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		<title>Christo &amp; Jeanne-Claude as visionaries</title>
		<link>http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/2010/09/06/christo-jeanne-claude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bruno boutot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great art critic and historian Greg Allen wrote about an ATT commercial that ends with this disclaimer: &#8220;The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have no direct or indirect affiliation or involvement with AT&#38;T.&#8221; referring of course to Christo&#8217;s &#38; Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s The Gates. At the same time, I had been strucked by a much more disturbing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The great art critic and historian Greg Allen <a href="http://greg.org/archive/2010/05/20/no_artists_were_paid_in_the_making_of_this_commercial.html">wrote</a> about an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QddkHo1X5qY&amp;feature=player_embedded">ATT commercial</a> that ends with this disclaimer:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have no direct or indirect affiliation or involvement with AT&amp;T.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>referring of course to Christo&#8217;s &amp; Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s <a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.shtml">The Gates</a>.</p>
<p>At the same time, I had been strucked by a much more disturbing collision of images from Christo &amp; Jeanne-Claude.</p>
<p>The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought so much pain and destruction that I didn&#8217;t dare to bring art into it until today.</p>
<p>I have had these images since May 24, 2010. Four months later, they still haunt me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="An oil containment boom is deployed to the Gulf of Mexico. by Official U.S. Navy Gallery, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavynvns/4626942723/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3386/4626942723_e757767ecf.jpg" alt="An oil containment boom is deployed to the Gulf of Mexico." width="500" height="333" /></a></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavynvns/4626942723/"> An oil containment boom is deployed to the Gulf of Mexico.</a><br />
Source: Official U.S. Navy Gallery&#8217;s photostream</h5>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2010/05/Mississipi-AP-CHARLIERIEDEL-2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-639 aligncenter" title="Mississipi--AP-CHARLIERIEDEL-2" src="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2010/05/Mississipi-AP-CHARLIERIEDEL-2.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="291" /></a></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html#photo15">Protective booms surround islands near mouth of the Mississippi River south of Venice, Louisiana.</a><br />
Source: The Boston Globe &#8211; The Big Picture by Alan Taylor &#8211; AP Photo/Charlie Riedel</h5>
<p>In my mind, these two pictures are an incredibly dramatic, yet elegant echo of <a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/sharedMedia/si/full/si2w.jpg">this work of art</a>, created 27 years ago:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2010/05/CHRISTOJEANNECLAUDE-ISLANDS.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-638 aligncenter" title="CHRISTOJEANNECLAUDE-ISLANDS" src="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2010/05/CHRISTOJEANNECLAUDE-ISLANDS.jpg" alt="" width="396" height="576" /></a></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Source: Christo &amp; Jeanne-Claude from the project <a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/si.shtml">Surrounded Islands, 1983</a></h5>
<p>Gives me the bumps.</p>
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		<title>La Biennale di Venezia 2010</title>
		<link>http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/2010/08/30/la-biennale-di-venezia-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bruno boutot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Un splendide reportage de designboom sur la présentation de Barheïn, projet gagnant du Lion d&#8217;or de la Biennale d&#8217;architecture de Venise 2010. Au lieu d&#8217;un projet d&#8217;architecture contemporaine, Barhein expose une étude des cabanes de pêcheurs construites en bord de mer le long de son littoral. Quelques cabanes ont été entièrement démontées et reconstruites à [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un <a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11338/bahrain-wins-golden-lion-for-best-national-pavilion-at-venice-biennale.html">splendide reportage de designboom</a> sur la présentation de Barheïn, projet gagnant du Lion d&#8217;or de la Biennale d&#8217;architecture de Venise 2010.</p>
