Bernard Blistène

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

Catalogue de l'exposition "Jean Tinguely : méta-reliefs, méta-matics, 1955-1961" présentée à la Galerie Vallois, à Paris, du 5 octobre au 17 novembre 2012. Jean Tinguely en reliefs: onze oeuvres majeures et pour certaines inédites viennent rappeler ici la profonde originalité du sculpteur, décédé il y a déjà plus de vingt ans. Jean Tinguely: un nom qui tintinnabule et semble faire écho avec son travail. Un nom qui évoque pour chacun le merveilleux bricoleur d'oeuvres à prêter l'oeil et à tendre l'oreille. Jean Tinguely qui mêle à la science amusante, une réflexion sombre et grinçante sur l'univers de la machine à l'âge de son industrialisation. Jean Tinguely qui invente, entre malice et dérision, dans la complicité de son ami Pontus Hulten, la notion de Méta-Matic, sculpture pataphysique des temps modernes.

Jean Tinguely : Méta-Reliefs, Méta-Matics, 1955-1961

Focusing on 40 years of French innovation, this book explores conceptions of space in a wide range of artistic disciplines including painting, film, architecture, and design. It offers an understanding of the issues and theories that weave together nearly a half-century of artistic production.

Invested Spaces in Visual Arts, Architecture, & Design from France, 1958-1998

Premises

Dan Cameron

Edward Ruscha

Elbrig de Groot

Pontus Hulten

Catalogus bij een expositie van de Californische kunstenaar (1937).

Paintings

Orlan

Caroline Cros

Flammarion

Centre national de la photographie (France)

This is the first complete monograph devoted to the works and theories of Orlan, without a doubt today's most challenging and thought-provoking performance artist. She began her highly unconventional career at the age of 17 with a series of works using photographs of her own body, which has become her art "medium," her primary creative voice. Working beyond the limits of body art, in her manifesto on "Carnal Art", Orlan wrote that her performances are "a selfportrait in the classical sense, yet realized through the technology of its time. Lying between disfiguration and figuration, it is an inscription in flesh." In 1999, using the operating room as a studio, she underwent a series of filmed plastic surgery operations to modify her own body-her canvas-including the placing of cheekbone implants under the skin of her forehead. Here is a detailed, analytical text including a biography, a chronology of her exhibitions, and critical studies of the significance of her Carnal Art performances-a must-read for anyone interested in currents in contemporary art. This is the first complete monograph devoted to the works and theories of Orlan, without a doubt today's most challenging and thought-provoking performance artist. She began her highly unconventional career at the age of 17 with a series of works using photographs of her own body, which has become her art "medium," her primary creative voice. Working beyond the limits of body art, in her manifesto on "Carnal Art", Orlan wrote that her performances are "a selfportrait in the classical sense, yet realized through the technology of its time. Lying between disfiguration and figuration, it is an inscription in flesh." In 1999, using the operating room as a studio, she underwent a series of filmed plastic surgery operations to modify her own body-her canvas-including the placing of cheekbone implants under the skin of her forehead. Here is a detailed, analytical text including a biography, a chronology of her exhibitions, and critical studies of the significance of her Carnal Art performances-a must-read for anyone interested in currents in contemporary art.

à l'occasion de l'exposition Andy Warhol retrospective, organisée à Paris par le Musée national d'art moderne au Centre Georges Pompidou en collaboration avec le Museum of Modern Art, New York, (21 juin - 10 septembre 1990)

Andy Warhol cinéma

Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France)

Farid Chenoune

Jéromine Savignon

Yves Saint Laurent

Florence Müller

Yves Saint Laurent was an artist who worked in the sphere of fashion, and whose entire life was devoted to a quest for perfection. His entire creative output is featured in this book.

Bernard Blistène

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