural impact. Through archaeologically recovered examples and cross-medium comparisons to a wide range of objects, the exhibition demonstrates the ongoing importance and influence of bronzes as well as how they inspired the form and function of works in other media.

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900 is curated by Pengliang Lu, Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Recasting the Past
The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900
by Pengliang Lu
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Distributed by Yale University Press
320 Pages, 9.50 x 11.20 in, 300 color illus.
Hardcover, 9781588397904, 15 April 2025

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
The Met Fifth Avenue, Galleries 209-218

SHANGHAI MUSEUM

26/01/25

Caspar David Friedrich @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC - "The Soul of Nature" Exhibition with Catalogue

Caspar David Friedrich 
The Soul of Nature
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
February 8 - May 11, 2025

Caspar David Friedrich
(German, 1774–1840)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, ca. 1817
Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 × 29 1/2 in. (94.8 × 74.8 cm)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, on permanent
loan from the Stiftung Hamburger
Kunstsammlungen, acquired 1970 (HK-5161)
Photo by Elke Walford

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774–1840)
Self-Portrait, 1800
Black chalk on wove paper
16 9/16 x 10 7/8 in. / 42 x 27.6 cm
SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
(KKSgb5006)
Photo credit: Statens Museum for Kunst

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States dedicated to Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840). Friedrich’s art presents nature as a site of personal and philosophical discovery. Marshalling the expressive power of perspective, light, color, and atmosphere, the artist created landscapes that articulate a profound connection between the natural world and the inner self, or soul. This imagery encapsulated the newly emerging ideals of European Romanticism, a cultural revolution that championed conceptions of individual perception and feeling that are still vital today.
“The most significant German Romantic painter, Caspar David Friedrich brilliantly illuminates our understanding of the natural world as a spiritual and emotional landscape,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. “This very first major retrospective in the United States of Germany’s most beloved painter follows the celebrations of Friedrich’s work in Europe on the occasion of the artist’s 250th birthday in 2024. We are thrilled to collaborate with our German museum colleagues and many other generous lenders on this rare opportunity to reflect on Friedrich’s portrayals of nature and the human condition.”
The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which house the most substantial collections of Friedrich’s work in the world. In 2023–24, these museums presented hugely popular exhibitions of Friedrich’s art as part of the artist’s jubilee celebrations in Germany. As a capstone to this series of shows, The Met’s exhibition features unprecedented loans from all three institutions and from more than 30 other public and private lenders in Europe and North America, many never before seen in the United States. Despite Friedrich’s celebrated reputation, there have been only two exhibitions dedicated to his work in the United States: The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich: Paintings and Drawings from the U.S.S.R., held at The Met and the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990–91 and featuring 9 paintings and 11 works on paper by Friedrich; and Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers, held at The Met in 2001, which included 7 paintings and 2 works on paper by the artist.


Caspar David Friedrich
(1774–1840)
View of Arkona with Rising Moon, 1805–6
Brown ink and wash, over pencil, on wove paper
24 x 39 3/8 in. / 60.9 x 100 cm
The Albertina Museum, Vienna (17298)
Photo credit: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna

Caspar David Friedrich
(German, 1774–1840)
Two Men Contemplating the Moon, ca. 1825–30
Oil on canvas, 13 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. / 34.9 x 43.8 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Wrightsman Fund, 2000 (2000.51)
Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature presents oil paintings, finished drawings, and working sketches from every phase of the artist’s career, along with select examples by his contemporaries. The selection illuminates Caspar David Friedrich’s development of a symbolic vocabulary of landscape motifs to convey the personal and existential meanings that he discovered in nature. Among the loans that are exhibited for the first time in the United States are Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Hamburger Kunsthalle) and Monk by the Sea (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie), two of Friedrich’s most famous paintings and icons of Romantic art. Many other signature works, such as Dolmen in Autumn (Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), have not been seen in the United States for decades. The exhibition also brings together for the first time all five of the Caspar David Friedrich paintings owned by museums in the United States (The Met, the Kimbell Art Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the Saint Louis Art Museum), placing these rare American holdings in the broader context of Friedrich’s art. A rich selection of works on paper from domestic and international collections showcases Friedrich’s talents as a draftsman and the centrality of drawing to his creative practice. As a joint project between specialists in paintings and drawings, the exhibition  also considers the ways that the artist worked across media and how different materials and techniques shaped his style.

