les galeries

1. i visited the following galleries today:

Galerie KerotArt
Galerie Anne Barrault : solo show by Jochen Gerner
this image is from a series entitled Branches. it's one of an impossibly immense series of drawings done between 2002-08, while the artist was talking on the telephone.
while it's a rather banal premise for what is presented as the masterwork of an exhibition, it was certainly the most honest, humorous and personal. Gerner's other works on display can be seen online & are definitely worth the look.











Galerie TAISS : the exhibition is titled "back to the cave." of one piece, entitled "Temptation of Intelligence," the artist writes:
"I discover sensuality and perceive a world of fantasy through a veil of black silk. On a table, a game of chess. Hands speak to me, but I hear nothing. Do these signs really mean anything, or is it just a choreography of HR's or a cunning indecipherable lure?"
maybe it reads better in French?

Galerie Polka :

(photo by Marc Ribold of statue of Mao)

The Brownstone Foundation : is marking the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution with a stellar exhibition of photography thereof.

Galerie Bernard Bouche
Galerie Baumet Sultana : former Philadelphian, Gavin Perry is exhibiting heavily shellacked, rather sumptuous paintings--which he prefers not to have photographed. the one i loved most wasa kinda shoved behind the director's desk and read (black paint on white canvas) "Jesus is coming! Everyone try and act busy." it felt familiar, you know...like i'd seen it on a tee-shirt somewhere.

Galerie Chez Valentine . I thoroughly enjoyed the curator's statement on "Diversification."

2.tomorrow i'm revisiting La Dame à la licorne... a series of six tapestries woven in the 15ce in Flanders.