The hair Couturier
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  • 2012

Out of the newsletter from Do it in Paris.com :

“You are done with hairdresser fast-foods, cheap blonds, boring hair cuts that correspond neither to your hair texture nor to your style?

The same way we love designer dresses, we are all looking for a great hairdresser. We have found for you a top stylist for cut and color…

A customized approach

These hairdresser-stylists offer you a real consultation to define a cut that matches your personality and your lifestyle. Out of the question to impose half and hour of hairstyling every morning to working girls allergic to the idea of a blow-dry at home…

A couture cut is essential for a Parisienne !

For a personalized cut… trust your mane to expert hands that will enhance its  beauty. The high added value of the Maniatis team ? They cut on dry hair, strand by strand, to sculpt the raw material.

A color workshop

Sublimate your complexion and set off the color of your eyes… Here is all the know-how and the exacting talent of these hair artisans. The colorists put together a unique hue, using the latest technologies, for a natural result that acquires a harmonious patina and lasts a long time.

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40 boulevard Haussmann
2ème étage Lafayette Coupole
75009 Paris

Tel: 01 42 82 07 09

Galerie Karsten Greve
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Claire Morgan’s Quietus until november 3th at Galerie Karsten Greve

My husband went over there last Thursday and was really overwhelmed by the beauty, simplicity vs. complexity of her work. He want me to go to Paris only for this exhibition.

A little bit of googling and I found this on untappedcities.com written by Kala Barba-Court

 ”Tucked in a little street just off Rue de Turenne in the 3eme arrondissement is the Galerie Karsten Greve, where the mixed media installations and canvases of London-based artist Claire Morgan are currently on exhibit. I’ve been a fan of Morgan’s work for some time now, and out of sheer excitement I found myself at the gates of the gallery way before opening time (the gallery opens at 10am, by the way).

In her second solo show  Morgan’s work delves into the desperation – through life and death – of our want and need for control of the world around us.

“Nipple”, thistle seeds,  bluebottles, nylon, lead, acrylic

In the words of the artist: “My attention has been drawn to the cheap distractions we choose to place in our immediate vicinity, with which to screen us from the overwhelming facts: that we are nothing; that our only certainty as individuals is a life, of unspecified duration, and then death.”

“The Beauty and the Beast” (middle), blue bottles, morpho butterfly, nylon, lead, acrylic

Morgan uses thread, bees, flies, butterflies, seed heads and shreds of plastic for her installations, as well as performing the taxidermy for her pieces herself. “The Colossus”, hanging in the main hall of the gallery, is constructed from over 50,000 torn plastic fragments meticulously threaded to form a huge sphere. A taxidermy mute swan is visible from a gap in the middle, its wing tip peeking out from the top. It evokes a feeling of being overwhelmed, a reminder of something greater than us.

“The Colossus”, torn polythene, a taxidermy mute swan, nylon, lead, acrylic

In “The Heart of Darkness (II)” she uses blue bottle flies strung through nylon to form a cube.  The breathtaking “The Birds and the Bees” explores the “betrayal of beauty and all that goes with it” – a pair of taxidermy blackbirds are enclosed in a circle of honey bees, army-like.

“Heart of Darkness (II)”, bluebottles, nylon, lead, acrylic

“The Birds and the Bees”,  honey bees, taxidermy blackbirds, plant pigment (saffron), nylon, lead, acrylic

In the final space of the exhibit, isolated in a little room,  is “Terminal”.  It is a piece that articulates, with torn pieces of white plastic and a taxidermy herring gull, the end of everything : human, action, and velocity.

“Terminal”, torn polythene, taxidermy herring gull (juvenile), nylon, lead, acrylic

Also in the exhibit are Morgan’s painting studies, her canvases smeared with blood and preservatives from the process of taxidermy. These are her two-dimensional studies and sketches, which she calls “blood drawings”.

Whether or not you are interested in installation art, this exhibit will be able to draw out a reaction from you, and will make you question all that you deem important and fleeting.

The way everything intersects but never touches and the cyclical theme of each piece makesQuietus one of the best collections I’ve seen, hands down. If there is one exhibit to see before the year ends, it is this. Through her art, Morgan succeeds at showing us that these flies, bees, blackbirds, swans and torn plastic balanced precariously on nylon string are, surprisingly, very much like ourselves : human, terrifying, and staggeringly beautiful.

Quietus runs from September 8 to Novemer 3, 2012

Galerie Karsten Greve, 5, Rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris, M° Saint Sebastien-Froissart

Edward Hopper at Grand Palais : October 10th – January 28th
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Paintings by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) have the deceptive simplicity of myths, a sort of picture-book obviousness. Each one is a concentrate of the hypothetical knowledge and dreams conjured up by the fabulous name of America. Whether they express deep poignancy or explore figments of the imagination, these paintings have been interpreted in the most contradictory ways. A romantic, realist, symbolist and even formalist, Hopper has been enrolled under every possible banner. The exhibition at the Grand Palais seeks to shed light on this complexity, which is an indication of the richness of Hopper’s oeuvre.

Thats how the site of Grand Palais starts its explanation about the painter. His paintings are hyperrealistic, yet it’s as you see them in a dream.

Grand Palais, enter at 3, Av. du Général-Eisenhouwer, 75008 Paris, M° Franklin Rosevelt line 1,9,13

You can book your ticket on line.

 

Do you wanna FIAC ?
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  • 2012

Starting October 18th until 21 th, FIAC will bring together around 180 galleries from 24 countries.

Both international and French, FIAC has become one of the major events in artistic creation.

Each time we go to the Fiac we come out with a lot of energy, telling each other that next year we don’t want to miss it.

You can also join a guided tour, but be in time to make a reservation.

There are also outdoor projects at other places in the city : Jardin des Tuilleries, Jardin des Plantes, Esplanade des Invalides, Place Vendôme.

Grand Palais, enter at at Av. Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, Underground: lines 1 & 13 Champs-Élysées Clemenceau - Bus: lines 28, 32, 42, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93 -Vélib: avenue Franklin Roosevelt & avenue Dutuit.