May

9

Life above Culture…

May 9, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

… if Culture doesn’t deserve it.

     ‘Constructed’ photographs by Lori Nix (each scene is made by hand, with no digital manipulation). ‘The City’ is a nice series about the ruins of contemporary world.

www.lorinix.net

 

Photo (‘Library’) © Lori Nix
 
 

May

3

Eric Bourdon exhibition

May 3, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

 

 

* Currently *

 

   Characters drawn via improvisation and painted with acrylic colors invest all media : from paintings to the coffee table, to the dressmaker’s bust… A work of shaping lines in chaos, in order to bring out always new and atypical creatures.

 

   Schemes Gallery (specializing in contemporary art and authentic Indian furniture), 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille. Free admission. Wed-Sat 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

 

www.ericbourdon.com

 

 

Square-Annuaire     DiamsCity     Annuaire.mesprogrammes

 

Apr

29

Grant Wood

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   Grant Wood (1891-1942), American artist from Iowa, was one of the three great artists of the movement called ‘regionalism’ (in the 1930s). He gave so much relief to the land of Iowa, that you can nearly smell its soil…
 

“My early work is the result of going around that very territory where I lived and not seeing it.”

G. Wood

 
Painting: Stone City, Iowa (1930)
 
see www.monograffi.com/wood.htm
 
 

Mar

28

Naoto Hattori

March 28, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

 
BAD DAY
 
Giclee Print
 
 

Japanese painter from NYC. Naoto Hattori never paints with computers:

“Art is all about taking risks, follow your intuition and most of all getting your hands dirty with paint.”

 

http://www.wwwcomcom.com

http://naotohattori.com

 
 

Mar

25

Eric Bourdon : his new girl in the window of the Schemes Gallery !

March 25, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

In the window of the Schemes Gallery in Lille, the creatures of Claudia or Denis Bisch have all eyes turned to the ‘last great one’ of Eric Bourdon.

 

 

This is the second bust painted by Eric Bourdon. The first one was the front of a high-impact polystyrene bust mounted on a frame. It is this time a dressmaker’s dummy worked at 360°, rotating on its stand or to be laid flat on a table.

 

 

The drawing remains the same whether the surface is a canvas or a 3D object. But besides the unexpected decorative aspect, the idea is to join the artistic concept itself (creation of character, body, creatures…) with the medium itself. In other words, to ‘give body’ to the concept…

 
The Schemes Gallery is located at 27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire in Lille.

Open from Wednesday to Saturday 1pm-6:30pm.

Underground station: République.

(->Map)
 
 
Photos © Eric Bourdon
 

Mar

13

‘World Street’ exhibition in Lille

March 13, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

“Among the cross-Channel talents featured in this group street art exhibition are Miss Tic – a doyenne of the Parisian Graffiti scene courtesy of her sultry portraits of pin-ups captioned with incisive haikus – and Shoreditch-based James Cochran, who has made his mark on the London streets with his portraits of rough sleepers.

22 March – 15 7 April, free, Galerie Raison d’Art”

Source: ‘Metropolitan’, March 2012

 

pdf of the exhibition (in French)

 

(!) last day of exhibition, as indicated on the gallery website (http://raisondart.com) : 7th of April.

Raison d’Art is located at 153 Bis Boulevard de la Liberté in Lille (just near the Palais des Beaux Arts), open Thursday to Saturday 2-7pm.

 
 

Feb

18

Nicola Verlato: modern & aged

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In the same vein as the Polish painter Jacek Yerka or US painter Mark Ryden, Nicola Verlato is an Italian who paints modern subjects in the most classical way, combining today’s spirit and the ancient order of representation.

 

www.nicolaverlato.com

 
 
Image © Nicola Verlato: The Deep Religiosity of Capitalism
 
 

Feb

2

The 2012 Lille Art Gallery Guide

February 2, 2012 | by | Leave a Comment

Lille-art.com launches its new map of the 26 art galleries in Lille, free to print, divided into three areas: Beaux-Arts and Euralille, Vieux-Lille, and Wazemmes.

 

Mistakes are not impossible, but it is certainly the most up-to-date and comprehensive list of all those you can find on the web – and elsewhere. Our criteria for inclusion on our list of galleries are as neutral as possible, but again they may seem very subjective to many.

 

Inclusion criteria:

•     We list the art galleries in the strict sense (places – real and permanent – to sell to the general public unique or limited-edition artistic creations). We do not include any artist’s gallery (or workshop-gallery).

•     If other activities (framing, rental, communication consulting…), traditional gallery activity must be undeniably prevalent and other activities completely accessories.

•     Other activities that are not, in our view, those of an art gallery: a seller of non-contemporary objects or furniture is an antique dealer, not a gallery. A store of contemporary objects or furniture that are not unique pieces or limited series is a deco shop, not an art gallery.

