FIAC STORIES
FIAC PORTRAIT | Trevor Yeung
Trevor Yeung is Hong Kong based artist whose practice, according to art writer and curator Cosmin Costinas, uses natural bodies and systems as a pretext for describing human processes and relations. We talked his recent work, favourite medium, the notion of control and its imprtant in the artist's work. Trevor Yeung is represented by Galerie...
FIAC PORTRAIT | Erin Jane Nelson
Erin Jane Nelson is Atlanta based artist and writer, she is also the Publisher and Director of Burnaway, a non-profit magazine of contemporary art in the American South. We talked about her recent work, favourite mediums, 3 projects that she finds the most formative,...
Claude Closky, “The Confinement”, episode 15
Claude Closky has been broadcasting his daily web series “The Confinement” since the beginning of April. It lies at the crossroads of a television sitcom and a short film. The series focuses on the exchanges between the occupants of a same apartment, confined together for what seems like an eternity. Each episode takes place in a different dwelling. The viewer follows the litanies of characters who rehash their anxieties and somber mind-sets, but also their love for each other. Off screen the...
FIAC FLASHBACK : SHEILA HICKS
Se pencher vers la zone dangereuse, 2017 Ice paper, bamboo, pigmented acrylic fiber, linen, cotton, silk, alpacaDimensions variables© Sheila HicksCourtesy of the artist and galerie frank elbaz, Paris Sheila Hicks was born in 1934 in Hastings, Nebraska. She lives and works in Paris. Poised at the intersection between the applied arts and contemporary art, she has developed her work since the 1960’s. As a student of Josef Albers at Yale University, she studied painting but wrote her thesis on...
FIAC FLASHBACK : KOHEI NAWA
Ether#34 / Ether#35, 2018 Aluminum and paint418 x 44,5 x 44,5 cm each SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo ;Pace, New York, London, Beijing, Hong Kong, Palo Alto, Seoul, Genève Kohei Nawa was born in 1975 in Osaka, Japan, and is currently based in Kyoto. The park is a key component of our daily life and a place for social communication. Ether symbolizes the relation between space and lives, and the energy used to defy gravity. Through an exploration of the physical manifestations of gravity, the work...
FIAC TIPS: Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Painter”, David Zwirner Books
Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, featuring earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold in many different languages, the present volume has been largely overlooked. In these eight intimate letters written to a teenage Balthus—who...
Claude Closky, “The Confinement”, episode 9
Claude Closky has been broadcasting his daily web series “The Confinement” since the beginning of April. It lies at the crossroads of a television sitcom and a short film. The series focuses on the exchanges between the occupants of a same apartment, confined together for what seems like an eternity. Each episode takes place in a different dwelling. The viewer follows the litanies of characters who rehash their anxieties and somber mind-sets, but also their love for each other. Off screen the...
General Idea
AA Bronson, one of the three artists of General Idea, speaks about "Great AIDS Series" presented by Mai 36 Galerie as part of FIAC Projects 2019
FIAC TIPS : “MARCEL DZAMA: CROSSING THE LINE”, DAVID ZWIRNER BOOKS
MARCEL DZAMA IN CONVERSATION WITH LAILA PEDRO Marcel Dzama I have always enjoyed trickster characters throughout history and mythology, as a way to escape the hold of the logical. I do from time to time candy-coat what I’m projecting in my work. Like my anger and anxieties around our times. In some of the work, I try to explain it, but in other works I pass over it in silence. I like the viewer to decide what’s happening. I enjoy interpretations—especially misinterpretations....
CLAUDE CLOSKY, “THE CONFINEMENT”, ÉPISODE 3
Claude Closky has been broadcasting his daily web series “The Confinement” since the beginning of April. It lies at the crossroads of a television sitcom and a short film. The series focuses on the exchanges between the occupants of a same apartment, confined together for what seems like an eternity. Each episode takes place in a different dwelling. The viewer follows the litanies of characters who rehash their anxieties and somber mind-sets, but also their love for each other. Off screen the...
A DAY WITH BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO
We've spend an entire day with Barthélémy Toguo, artist and founder of Bandjoun Station, who welcomed us at his Paris studio to discuss his background, sources of inspiration and different media he works with. We also joint the artist at the Château Rouge underground station and Sèvres-Manufacture et Musée nationaux to talk about "Célébrations", a fresco commissioned by Paris underground. A DAY WITH is a series of interviews with artists based in Paris that offer to discover their artistic...
FIAC TIPS : SPECIAL EDITION YAYOI KUSAMA
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