If like me, you’ve already met and enjoyed Mr. Chat in Paris streets and roofs: from october 21 till november 5, 2009, go to Pierre Cardin Galleries for the Mr Chat’s exhition introduced by Hélène de Yougoslavie.
Pierre Cardin Galleries: 3, 5 et 9 rue Duras, 75008 Paris – From Tuesday to Saterday – 12-19 pm
Posted in "Paris is burning", Arts
Tagged Europe, Exhibition, France, Graffiti, Mr. CHAT, Painting, Paris, Pierre Cardin Galleries, Urban Art
– Hi there ! Today I experience a new way to present you my crushes. A sort of visual written cast, what a concept! Lol! He is Glen, 100% Californian and I’m Mademoiselle Le K, 100% Parisian traveler. We are at The Getty museum of Los Angeles, located on the top of a hill. We liked a lot the architecture and gardens. Not necessary to precise you: permanent collections and exhibitions are impressive. Starting with this French strange clock! Such ugly as I could like it!
Better to list buildings and halls and exhibitions and periods: there are too much and quickly we get tired. I’d like to make you discover this astonished museum just walking by luck from indoor to outdoor. How could it be possible to stay inside with this incredible light? Huge perspectives and huge panorama! And refined details. You go up and down. Many stairs, like steps with the personal coach!
Huge alcove and I feel like shrunk under the Californian sky!
The Alice in Wonderland’s gardens!
Convinced by this summary? Plan half a day for your first visit. And we are preparing you a following revue of the rich L.A. museum. Here “we” do love arts too! Thanks Glen!
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Posted in "On the road again", Arts
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Architecture, Collections, Exhibitions, Garden, Los Angeles, Painting, Pictures, The Getty Museum, USA
Wow ! A bitter sweet candy! Do you wanna taste it? You knew it, didn’t you? Let me introduce you one of my first Chinese contemporary art crush. On the red brick wall of the 798, the Beijing hugh factory of Chinese contemporary art (next article) : a colourful poster of a young and lovely girl that strikes the pose in an acid pink background. Between Manga and trendy magazines, the style of the painting is very simple and childish. Yeah, a sweet pink candie, with a bit of lemon!Few days later : I meet Yangfan. Boy or girl? The painter doesn’t speak English and I don’t understand Mandarin: lost in translation? Fortunately, there is the blessed Jenny, the Linda Gallery assistant where Yangfan exhibits. Thanks Jen!
You got it baby ! Yangfan is a girl. And she paints girls. A light “Sex in the city” influence: in girl speech, girls talk about girls as well speaking to everybody. In the gallery, men look at the paintings carefully. The refined Yangfan shows the sensitive part of those girls. They are beautiful, look like innocent and hype, but they miss life. Her message: describing those fashion girls. They became one of today Chinese society symbols.
– Today, there is a lack of spirituality, we let spiritual things.
Her painting expresses a kind of depressive feeling, between soulful sadness, happiness and questions about life:
– Those girls have more freedom, but it happened very quickly and now they are single and alone.
Yangfan’s painted for ten years and she is also a university professor of painting:
– After school, I was wondering how to become an artist? And at this time, I had the idea to pay attention of the last generations of women and their future.
The way she works : daytime for painting and nights to look at people, their way to talk, move, their clothes.
– I imagine their work and I create short fashion stories. I’m also a fashion designer for fun.Besides the clothes of her depressive smooth characters came from her imagination.
The future: always painting. Cotton sculptures, of girls course. And for next year, unique dolls with Chinese traditional details for a gallery exhibition. Finally sometimes, trendy girls can live something else than “a vain solo life”. The proof, the successful Yangfan is not single and not alone.
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Posted in "On the road again", Arts, Beijing notebook
Tagged Artist, Arts, Asia, Beijing, China, Contemporary Ar, Fashion, Girls, Painter, Painting, Portrait, Stylist, Yangfan, Young Women
