Art Paris leans into its Frenchness for 2024 edition, with rising talents in the spotlight euronews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euronews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Galleria Schema and Florence's brush with the avant-garde theflorentine.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theflorentine.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SOMETIME IN 1975, Pierre Buraglio began gathering discarded windows from demolition sites in Paris. Pickings were plentiful. The fourteenth arrondissement, where he had a studio, was undergoing extensive redevelopment, part of a broader wave of modernization exemplified by the recently built skyscraper Tour Montparnasse. The artist had opposed this trend, heatedly decrying the likely consequences for the quarter’s working-class inhabitants.1 He was nonetheless drawn to the cast-off fixtures, which he conveyed to a friend’s carpentry workshop. There he transformed them into wall-mounted artworks