Russian painter and conceptual artist Alexander Melamid is to have a solo exhibition of thirty paintings on view and for sale at Phillips de Pury & Company in London. Including the now renowned series of life-size portraits of hip-hop stars such as Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, the paintings then shift from ‘fame’ to the ‘mundane’, with a further group of works from 2006 - 2010 that have so far remained unseen, including portraits of priests and rabbis, Russian oligarchs, sculptures of ancient Roman figures, animals and stones.

Melamid himself is …

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Flying Fish was part of the work made for the solo show ‘ Play and Display- Steel Masquerades from Top to Toe ‘ at the Museum of Mankind . The idea of the exhibition was to bring a mask collection to life.In museums masks on poles had none of the magic of a mask on a performer. I studied and filmed a teenage masquerade troupe from my home town and collected some masks for the British Museum which are on show in the Salisbury Gallery.

Okolokurukuru the troupe I studied dressed …

JAN FABRE
Visual artist, choreographer, director, writer.  Jan Fabre favors an artistic search meant to go beyond expressive barriers.  His work has a summary and interdisciplinary character, even if many of his works are linked to a study of the human body and its transfiguration.

This intense exploration of man, studied and explored in its corporeality, and the artist’s fascination with the natural world link his work to the concept of metamorphosis, borrowed from his passion for the sciences, and entomology in particular.
The …

RARE ENSEMBLE comprenant un canapé et une paire de fauteuils à dossiers renversés en acajou, placage d’acajou et bois doré. Les accoudoirs décorés de palmettes, flanqués de cygnes formant pieds. Ils sont décorés de rosaces et guirlandes de laurier. Pieds postérieurs en gaine. Russie ou Europe du Nord, premier tiers du XIXe siècle.

Fauteuils: H_85,5 cm L_68,5 cm P_46 cm Canapé: H_89 cm L_127 cm P_48 cm Modèle reproduit page 199 de l’ouvrage « Le mobilier du XIXe siècle en France et en Europe » …

On June 16 in Paris, Sotheby’s will offer one of the most carefully curated ensembles of African & Oceanic Art to be offered on the market in recent years. The works come from a number of esteemed private collections, including the famous Friede collection, and the sale is divided equally between Oceania and Africa. The objects have been selected based on their quality and rarity, reflecting the talent of the great artists of these two continents.

Following the tremendous success of the Rosenthal Collection in March 2010 in Paris, and the …

Reflectius features sixty rotating mirrors that successively reflect a single laser beam at precise angles to draw numbers.

The body of the clock has a complex triangulated surface that reminds of the complicated trajectory the beam of light travels in no time.
Dimensions: height 124 mm (4.9″), width 260 mm (10.2″), depth 76 mm (3″)
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Find François Fredj-Weill and the Design Furniture “Collect-xion” at L & B London.
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