<p>Au lieu d&#8217;un projet d&#8217;architecture contemporaine, Barhein expose une étude des cabanes de pêcheurs construites en bord de mer le long de son littoral. Quelques cabanes ont été entièrement démontées et reconstruites à Venise. Le projet comprends des interviews avec les habitants de ces régions, leur rapport avec la mer et leurs espoirs pour l&#8217;avenir.</p>
<p>Donc, pas du beau béton ni du beau titanium (que l&#8217;on aime aussi) mais des gens. Il n&#8217;y a rien de plus Web et de plus contemporain que les gens et leurs modes de vie. Un choix très audacieux et très judicieux du jury.</p>
<p><a href="http://montoit.cyberpresse.ca/habitation/architecture-et-patrimoine/201008/29/01-4310744-biennale-darchitecture-de-venise-le-lion-dor-au-bahrein.php">Nouvelle en français</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2010/08/VeniseBienneale-barhain-02.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-590 aligncenter" title="VeniseBienneale-barhain-02" src="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2010/08/VeniseBienneale-barhain-02.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="442" /></a></p>
<p>ministry of culture kingdom of bahrain<br />
sh. mai bint mohammed al-khalifa &#8211; commissioner<br />
noura al sayeh &#8211; architect, curator<br />
dr. fuad al ansari &#8211; architect, curator<br />
harry gugger &#8211; architect, lapa, exhibition design<br />
leopold banchini &#8211; architect, lapa, exhibition design<br />
stefano tropea &#8211; architect, local coordinator<br />
mohammed rashid bu ali &#8211; film director<br />
camille zakharia &#8211; photographer<br />
valentin brustaux &#8211; graphic designer<br />
philip enquist &#8211; architect, som, contributor<br />
suha mattar &#8211; partner moirai communications, contributor<br />
michael arora &#8211; marine consultant, contributor<br />
tamadher al fahal &#8211; interior designer, research team<br />
fay al khalifa &#8211; architect, research team<br />
mona yateem &#8211; urban designer, research team<br />
fatema al hammadi &#8211; architect, research team<br />
deena ashraf &#8211; architect research team<br />
mohammed al qari &#8211; architect, research team</p>
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		<title>FEAR OF FLYING</title>
		<link>http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/2010/04/18/fear-of-flying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bruno boutot</dc:creator>
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		<title>Sa propre mort: &#8220;There must be killing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/2010/01/29/sa-propre-mort-there-must-be-killing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bruno boutot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English follows. Je viens du lancement du dernier roman noir d&#8217;André Marois: Sa propre mort, où j&#8217;ai attrapé un bout d&#8217;entrevue improvisée juste avant que la foule n&#8217;arrive: I just came back from the launch party for Sa propre mort (&#8220;Her Own Death&#8220;), a novel by my friend André Marois. André is a great writer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>English follows.</em></p>
<p>Je viens du lancement du dernier roman noir d&#8217;André Marois: <em>Sa propre mort</em>, où j&#8217;ai attrapé un bout d&#8217;entrevue improvisée juste avant que la foule n&#8217;arrive:</p>
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<p>I just came back from the launch party for <em>Sa propre mort</em> (&#8220;<em>Her Own Death</em>&#8220;), a novel by my friend André Marois. André is a great writer of noir fiction. I know no other writer whose characters kill with such spontaneous ease. In this (short-short) vidéo, several voices ask him if it&#8217;s a horror story or a vengeance one.</p>
<p>His answer: <strong>&#8220;Horror? No, I don&#8217;t write horror, I tell noir stories.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>I ask him: &#8220;But on your promo video, it seems to be dark, dark, dark.&#8221;</p>
<p>André: <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s a vengeance. There is killing, there is killing, there must be killing.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center">Here is the book cover:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-363" title="Cover-AndreMAROIS" src="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2010/01/Cover-AndreMAROIS-150x300.jpg" alt="Cover-AndreMAROIS" width="150" height="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center">La couverture du livre.</p>
<p>La vidéo de promotion:</p>
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<p>The promo video.</p>
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		<title>Ancient Sacrifice</title>
