All posts tagged: France

Won Sou-Yeol: The Art Of Korean Abstraction

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Based in France since 1984, Won Sou-Yeol was born in a small town on the island of Chejudo in South Korea. This place between land and sea has nurtured her inspiration through the strength of the natural elements, which are to be found in her painting. Her work is imbued with dynamism and power marked by the contrast between black and white, light and shadow. Master of calligraphy, she mixes her technical spontaneity with a large and concentrated gesture. Like a dance where cracks and splashes are created. “I kept my strength. I was not talking to anyone. I was not sleeping. “. The work and the artist are one. Won Sou-Yeol is devoted entirely to her art. At the point that she said that one day, while she was painting, she wanted to look at the clock. Three years had elapsed. Won Sou-Yeol wants to free herself of something that belongs to her. Her work is a weapon of freedom both strong and light. It enables to access the immaterial world that fascinates her. …

La Négresse Blanche by Brancusi

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Brancusi’s art focused not only on the medium and form of his sculptures, but also on the relationships between his works and the light and space around them. His atelier became the site of groundbreaking experimentation, as he regularly combined and recombined the component parts of individual works and rearranged their placement within groups. The complete ensemble of Brancusi’s White Negress unites the natural elements of stone and wood into an exploration of modern, abstract form, weight, and mass balanced with great lightness and delicacy. More about Constantin Brancusi http://bit.ly/1ugZjOy

Louvre Abu Dhabi: Can Museums Be Exported?

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Abu Dhabi has a new cultural center on the island of Saadiyat. Importing the expertise of the most recognized institutions, the city brands its image as universal and global. The most famous architects of the post-modernist era such as Jean Nouvel have been selected and are at the source of this new branding approach. Lack of knowledge and experience in creating cultural institutions led the Arabian power to collaborate with the Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum and the British Museum. As a result, a collection belonging to the Louvre was moved to Abu Dhabi for a summer exhibition. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is born. However, this does pose questions. The issue of exporting culture has become crucial as our world becomes increasingly fragmented since global. Can culture be exported? Can art be read in a foreign context regardless its place of creation? For some experts, separate artistic creation from its nation of origin would lead to eliminating its sense and integrity whereas on the other hand, some institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum highlights the history of avant-garde through museums perceived as …

French Tech, Capital Risque, Directive et Clarifications

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Un article paru dans La Tribune hier a semé le trouble dans la twittosphère des investisseurs et autres Business Angels français. Cet article intitulé “La French Tech mise en danger par une directive européenne” (1) dit en substance que l’initiative French Tech est anéantie par les dispositions d’une directive européenne  prévoyant  une procédure d’agrément auprès de l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers pour tous les fonds d’investissement. Notamment, les mesures prudentielles nécessaires à cet agrément rendraient inévitablement moins agiles les fonds investissant dans les start-ups. La Tribune affirme ainsi que les mesures nationales issues de la directive AIFM anéantissent l’initiative French Tech en imposant une procédure d’agrément à tous les investisseurs français. Ce que La Tribune oublie de préciser est que cette procédure d’agrément est certes obligatoire pour les fonds d’investissement tels que listés à l’article L214-24, II du Code monétaire et financier (2) mais qu’elle ne constitue qu’une option pour les fonds d’investissement qui ne sont pas listés au II de cet article. Il en est ainsi des Sociétés de Capital Risque (SCR) qui sont au sens …