•     No inclusion or exclusion motivated by business, financial, artistic or personal relations or preferences with/of Lille-art.com

 

Download:

The 2012 Lille Art Gallery Guide
(3 pages, 3 Mo)

 
 
 

Dec

23

Julia Fullerton-Batten & the mirrors of teenage confusion

December 23, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

High-quality photomontages from UK artist Julia Fullerton-Batten, mostly known for her works about the feeling of teenage years, time of “confusion, expectations and liberty”…
 

www.juliafullerton-batten.com

 
 
© Photo: Mirror, Julia Fullerton-Batten

Dec

21

Classics in Lego – Mike Stimpson

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Classic scenes recreated in Lego by UK photographer Mike Stimpson, ”Balakov” on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets

Here’s the famous ‘Unknown Rebel’ of the 1989 massacre of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

His website www.mikestimpson.com features the very best of his Star Wars Lego series and classic photographs in Lego.

“Imperial Cupcakes” follows, as Christmas is coming for the dark side, too.


 
 
 
© photos by order:
Tiananmen Square by Mike Stimpson
Tiananmen Square 1989 original photo by Jeff Widener / Associated Press
Imperial Cupcakes by Mike Stimpson
 
 

Nov

22

The little people project : Slinkachu

November 22, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

 

Blog of the little people of Slinkachu, artist from London.

Ready to change your point of vue on our good-old-world?

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

 

- don’t miss the archives’ links, full of photos (the official webiste http://slinkachu.com is more selective).

 

Photo © Slinkachu

 

Nov

8

Web directories: Art / Painters / Painting / Artists…

November 8, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment


Brief selection of English-speaking directories, which have recently brought visitors to www.ericbourdon.com.

You will also find many other artistic sites selected by the directories administrators and continuously evaluated by the visitors. For getting your bearings on the web of art, or registering your own website on efficient directories…

 

ubound.info / Arts   linkcentre.com   ids.in / Artists   saferpage.com   sitereviewer.net   websitespromotiondirectory.com / visual-arts

square-annuaire.com   ofcourse.us

deemx.com / Painting   paintings-directory.com   web-liens.fr   hotfrog.co.uk   webmaster-rank.info / culture-artiste   link.or.id   kk04.com allsitessorted.com / Arts / Artists

 

Oct

26

Galerie Schèmes: Sunny fall with Jean-Claude Dailly

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Jean-Claude Dailly, it’s about 33 years of painting, including 31 years of exhibition at the Galerie Schèmes, i.e. as many years as the famous gallery itself. First artist of the gallery, chronologically and in importance, it is with him that Schèmes has been built, developed and maintained.

His recipe: sunny landscapes of Provence, of the Mediterranean, realized with the knife using a technique and a style imitated but never equaled anywhere (that of a son and grand-son of a painter… recognizable among all), and an impressive production enabling you to walk away with ‘your Dailly’ without ruining yourself, so you feel like on holiday at home all year round.

No link to offer to a website, he does not need it, his paintings leaving on their own for 30 years ago without interruption…

The crisis?? ’doesn’t know…

 

 

Paintings: © Jean-Claude Dailly

Photo of the wall of Dailly at the Schemes Gallery in April 2011.

 

Oct

15

Carlos Latuff : caricature & ideology

October 15, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

The works of Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff deal with political and U.S.-made-war themes, and mostly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Caricature is the best way to point up the real ‘reasons’ behind some conflicts. In ‘The chosen and the chased’, divinisation of oneself inevitably comes with de-humanisation of others…

…and also reflects the past dehumanisations.

Thinking of oneself as entirely different, distinct from the rest of Humanity, since thousands years ago, by nature, by essence, by fate, by God… can be lived as something of an ideology, something in the name of which any inhumanity may – or MUST – become sadly logical, as well as apartheid, division, unability to communicate on a basic human level… and everlasting unwillingness to start to resolve any kind of conflict (except by the use of force). This is not what people are, this is ideology and ideology is inherent to every people, especially in times of war. That’s where the interest of caricature stands. It points up the social phantasms which guide one’s behaviour and actions, the delusions of power or persecution that blur and distort consciousness of oneself and others.

More than any kind of therapy, caricature plays with social nightmares, whether they’re of strenght or weakness; a well done caricature produces social awakening, feeling that humanity is the same from one being to an other, whatever one thinks either side of a conflict, and regardless of how one side wants to be ‘specially’ considered.

Carlos Latuff made available hundreds of his drawings at:

latuff2.deviantart.com

They can be freely reproduced, printed and distributed by all means.