		<link>http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/2009/10/01/final-sacrifice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bruno boutot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[English text follows. Puis en français. That&#8217;s the Montreal way. Les corridas ne sont pas un bon sujet. Tous mes amis des bêtes vont hurler. Mais le premier sujet qui m&#8217;intéresse ici, c&#8217;est l&#8217;art de raconter des histoires. Depuis des années, nytimes.com a perfectionné l&#8217;art de raconter des histoires avec quelques diapositives accompagnées de textes. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>English text follows. </em>Puis en français. <em> That&#8217;s the Montreal way.</em></p>
<p>Les corridas ne sont pas un bon sujet.<br />
Tous mes amis des bêtes vont hurler.</p>
<p>Mais le premier sujet qui m&#8217;intéresse ici, c&#8217;est l&#8217;art de raconter des histoires.<br />
Depuis des années, nytimes.com a perfectionné l&#8217;art de raconter des histoires avec quelques diapositives accompagnées de textes. C&#8217;est un art difficile et pas toujours réussi; parfois il faut se référer à l&#8217;article original ou encore les photos ne sont guères passionnantes.<br />
Mais de temps en temps surgit une perle où un maître agence de très bonnes images et un texte bien écrit pour évoquer avec souffle, émotion et information la beauté d&#8217;un moment.</p>
<p>C&#8217;est le cas ici, avec les photos de Carlos Cazalis et le texte de Michael Kimmelman. Comme c&#8217;est malheureusement l&#8217;usage, le &#8220;maître&#8221; qui a réalisé le montage reste dans l&#8217;ombre. Je recommande de prendre quelques minutes pour <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/30/arts/20091001_MATADOR_SLIDESHOW_index.html">aller voir et lire</a>. Il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;un événement dramatique: non seulement d&#8217;une corrida, mais sans doute la dernière en pays catalan, avec le dernier grand matador. Les arguments des opposants, qui vont probablement gagner, ne sont pas esquivés. Mais toutes les émotions historiques autour de ces instants surgissent en quelques images et quelques mots.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/30/arts/20091001_MATADOR_SLIDESHOW_index.html">Magnifique.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="size-full wp-image-295 aligncenter" src="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2009/10/Sshow-nyt-Corrida.png" alt="Sshow-nyt-Corrida" width="600" height="405" /></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center">Photo <a href="http://www.cazalis.org/">Carlos Cazalis</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/arts/01abroad.html">Original article</a> <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/michael_kimmelman/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Michael Kimmelman</a></h5>
<p>Bullfighting is not a good topic.<br />
All my PETA friends have already started howling.</p>
<p>But the topic I am interested in here is the art of storytelling.<br />
For years, nytimes.com has perfected the art of telling stories with a few slides accompanied by a few lines of text. It&#8217;s a difficult art and not always successful. Sometimes you have to go back to the original article, other times the photos are not all that special. But from time to time, there appears a jewel, where a master edits great images with a well-written text to summon the beauty of a moment with spirit, emotion and information.</p>
<p>This is the case here, with photos by Carlos Cazalis and a story written by Michael Kimmelman. I recommend spending a few moments with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/30/arts/20091001_MATADOR_SLIDESHOW_index.html">this slideshow</a>. Unfortunately, as is customary, the &#8220;master&#8221; editor remains in the shadows. The story is a dramatic event: not only is it a bullfight, but it is probably the last great one in Catalonia, with the last great matador. The opponents of the fights will probably win and their arguments are well-presented. But all the historical emotions surrounding such a moment are evoked by a few images and a few words.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/30/arts/20091001_MATADOR_SLIDESHOW_index.html">Magnificent.</a></p>
<p>What moves me particularly is not the pictures of a bullfight: we can undoubtedly find thousands of others with a few clicks. These photos, however, resonate  with the way Kimmelman artfully cites not only historical facts, but mythological rituals and, for me, personal experiences.</p>
<p>I was born near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux">Lascaux Caves</a>, in the South West of France. With my parents, I had the opportunity to visit the caves several times as a kid, before they were closed to the public. Childhood memories and ancestral feelings bubble up. I still remember the cold, the dampness, and the quasi-religious reverence: like we were privileged to have a glimpse of a secret underground cathedral painted by our great-great-great-great grand-parents.</p>
