FIAC 2011 Paris

I went yesterday to the International fair of contemporary art in Paris, and discovered some interesting pieces I wanted to share! Always some inspiring work of art and trends.

- First best work, by Michal Rovner at the Pace Gallery: a projection of slowly moving silhouettes onto a stone. Theme observed inside the fair: the mix of the mineral world with the technological one. Creating something prehistoric as well as contemporary.

- Very known artist but this work touched me more, following her previous work but very subtle display by Rebecca Horn with the colour capture of this crazy blue of the mechanical butterfly. Again exploring organic life movements which looks very real but is not...

- The curious association of a salon seat like eaten by the stone colour matching the green colour. Inspiring to imagine a rough coffee table against a seat! Have a look at this "Alchemy box" on GB gallery website: photo here
- Loris Checchini white books appearing from the white wall. Very well realized and always fascinating the public!

- The deconstructivism theme I felt strongly a time ago is also still on and explored by artists widely, becoming geometrical sculptures with coloured facettes; for me it's like giving a 3D shape' interpretation to the internet abstract world. Inspired by russian contructivism, seen a lot in graphic design, it explores space and beautifully frames an apparent void. I loved the work by Esther Klaes presented at Bureau gallery NYC. And Ernesto Sartori sculptures:

- Like a cubist paiting but definitely revisited personally: this sort of 3D collage of some rubber material by Carol Rama. I loved the interaction of the dark pink behind which surprisingly makes it elegant:

- The roughness of materials, destructed, recycled, elementary, chalk, wood, concrete, stones were very present but also very precisely displayed and organised to sublimate simplicity... Last instance for today is the work by Andrea Zittle which makes me think of a cave/grotto environment and also becomes an architectural structure, almost at the frontier of art?