 
 
All images : © Carlos Latuff

Sep

28

Abstract art as the method of life

September 28, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Under this title, the website abstractart2006.narod.ru has compiled a range of works by nearly 1400 modern abstract and semiabstract artists from all over the world.

These are 1400 different reflections of abstract and semiabstract world art. 38 artists are featured for France; amongst those:

 

Image: UNTILTED 523 LES DIABOLIQUES (oil on canvas) © Françoise Nielly

Sep

27

Jacek Yerka : many universes in one

September 27, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Jacek Yerka: (as with Mark Ryden) typically classical figurative painting - wildly structured…!

www.yerkaland.com

Painting: The Epitaphy © Jacek Yerka

Sep

24

La Linea – Osvaldo Cavandoli

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www.youtube.com – La Linea

 
 

Sep

20

Beauty

September 20, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

“My idea was that you could reveal almost everything with very little [...] With the help of some of most beautiful women in the world, I endeavoured to say something different, something passionate about beauty.”

Gilles-Marie Zimmermann

www.gmzimmermann.com

© Photo: Gilles-Marie Zimmermann

Model: Gemma Ward, New York, 2007

Sep

2

Art galleries in Lille

September 2, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Looking for a trip through art galleries in Lille? We’ve physically checked all gallery locations on the 26th of July, and although this list may not be perfect, this is probably today the most up-to-date gallery list you’ll find on the web.

We’ve volontarily split off ‘art galleries’ from ‘artists galleries’ (or ‘workshop-galleries’).

Also, the art gallery list contains only art galleries strictly speaking (no strange mixture of communication agency, shop, photo laboratory and who knows…)

The galleries has been grouped by geographical location inside the city, represented by different colors. The different galleries and regions of this list follow each other, approximately, as a big art circuit.

 

ART GALLERIES

  •  Galerie Schèmes   27 rue de l’Hôpital Militaire, 59800 Lille
  •  Galerie Vasse   76 rue Esquermoise, 59800 Lille  www.vasse.com
  •  Galerie Antoine Delerive   8 rue Masurel, 59800 Lille  www.antoinedelerive.fr
  •  Galerie Geneviève Godar   10 rue Masurel, 59800 Lille
  •  YellowKorner   1 rue Lepelletier, 59800 Lille  www.yellowkorner.com (only art photo gallery!)
  •  Galerie Artop   83 rue de la Monnaie, 59800 Lille  www.artop.fr
  •  L’Espace du Dedans   28 rue de Gand, 59800 Lille
  •  Galerie du Vieux-Lille   86 avenue du Peuple Belge, 59800 Lille  www.artspi.com
  •  Galerie Jacqueline Storme   37 avenue du Peuple Belge, 59000 Lille
  •  Galerie Frédéric Storme   2 rue de la Halle, 59000 Lille  www.galerie-storme.com
  •  La Panthère Noire   4 rue de la Halle, 59800 Lille
  •  Melting Art Gallery   34 rue de la Halle, 59000 Lille  www.meltingartgallery.com
  •  Galerie Naclil   67 rue de Saint André, 59800 Lille  www.galerie-naclil.fr
  •  New Square Gallery   40 rue Voltaire, 59000 Lille  www.newsquaregallery.com
  •  Galerie d’Art Contemporain Valérie Lefebvre   68 rue Léonard Danel, 59800 Lille
  •  Espace Point Barre   65 rue de la Barre, 59800 Lille
  •  Galerie Dorval   27 Boulevard de la Liberté, 59800 Lille

 

ARTISTS’ GALLERIES (and/or WORKSHOP-GALLERIES)

  •  Galerie Elizabeth Bernard   29 rue de la Monnaie, 59800 Lille
  •  Atelier Guillaume Moisson   3 rue au Péterinck, 59800 Lille  www.guillaumemoisson.venez.fr
  •  Galerie Philippe Cloart   8 rue au Péterinck, 59800 Lille  www.cloart.fr
  •  Atelier Alain Buyse   12 rue des Vieux Murs, 59800 Lille  www.a-buyse.com
  •  Atelier Jacek Hazuka   15 bis rue du Cirque, 59800 Lille  www.jacekhazuka.com
  •  Galerie Jean Delobaux   89 rue St André, 59800 Lille (open tuesday 2-7pm)
  •  L’Atelier Galerie Philippe Hollevout   29 rue Royale, 59800 Lille  www.hollevout.com
  •  Atelier-Galerie Kowalczuk   55 rue de la Barre, 59800 Lille  www.kowalczuk.fr

 

Aug

4

Voice Reel – Greg Shea

August 4, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Great voice over talent and actor from Brookline, Massachussetts, USA. Very nicely textured voice. Wide variety of situations, from gangster acting to priest speeches, artisanal or industrial marketing voice over, and even a kind of funny green alien…!
 

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