Numéro art met in his Parisian workshop the young revelation of the French scene, Pol Taburet , winner of the Reiffers Art Initiatives prize for contemporary creation and cultural diversity. In his hallucinatory and powerful paintings, the Frenchman summons Creole quimbois and occult powers as well as the imagery of US rap. Numéro art also met British star Anish Kapoor in his studio before his bloody and visceral works took Venice by storm for a resounding double exhibition. Finally, this issue pays homage to the immense painter Marlène Dumas whose carnal canvases between shadow and light masterfully enchant the Palazzo Grassi, still in Venice.
Browsing the pages of Numéro art also means discovering the personalities and creators who matter: our major interview with the legend Glenn Ligon , the African-American artist celebrated throughout the world is finally offered his first monograph in France by the Carré d’art in Nîmes; a conversation between the famous curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and the painter Michael Armitage with flamboyant canvases; our focus on the Venice Biennale with the essential pavilions by Zineb Sedira , Francis Alÿs and Simone Leigh , a fascinating dialogue between curator Caroline Bourgeois and cult artist Roni Horn for her exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce; an interview with the French artist Tatiana Trouvé , on view in June in two solo exhibitions at the Center Pompidou and at Gagosian; our file on the young French scene with Ymane Chabi-Gara and Sara Sadik ; a unique collaboration with Martine Syms who introduces us to her artistic family in Los Angeles; carte blanche to the artist Andrew Moncrief ; and finally all the essential exhibitions of the season, from “ Color in Fugue” at the Louis Vuitton Foundation to the Rencontres d’Arles …