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Hongkong - Le French May 2001
25 March - 17 June 2001
The Le French May festival draws from the full range of classical and
contemporary arts, bringing some of the world's biggest French-speaking
stars, hottest shows and most spectacular exhibitions and concerts to
Hong Kong every year. Recent years have seen visitor numbers swell to
around 100,000.
Since 1993, Le French May has presented about 150 events including
art exhibitions, classical and pop concerts, classical ballet,
contemporary dance, street performances, film, gastronomy and
literature.
Previous years' highlights have included exhibitions of Rodin and
Chagall, The Ballet du Nord and The Lyons Opera Ballet.
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Pudong Century Park, Shanghai 2000
The ninth cast of the Thinker, commissioned by the Rodin Museum in
1998, was reported to be the most spectacular art piece on the fourth
Shanghai Art Fair 2000. Primarily because of the Biennale's success and
significance, its curators Hou Hanru, Zhang Qing and Li Xu were selected
as the year's best Chinese curators and the Shanghai Art Museum was
declared the best Chinese art museum in 2000.
Rodin had supervised the manufacturing of 6 casts during his
lifetime, the Rodin Musee had another 25 copies cast, so that the
Shanghai copy is Nr. 15 of 31 copies altogether. In November 2000, the
work was acquired by a Shanghai company for 10 Million Yuan (ca. $ 1.2
Million), to be placed in Pudong Century Park in Shanghai.
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Biennale di Venezia 1995
Centenario 1895 - 1995
This exhibition covers a century that is exceptional from an artistic
point of view. It saw the birth and triumph, but also the end of the
modern movement. We are taken from the birth of this movement up until
what is defined as "post-human".
Which are the opening and closing works and artists of the
exhibition?
It starts at the Palazzo Grassi with Group Portraits and goes
from Maurice Denis' Omaggio a Césanne (1895), to Jorg
Immendorf's Café Deutschland and Guttuso's Caffè Greco
(1976). However the exhibition will be opened with works by the most
important artists of the time, Rodin, Degas, Boccioni and Eakins. We
will then conclude at the Giardini with Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith,
Antonio Lopez, Maria Lassnig, Marlene Dumas, and video artists, namely
Gary Hill, Bill Viola and Mona Hatoum. This exhibition also illustrates
the metamorphosis of the artist, from the time when he or she takes
refuge in a group (academy, school and so on), right up to the
confrontation with solitude, on the fringe of a society that is ever
more technologised.
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Monte-Carlo, 1993
IV Biennale De Sculpture
Report by Bettina Werner
Since its creation, the Printemps des Arts of Monte-Carlo has not
contented itself to rest solely upon its lauded reputation of bringing
critically acclaimed performances of music and dance each year to
Monaco. It has strived equally to expand its program to include the
other arts, most notably sculpture.
Thus, in 1987, it was with open arms that we welcomed the
inauguration of a Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, now a biannual
event organized by the rare talent of the Marisa del Re Gallery in New
York. This exhibition quickly evolved into a major artistic event,
attracting the wide acclaim of the international press. The event itself
has become international, as the City of Palm Beach, Florida welcomed to
its shores the Illeme Biennale de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo 1991, and
keeping the original title, in the winter of 1992 exhibited a selection
of the works from Monte-Carlo. These were works which during the six
previous months had graced the gardens of the Monte-Carlo Casino with
their unusual and mischievous presence -- to the great joy of millions
of visitors and their children.
In my view, the most invaluable element of this Biennale is the
direct and daily contact established between an immense yet unsuspecting
public, and contemporary art, normally considered so intimidating as to
be only properly viewed within the sanctified walls of a museum. In
actuality, these sculptures blend naturally into the very heart of our
city, whose squares and gardens are rejuvenated by the unexpected shapes
and colors of the sculptures which are representative of the art of our
time.
It is precisely the confident selection of works exhibited which to
me seems to characterize this Fourth Biennale, where one can appreciate
sculptures by the great Modern Masters such as Rodin or Bourdelle, Leger
or Miro, side by side with more recent pieces from among the most
significant artists and diverse movements of contemporary art.
H.S.H. Princess Caroline of Monaco
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