BEIRUT: Seeking to highlight Lebanon's losing battle to preserve its urban heritage, architect Christian Zahr's small, yet poignant work in Beirut Art Residency's La
Vitrine is a sculpture of multiple layers.
The lone chandelier floats above the main glass-and-chrome
vitrine at the center,which displays the key collections.
Jouffroy's ambivalent stance on the nature of the Accumulations as both "tableau" and "blinding reality," and his observation that the very things that seem so proximate in fact remain most evasive, echo in an important way the contemporary debates about the very nature of "the real." The
vitrine transforms the "blinding reality" of the objects into a visually consumable "tableau." We are teased with the seeming directness of "the real," displayed right there before us, just as Restany promised--and yet we are foiled by the impossibility of accessing that real as anything other than a flat image.
Rubinsinger gown, $5,995, Saks Fifth Avenue; 14K yellow gold multicolored stone necklace, $9,780, I8K white gold diamond oval earrings, featuring diamonds, $8,850, both from McCarver & Moser; 18K rose gold
vitrine ring set with pear-shaped Swiss blue topaz and baguette and champagne diamonds, $14,000, 1950s vintage pearl brooch, $1,060, both from June Simmons Jewelry at The Met.
The museum claimed that the silver and gem-studded
vitrine is 'the most lavish piece of silverwork known from the Wiener Werkstatte [or Vienna Workshops], a guild of artists and craftsmen practicing in Austria in the early 20th century.'
"We are very pleased to work with our W new colleagues and partners from
Vitrine."
Ce festival, lance en mai 2011, se veut "une valeur ajoutee a la mosaique des festivals qui animent la ville de Montreal et une
vitrine unique en Amerique du Nord pour faire decouvrir un cinema marocain en plein essor", lit-on dans un document dedie a cette 2eme edition.
Le cinema et la television sont la
vitrine d'un pays pour le monde entier.
C'est un peu comme quand on se plante devant quinze teles dans une
vitrine au coin de la rue , ....
Por elas, chegamos, e, tambem, nelas, avistamos, atraves das paredes da
vitrine, algum outro participante chegar, vemos o comercio, e todos os movimentos que compoem aquela dinamica paisagem.
Other works include a 2002 canvas covered in dead flies, a
vitrine containing cigarettes and ashtrays and an arrangement of seashells on a desk.
Helen Burns, learning officer at the Laing Art Gallery said: "The group has based their project around one particular piece of art by Joseph Beuys called Untitled (
Vitrine) which can currently be seen on display at the Laing.
This candleholder which sadly lost its glass
vitrine has found new purpose this holiday season.
