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Nathalie Obadia
Nathalie Obadia (born 14 March 1962) is a French art gallery owner. She specialises in contemporary art. Early life She was born in Toulouse, France. As a teenager, Nathalie Obadia completed an internship at Daniel Varenne, in Genova, and Adrien Maeght, in Paris. She studied a master's degree in Law at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, then worked at the Galerie Daniel Templon from 1988 to 1992. Career She opened her first gallery in 1993, in Marais in Paris. The gallery included work by a generation of French artists, including Carole Benzaken ( Prix Marcel Duchamp, 2004), Valérie Favre and Pascal Pinaud. Later the gallery expanded to include international artists, including Jessica Stockholder, Albert Oehlen, Fiona Rae and Manuel Ocampo. In 1995, Nathalie Obadia opened a larger gallery near the Pompidou Centre in Paris that moved to its current address in 2003. From 2005 to 2008 she was vice president of the 'Comité professionnel des galeries d'art (CPGA)', a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of record, along with ''Le Monde'' and ''Libération''. It was named after Figaro, a character in a play by polymath Beaumarchais (1732–1799); one of his lines became the paper's motto: "''Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur''" ("Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise"). With a centre-right editorial line, it is the largest national newspaper in France, ahead of ''Le Parisien'' and ''Le Monde''. In 2019, the paper had an average circulation of 321,116 copies per issue. The paper is published in Berliner format. Since 2012 its editor (''directeur de la rédaction'') has been Alexis Brézet. The newspaper has been owned by Dassault Group since 2004. Other Groupe Figaro publications include ''Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Piene
Chloe Piene is a visual artist known primarily for her drawing. It has been described as “brutal, delicate, figurative, forensic, erotic and fantastic.” Chloe Piene was born in the United States and received her BA in Art History at Columbia University and her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Work Piene is known widely for her delicate and penetrating drawings, which are typically anchored in the body. Her video and sculpture utilize the greater sensory impact of noise, time, shadow, and heavy materials to dig visibly into the more subterranean levels of experience. In her sculptures, Piene has worked primarily with iron, steel, porcelain, and installation. Her work has made various and diverse associations with prisoners, love letters, failure, history and heroic transformation. In 2016, Piene performed her work ''Familienaufstellung'' in Vienna, Austria. Translated as “Family Constellation,” Familienaufstellung was developed in the 1990s as a form o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youssef Nabil
Youssef Nabil was born on the 6th of November 1972. He is an Egyptian artist and photographer. Youssef Nabil began his photography career in 1992. Background Born in Cairo, Egypt, Nabil started his photography career in 1992, shortly before leaving to New York and Paris to work in prominent photographers' studios. In 1999, Youssef Nabil had his first solo exhibition in Cairo. Through the years he remained a close friend with the Egyptian-Armenian studio portrait photographer Van Leo (Leon Boyadjian, 1921–2001), who encouraged Nabil to leave to the West. In 2003, Youssef Nabil was awarded the Seydou Keita Prize in the Biennial of African Photography in Bamako. In 2001, while visiting Cairo, British artist Tracey Emin discovered Nabil's work and later nominated him as a future top artist in Harper's article ''Tomorrow People''. Nabil left Egypt in 2003 for an artist residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2006, he moved to live and work in New York. Many have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lu Chao (artist)
Lu Chao () was born in 1988 in Shenyang, China. The artist currently lives and works between London and Beijing. Lu Chao's paintings are mostly filled with sketch-like portrayals of a massive number of different faces, evoking a sense of mystery and strangeness. For the artist, the unknown is sublime and he avoids using his work as a carrier for opinions, preferring to leave the door open for viewers to interpret the pieces on their own. He aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them by integrating an expanding world into his own labyrinth of personalized patterns. Through his works, Lu Chao exposes us to the unknown and strangeness of our life, of our world and of our state of mind. We find it difficult to truly understand our own persona, and we find it even more exhausting to comprehend the world around us. The gap between what we do and what we do not know, shapes the beauty and excitements of life. Education background Lu Chao completed hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seydou Keïta
Seydou Keïta (1921/23 – 21 November 2001) was a Malian photographer known for his portraits of people and families he took at his portrait photography studio in Mali's capital, Bamako, in the 1950s. His photographs are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art. Biography Keïta was born in 1921 in Bamako, Mali, although the exact date is unknown. He was the oldest in a family of five children. His father Bâ Tièkòró and his uncle Tièmòkò were furniture makers. Keïta developed an interest in photography when his uncle gave him a Kodak Brownie with a film with eight shots in 1935, after returning from a trip to Senegal. In the beginning Keïta worked as both a carpenter and photographer, taking first portraits of his family and friends, later of people in the neighborhood. He learned photography and how to develop from Pierre Garnier, a French photographic supply store owner, and from Mountaga Traoré, his mentor. In 1948 he set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Jaffe (artist)
