a most enchanted evening

last saturday night was a most enchanted evening. it began with a piano concert given by the lovely eunice chen who dazzled us all with her interpretations of beethoven, chopin, schumann and liszt. we were especially privileged to have her friend, guest star sopranist fabrice di falco, join her with his divine voice performing 'cinco canciones negras' by xavier montsalvaltge. 

after the concert, dr. sketchy's anti-art school held its first drawing class at the laboratoire des suppositions (the first of hopefully many to come). the models, isadora gamberetti, sucre d'orge and lada redstar were exquisitely dressed, (one can't help but fall in love with isadora). the atmosphere was dreamy and we all spent a magical evening together, cozy and content with a musical 'after' into the wee hours of the morning.

pommes libertines - richard conte

last thursday evening the gallery celebrated the opening of its first-ever photography exhibition. after richard conte described his collaborative process working together with the gardners of versailles at the park balbi and showed me the performance that preceded the photographs (videos of both are shown at the gallery), i had to admit that those juicy erotic apples were far too irresistable! a wonderful little book "les pommes libertines" accompanying the project with images of the apples and texts by emmanuel pierrat is also available (editor: bernard pascuito).

besides the obvious cider and apple juice, arletty abadi concocted a fresh apple, ginger and cucumber juice and prepared apple chips with cinammon salt for dipping into special apple-based wonders.

what's more, wallpapering the gallery had always been a secret fantasy of mine and when richard suggested we wallpaper the exhibition space to better bring out the 'pommes libertines' with their pristine white backgrounds, i was enthused to say the least! the exhibition will be up until mid-july so i hope to see you all there.

programmation LABORATOIRE DES SUPPOSITIONS juin

Voila une liste des soirées à mettre dans vos agendas car il y a beaucoup de vie actuellement au laboratoire des suppositions:


samedi 6 juin 19h : Dr.Sketchy's Anti-Art School, Paris & classical piano concert 10/15€ http://www.myspace.com/drsketchysaparis

jeudi 11 juin 19h - 22h: performance de pNeuMatikos

samedi 13 juin 21h30 - minuit: Bal Musette 5 € 

dimanche 14 juin 18h: Recital, pianiste Olivier Mazal 5 €

mercredi 17 juin 20h: ACBN (anti-cosmétique body noise) Yukiko Murata (free dance, voix) - Mebae (bruits ) live sound/dance.

samedi 20 juin 20h: Mio Chibo, piano performance 5€

beep! & timosaurus

we were so privileged to have beep! and timosaurus play last friday night. they are the sweetest young guys from oakland, california and unbelievably talented musicians. it was an intimate crowd, the lights dimmed, some of us seated on the floor with a glass of wine.  how smoothly their music lulled us into an internal journey through the intelligent and interesting sounds of improvisational experimental jazz. michael coleman, composer and pianist of beep! impressed even the most critical jazz aficionados.

and of course, i, who love nothing more than to imagine the music nourishing the art on the walls, took special delight in watching the paintings listen to the concert together with me as we took that inner journey together into dimensions of experience that sometimes reach so deep that they can only be expressed by tears instead of words.

may slips away...

they say time flies when you're having fun. i think time just flies. perhaps at the speed of light. but time apparently stops at lightspeed. if it stops then does it exist?

let's live as timelessly as possible, to seek a life in the eternal present; maybe that's how to become enLIGHTened. 

is there a speed of thought? or do thoughts all travel at different speeds depending on their content/quality? i bet there are thoughts that travel as fast as light (and these must certainly be loving thoughts, the one's that come from the heart's mind and not from fear-filled rationality).

what does this have to do with art? everything. art which possesses inner truth from the heart's mind is art with the power to escort us into that magico-poetical realm of timelessness.

i like to imagine the gallery space as a vessel flying at lightspeed so that when people enter, they pass through into an expansive world of dreams where their heart's mind has a place to grow.

la vie en vert (more rattrapage)

on thursday may 14th we opened "la vie en vert (et contre tout)" a vernissage where i hung works from my collection that were suprisingly quite green! didn't know what the meaning of this was (whether it was related to a latent ecological consciousness that has been recently emerging following my trip to ecuador or whether it had more to do with martianesque matters). anyway, everyone loves michel gouery's intenstine/brain ceramics sculptures inside the aquariums with water. nice to see hung together works by li tianbing, stephane pencreac'h, ronan barrot, etc.

arletty abadi, my raw friend, prepared gorgeous green juice and green tea served in martini glasses and other green goodies like guacamole, eaten with green celery sticks of course.

we had the pleasure of listening to our prodigious pianist olivier, who, by the way, will be having a recital here in june (more on that later).

RATTRAPAGE

the purpose of this blog for me is to document the richness of life in the "laboratoire de suppositions" and to serve as a peep hole for the world to look into and discover the magical, kaleidoscopic life of the gallery. i regret that since the website finally was put on-line, that i didn't begin a daily ritual of blogging.

just for the sake of 'rattrapage', i hosted a wonderful cocktail party for the berkeley club of france the evening of april 28th. photos of the evening can be seen at:

http://my.berkeley.edu/site/Clubs?club_id=1290&sid=4260&pg=other

about 75 berkeley alum showed up. i had the pleasure of talking with a lovely astrophysicist (she studies the sun), and a doctoral student writing on the history of paris, alex toledano, who led me to some amazing musicians that will be playing here on may 29th. Beep! is their name and they are coming from san francisco. here's more info:

www.beeptrio.com

www.myspace.com/beeptrio