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774–1840)
Castle Ruins at Teplitz, 1828
Watercolor over pencil on wove paper
6 13/16 x 9 ¼ in. / 17.3 x 23.4 cm
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen 
Dresden (C 1913-33)
Photo credit: © Kupferstich-Kabinett, 
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 
Photo by Herbert Boswank

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774–1840)
The Evening Star, ca. 1830
Oil on canvas, 13 x 17 13/16 in. (33 x 45.2 cm)
Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurter Goethe Museum, 
Frankfurt am Main (IV-1950-007)
Photo credit: © Freies Deutsches Hochstift / 
Frankfurter Goethe-Museum
Photo: David Hall

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774–1840)
Cave in the Harz, ca. 1837
Brown ink and wash with pencil on wove paper
13 9/16 x 17 3/16 in. / 34.5 x 43.7 cm
The Royal Danish Collection, Copenhagen (I, 3 a-3)
Photo credit: HM The King's Reference Library, 
The Royal Danish Collection

The exhibition unfolds chronologically and thematically, tracing Friedrich’s portrayal of the landscape of northern and central Europe over his four-decade career, which coincided with pronounced symbolic and physical changes to the land—prompted by the rise of Romantic thought, scientific discoveries about the earth, nascent industrialization, and political upheaval, most notably the Napoleonic Wars of 1803–1815. Each section of the exhibition examines specific landscape motifs and pictorial strategies that defined Friedrich’s art, while highlighting the themes that he explored, among them spirituality and religion; the experience of the infinite and unknowable; the passage of time and mortality; solitude and companionship in nature; the juxtaposition of the familiar and the unknown; and the mixture of beauty and danger that the Romantics called the sublime. As a whole, the exhibition  distills Caspar David Friedrich’s vision of nature and situate his art within the tumultuous politics and vibrant culture of 19th-century German society, illuminating the role of German Romanticism in shaping modern perceptions of the natural world.

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature is co-curated by Alison Hokanson (Curator, Department of European Paintings, The Met), and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein (Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Met).

Caspar David Friedrich 
The Soul of Nature
A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. It features essays by Dr. Hokanson and Dr. Seidenstein; Professor Joseph Leo Koerner, Harvard University; and Professor Cordula Grewe, Indiana University; in addition to contributions from other international scholars. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art it is distributed by Yale University Press.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 199
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028

24/01/25

George Condo @ Hauser & Wirth and Sprüth Magers, New York City - "Pastels" Exhibition

George Condo: Pastels
Sprüth Magers New York
29 January – 1 March 2025
Hauser & Wirth New York
29 January – 12 April 2025

GEORGE CONDO
Abstract Male Portrait, 2024
Acrylic, pastel and metallic paint on paper
203.2 x 198.1 cm / 80 x 78 in
Photo: Thomas Barratt
© George Condo
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

GEORGE CONDO
The Redhead, 2024
Acrylic and pastel on paper
198.1 x 152.4 cm / 78 x 60 in
Photo: Matt Grubb
© George Condo
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

GEORGE CONDO
Collision Course, 2024
Acrylic and pastel on paper
198.1 x 152.4 cm / 78 x 60 in
Photo: Thomas Barratt
© George Condo
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

George Condo’s two-part exhibition, ‘Pastels,’ spanning galleries at both Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth in New York City, offers a glimpse into the artist’s creative process and unbound inventiveness through the medium of pastel. Condo’s new works challenge the limits of improvisation within this medium—spontaneously deploying gesso, fields of color and dramatic pastel gestures, all without the benefit of preparatory sketches—to express various states of the human psyche. The artist embraces the act of abstraction within a figural framework in novel ways, materializing the fragmented, elusive nature of ineffable thoughts and feelings. 

Together, these complementary presentations highlight the sui generis power of Condo’s oeuvre. The presentation at Hauser & Wirth comprises a new series of puzzle-like portraits, which the artist has dubbed his ‘bizarre characters,’ their visages simultaneously splintered and affixed by bright geometric planes. The jagged electricity created by the faceted compositions of these works signals the complex and often conflicted nature of the mind. 

