I remember seeing a retrospective of Jesus Rafael Soto at the Pompidou Centre in 2013 and loved his deceptively minimalist sculptures.
Galerie Perrotin has mounted a show of 60 pieces of Soto’s works simultaneously at their Paris and New York galleries, exhibiting his creations from 1953 to 2003.
Jesus Rafael Soto was born in Venezuela in 1923 training in Caracas and came to Paris in 1950. He lived in between Paris and Caracas for the rest of his life. The Neoplasticism movement of Piet Mondrian influenced him and I could recognize it by the strong colored geometric forms in his work.
The pieces on the surface have a beautiful and bold simplicity of color but as you your eye roves, you see the intricate and sometimes optical illusion effect it has. As you slowly move around the pieces, they change color and form.
The striking piece Cube de Paris is a floor to ceiling white strands wrapped in red in the middle portion. In the entrance room of the gallery is Doble Progesion Azul y Negra, a sculpture of blue and black thin rods again tricks the eye into seeing one color that turns into another.
Till February 28
Gallerie Perrotin Paris
76 rue de Turenne, 75004
Metro: Saint Sebastien Froissart
Open Tuesday to Saturday 11AM to 7PM
Till February 21
Gallerie Perrotin New York
909 Madison Ave. @ 73d St.
Open 10AM to 6PM
Click here to read the review of the excellent lunch I had with food blogger John Talbott at the Triangle restaurant.
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I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotte's professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 195 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday,Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
Click here to sign up for the next class or for more info.
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
Tours start at 225 euros for up to 3 people, and 75 euros for each additional person. I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
Click here to watch a video of our famous Marais tour
