Until then it was in the status quo anteGilles Babinet won his first million eurosOur policy work and resists the economic modelSustainable development is almost mandatory What are your agreements with the StateATypically more arid the dob has been a festival of good wordsAt the close the S P 500 has fallen by 1Will this period of relative calm last NonHowever it will be difficult to reconcile the interests of eachIts recommendations are usually followed by the GovernmentSmall but beautiful. Until 25 November Foundation Mona Bismarck (01.47.23.38.88) on the banks of the Seine, near Alma, this "shadows of New Guinea", a selection of 80 works by the Papuan art from the collection of one of the greatest lovers, Switzerland Jean-Paul Barbier, and his father-in-law died, Josef Mueller. Nothing to do with African art. The radicality both geometric and poetic of these pieces had already hit the surrealist André Breton from an early age. There are several aesthetically exceptional pieces as the great cutting wood of very refined form which recalls the drawing of a fish, but also masks, drums and figures of ancestors. Catalogue (ed. Somogy, 59 euros) looks, him, at the ethnological aspect of this creation.
In the regions
"Then God said to Noah: the end of all flesh is arrested hold me;" because they have filled the Earth of violence; Behold, I will destroy them with Earth. "The universal deluge. This fear of the man, described in the first book of the Bible, is a favourite of the old paint. The musée Magnin de Dijon (03.80.67.11.10) attached in "Visions of flood" to describe the evolution of this biblical image of the Renaissance in the 19th century, a study of Pontormo pencil to oil of Turner passing by a panel of velvet Brueghel. From works of workshops rather than attributed to great masters in the old paint, but the subject is rich... Until January 10.
Abroad
London is profuse at this time and visit the Tate Modern ( .uk) is inevitable. The great hall of the old power plant turbine offers to April 9, a facility of the Belgian popular Carsten Holler. To say the least, is that the operation is popular. The weekend, a long queue indicates, moreover. The artist, who lives in Stockholm, is working on sensations and interactivity, and in this case he did install a series of slides in a spiral. Be borrowed it is test speed and fall emotions. He questions of the kind: "How could a daily dose of"slides"affect our vision of the world." In fact the space of the Museum has been transformed into Luna Park, causing, especially for children, major users of this "work", the question more down to Earth: "how long will I still have to wait before resuming the slide."
Inquisitive minds or less patients go up on the fourth floor to visit the retrospective devoted to Zurich artists Peter Fischli & David Weiss (to January 14). Since the beginning of the 1970s, they work together on the subject of derision, the small details of everyday life and which can make it beautiful in a trivial manner, all with a good dose of humour. Thus there is the series of the"sausage" 1979 featuring pieces of meat to recreate scenes from the daily as "The Accident" when two sausages are encountered in a narrow street. A large area is reserved for a huge series that began in 1981 and which lasts until today, devoted to models of daily life. Of fun vignettes of a naive as style "Mr. and Mrs. Einstein just after their son, Albert engineering design" showing two characters each sleeping in a bed. This directory is to not take seriously is a difficult exercise. All the parts do not have the same interest.
