Back to school time has come for art lovers. The criticisms of the “world” have selected a few appointments to note in your agendas.
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After the summer break, the galleries, in Paris, reopens their doors to art lovers. Overview of contemporary artists to discover and events not to be missed at this start of the school year.
- Dalila Dalleas Bouzar
Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
performer and painter, Dalila Dalleas Bouzar, born in Oran in 1974, has been developing, for a few years, a daring work. His two versions of women from Algiers according to Delacroix, are obvious evidence. These large canvases explode them with the canvas of 1833, whether they relate to the distribution of tasks, depending on the color of the skin, or to sexuality. The intensity of the colors and the sharpness cutting of the compositions are without concession. Freedom is not less in self -portraits and portraits, tattooed with blue or red lines, sometimes with an overprint or strange inscriptions. Other works proceed by religious or magical symbols: a series of small figures that one would think they were drawn by painters of the Saharan Neolithic and two large embroidery on a black background, dotted with mythological figures and talismans, which would imagine serving some mystery cult.
- Ali Banisadr
gallery Thaddaeus Ropac
“in Medias Res” (2015), Ali Banisadr, Oil on canvas, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg gallery. Jeffrey Sturges It is difficult to describe the paintings of Ali Banisadr, born in Tehran in 1976 and whose workshop is in Brooklyn. They are not abstract, although they seem to be, looked at a distance: whirlpools, interlacing, colorful or black and white shapes sliding on top of each other. After a few moments, they prove to be inhabited by animal and human creatures, which hold both the bird, the lion and the insect. They make those who populate religions, in Summer, in ancient Egypt, among the Indians Hopi and Zuni and others. The wind blows in a storm in this world of deities, lit in the largest of the canvases by a sun too big not to worry. It is then that we measure how much, by this painting strewn with symbols, Ali Banisadr shows the state of the world, its climate of wars and disasters. In their time, Jérôme Bosch and Max Ernst, whom Ali Banisadr is not hidden to admire, did nothing else: inventing a metaphorical language to describe their present. Blue pastel drawings hanging in the preamble to paintings are very revealing: there are several allusions to current events, almost raw state.
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