At Sprüth Magers, George Condo presents frenzied color compositions alongside a series of new black-and-white pastels that incorporate deliberate drips and spatters of colored pigment. Here, overlapping and intersecting shapes that might typically suggest figurative elements forego any reference to the human face, emphasizing instead the gesture, line and rhythm of their making. With such titles as Centrifuge, Open Forms, No Direction Home, and Chaotic Combustion, these recent paintings evoke fluidity and tumult—Condo’s reflection, perhaps, on his ricocheting innermost feelings and thoughts. 

Taken together, the works across both locations form a visual essay on the flair and diversity of Condo’s draftsmanship, exceptional sense of color, and mastery of any material. 

GEORGE CONDO - BIOGRAPHY

Born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1957, George Condo lives and works in New York City. He studied Art History and Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell before relocating to New York, where he worked as a printer for Andy Warhol. In 1985, George Condo moved to Paris, subsequently spending a decade moving between New York and Europe. During this period, Condo invented his hallmark ‘artificial realism’ and made his first foray into sculpture. His 11ft gold leaf sculpture ‘Constellation of Voices’ (2019) was recently acquired as a permanent gift to The Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

George Condo’s work has appeared in a number of solo exhibitions including ‘Confrontation’ in 2016 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Museum Berggruen in Berlin, Germany. In this exhibition, work by George Condo was presented alongside some of his major art historical reference points: masterpieces by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Klee and Giacometti. From 2011 – 2012, a mid-career survey of Condo’s portraiture entitled ‘Mental States’ travelled from the New Museum, New York to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom, and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. Condo’s work can be found in numerous renowned public collections internationally: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; The Broad Collection, Los Angeles CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY among many others. In fall 2025, George Condo will be the subject of a major solo exhibition at Le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.

HAUSER & WIRTH NEW YORK
134 Wooster Street, New York City

SPRÜTH MAGERS NEW YORK
22 E 80th Street, New York City

23/01/25

Ull Hohn @ Haus am Waldsee, Berlin - "Revisions" Exhibition Curated by Anna Gritz

Ull Hohn: Revisions
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
31 January – 11 May, 2025

Ull Hohn 
Untitled, 1987 
Oil on canvas, 35,6 x 45,7 cm

Ull Hohn 
Untitled, 1993 
Oil on canvas, 45,5 x 61 cm

Ull Hohn 
Untitled, 1989
Oil on wooden box, 56 x 112 x 15 cm 
Courtesy Private collection, Berlin

For ULL HOHN (1960, Trier - 1995, Berlin), painting was far more than just an artistic form—it was a space where discourse, techniques, and personal reflections intertwined. At a time when painting was widely seen as an exhausted medium, Ull Hohn sought renewal from within. In his works from the late 1980s and early 1990s, he explored the connections between formal and political approaches to art through several series of paintings. Ull Hohn consistently made himself the starting point of his works, reflecting on his position as an artist shaped by his origins, abilities, body, and sexuality. He experimented with forms of representation that probed the boundaries of mass media appropriation and the tension between virtuosity and amateurism, opening painting up for self-reflection.

Ull Hohn
 
Untitled, 1994/1995 
Oil on canvas, 127,5 x 101 x 2,5 cm 
Courtesy of The Estate of Ull Hohn and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Ull Hohn 
Ohne Titel (Landscape), ca. 1992/1993 
Oil on canvas, 35,5 x 27,8 x 1,8 cm 
Courtesy Private collection, Milan

The exhibition sheds light on the tension between formal dedication and the exploration of current artistic and political discourses. Questions about the relevance of painting and the positioning of an artist, especially in relation to one’s identity, shaped Hohn’s artistic path and remain central to subsequent generations of artists. In 2023, Haus am Waldsee presented a selection of Ull Hohn’s works as part of the exhibition Bruno Pélassy and the Order of the Starfish

Curated by Anna Gritz

HAUS AM WALDSEE, BERLIN
Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin

Exposition Le Corbusier @ Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne - "Le Corbusier. L'ordre des choses"

Le Corbusier. L'ordre des choses
Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne
8 février - 22 juin 2025

À l’occasion de son 20e anniversaire, le Zentrum Paul Klee consacre la première grande exposition temporaire de l’année à Le Corbusier avec "Le Corbusier. L'ordre des choses". L’exposition s’intéresse à l’élaboration du travail de cet artiste architecte, designer et urbaniste franco-suisse ainsi qu’à sa pensée plastique. Elle propose un large aperçu de l’ensemble de son œuvre à partir d’une perspective artistique à travers des pièces iconiques mais aussi des groupes d’œuvres encore peu connues.

