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11th Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty is Born / Musée d’art contemporain

Posted on November 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

Following my previous post of the 11th Biennale de Lyon at La Sucrière, discover now my selection of art works and installations I really like in the Musée d’art contemporain (contemporary art museum). Picture 1 (above): no way to find in my notes the name of the artist, if you know it and the title of this art work, please leave me a comment. Picture 2: Virginia Chihota, Fruit of the Dark Womb, 2011 (a series of drawings). Picture 3: Cildo Meireles, La Bruja I (La sorcière), 1979-1981 (installation with a wooden broom and 3000 km of wool yarn). Picture 4: Alexander Schellow, Storyboard, since 2001. If you are in Lyon, don’t miss tonight, from 6 p.m. to midnight: the Résonance Night at the 11th Biennale de Lyon. An all-night culture celebration with opening, lives and performances in more than thirty places., For the complete program, click HERE!

Picture below : the installation of Jorge Macchi, Marienbad (2011), is inspired by the fabulous movie of Alain Resnais “L’année dernière à Marienbad” and located at l’Usine T.A.S.E. (Vaulx en Velin).

11th Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty is Born / La Sucrière

Hermès, Brussels: The Opening of Barthelemy Toguo’s Exhibition, “The Well Water”

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11th Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty is Born / La Sucrière

Posted on November 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

Last September, I attended the opening of the 11è Biennale de Lyon, “A Terrible Beauty is Born“. My first biennale of contemporary art, with a hot sunny day. First stop : La Sucrière, an old industrial building, located in a riverbank, with several exhibitions at different levels. Better than a long speech : here works of art I liked. Pictures 1 & 6 : Arthur Bispo Do Rosario, Semblantes. Picture 2 : Robbie Cornelissen, Het Grote Geheugen X / the Capacious Memory, 2011. Picture 3 : Julien Discrit, The Day Trip Project, 2011. Pictures 4 & 5 : Robert Filliou, recherche sur l’Origine, 1974. Picture 7 : Thierry Raspail, the director of the 11th Biennale de Lyon, in front of two art works of Ernesto Ballesteros.

11th Biennale de Lyon: A Terrible Beauty is Born / Musée d’art contemporain

Hermès, Brussels: The Opening of Barthelemy Toguo’s Exhibition, “The Well Water”

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Brussels, Belgium: A walk in Rue Dansaert, Sainte-Catherine, the Grand Place and Mont des Arts

Posted on January 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

Here I am in the hotspot of Rue Antoine Dansaert, for an opening at the optician, Hoet. Presentation of the furs accessories of Walter Lecompte. Hoet: Rue A. Dansaert, 97. Ci dessous, vitrine de Noël de Christophe Coppens: Rue Léon Lepage 2. Soon a post about the area of Antoine Dansaert.

Near the Dansaert street: the ice rink, in the area of Sainte Catherine, the historical heart of Brussels. Only open during the season greetings, the ice rink is next to the Xmas market. Smells of hot wine.

What about belgian toasts at Fin de Siècle: Rue des Chartreux 9? It’s funny to notice some small cosy places last for a decade, without a wrinkle!

Usually the Falstaff, (metro: Bourse) is the kind of places too much touristic for me, near the Fuse (a club). I’ve never stopped in this famous brasserie from 1903, till a friend recently brought me there for a drink. And I was really surprised by the original Art Nouveau and Art déco decoration.

If you can’t figure out what is the Italian-Flamand Baroque style (a discovery for me too!), go to the Grand Place to look at the 34 buildings from the 17th century! Even I’m not a big fan of lights shows, the one for the season greetings was really great (pictures above).

Moving to Place Royale, the Mont des Arts under snow: on the left (in red and yellow), the tea house (picture below) of the event CHINA@BOZAR with the famous Ai Weiwei (as the curator of the Chinese art contemporary exhibition), till January 24, 2010.