Shirley Jaffe (, October 2, 1923 – September 29, 2016) was an American abstract painter. Her early work is of the gestural abstract expressionist style, however in the late 1960s she changed to a more geometric style. This change was initially received with caution by the art world, but later in her career she was praised for the "idiosyncratic" and individual nature of her work. She spent most of her life living and working in France. Early life Jaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, into a Jewish family, her parents were Benjamin and Anna (née Levine) Sternstein. Jaffe had two siblings by the name of Jerry and Elaine. Her father ran a shirt factory; however he died when Jaffe was 10. Her mother moved the family to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and Jaffe attended Abraham Lincoln High School. She then studied fine art at Cooper Union in New York City, earning a certificate in 1945. After completing her degree, Jaffe worked initially in the print department of the New York Publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Delahaye
Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative structure.J. Paul Getty Museum''Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye. July 31 - November 25, 2007 at the Getty Center.''Retrieved on 2007-11-04. Delahaye has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal twice, the Oskar Barnack Award, an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Prix Pictet. Career Delahaye started his career as a photojournalist. He joined the photo agency Sipa Press in the mid-1980s and dedicated himself to war reporting. In 1994, he joined the Magnum Photos cooperative and ''Newsweek'' magazine (he left Magnum in 2004). He worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a war photographer in Afghanistan, Rwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosson Crow
Rosson Crow (born 1982) is an American artist, best known for her large-scale paintings. She is based in Los Angeles, California. Biography Crow grew up in Dallas, Texas. She moved to New York City in 2000 and graduated with a B.F.A, from School of Visual Arts, New York in 2004 and an M.F.A, from Yale in 2006. After discovering Crow's work in 2005, the French art dealer Nathalie Obadia organized the first exhibition of her work in France. Crow was included in the 2006 Wall Street Journal article titled "The 23-Year Old Masters," which selected ten top emerging US artists including Dash Snow, Ryan Trecartin, Zane Lewis, and Keegan McHargue. She is known for her large-scale depictions of nostalgia-laden interiors that blend historical allusion and theatrical illusion. Her paintings are inspired by diverse references including Baroque and Rococo interior design, cowboy culture, Las Vegas architecture, theatre and music. Exhibitions Crow completed a residency at Cite Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valérie Belin
Valérie Belin (born 1964) is a French art photographer. She lives and works in Paris. Biography Valérie Belin was born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She trained at the École Beaux-arts de Versailles from 1983 to 1985 and at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges from 1985 to 1988, and then obtained a diploma in advanced studies in the philosophy of art from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1989. In 2015 she won the sixth Prix Pictet, the theme of which was "Disorder." That year she also had an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, entitled ''Unquiet Images'' and comprising around 30 works depicting mannequins. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. Works Her work takes the form of photographic series. In the 2000s she started using digital post-production tools which gave her greater f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Banerjee
Rina Banerjee (born 1963) is an Indian-American artist and sculptor."Bio" Rinabanerjee.com, Retrieved online 17 October 2018. She currently lives and works in New York City. Her ambitious mid-career survey exhibition, ''Make Me a Summary of the World''––co-organized by and exhibited at the and the San Jose Museum of Art––opened in 2018 and is slated to travel to the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC through July 2021. Early life and career In 1963, Banerjee was born in a Bengali family in |
Barry X Ball
Barry X Ball (born 1955, Pasadena) is an American sculptor who lives and works in New York City. His work has been widely exhibited internationally over the last 30 years and is represented in many public and private collections. His work has been exhibited at the Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Powerhouse Museum / Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Museum of Arts and Design, Bass Museum of Art, Ca’ Rezzonico in conjunction with la Biennale di Venezia, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, SITE Santa Fe, Ballroom Marfa, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Le Printemps de Septembre, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Kunsthalle Krems, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, me Collectors Room Berlin, Modemuseum Hasselt, Beijing Today Art Museum, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Le Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, and at many international contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
