December 13th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay

December 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022

November 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021

November 25th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

November 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide

November 8th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th

October 25th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight

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October 18th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS

October 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3

October 5th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005

October 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight

September 27th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

September 20th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016

September 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias

September 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE

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August 30th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal

August 23rd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October

August 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS

July 30th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years

July 23rd 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 19th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 16th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

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July 12th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey

July 5th 2021

STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen

June 28th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen

June 21st 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL

June 18th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005

June 14th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless

June 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"​
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES

June 4th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS

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May 31st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM

May 24th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN

May 17th 2021

THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE

May 10th 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM

April 25th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988

April 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS

April 9th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021

April 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals

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March 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012

March 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE

March 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS

March 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK

February 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking

February 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment

February 1st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3

January 12th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES

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January 5th 2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!

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L’Interstice, Arles

BEHIND THE SCENES:
L’INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI’S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless

June 14th 2021
Josette Sayers, L’Interstice Founder and curator

PART I

L’Interstice is a new addition to the growing art world based in Arles. A city that I visited with John Gibson in the early 1980’s for the first time, when he was making his usual southern tour to stop and see collectors and museum directors with his Citroen CX filled to the brim with 30×40 black portfolios that zipped up full of conceptual art. Twice a year, we made six-week swings across Europe to place works in collections. These trips allowed the income the gallery needed to get through another six months.

“Grand Moulin 2”, 2019 from the “Memory Lane” series, Lith print, 50 x 60 cm, Ed. 1/8.

We made our way circuitously to Arles after he stopped to see Marie-Claude Beaud then director in Toulon. Arles was grey and cold; it was March if I remember. It was like something from a film noir. The streets were empty in the middle of the day, we were spending two days to rest before driving to the Camargue to visit Luc Hoffmann at Tour du Valat; he was a longstanding client of John’s, unusual having left his larger well-known family in Switzerland to set up an ecological foundation.

I have snippets of memory, children playing in the open spaces of Arles following me when I left the hotel to find something in a small market near the hotel. It was the first time I had come head on with what was then called gypsies. The sense of menace I felt was not from these children, it was more from the dusty emptiness of Arles in winter.

“Four Hands”, 2018 from the “Urban Jungle” series, Lith print, 40 x 50 cm, Ed. 2/8.

PART II

By the time we drove to the Camargue, the sun returned and we made our way past the salt marshes, saw the flamingos and the wild horses both of which Luc Hoffmann was protecting with his conservationist research center. I remember Luc Hoffmann as a kind of handsome and warmly curious man; I was in my early 30’s and trying to fit into this already established art world. He was obviously very interested in a British artist living in New York who used nature as his primary material, Peter Hutchinson, but too Dennis Oppenheim who at this time had been making ground-breaking work about glaciers. All of this work was photo-based.

“Open Window”, 2020 from the “Urban Jungle” series, Lith print, 40 x 50 cm, Ed. 2/8.

Four decades and his daughter Maya has revolutionized Arles as we all know with LUMA Foundation, a center of research, artistic practice and exhibitions. In many ways the family history has given this corner of France a richness beyond anything we might anticipate. In the midst of this complex and ripe corner of the world a fearless Josette Sayers decides to take a small corner shop and turn it into a new gallery.

This small mighty outpost will become a stellar light in this new landscape that is Arles; Irish born, and dual French/American national, Sayers is, as I have written before, a well-known art world player who has been a high-profile headhunter in art, high-tech, retail luxury and museums. L’Interstice offers a fresh voice putting forward exhibitions of international artists with an accent on photo-based work, with a quick pop-up sensibility. The pleasure of sharing interests, bringing together players from a variety of art world niches is a big part of what the gallery will do.

“Grand moulin 1”, 2019 from the “Memory Lane” series, Lith print, 50 x 60 cm, Ed. 1/8.

PART III

The opening, a collaboration with Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, is a splendid show of L.A. based French artist Guillaume Zuili, known for his deep fascination with high contrast, sober dark black and white images that have a purposeful and resounding reference to great American work made during the Depression by people like Paul Strand, Dorothea Lang, Imogen Cunningham among others. He also has a taste for the dramatic side-lit images of Orson Wells.

“Asphalt”, from the “Urban Jungle” series, Lith print, 95 x 116 cm, Ed. 4/8.

This is my first exposure to Zuili, the work is grainy and dense; in his short ARTE film, he walks around Corbeil-Essonnes taking photographs with a small box camera. Of course, this is territory we know from the iconic work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, the great artists and legendary teachers of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. But in Zuili’s lens we see not the monolithic industrial architecture but a shadow play of back-lit flat shadows, he is caught up in the oblique as he says himself, “lumière frisante”. This is not minimal art, his works are not serial in any way, they have inner pull and feel closer to the early years of photography as social history, both in their compression of space and time.

“Untitled (The Limo)”, from the “Urban Jungle” series, Lith print, 29 x 35 cm, Ed. 5/8.
“Grand Moulin 3”, 2019 from the “Memory Lane” series, Lith print, 50 x 60 cm, Ed. 1/8.

They have the power of political photography of say John Heartfield mixed with the twist of Edward Steichen. But Zuili’s eye is not American and this is a saving grace. He is connected to the subtle empty stillness of nineteenth century French photographers Atget and Le Gray. I hear a lyric double base sound in his profound use of shadow like Robert Longo who pulls black from the very white paper it is drawn upon. It takes a mature artist to be so comfortable in this darkness. One is especially sensitive to this right now coming as we are out of these historic months of Covid. In some way, Zuili is making work about how we see the lightless. He is masterful in leading us just to this moment he refers to as “Dieu dans le labo.” Giving us magic even if there is a resonance with something we have seen before; heat comes from the deepest planes absent of light, he builds a photograph on these notions.

Screenshot from a reportage by Arte, “Photographie : une nostalgie contemporaine”, 2019.

Selection of works from the “Smoke & Mirrors” (2006-2016), “Urban Jungle” (2017-2021) and “Memory Lane” (2019) series.

More info:

L’Interstice, Arles

Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris