एडवांस सर्च

A surreal, nightmarish collection of imagery.

A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.

Without any apparent coherence or story, this oneiric trip essentially evokes the battle between light and darkness.

Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions.

Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.

A housewife is preparing a duck à l'orange in her kitchen. But the reluctant bird tries to escape from her but the woman manages to recaptures it and plucks it savagely. Once the duck is put in the oven, an alligator unexpectedly appears in the kitchen, threatening the cook. She tries to escape from it first, then pursues it and finally sits down at the table with it. Meanwhile, the duck succeeds in opening the the door of the oven and flies away through the open window.

Patrick Bokanowski's extraordinarily intimate portrait of Henri Dimier at work focuses as much attention on the personality of the materials as on the painter himself. Only fitting, as Dimier repeatedly insists that the artist's vocation is to let the paper "be aware of itself" and takes obvious pleasure showing the proper way to sharpen a pencil. Dimier demonstrates several playful exercises to cultivate an all-important sense of spontaneity while he approaches teaching as another opportunity for improvisation. "If you lose your momentum you lose your freedom," Dimier opines. And indeed Bokanowski's portrait exemplifies the benefit of sustained attention. - Max Goldberg