France

by alexia|02 November 202222 October 2024|ART

Three standing mirrors with layers of organic aquatic lushness instead of glass and silver reflect Jean-Marie Appriou’s high-ceilinged studio in Paris. Not far away, a crescent shaped river boat with a cyclopic figurehead has found a safe refuge near a...

Adel Abdessemed Dans une usine de rêves qui pensent

by alexia|20 October 202022 October 2024|ART

Two full-scale cast-steel pigeons, each with strips of dynamite and a Blackberry phone tied to its back, sit quietly in Adel Abdessemed’s Parisian studio. Dressed in his trademark blue pants, a black shirt and a matching jacket, the forty-nine-year-old Franco...

Jacques Grange Paris from my Window

by alexia|20 October 202022 October 2024|ART

Colette’s sparkling prose made her an international sensation. Although her fictional plots and characters are often scandalous, her famous journal Paris from my Window is more subtle with its observations of nature and descriptions of the loyal tenants of the...

Jean-Michel Othoniel The Storyteller

by alexia|10 October 202022 October 2024|ART

A mysterious black and white photograph, the detail of an entrance gate to the Locus Solus villa, adorns the cover of a book on Jean-Michel Othoniel’s drawing table in the Marais district in Paris. The novel Locus Solus, written by Raymond...