PANORAMA
HALIFAX 1978
LE MARAIS PARIS 2013 |
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The cover of Gerhard Richter: Panorama features a photo of Richter in Halifax. He is standing in the midst of a construction site on Barrington Street near the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), where Garry served as president for 23 years. Halifax City Hall and a high-rise office building loom in the background. Richter holds his painting Halifax—first exhibited at NSCAD’s Anna Leonowens Gallery—casually at his side. It was 1978 and the artist was at NSCAD teaching for the summer term. During his stay, he also produced 128 Details from a Picture (Halifax 1978) with the NSCAD Press. In this artist book, he photo-documents the painting we see him holding on the Tate catalogue cover.
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In this rare photograph of Victor Boullet He is standing in the midst of a street in Le Marais, Paris, near the Picasso museum and he is also surrounded by commercial galleries, like Galleri Perrotin who has served as a galleri for 22 years. A redundant cobblers sign loom in the background. Boullet holds casually at his side the painting Oil Power, first exhibited at Les Tissus Francais 2013. Under his arm his clings on to Art-rubbish. It was in 2013 that the artist Victor Boullet was off to the Oslo Academy of Art to teach and talk about the Salon / Salong Maleri. During that stay in Norway, he also created the show, NO FACE NO NOSE NO SEX (Troms 2013) with the The Art Critic Stian Gabrielsen.
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This is the facade of the building that looms in background in the Richter Photograph / with an updated logo
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This is the facade that looms in the background of the Boullet photograph
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UPDATE 2014
We are sad to announce that shortly after this project was over, the redundant Cordonnerie on Rue Du Pont Aux Choux in Paris became a small trendy cafe with over priced coffee. The predicted gentrification came true and the redundant Cordonnerie now serves as a KODAK MOMENT for all the stupid blogs and instagram fools. Our traditions are being superseded by capitalism. click here |
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