This Nuit has been Blanche !

The first night-time trail through the streets of Paris and its contemporary-art scene

took place on 5 October 2002, and the opportunity for anyone to explore artistic

creation for a 'sleepless night' has come back every year since, usually in October.

[Discover what Nuit Blanche is here]...

Out late and no time for the grand tour, just a little trick up my fief...
here are some spots worth checking out between Ober and Belleville.

rue Moret, a new art gallery...



Great atmosphere - surfing across Le Cannibale crowd


(rue de la Fontaine au Roi), Hakima El Djoudi's video installation


(rue de la Fontaine au Roi), the Galerie Italienne


Zoo Project, on the way to Belleville, and a stunning Lang/Baumann's work



Featuring people faces at the Zèbre, with Rebecca Bournigault's real time portraits


Place de Belleville : cheap shoes and free Nuit Blanche guides



Always nice, rue Désnoyez - aka graffiti street.


Back in Oberkampf, (Rizzotti's) Le Mur takes the stage, on Place Verte !

[photos by G@tto]

Go for a similar white tour with Any Port in a Storm.
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Rizzotti on Le Mur, favored by the Nuit Blanche !

Le M.U.R. #81 - P. Rizzotti - October 2/2010

and later on...

[lafaucheone]

Ubiquitous Caroline Phillips...

Who's that girl ?

... she seems to be presenting her Yoga Massala new brand (yoga video
lessons and clothing line) at Paris' Salon ZEN, in Espace Champerret and,
at the same time, in Geneva, Switzerland, at today's TEDx
Transmedia (see programme)... performing hurdy gurdy at 3 pm !

Then... who is she ?

* * *
Caro's TEDx Transmedia Geneva/gallery.

Is Above on Le Mur or is he just above ?

Le M.U.R. #80 - ABOVE - September 25/2010

"BECAUSE NOW I'M WORTH IT"

They Didn't Mean, but they were late...

That's it, the "Pas Fait Exprès" clip video [I Didn't Mean] is finally released
and will be soon on the main video sites.


[Benji'sClips]

Crew : Video director, Benjamin Pisu - Cameraman, Frédéric Deliège - Music composer,
Diakk - Lyrics & vocals, Bryan Polak - Vocals, Raphaëlle Sahler - Mixing, Krupnik.
The exteriors were shot in Paris IX, XI, XVIII and somewhere in the Fontainebleau forest.

* Previous PPG post announcing 'this video clip'.

o o o

Spotlight on Viswanadhan in his Paris studio...

This week end, the Ivry workshops were open to visitors for the 2010 "Pleins Feux
sur Ivry" annual event.

The weather was beautiful today, so I could leave at home my yellow fur and enjoy
the sun in my walk from the subway station - across the parc des Cormailles...

and the passerelle Müller - to the workshops, and then reach Viswa's place, unnoticed,
among the crowd of visitors.


A workshop is first a space where the artist create, alone... but once a year its door
opens to the outside world.


People visiting Viswanadhan mostly are - or they become - friends.
The welcome is always very warm and there is no age limit...

... and when Viswa discusses painting with youngsters, this can be very animated...
I dare to say !


"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"...

Velu Viswanadhan
... by yours faithful G@tto


Next visit: Nadine Tarbouriech studio.

Spotlight on Nadine Tarbouriech studio...

The building is located a few feet away from the passerelle Müller, which straddles
the railway, and is provided with a terrace from where one discovers a striking Paris
skyline.


Here we are, at 44, rue Jules Vanzuppe - Ivry-sur-Seine -

Some statues are exhibited in the entrance lobby...

... and Nadine Tarbouriech workshop is # 22 on 2nd floor.




Before I leave, I told Nadine that - he he ! - I had solved (from the terrace)
the mystery of her source of inspiration for her painting's "square structure"...
> >
... but she laughed !
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