Review of Art Geneve 2025
“ Painting has got ahead of other arts…modern art has left the walls, tapestries, and decorative urns to enclose itself within a frame, nourished, filled with facts, free from figuration that distracts , it lands itself to meditation.“ Le Corbusier, «Vers une architecture» «Art Geneve 2025» art fair has brought together 81 Swiss and […]
Nicolas de Staël at Fondation de l’Hermitage
«A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves,” Marcel Proust If Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) was a novelist he would be Marcel Proust. Proust’s «atmospheric», long, modernistic descriptions of Combray and Giverny resemble Nicolas de Staël’s idyllic landscapes from the recent exhibition at Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne. Repetition and perfection in de Staël’s […]
Forward-Looking Contemporary Art, Art Basel 2023
Irina Vernichenko from «Art &signatures» offers a review of Art Basel ( June 2023), the most intresting art event of the summer. Though contemporary art has taken many forms, it always follows one categorical imperative, that is to move forward. Paintings, decorative panels, installations, sculptures and other “consumer durables” that were shown by galleries at […]
Collection of David H.Brolliet, Geneva and Dakar
David Brolliet about contemporary African art: I have two objectives: one is my personal collection, that I have been collecting for 40 years, – I am interested in collecting contemporary African art. Another goal is buying art from African, Senegalese artist and either leaving these art works in an African museum, or creating a new […]
“The truth in painting is signed Cezanne”
Jacques Derrida started deconstruction of art theory in his “La Verita en Peinture” (1978) by saying: “The truth in painting is signed Cezanne…The truth in painting was always something owed. Cezanne promised to pay up: “I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you” (letter to Bernard, 1905)”. However, there […]
Belgium’s Private Art Collections
Anastasia Petrovskaya from The Art Partners contributed this article to Art Decision. Belgium has a remarkable number of private collections across the country: from Brussels and Antwerp, to Ghent and Charleroi. For this list, we rooted out the most exciting and unconventional collections to see while visiting the Belgian capital. Vanhaerents Collection Assembled by […]
Taking Care Of Your Art Collection
This article is contributed to Art Decision by Anastasia Petrovskaia and Maria Korolevskaya, Founders of The Art Partners, art office for international collectors, based in London. Among the many misconceptions that exist in the art industry, two are quite common – first, that you need to be a millionaire to start collecting; and second, that the collection is […]
