©Shirin Neshat. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.

Recently, I saw an exhibition by Shirin Neshat at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont where we can see two amazing new color cinematographic videos entitled Munis and Faezeh, these two videos were of an enigmatic beauty rare in contemporary art today. Those of you who saw her work at MAM may remember how most of her videos were black and white, youtube her here if you want to catch a few reminders, but these new color films are color corrected in such a fine and delicate way that I was surprised and immersed in it… like a boy with cartoons… The colors were soft pastels colors. The subject matter of the two videos are based on Women Without Men, a novel by the Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipu depicting the perception of a young Iranian woman during the summer of 1953 in Iran’s political unrest and a psychological breakdown of a Muslim woman following a sexual assault. The two videos are stuning and remain in my mind even a few days later. I recommend you try to see this recent works when it comes to your town.

The new large scale photographs, some seen here below, which mainly feature portraits of middle east men and women have been hand tagged in Persian calligraphy. The large images take a position of a face to face confrontation with a culture that remains covered by the Media and rarely seen in contemporary art. I liked them!

Take a look at the work of this painter and performance artist Benoît Pingeot.

youtube one of his performances here

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Take a look at work of Nathalie Bibougou, an artist I have met here in paris that paints portraits of Melvin Van Peebles and other interesting subjects.

Take a look at this artist I just discovered Mona Hatoum at the Galerie Chantal Crousel.

Take a look at this contemporary artist Harald Fernagu. I went to school with him and I appreciate him very much, also the site was is my latest using css, flash and php, take a look here

Domfestner is a 20 meter high stained glass window at the Köln Dom Cathedral based on Gerhard Richter’s 1970 abstract work titled “4096 Farben” or 4096 Colors for those like me that don’t know German… this artwork features, squares of colors rendered from the color palette of a printing ink manufacturer and you can see it in a previous post. Deconstruction of iconography are the keywords here but it works refreshingly well at the church, it is one of those few places where you can see contemporary art in a Gothic church. You can see more of this window on flickr

Check out William O’brien’s artworks at World Class Boxing in Miami via dig

This weekend we walked lots in the city and found just like that the Swiss Cultural Center where we saw an exhibition that included Lukas Wassmann, some friends of mine said it is gratuitous violent and sexual art and that it is all we see these days including my stuff … I happened to like it…

Koln, originally uploaded by pablogt.

Last weekend I had a nice love weekend with my girl in Koln were we visited the city (Gerhard Richter’s home town) and the Ludwig Museum where there was a Piet Mondrian exhibition with cool retrospective artworks and where it was very hard to take pictures, but I took some for the fun anyways… The museum had lots of German artists were I was able to check out my fetish artists Richter and Polke and many others. We did not buy cologne water… lol more on Gerhard Richter here, more on the museum here, see the slide show here

Someone posted Matthew Barney’s Cremaster (4 and 5) xvids on quicksilver… check it out here and here, more on cremaster here