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THE MAGIC OF OLGA DE AMARAL

THE MAGIC OF OLGA DE AMARAL

Jean Sebastien Stehli
It is one of the most wonderful feelings to go see an exhibition not knowing anything about the artist and their work, ignorant of what to expect, and falling head...
JEAN-PHILIPPE DELHOMME: PAINTING SILENCE

JEAN-PHILIPPE DELHOMME: PAINTING SILENCE

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Model Resting Shelim, 2024. Oil on canvas/Huile sur toile. Photo: Tanguy Beurdeley Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Jean-Philippe Delhomme was a wildly successful illustrator working for magazines...
EXPLORING THE NEW FRONTIER WITH MARILOU PONCIN

EXPLORING THE NEW FRONTIER WITH MARILOU PONCIN

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Liquid Love is Full of Ghosts, Marilou Poncin’s exhibition, was one the sensations of last summer’s Rencontres d’Arles, the world’s foremost photography festival. The artist imagines the quasi carnal relationship...
ART IN THE ATOMIC AGE

ART IN THE ATOMIC AGE

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Charles Bittiger. Late Stage of Baker, 1946. Photo : Navy Art Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command The discovery of atoms and radioactivity, at the onset of the 20th Century,...
BERNARD PLOSSU: PHOTOGRAPHING HAPPINESS

BERNARD PLOSSU: PHOTOGRAPHING HAPPINESS

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Bernard Plossu Levanzo, 1988. Courtesy Galerie Camera Obscura & Galerie du Jour Agnès b.  In the fall of 1987, photographer Bernard Plossu and his wife, photographer Françoise Nunez, experienced an...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ : STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ : STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Jean Sebastien Stehli
James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Arizona 2024 © Annie LeibovitzCourtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth   Georgia O’Keeffe’s rattlesnake, Abiquiu, New Mexico 2024 © Annie LeibovitzCourtesy the artist and Hauser...
IN JAMES TURRELL’S LIGHT

IN JAMES TURRELL’S LIGHT

Jean Sebastien Stehli
City of Light, 2019 121 x 213 cm 47 5/8 x 83 7/8 in © James Turrell Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Alessandro Wang There’s no better...
THE LOUVRE'S DEEP EXPLORATION OF THE FIGURE OF THE JESTER

THE LOUVRE'S DEEP EXPLORATION OF THE FIGURE OF THE JESTER

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Maître de 1537, Portrait de fou regardant à travers ses doigts. The Phoebus Foundation © The Phoebus Foundation D’après Hyeronimus Bosch, Concert dans un œuf. Anciens Pays-Bas, milieu du XVIe...
L.A.’S ENCHANTING STORY

L.A.’S ENCHANTING STORY

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Florian Maier-Aichen. Untitled 2023. ©Florian Maier-Aichen. Courtesy of the artist and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York. Photo: Justin Craun Everyone has a story with L.A., even if you just drove through it. It’s the...
REDISCOVERING TOM WESSELMANN’S MONUMENTAL WORLD OF COLORS

REDISCOVERING TOM WESSELMANN’S MONUMENTAL WORLD OF COLORS

Jean Sebastien Stehli
The Louis Vuitton Foundation’s massive exhibition dedicated to Pop artist Tom Wesselmann comes at the perfect time. It’s a joyful explosion of colors, a manifestation of life energy and humor,...
MOMA’S CELEBRATION OF ROBERT FRANK

MOMA’S CELEBRATION OF ROBERT FRANK

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Robert Frank, Andrea, 1975. © 2024 The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation  Robert Frank, one of the greatest 20th Century photographers, waited until turning 100 for his retrospective at...
NOT VITAL AN ARTIST IN THE WORLD

NOT VITAL AN ARTIST IN THE WORLD

Jean Sebastien Stehli
Not Vital’s life philosophy greets visitors as they enter the courtyard of his castle in the Engadin region of Switzerland, in the far eastern part of the country. It is...