La Bourse du Commerce Fondation Pinault
on until 17 Jan. 2022
As if the outrageously poetic architecture of the building were not enough to seduce visitors…
the Japanese architect Tadao Andao has renovated the historic building in sublime fashion. By ‘sublime’ I mean it is gorgeous in a spiritual and contemplative way, almost temple like. At the heart of it all is a monumental column topped by a sky-lit dome. One floor is dedicated for sculpture, one for photography and another for paintings. Bliss.
Although there are far too may talents to cover in a blog I consider " short and sweet". I have chosen a few that ingrained themselves in memory perhaps more than others. I feel they best represent “art of our times.”
The central atrium was choreographed by Urs Fischer’s wax sculptures. Melting by candles are a number of works dying in real time, so what you see one day is not what you see the next.
A feast for the senses, wont leave anyone indifferent (even the most difficult to please of children or adults! )
Peter Doig works (below painting and video):
A number of Tatiana Trouvé’s marble and bronze reproductions of objects are scattered with serendipity through the various spaces creating continuity despite variety in theme or floor:
Candles diminish wax works by Urs Fischer in real time, what you see on one visit isn’t the same on another visit.
LAWLER’S political satire:
Back in the 1980’s the US Senate voted against subsidising certain anti-Aids measures. A number of senators deemed the cause too specific to a certain community of people to be subsidised by public money. Here the artist Louise Lawler depicts those senators whom she feels treated AIDS victims’ lives as disposable. She does this via “a series of portraits” showing each senator’s name next to a disposable glass.
Kerry James Marshall:
Haunting and so very human: Miriam Cahn
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye defies stereotypes painting male and coloured subjects.