L’élaboration du travail de Le Corbusier au cœur de l’exposition

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, connu dans le monde entier sous le pseudonyme de Le Corbusier, compte parmi les pionniers de l’architecture moderne en Suisse. Figure centrale de la modernité internationale parmi les plus marquantes et influentes du monde, Le Corbusier (né en 1887 à La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse – mort en 1965 à Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France) exerçait non seulement comme architecte, mais aussi comme artiste, urbaniste, designer, écrivain et théoricien. Depuis 2016, une partie de son œuvre architecturale est inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO.
« Être moderne n’est pas une mode, c’est un état. »
Le Corbusier, extrait de : Jean Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, Editions Rousseau, 1970, p. 184
Le Corbusier a marqué l’architecture moderne par son formidable entrain, ses projets radicaux et son éloquence impétueuse. Dans son œuvre, il ambitionne de repenser les habitations et l’espace urbain. Son approche réunit l’art, le design et l’architecture. Il aspire à créer un nouvel environnement de vie et à améliorer la qualité de vie des gens avec une architecture fonctionnelle et esthétique. Pour ce faire, il met à profit les nouvelles possibilités du progrès technique et les associe à des principes esthétiques classiques tels que le nombre d’or. Le Corbusier propose d’utiliser les produits des technologies modernes, à l’instar du paquebot, de l’avion et de l’automobile, comme modèles pour l’architecture, leur forme étant proportionnée à leur fonction. Dans ses bâtiments, il recourt au béton armé et élabore des méthodes pour utiliser de manière innovante les possibilités artistiques et sculpturales de ce procédé de construction moderne.
« Tout est dans l’intention, dans le germe. Rien n’est vu, apprécié, aimé que ce qui est si bien, si beau que du dehors on pénètre au cœur même de la chose par l’examen, la recherche, l’exploration. Ayant parcouru un chemin multiple, on trouve alors le cœur de la chose. »
Le Corbusier, extrait de : L’Atelier de la recherche patiente, 1960, p. 201
L’exposition met en évidence l’élaboration du travail de Le Corbusier, sa pensée plastique et ses expérimentations artistiques au sein de l’« Atelier de la recherche patiente », ainsi désignait-il sa démarche artistique. Elle révèle son approche par tâtonnement de la forme, mais aussi de la composition et de l’espace, de la lumière et de la couleur. La présentation rassemble de nombreux dessins et études provenant de son atelier. Pour Le Corbusier, le dessin a toujours été un moyen fondamental pour garder en mémoire ce qu’il avait vu et l’assimiler, ainsi que pour concevoir de nouvelles idées. Par ailleurs, l’exposition met en lumière les sources irriguant son processus de conception : d’objets qu’il trouvait sur la plage à l’architecture antique.

Le principe de l’ordre chez Le Corbusier

L’« ordre » jouait un rôle primordial pour Le Corbusier. Avec cette notion, l’exposition s’empare en outre d’un thème du champ de l’histoire de l’art et de la culture, intelligible et universel, remontant à l’Antiquité et toujours actuel. Dans les années 1920 en particulier, l’« ordre » constituait un concept clé de la pensée corbuséenne. Pour Le Corbusier, concevoir signifiait « ordonner » les choses. Comprendre le monde et l’organiser à travers l’ordre, était, selon lui, le devoir de l’art et de l’architecture. Ce n’est que par l’ordre, croyait-il, que l’individu peut s’épanouir intellectuellement et se libérer des caprices de la nature, du hasard et de l’arbitraire.
« Là où naît l’ordre, naît le bien-être. »
Le Corbusier, extrait de : Vers une architecture, 1923, p. 39
En architecture, le principe de l’ordre se réfère d’abord au souhait de créer un rapport harmonieux entre les formes et les couleurs, la lumière et l’espace. La conception de l’ordre selon Le Corbusier trouve son origine dans des traditions classiques de l’art et de l’architecture, à l’instar de l’art de la construction antique. L’intérêt de Le Corbusier pour l’ordre constituait en même temps une réaction aux défis de son époque : les mauvaises conditions de vie dans les villes industrielles, les destructions de la Première Guerre mondiale, les changements dans le quotidien induits par le progrès technique, les révolutions en Europe, ainsi que les crises économiques des années 1920.

