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Numéro Art, the leading magazine for international contemporary art, features the most influential personalities, events and places in the contemporary creative scene.
For Numéro art, actress Camille Cottin tries her hand at a new role: muse of artist and photographer Lea Colombo, who plunges her into the heart of her flamboyant pictorial universe in a series that pays tribute to Matisse, Picasso and Warhol. Three artists celebrated this season by major exhibitions.
The French film star also talks in a long interview about her unique relationship with art, nurtured by her artist father. Numéro art also photographed the artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in her recent exhibition in Madrid. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, one of the most respected and celebrated French artists in the world, reveals herself in an interview as the high priestess of the exhibition, which she transforms into scripted environments and fantastical experiences.
This new Numéro art also gives voice to an exciting new generation of artists including Meriem Bennani, Han Bing, Bianca Bondi, Binta Diaw and Serpas gathered in a collective exhibition "Infiltrées - 5 manières d'habiter le monde".
To be discovered, the humorous and subtle videos and installations of Meriem Bennani, one of the most influential of her generation, the searing and intense works of Ser Serpas (soon to be exhibited at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris), the eco-feminist installations of Binta Diaw, the bold and colorful paintings of Han Bing, and the mystical creations of Bianca Bondi. Five exceptional women artists exhibited by the Reiffers Art Initiativesfoundation this spring in Paris. Once again, Numéro artpays tribute to the vitality of the French art scene with the dreamy paintings of Julie Beaufils and the sensitive and poetic work of Benoît Piéron. This issue also unveils a series of unpublished and subversive paintings by Beninese artist Roméo Mivekannin. And of course, a selection of the essential exhibitions of the season and a focus on the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles.
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Numéro Art, the leading magazine for international contemporary art, features the most influential personalities, events and places in the contemporary creative scene.
Within the pages of this edition, Pol Taburet, a young French talent jolting the art scene and the winner of the Reiffers Art Initiatives prize for contemporary creation and cultural diversity, invited Numéro Art into his Parisian studio.
The Frenchman summons Creole quimbois, occult powers and US rap imagery in his hallucinatory and powerful paintings. Numéro Art also met up with British star Anish Kapoor in his studio to view his bloody and visceral works, which took Venice by storm during a brilliant two-part exhibition. Lastly, this issue pays homage to the renowned painter Marlene Dumas, whose carnal canvases masterfully create an enchanting mix between light and shadow in Venice’s Palazzo Grassi.
Reiffers Art Initiatives - Mentorship Exhibition 2024
The fourth exhibition of the Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship program at Art Basel Paris.
Ugo Rondinone is the mentor of artist Tarek Lakhrissi for the fourth edition of the 2024 Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship program. The exhibition will be presented at the Reiffers Art Center on the occasion of Art Basel Paris.
A leading figure in contemporary art, Ugo Rondinone takes on the role of Reiffers Art Initiatives mentor in 2024. Celebrated by the world’s leading museums (MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, Château de Versailles, etc.), Ugo Rondinone is a renowned multidisciplinary artist, poet, collector and curator.
A visual artist and poet, Tarek Lakhrissi develops his practice around different media such as writing, performance, video and sculpture.
Words and language are the source of his work. Exploring poetry, popular culture and affects, Tarek Lakhrissi’s work redefines an emancipating imagination and anticipates an equally emancipating future.
Reiffers Art Initiatives is a foundation created to support young contemporary creation and cultural diversity.
Reiffers Art Initiatives’ mission is to support France’s new art scene and give it international visibility. It finances and gives exposure to thirty emerging artists every year, who will influence tomorrow’s contemporary art scene.