During these last two months, we had the pleasure to visit two extraordinary exhibitions. You will notice that they remain open to the public for a few more weeks.
We have also decided to extend on this page information on two places that we gave you in the previous update and that we had the chance to visit in Ireland this summer.

Exhibition Basquiat-Shiele- Vuitton Foundation - Paris

From October 3, 2018 to January 14, 2019.
This is certainly the exhibition of the year! Two distinct courses, two painters who fascinate by their brilliance and intensity: Egon Schiele (1890-1918) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). From October 3, 2018 to January 14, 2019, the Vuitton Foundation puts these two damned geniuses face to face in distinct spaces. At both ends of the twentieth century, the two men produced a fulgurating and rich work, recognized. The same event for two anniversaries: the centenary of the death of the Austrian and the thirty years of the death of the American, born of a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother. In less than a decade, Egon Schiele and Jean-Michel Basquiat have become major figures in twentieth-century art. They are bound by their fate, that of a short work whose impact as permanence has little equivalent.
The exhibitions dedicated to them are respectful of the specific context of their works. They are two moments as rich as they are different. For Schiele, the Vienna of 1900, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and intellectual and artistic center of the foreground. For Basquiat, the New York of the early 1980s with the vitality of its underground scene, its urban culture downtown, its artistic questioning and identity.
An absolute must see !

Exhibition Joan Miro - Grand Palais - Paris

From October 3, 2018 to February 4, 2019.
Clouds are poems. The women are bodies, then pearls and feathers. The Grand Palais dedicates a retrospective to the Catalan great master Joan Miró from October 3rd, 2018 till February 4th, 2019. An exhibition which concentrates over the pivotal periods of the artist, from the fawn movement to the surrealism, via the cubism or the movement « tdétailliste », through the presentation of more than 150 works from the most important European and American museums, as well as from the private collections. Neither abstract, nor representational artist, his art became over the years a real language, and never stopped developing.
The exhibition highlights « the questionings of the artist, his searches as well as his color palette always in the service of a vocabulary of uncommon and new forms ».
Fluid, falling as the blue sky in winter, human, humble, just, and thus so strangely poignant, the art of Joan Miró flies from branch in branch.
A very beautiful exhibition!

The Belfast Print Workshop

Located in a very active central district of the Northern Irish capital, the « Belfast Print Workshop » is a sort of hive dedicated to printmaking ; many Irish artists, but also foreigners, come here to work and exchange, others, younger, to learn. It is also a place for teaching: drypoint and embossing, etching on copper, screenprint and typography, monotype art, linocut, etc. The space is extremely convivial and warm and you can admire, on all the peripheral walls, very beautiful works realized by artists of the workshop.
Thank you to the entire Belfast Print Workshop team for their kind welcome!
Do not hesitate to visit the very dynamic and interesting website of the workshop: https://www.bpw.org.uk/

Glebe House and Gallery - Donegal - Irland

Glebe House, the home for nearly thirty years of the renowned artist Derek Hill, is situated on rising ground, beside Lough Gartan, east of Glenveagh National Park, Co. Donegal. Originally known as St Columb’s, the 1828 Regency-style house is decorated with William Morris textiles, and collections of Islamic and Japanese art, as well as 300 works by leading twentieth-century artists such as Picasso, Kokoshka, Vieira da Silva, Victor Pasmore, Renato Guttuso and others. The house and gardens are displayed in an informal manner, as though Derek Hill was still in residence.
Glebe House and Gallery is a place which you should not miss if you have a chance to visit this magnificent region of Donegal, in the northeast of Ireland!