Il partage avec l’avant-garde artistique de son époque l’élan radical de remettre en question les traditions et de repenser entièrement l’espace de vie des individus, de l’« ordonner ». Dans ce cas, l’ordre est une notion utopique mais aussi ambivalente : elle promet le calme et la sécurité tout en exigeant des règles et de la discipline. Elle comprend la conception des espaces et la structure des villes jusqu’à la question de l’organisation du vivre-ensemble. Elle relie l’art et l’architecture, la culture et la société. 

Le Corbusier : Art, architecture et recherche

L’exposition s’articule de manière thématique et chronologique autour de trois axes : l’art, l’architecture et la recherche. 

L’axe Art montre l’évolution artistique de Le Corbusier, de ses années de formation jusqu’à son œuvre tardive. Pour lui, l’art a toujours joué un rôle capital à la fois comme activité autonome et comme moteur pour l’architecture et le design. Cette partie de l’exposition commence avec des études de la nature, de paysage et d’architecture rarement présentées qui mettent en évidence la manière dont le jeune Charles-Édouard Jeanneret s’initie à l’espace et à l’architecture. S’ensuivent des peintures iconiques du « purisme » des années 1920 – mouvement avant-gardiste fondé par Le Corbusier et l’artiste Amédée Ozenfant à Paris. L’axe Art comprend, en outre, des dessins abstraits colorés, des sculptures étonnantes et des papiers collés de son œuvre tardive qui révèlent un aspect peu connu de Le Corbusier.

L’axe Architecture est consacré à la pratique de conception de Le Corbusier et à son intérêt pour les principes d’ordre en architecture. Cette section présente des études de projets réalisés et non-réalisés. Parmi les pièces exposées figurent de remarquables esquisses et dessins, des études et des projets en urbanisme, des maquettes et des visualisations dont le caractère artistique au premier plan souligne les parallèles étroits avec l’œuvre artistique de Le Corbusier. Les plans originaux de projets célèbres comme l’Unité d’Habitation à Marseille (1945-1952), la ville de Chandigarh en Inde (1950-1965) ou la chapelle Notre-Dame-Du-Haut de Ronchamp (1950-1955) sont également visibles. Les croquis novateurs presque cinématographiques des villas modernistes réalisées par Le Corbusier dans les années 1920 qui invitent à la « promenade architecturale » font également partie de l’exposition. De nombreuses photographies de Richard Pare permettent au public d’établir un lien entre les études architecturales et le bâti. L’exposition s’achève sur une installation vidéo grand format réalisée par l’artiste autrichien Kay Walkowiak (*1980) consacrée à l’état actuel de la ville de Chandigarh.

L’axe Recherche constitue le cœur de l’exposition. Cette section dédiée au concept de l’« Atelier de la Recherche Patiente » forme une passerelle entre l’architecture et l’art. Elle donne au public un aperçu du travail quotidien de Le Corbusier, dont l’activité était répartie entre deux ateliers parisiens : son bureau d’architecte rue de Sèvres et son atelier d’artiste situé rue Nungesser-et-Coli. L’axe Recherche montre, entre autres, la collection d’objets naturels de Le Corbusier qu’il considérait comme des « objets à réaction poétique » et qui formaient une source importante de son processus de conception. Une sélection de ses photographies est également présentée ici. Pour la première fois en Suisse, le Zentrum Paul Klee montre en outre la collection de cartes postales de Le Corbusier qui permet de s’immerger dans l’univers visuel à nul autre pareil de cet artiste architecte. Des livres de Le Corbusier ainsi que des brouillons de livres sont également visibles. Enfin, une salle est consacrée à ses légendaires dessins qu’il réalisa lors de conférences en présence du public. Ils proviennent de ses voyages et conférences à l’étranger et témoignent de sa ferveur à diffuser les idées modernistes.

Le Corbusier : Contextualisation historique

De nombreux textes muraux et explicatifs facilitent la compréhension de l’œuvre de Le Corbusier dans son contexte historique. L’exposition met également à disposition des informations sur le parcours de Le Corbusier, tandis qu’elle éclaire de manière scientifique son rapport controversé à la politique, ses positionnements idéologiques et son héritage culturel. À ce sujet, le Zentrum Paul Klee prend appui sur l’étude « Le Corbusier, les Juifs et les fascismes. Une mise au point » produite par l’historien Jean-Louis Cohen pour le compte de la ville de Zurich en 2012, ainsi que sur les connaissances actuelles de la recherche.

