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This past spring, Yvon Lambert Bookshop was having an exhibition of an artist/illustrator whom I instantly became a fan of. His name is Philippe Weisbecker. He was born in France in 1942, lived in the US in the late 60’s and moved back to France in mid 70’s.

His works I’ve seen so far are illustrations of objects and architectures, composed with clean lines, often drawn with rulers, and playful with skewed perspectives. They are naïve, but so refined and mature at the same time. I’m a fan.

When I first saw his work, I questioned myself why I hadn’t heard of him before. Strangely all my artist friends also haven’t heard of him. Perhaps I depend too much on the internet to see artists’ works, expecting everyone to be present on the web. Note to self – that there are other ways to find artists such as exhibitions and books.

Here are some of his zines purchased from the exhibition. They are super. I especially find <ACCESSOIRES> beautiful.

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Exposition Philippe Weisbecker – Élémentaire
At Yvon Lambert
April 15 – May 27 2018

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Picture of Saeio’s paintings taken during my last trip in Marseille.

 

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A game Mattie and I like to play is pétanque, a French game which you play with heavy metallic balls or boules. Many might call this game boring or something of old people, but trust me, they are totally wrong ; )

During our summer holiday, we came across a pétanque tournament organized by the small town where we were at. So we signed up, paid two euros each, and played with the locals. We got to play two games and we lost both games by 13-0 (we made no points!). Obviously, we are not very good, but in all honesty, we are not that bad either! These locals were like pros! Although we got roasted, we had such a good time (and also got inspired to play like the locals) that we decided to invest and get our own boules.

We already had some cheap boules which we picked up at various flea markets, but we wanted to find pro boules with the right measurement and weight that matched us. After some searching, we got lucky and found second-hand boules that fit us perfectly!

Since our first wedding anniversary is coming up very soon, we decided that these will be our first wedding anniversary present to ourselves : )

A few months ago, we picked up a new book <La boule de pétanque> from Éditions B42. First, they make many gorgeous books, so check them out. This book is also excellent with beautiful pictures and texts about the history of pétanque boules. It was co-edited with Collections Typologie. This book came to life after a successful kickstarter campaign last year, and this is the very first issue of a bigger collection about everyday objects. Looking at their instagram account, the next issue is about wine corks.

Yes, I was reading it while doing the laundry today : )

If you haven’t tried playing pétanque yet, go play it before the summer ends!

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<La boule de pétanque>
Co-published by B42 and Collections Typologie
isbn 978-2-917855-86-7

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Since I’m on a marathon of posting old news (string of my last posts all actually occurred more than a year ago), why not another old story.

Beginning this year, Mattie and I had to go to Brussels to visit the French embassy for my visa related appointment (well, that is another adventure story!). After this boring but very important appointment, we visited Alice Gallery. I followed this gallery for some time now as some of my favorite artists have exhibited there (Atelier Pica Pica, Steve Powers, Todd James, Erosie). Also during this time, I knew Paul Wakers was exhibiting. Even though the gallery was closed on the day we were in town, Alice opened the gallery for us.

Paul Wackers is a painter from NY. I don’t know where or when I first encountered his paintings, but I instantly fell in love with his shelf-like composition – full of plants, vases, weird sculptures. Chaos contained between straight lines.

I felt fortunate to see the paintings up closed. There are so many interesting textures, layers, thickness, mediums which I missed from only looking at pictures of his paintings.

You can look at more of his works on his website or instagram. And follow Alice from Alice Gallery here.

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Paul Wakers
<Parts of everything that are pieces of everything are all around us>
Alice Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
November 16, 2017 – January 26, 2018

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Some time ago, I publicly asked for anyone out there to send me a postcard Paul Cox has made for Théâtre du Nord, and look! Jeromy from Emporium’s sent me, not one, but the whole series of postcards! Thanks Jeremy! I’m the happiest.

By the way, check out Emporium’s if you haven’t yet. It is an art blog, covering artists, exhibitions, books, events and more. You can also follow on Instagram.

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Paul Loubet is a French artist based in Valencia, Spain. But I often forget that he is French because he was living in Argentina when I first met him several years ago, and since then he seems to be at different places every time I hear of him.

I still remember when I saw his big canvas for the first time on flickr. I was fascinated and impressed by his strange universe, and I dreamed of owning this canvas.

A few days ago, there was a vernissage of his exhibition with Galerie Bomma in Paris. His strange universe is currently full of missile shooting drones.

His canvases and wood works are mix of matte and shiny, and it is beautiful to see in person. So stop by.

Now I dream of owning this canvas above… ꒰◍ᐡᐤᐡ◍꒱

Check Paul’s work on his site, follow his Instagram and flickr or get tattooed by him ; )

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MISSION PAUL LOUBET
LA GALERIE BOMMA
December 2 – December 10, 2017
49 Rue de la Cour des Noues, Paris 20

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Because our flat is old and it is also our studio, we don’t have clean white walls. It would be too much of work to paint our living room white (yes, we would paint on walls outside, but we think it is too much work to paint our house), so we decided to cover up a piece of wall which was painted by a friend CT many years ago back to white.

A week later, I’m still not use to the new clean wall with Fredun Shapur‘s poster. Now, I’m thinking that it would be nice to paint the whole living room white, but the clean walls wouldn’t last long anyways so I will just leave it as it is.

By the way, the paint splash on Mattie’s shoes and pants is from another day when he went out to paint, and didn’t happen in the house ; )

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Paul Cox made new visuals for Théâtre du Nord, and these are promotional prints my friend grabbed from a bookstore. He gifted me the bottom one or I half forced him. Merci Alexis! One of the shapes reminds me of the 10×10 original Mattie surprised me with a while back.

Now if someone can find me the upper one… ; )

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Recent trip to Rennes was to attend the varnissage of Kevin’s solo exhibition at Galerie 126. Kevin Pinsembert aka Christ is a recent graduate from ENSCI (an industrial design graduate school), an artist, a graffiti writer, the tallest member of Moderne Jazz, foremost a friend, always curious, finds beauty everywhere. Really everywhere. He is also a avid sketcher. If you ever run into him, you’ll most likely see him sketching on his often homemade sketchbook with a black fine felt-tip pen. I always enjoy going through it – his shaky lines, mirrored writings, some graffiti, some drawings, often sketches of ideas, some pure shapes…

This exhibition titled <CADRES> is his first solo show, and simply put, it is a blow up 3D version of his sketchbook in color. I love it.

The exhibition is finished, sorry, but you can see more photos of the exhibition here and the photos of his residency at Galerie 126 preparing for this exhibition here, and you can follow his instagram account here.

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CADRES
Kevin Pinsembert
Galerie 126
Sept 29 – Oct 20, 2017

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I bought this book <ATLAS DE POCHE DES PLANTES DES CHAMPS DES PRAIRIES & DES BOIS> from Maison Empereur in Marseille (the shop should be visited if you are ever in Marseille!).

This book is a reproduction of what was originally printed at the end of 19th century, therefore some texts are outdated. But owing to that, it is a beautiful book. This book in particular is about plants, however there’s a book about other topics – mushrooms, fish, birds, butterflies, etc – within the series. You can check the whole series here (click on “curiosités naturelles”).

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ATLAS DE POCHE DES PLANTES DES CHAMPS DES PRAIRIES & DES BOIS
Éditions Bibliomane
ISBN : 978-2-36743-030-0

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