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Jeune Creation 2008
Du 10 au 15 octobre 2008
Vernissage le vendredi 10 octobre à partir de 18h

Ouverture:
samedi-dimanche 11h-23h
lundi-mardi-mercredi 11h-22h
Entrée 5 euros / Contact: 06 07 27 78 76

Grande Halle de La Villette - Espace Charlie Parker
211 avenue Jean Jaurès Paris 19
M° Porte de Pantin

L�??exposition Jeune Création investit l�??Espace Charlie Parker de La Grande Halle de La Villette et réunit une centaine de jeunes plasticiens français et étrangers. Ces artistes présenteront leurs �?uvres, reflet de la création la plus actuelle, sur un parcours scénographique inédit.

more info here

Just Painting at Ego Gallery
Enric Granados, 9 (08007)
Barcelona, Spain
Setember 18th to November 10th 2008.

Artists: Mike Swaney (Canadá, 1978), Juan Escudero (Bilbao, 1966), Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo, (Cuba, 1973), Santiago Taccetti, (México, 1978), Yrsa Roca Fannberg, (Islandia,), Natalia Ibáñez, (Barcelona 1980), Marco Demis, (Milán, 1982), Roger Oriola, (Lleida, 1981)

Here is a few pictures of the Vernissage Portraits d�??Amis, an exhibition at Galerie Jeune Creation by Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo. I made tried making portraits of friends and proposed for them to be errased by my friends, here are some pics of that performance.

Pablo González Trejo en los estudios de RFI
©2008 Jordi Batallé / RFI

Acaba de inaugurarse en la Galería Jeune Création de París, en pleno barrio de Pigalle, una exposición de Pablo González Trejo, joven pintor cubano que decidió instalarse en Francia después de haber pasado por Miami, exposición en la que nos presenta una serie de retratos de amigos, que el día de la inauguración, y como performance insólita, se dedicó a borrar a pincelada limpia.

El origen de esta violencia contra su propia obra, que puede resultar terapéutica para algunos y desahogo para otros, proviene de unos retratos de Fidel Castro o del Che Guevara que este artista realizó en Miami y que embadurnó con color blanco después del escándalo que produjeron en la comunidad cubana de Miami.

Pablo González Trejo es el invitado de Cultura al Día.

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Jordi Batallé of Radio France Internationale published his live radio interview in their website

Ché erased by Familly, 2007, 240 x 201 cm, Fusain & Acrylique on Canvas

Galerie Jeune Création
presents

�??Portraits d�??Amis�??
Pablo González Trejo

Vernissage Thursday September 11th 2008, 18h00
Exhibition runs from September 12th to October 3rd 2008

Ten friends’ portraits made prior to the reception will be erased during the reception by the friends themselves.

6, Villa Guelma
75018 Paris, France
Métro Pigalle (L2)
Call for times and appointment 01 42 54 76 36
info@jeunecreation.org
www.jeunecreation.org

Black is Beautiful is an exhibition we saw a couple of weeks ago in Amsterdam at the Nieuwe Kerk. I though it might interest you… it is an exhibition that covers the representation of blacks in the low countries art through the centuries… check out their exhibition statement.

Wake up and smell Gomorra

Listening to Asha

Pierre Huyghe’s work works!

Don’t miss this animated movie Waltz with Bashir

I was invited to see one Pina Bausch’s pieces this week and it was truly something to admire and to reflect upon. images here, read more on her here

Check out Alex Prager’s photos here

Looks familiar?

Mark Wallinger at Mac/Val Contemporary Art Museum on the outskirts of Paris.

Richard Serra currently at Monumenta 2008 at Grand Palais Paris. See set here

Francis Bacon at Tate Modern was still great to see… I was very surprise not to see any Lucian Freud’s

Listening to Santogold

New Young Pony Club inspired by Tate Modern installation… here

Take a look at the artwork by Sylvain Rousseau at Galerie LH interesting entitled Panoramic view of a daily walker. The music in this place was experimental and very sticky… I liked it…

Check out the artwork of this artist living and working here in paris.

Check out Peter Doig at Tate Modern. See him talk about his artwork here.

Check out Doris Salcedo at Tate Modern, see her talk about her artwork here.

Xavier Veilhan at perrotin’s. I liked this shark…

Jim Dine at Galerie Daniel Templon. See set here.

Gilles Barbier opens with the Espace Claude Berri in paris, the newest art collection rubell’s style. See the set here.

One to divide, one to gather… so is the effect of Bert Rodriguez’s art work in Paris and it worked… more on the artist here

Check out my latest website for a non profit art center from france Jeune Creation also find 100 pics in the homepage from previous group show.

Antony Gormley at White Cube in London… take a look.

Loris Greaud’s Cellar Door at Palais de Tokyo here in Paris leaves me with no emotion… but people like it, so here it is for you to leave me a few comments on what you think about it… slideshow

Paris is specially nice today… the Contemporary Drawing Art fair opened yesterday and I visited it today to give you guys a little taste… once again I got in for free with my Maex press pass… take a look a the slide show here, more on the Salon du Dessin Contemporain here

Take a look a the artwork of a good friend of mine Laurent de Raucourt:

Yesterday I went to see my upstairs neighbor Designers Interactifs‘ project called Pecha Kucha… their fourth Paris installment about design and art , 20 artists, 20 images, 20 second per image… cool concept, cool artists. My favorites were Vadim Bernard, Area 17, SL Co, Nathalie Brevet & Hughes Rochette, Jocelyn Cottencin, Arrache-toi un oeil, Fanette Mellier, typo.gras.free.fr/, La Bonne Merveille.

There is a little webcam at Tate Modern in London where you can take little video sequences and send it to your friends… a bit hard if you really dont know your friends email addresses…

London is calling and so I am going, I really want to see Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern, The Courtauld Gallery, the ICA and Serpentine Gallery.

Yesterday I went to a cool Vernisage of a group show called Corps à Faire at Galerie Jeune Creation were I saw a cool performance I did not understand where the shapes reminded me of an old Max Ernst painting.

The poetics of an empty landscape. I am happy to congratulate my good friend Guillaume Lemarchal for being awarded the HSBC grant. He is currently showing at Galerie Michèle Chomette and you can see a couple of shoots of his show here below. more on him here

Check out the art work of Ivan Navarro currently showing at Galerie Daniel Templon.