Nicolas Villodre
This year, I loved experiencing the Biennale of Digital Imaginations in Marseille and Aix, a real journey to the heart of digital creativity. A fascinating event where art and technology meet to offer us a new vision of the world. I had the chance to go to Stockholm, to the Dance Museum, to discover If you don't like it you can go to hell, a daring exploration of bodily expression and revolt.
Jean-Marie Chamouard
It was a cool and rainy March morning, during a press trip for the Normandy Impressionist Festival. I discovered the Franco-Chinese painter Zao Wou-Ki, at the Franciscaines of Deauville. A magical place, magnificently restored. I really liked the concept: the Franciscans are at the same time a museum, a media library, a place of life. Zao Wou-Ki's painting is abstract, but colorful, very beautiful. Above all, his work is a path towards cosmology and Chinese poetry. I was very moved by this trip to “the alleys of another world »
Amélie
In terms of exhibitions, I had two huge favorites this year. The first is With My Eyes who was THE sensation of the 60th Venice Biennale. For the first time, the Vatican Pavilion was installed inside the Giudecca women's detention center for a stroll that had all the makings of a live performance. Sublime in a prison, that is unexpected. The experience was mystical, truly, it penetrated you without letting go, it placed itself at the central point of an encounter that seemed impossible. It was a sensitive and aesthetic shock which worked through a dramaturgy worthy of the best performances. I didn't get over it. In a more traditional way, I was captivated by the exhibition on madmen in the Middle Ages at the Louvre, Figures of the fool. From the Middle Ages to the Romantics more precisely, which is a monument which brings together more than 300 works, including a collection of 13th century illuminations to die for. The exhibition is masterful, it shows the super queer drawings of Master ES, the mischievousness of Hieronymus Bosch, the anthropomorphies of the Duke of Berry, and so many others! It's super demanding and exciting.
Yaël Hirsch
Among the visual wonders of the year: the games and ironies of Wim Delvoye at the MAH, the touches of genius of Hiramatsu Reiji at the Museum of Impressionisms and the exhibition guidelines Instructions for use at MACS in Strasbourg enchanted me. I loved the Venice Biennale and was very impressed to interview the photographer Andres Serrano and discover the Clos du Chêne, a hypermarket left to the care of street artists every year for five years.
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