The News of La Gazette Des Arts No. 29 of january 15th, 2016
“Oui tous ces oiseaux qui étaient si bien là-haut dans les nuages…“
They rejoined them - in this beginning of year 2016 - Michel Delpech and the natural beauty of his universe full of soul depth. But also Michel Galabru and his colorful eloquence that Saint-Tropez still remembers, or even Pierre Boulez, whose personality marked the french music scene... Without forgetting the fashion designer André Courrèges whose inspiration revolutionized haute couture. And the rock superstar David Bowie.
Art in its diversity is - today - in mourning.
But life goes on !
The month of january is also the one of the revival, of good resolutions. The russian new year that we celebrate through the artist Anna Pokrovova whose portrait will be found in the section Du côté des artistes. While Les bons plans de la Dépêche look into the history of Egypt and the greatness of its civilization, today in danger. To continue with Echos de Psyché which observes the prisms of fantasy and dread through the ages. As for L’actualité du marché de l’Art, it invites us to discover the famous Marché aux Puces... This is very symbolic !
And still our books in Le coin du bibliophile...
A wonderful year to all of you !
Wishing it full of joy and happiness...
Georges LEVY
Les bons plans de la Dépêche
Egypt : those forty centuries which contemplate us !
Greatness, fascination, wonder; the qualifiers are plentiful to describe Egypt which with Mesopotamia have been the cradles of the two oldest civilizations.
Between the beginning of the IIIrd millennium, when its history begins, and the Persian conquest (525 before J.-C.) that put an end to its independance, Egypt has had its ups and downs, and many transformations affected this country. However the original civilization that was born on the Nile’s borders has kept to the end enduring traits; that is what constitutes its exceptional interest. From then on expeditions were undertaken, and the Emperor Napoléon Ist, in occupying Egypt, made the dream of Orient true. One wanted to penetrate the mystery, to go to the discovery of History, of those huge buildings made by human hands to the glory of Pharaoh.
Chantal GUIONNET-FUSCO
Du coté des artistes...
I have two loves !
Russia is her native land. France, her crush. Her canvas, the den of her repressed expressions.
Anna Pokrovova has a history that she exults.
Shapes and colours that she rises to the occasion of France which exalts her, seduces her with its frank and open atmosphere, carried by the philosophical values that constituted, among others, the Age of Enlightenment.
Authentic, freedom-loving, loving nature and its beauty, inspired by the sunshine... So many factors that arouse her passions toward a kind of somewhere else full of sparkling discoveries, that she never stops contemplating and going further into.
For each realization, her paintings get a fresh impetus, a charm and a legendary freshness.
Full of imagination, with an infinitely innocent spirit... the artist became quickly appreciative of the Impressionists of the Pouchkine museum. Her technical approach brings to her work, a particular brightness.
Can we qualify her palette as romantic ? In many ways, one must even claim it for she promotes heart and passion, the imagination, the exaltation, the colour and the touch.
As Charles Baudelaire underlined it : " Romanticism is precisely neither in the choice of subjects, nor in the exact truth, but in the way to feel (...) The most recent expression of beauty. Who says romantic, says modern art, that is to say intimacy, spirituality, colour, aspiration for infinity ".
An unclassifiable course that feeds our dreams.
L’art en mouvement d’Odon
Neither painter, nor sculptor, the artist Odon has been developing - for decades - an unclassifiable art made of everyday plaiting, in natural fibers. In perfect harmony with his time, he lets fluctuate his work following a certain randomness.
" Plaiting is in the image of the rosary, an object of worship to count the prayers I say every day. For my work, through its realization, carries a message, a meaning. Kind of infinite dialogue that we hold with God and the beyond. What makes me claim that weaving is praying ".
A fervour that drives him and which he can’t do without.
Poetic and cosmic, presented at the moment at the Galerie Dutko, his work is similar to a sphere whose multiple connections crisscross, collide to give the illusion of a new workmanship, of a singular brightness where other shapes will pop up from, equally complex.
Stemming of methodical, or even mathematical researches, his works can be assimilated to Leonardo da Vinci’s genius, in his way to conceive the artistic progress, its ambivalences and its confusions.
Full of spirituality, his spirals make us travel, ever forward through space and the infinity that doesn’t stop fascinating us.
Chantal GUIONNET-FUSCO
Echo de Psyché
Fantastic... Did you say fantastic !
Always, men tried to excel themselves. To brush against the mystic strengths, leaning on their frail shoulders, for dreaming.
A theme evoked at the Petit Palais through both exhibitions dedicated to the artist Kuniyoshi and to this visionary spirit which characterized the history of art from Goya to Redon... By way of Le visage de l’ Effroi, at the musée de La vie romantique. Where artists explore the dark side of human soul while the dream of irrational emerges from the heights of reason and of Enlightenment... Fantastic is above all this intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic frame. A way out in a context of censorship. Distorting reality, in order to transform it... It escapes from any hold. Skates over space, builds another dimension, out of time and of its burdensome constraints. It is inviting good and evil to the ball of science fiction. With this genre, everything evaporates and becomes something else... This is the hesitation that brings it to life.
Fantastic is a light shining with hope...
Better still an art exhibition will be dedicated to it, from february 26th to february 28th, at the Espace Champerret.
Chantal GUIONNET-FUSCO
Actualité du marché de l’Art
Le marché aux Puces : more than a legend...
Wandering over the paths and over the different markets of this « Foire aux Puces » amounts to an invitation to the voyage.
A change of scenery that takes you through the centuries, makes you contemplate the wonders constituting our heritage.
A market that has a long history. Started after the Commune and the conflict of 1870, period when the rag-and-bone men were forced, for reasons of hygiene, to settle out of Paris.
The creation of the métro, right from 1908, allowed the service of this rising Foire.
From 1920, the Marché aux Puces settles and the first markets such as Vernaison, Biron, Malik and Vallès are open to the public.
The Marché is lively, the crowd becomes pressed over there…
The gypsies repairers of rush seats and guitar players intone new airs : the jazz gipsy finds its mark there.
After the Second World War, the Marché takes on a new face. The scrap merchants and rag-and-bone men make way for antique dealers and secondhand goods dealers. The spaces Malassis, Dauphine, Serpette or Paul Bert give to the Puces, a new dynamics.
Today, stretching out on 7 hectares, made up of 14 markets where 1700 exhibitors work, it constitutes one of the major markets of the world.
A « curiosity » that is world-renowned.
Chantal GUIONNET-FUSCO
Le coin du bibliophile
Jean Cocteau le magnifique
Les miroirs d’un poète
Pascal Fulacher, Dominique Marny
Editions Gallimard
Corrida et flamenco : les origines
Essai
Jacques Laffitte
Editions L’Harmattan
Désenchantement du sexe
Dialectique du désir et de l’amour
Claude Esturgie
Editions L’Harmattan
Dictionnaire amoureux de la liberté
Mathieu Laine
Editions Plon
Les formes magiques de l’univers
Alex Bellos et Edmund Harriss
Editions Laffont
L’Art d’Hergé – Hergé et l’Art
Pierre Sterckx
Editions Gallimard