Inauguration le vendredi 7 février 2025, à 18:00. Ce soir-là, l’entrée à l’exposition sera libre.

Commissaire d’exposition : Dr. Martin Waldmeier, Zentrum Paul Klee

Assistante commissaire d’exposition : Amélie Florence Joller

Collaboration : L'exposition a été organisée en collaboration avec la Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.

Le Corbusier. Die Ordnung der Dinge
Catalogue édité par Martin Waldmeier et Nina Zimmer
Avec des textes de Tim Benton, Marianna Charitonidou, Johan
Linton, Danièle Pauly, Arthur Rüegg, Amélie Joller et Martin
Waldmeier, de nombreuses reproductions ainsi qu’un glossaire
des concepts artistiques et architectoniques de Le Corbusier
Seulement disponible en allemand
ISBN 978-3-03942-220-3
256 pages, 240 reproductions, 18 x 24 cm
Éditions Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2025

ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE, BERN

22/01/25

Artist Char Jeré @ Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC - "Remembering the Mind: A Study in Progress" Exhibition

Char Jeré
Remembering the Mind:
A Study in Progress
Andrew Kreps, New York
January 10 - February 1, 2025

Andrew Kreps Gallery presents Remembering the Mind: A Study in Progress, an exhibition of new works by the New York-based artist Char Jeré.

In layered installations, Char Jeré draws on Afro-fractalist theory, her own autobiography, and a background in data analytics to examine the ways in which the built networks of our world enact a complicated relationship between race and technology. Remembering the Mind: A Study in Progress expands upon Jeré’s project Genuflect Symphony, which redefines the concept of “Black Noise,” (as opposed to white noise, which is traditionally positioned as a neutral sound), not as an absence, but as an assertion of the identities that history has sought to erase.

Char Jeré, who has experienced night terrors since childhood, is interested in how real-world anxieties manifest in psychological spaces and how these fears can be rendered in image. In the exhibition, paintings that draw on memories ranging from the intimacy of the artist’s grandmother cradling her brother, to the monsters of dreams, appear throughout the installation, alongside repurposed satellite dishes. Picking up on found radio signals, these collected feeds are disrupted by the consistent noise of Marsona sound machines, pointing to their intended function as sleep aids, to combat or allay unwanted noise. The fragile, technological network created between these devices is furthered by the presence of a polygraph machine, an antiquated device initially developed for medical purposes such as sleep studies. Later utilized to conduct lie detector tests, a purpose for which it was subsequently debunked, the device still carries a legacy as a tool for oppression. Woven together into a field of sound, image, and association, these elements form a meditation on how technology’s promise of neutrality, and knowledge, can disguise its use as a tool of harm, as well as the often disquieting ways in which our lived experiences intertwine with our inherited history.

In 2023, Artists Space presented Zoo or Orchestra, Char Jeré’s first exhibition in New York. In 2024, Jeré was included in the gallery’s group exhibition, Eighteen Painters, and additionally included in Peripheral Belonging, at GhostMachine, New York. She received a MFA in Sound Art from the Computer Music Center at Columbia University in 2023. Additionally, Char Jeré earned an MS in Data Analytics and Visualization from Pratt Institute in 2021.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY
394 Broadway, New York City

21/01/25

Kjell Strandqvist @ Berg Gallery, Stockholm - "Mallar 1991" Exhibition

Kjell Strandqvist: Mallar 1991
Berg Gallery, Stockholm
16 January - 15 February, 2025

Kjell Strandqvist’s paintings often combine the defined with the undefined, frequently utilizing a distinct, simple form as a vessel for coloristic events. His colors possess a dense, imaginary relationship that is sometimes more felt than seen. In his first exhibition at Berg Gallery, he presents a series of paintings under the common title Mallar (’Templates’). The works were originally shown in 1991 at Galerie Aronowitsch in Stockholm, where Kjell Strandqvist exhibited on a regular basis between 1983 and 2009. Yet, these works possess a distinctly timeless quality. The compositions show softly defined rectangular fields in muted colors – like the hues of nature at twilight – surrounded by edges that have been left unpainted, revealing the white canvas.

