Simon Penny

Erik Verhagen

Larisa Dryansky

Nathalie Delbard

Samuel Bianchini

From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art

Practicable

Contemplation and Communion with the World Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) is a conceptual and installation artist whose oeuvre spans abstract painting, photography, and sculpture. Nature is where he has long found inspiration, regeneration, and comfort: "In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and the profane, the mystical and the secular vibrate against one another." Rondinone's works oscillate between the extremes of interiority and engagement with the wider world; stone is often present in his art as a recurrent material and symbol. The sculptures in the series nuns + monks originated as limestone models; the artist made three-dimensional scans and then cast the works in bronze. As a reflection of the inner self in the outside world, the friable mineral contrasts with the solidity of the bronze; the natural genesis of the millennia-old stones with the presence of the polychrome casts in the here and now. nuns + monks attest to a visibility while also giving the impression of flinching from the gazes to which they expose themselves.

Nuns + Monks

Ugo Rondinone

Thierry Davila

Bernar Venet, Sculpture

Jan Dibbets

Figure majeure et incontournable de la scène artistique du dernier tiers du XXe siècle, l'artiste néerlandais Jan Dibbets, né en 1941, est l'un des principaux créateurs à avoir intégré, et ce dès la deuxième moitié des années soixante, la photographie au sein des arts plastiques. Cet ouvrage qui couvre quarante années de création est la première monographie exhaustive dédiée à son œuvre photographique.

Jan Dibbets : the photographic work, 1967-2007

Coline Milliard

Steven Bode

Zineb Sedira

Galerie Kamel Mennour (Paris, France)

Zineb Sedira, beneath the surface

Espace Vallès (Saint-Martin-d'Hères, Isère)

Mehr Licht : Exposition, Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, Du 11 Janvier Au 23 Février 2008

Nicolas Delprat

Erik Verhagen

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