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Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr is probably the most known auctioneer in France. Since the decease of Mr. Pierre Restany in 2003, founder of the Nouveaux Realistes movement in 1960, Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr became the president benevolent of the Palais de Tokyo. In this interview, we focus on Mr. Cornette de Saint Cyr’s idea…
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艾未未的作品，⼀百五十噸的葵花籽雕塑從中國傳統貢品瓷器出產地景德鎮裝運至泰德現代展出。這批葵花籽經歷了三十個傳統製作程序，以⼀千三百度⾼溫燒製，並全⼈手彩繪，充份展現了景德鎮匠工的千年絕活
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The French collector and winner of the 2003 Montblanc award for cultural patronage, Gilles Fuchs, chairs the missionary ADIAF (Association of International Diffusion of French Art) for the promotion of contemporary French art since its creation in 1994. The Association is also the founder and presenter of the Prix Marcel Duchamp (presided by Mr. Fuchs), which…
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The young sound artist, Pierre-Laurent Cassière (*1982, France), considers sound, acoustic fields and vibrations, as a medium relating bodies and space through dynamic relationships. Out of a musical approach, his sound installations, performances or devices deal with perception limits and aim to offer very specific ways of listening.
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Studied sculpture in the UK in early 1990s, Sofia Hultén (*1972, Stockholm) has been influenced by the idea of sculpture as an expandable media with a performative potential. Instead of producing objects, Sofia is interested in changing the state of existence of her ready-made material. Her work is therefore four dimensional where time becomes an…
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Playing with abstraction illusionism, Robin Rhode (*1976, Cape Town, South Africa) hijacks public space and transforms it into a personal dreamscape where flat renderings of daily objects becomes 3-dimensional ones. Through a precise physical interaction with his drawn objects which Rhode then registers by photography and composes into digital animations, simple abstract shapes are transformed…
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The art collector, Erika Hoffmann-Koenige, together with her husband, the late Mr. Rolf Hoffmann, has built up one of the finest collections in contemporary art since the 1960s. At the fall of the Wall, they moved their home from Cologne to Berlin, settled down with their collection in a factory complex in former East Berlin…
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Sâadane Afif (*1970, Vendôme), one of the most prominent French artists in the international art scene, adapts commission as his key artistic strategy in producing, mediating and expanding art. A postmodern wanderlust in search of quotations, assemblages, interpretations, mutative objects, he departs from the most diverse range of materials to arrive at the most distilled…
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Hans-Peter Feldmann insists that he’s not an artist. He dislikes such labels, because for him, the so call “Art” is simply part of the everyday life, nothing more nothing less. Text by Selina Ting, 2011 Spring, Berlin Born in 1941 in Dusseldorf, Germany, Feldmann started cutting and collecting pictures from books and magazines at the…
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One of the most dynamic and experimental Chinese painters in the international art scene, Yan Pei Ming is particularly known for his epic size paintings of iconic figures, Mao Zedong, Bruce Lee, Obama, and his father and self-portraits. His expressive style and controlled palette reflect a connection to the aesthetic and cultural climate of China…
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