<p>Then, years later, I was invited by my uncle Louis-Henri and my aunt Claude to a bullfight in Toulouse. I was, at first, disgusted and skeptical, as you probably are. So I was very, very surprised when I found myself enthralled by the spectacle, chanting with the crowd, an active participant in the ceremony. I was not taking sides for the bull or for the matador. I was just drawn into something that felt like an ancient ritual of which I was a natural and devoted member. Who knows? Maybe deep in the recesses of our genes there are traces of the fear of the bulls. Maybe there are echoes of the celebrations that our tribes performed when we fought and killed one of these giants. After all, bulls, under the name of Apis, Tarvos, Bata, Tilla, Minotaur, Moloch, Agurzil and so many others, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_(mythology)">were once our gods</a>.</p>
<p>What makes a story great is how much it touches us. Thus this beautiful slideshow from nytimes.com depicting one of the last acts of this millenarian ritual makes me pay my respects to my childhood, to my ancestors, to our human history and to these former foes who have become our loyal companions and to this day give us milk, cheese and hamburgers.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="size-full wp-image-300 aligncenter" src="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2009/10/LASCAUX-TAUREAUX.jpg" alt="LASCAUX-TAUREAUX" width="600" height="393" /></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center">photo: Hall of the Bulls  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux_painting.jpg">Lascaux, Wikimedia Commons</a> Salle des taureaux</h5>
<p>Ce ne sont pas les photos de corrida qui m&#8217;émeuvent: on peut sans doute en trouver des milliers d&#8217;autres en quelques clics. Mais ces photos résonnent ici avec l&#8217;art de Kimmelman d&#8217;évoquer non seulement des événements historiques mais aussi d&#8217;antiques rituels et, pour moi, des expériences personnelles.</p>
<p>Je suis né non loin des <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotte_de_Lascaux">Grottes de Lascaux</a>, dans le sud-ouest de la France. Avec mes parents, j&#8217;ai eu la chance de les visiter plusieurs fois pendant mon enfance, avant qu&#8217;elles ne soient fermées au public. De lointaines impressions remontent à la surface. Je me souviens encore du froid, de l&#8217;humidité et d&#8217;un sentiment de révérence quasi-religieuse: comme si nous avions le privilège de jeter un oeil dans une cathédrale souterraine secrète peinte par nos arrière-arrière-arrière-arrière grands parents.</p>
<p>Des années plus tard j&#8217;ai été invité par mon oncle Louis-Henri et ma tante Claude à une corrida à Toulouse. J&#8217;étais de prime abord dégoûté et sceptique, comme vous l&#8217;êtes sans doute. Je fus donc très, très surpris quand je me suis retrouvé emporté par le spectacle, criant avec la foule, en train de participer activement à la cérémonie. Je n&#8217;encourageais pas le taureau ni le matador. J&#8217;étais juste aspiré dans une sorte d&#8217;ancien rituel dont j&#8217;étais tout naturellement un membre enthousiaste. Qui sait? Peut-être la peur des aurochs a-telle laissé des traces dans les confins de nos gênes? Peut-être y reste-t-il l&#8217;écho des cérémonies que célébraient nos tribus après avoir vaincu et tué l&#8217;un de ces géants? Après tout, sous les noms d&#8217;Apis, Tarvos, Bata, Tilla, Minotaur, Moloch, Agurzil et tant d&#8217;autres, <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_de_Bos_taurus">les taureaux</a> furent un jour nos dieux.</p>
<p>Le propre des histoires bien racontées est qu&#8217;elles nous touchent. Ainsi, cette histoire du nytimes.com qui raconte une des dernières célébrations d&#8217;un rituel millénaire me donne l&#8217;occasion de saluer mon enfance, mes ancêtres, notre histoire humaine et ces anciens ennemis devenus nos fidèles nourricières qui nous donnent encore lait, fromages et steak-frites.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-323" src="http://bruvu.boutotcom.com/files/2009/10/OBOM-vache-ciel-92-X.png" alt="OBOM-vache-ciel-92-X" width="442" height="600" /></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center">painting Diane Obomsawin 1992, acrylic on canvas, 3&#8242; x 4&#8242;</h5>
<h6 style="text-align: center">used with permission of the artist &#8211; reproduit avec la permission de l&#8217;artiste</h6>
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		<title>Banksy versus Bristol Museum</title>
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		<dc:creator>bruno boutot</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Une excellente présentation <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFM8Gnmwdug&amp;feature=related">vidéo</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1147270@N23/">Groupe flickr</a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1147270@N23/discuss/72157620231650208/">discussion flickr</a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1147270@N23/discuss/72157620231650208/">Bristol City Council</a></p>
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