SEGMENT 1
Bienvenue! I landed on Tuesday to a sunny day. Over lunch at Cafe Cler I ran into 6 photo friends and colleagues - clients and publishers I have worked with - photo folks are descending from near and far!
Below find information on the three events I went to in the Marais section (my favorite part of the city for art, food and fashion) on Tuesday evening.
I was invited to the auction held at Christies by Darius Himes, co-author with Mary Virginia Swanson of Publish Your Photo Book. I hosted them on Concept Aware in October, listen to our podcast here.
Kings Road: Mona Kuhn - Gallery XII
I have hosted Mona Kuhn twice. Her solo exhibit is on her Kings Road book. She describes the work as follows:
“This new series is about love and fate between architect Rudolph Schindler and a mysterious woman. While creating this work, my intention was to push the boundaries and introduce a living layer to how architecture is presented, so that they would cross time + space to meet each other again.”
-Mona Kuhn via Gallerie XII
“For over 20 years, Mona Kuhn has used photography and media art to re-examine the figurative discourse around physical and metaphysical presence in the human figure. Through her lens, she invites viewers to contemplate the subtleties of our existence, revealing the hidden depths of our common humanity. For her latest exhibition, ‘KINGS ROAD’, Mona Kuhn uses the subjects of love and destiny as her main subjects of study.”
- L'Œil De La Photographie
Christie’s Glamour Collection
“The auction will present 153 photographs by major artists of the 20th and 21st Century’s, such as Peter Beard, Constantin Brancusi, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Irving Penn alongside Contemporary practitioners like Wolfgang Tillmans, Shirin Neshat, Anne Collier, Prince Gyasi, Sarfo Emmanuel Annor, Reine Paradis and Viviane Sassen.”
-Christie’s, Paris
“Glamour - The English word derives from a Scottish etymon that originally meant ‘dazzle’, or ‘magic’. It is a word without a plural form, indicating that it denotes a fairly rare phenomenon. With it’s three full vowels, it comes out pretty loud. It is not far from clamor. But let’s not be fooled; if we look closely, we find the French amour hidden in it- a vital and tenderly emotional surprise.”
-Lothar Schirmer
Galerie Olivier Waltman
“Apophenia refers to a tendency to perceive significant connections or patterns between seemingly unrelated elements, whether objects or ideas, even in the absence of any real correlation or logical relationship between them.”
-Cédric Arnold