Kjell Strandqvist describes the works in the exhibition as follows: 
”Stencils cut from copper printing paper, placed on a horizontal canvas and filled with color, then lifted off before the paint is fully dry. When diluted acrylic paint accumulates and dries uncontrollably, it creates islands dense with pigment – a kind of nature. The paint seeps beneath the stencil, deforming the otherwise strict configuration. Its simple geometry acquires an organic character through the behavior of the pigment. The formations of the painting sometimes extend to the outer edges of the square, leaving an uneven white margin. Certain combinations occasionally create asymmetric coloristic encounters. The slightly deformed appearances created by the stencils recalled some sort of essence, overgrown architecture, peculiar shapes.”
Kjell Strandqvist (b. 1944, Härnösand) lives and works in Stockholm. His artistic career spans more than five decades and includes a large number of solo and group exhibitions throughout Scandinavia and Europe. Previous solo exhibition venues include Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm (2009, 1997, 1994, 1992, 1985, etc.), Kungl. Konstakademien, Stockholm (2019, 2014, 2013, 2004), Galleri Mariann Ahnlund, Umeå (2007, 2001, 1992), Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm (2003, 1988), i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (1999) Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris (1984), and Galleri Olsson, Stockholm (1982). In addition to his artistic practice, Kjell Strandqvist served as a professor at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm from 1986 to 1996. He has also been a board member of Moderna Museets Vänner, Maria Bonniers Dahlins Stiftelse, and The Academy of Fine Arts. From 1998 to 2006, he worked as a project leader at Statens Konstråd / Public Art Agency Sweden.

BERG GALLERY
Hudiksvallsgatan 8, 11330 Stockholm

Amandine Khulmann @ Studio de la MEP, Paris - Installation vidéo "Cash me Online"

Amandine Khulmann 
Cash me online
Studio de la MEP, Paris
3 avril - 18 mai 2025

Amandine Kuhlmann 
Delusional Queen, 2023 
© Amandine Kuhlmann

Amandine Kuhlmann 
Catfish Training, 2023 
© Amandine Kuhlmann

Amandine Kuhlmann
Fame Won't Love You, 2023 
© Amandine Kuhlmann

Amandine Kuhlmann 
I'm Just a Girl, 2023 
© Amandine Kuhlmann

Amandine Kuhlmann présente son installation vidéo Cash me Online au Studio de la MEP, dédié aux artistes émergents. Réalisé en 2023, ce projet mêlant performance et vidéo explore les réseaux sociaux comme espace de représentation et de mise en scène.

L’artiste a créé un personnage fictif, un alter ego hypersexualisé, qui évolue aussi bien en ligne que lors de performances publiques. Adoptant des poses glamour, artificielles ou suggestives, inspirées des tendances en vogue sur les plateformes sociales, ce personnage rejoue les stéréotypes omniprésents qui définissent ces espaces virtuels et imposent des normes codifiées. Le projet présente une succession de séquences courtes : des vidéos de « Mukbang » – un phénomène consistant à regarder des jeunes femmes manger des quantités excessives de nourriture – aux conseils bien-être de la « Clean girl », adepte d’un mode de vie sain et productif ponctué de mantras de développement personnel. Pour incarner ces multiples archétypes, Amandine Kuhlmann mêle des images d’elle-même à des vidéos trouvées en ligne. Grâce à la technique du deepfake, elle superpose son visage sur ces corps étrangers, accentuant l’artificialité et l’étrangeté de ces mises en scène. Ce travail met en lumière l’impact des réseaux sociaux sur la marchandisation des corps, en particulier celui des femmes, dont la condition reste largement influencée par ces normes imposées. Cash Me Online propose un regard critique et sarcastique sur ces injonctions, offrant ainsi un espace de réflexion pour mieux s’en libérer.
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Amandine Kuhlmann est née en 1992, elle vit et travaille à Paris. Elle est diplômée de l’École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) en 2023 et a travaillé pour la presse féminine, notamment dans les domaines de la mode et de la beauté. Ces expériences viennent nourrir sa réflexion sur la notion de féminité et ses représentations. Sa pratique artistique, qui mêle la performance, la photographie et la vidéo, est marquée par des questions sociales et politiques. Son travail a été exposé lors d’expositions collectives en France et à l’étranger, comme « A Nova Feminilidade », Thirdbase Studio, Lisbonne. Elle a également participé à la Biennale Images Vevey en 2024.

Studio de la MEP
MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
5/7 rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris