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CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS                   Visited:  15.02.15 Whilst in Paris a few weeks ago, I couldn't resist the temptation to pop along to the current Jeff Koons exhibition showing at the Centre Pompidou. I had known Koons to be the artist/ sculptor of the iconic balloon dog but had never seen any of his works and since his balloon dog (which appears a shiny, plastic balloon when in fact being a stainless steel sculpture) was sold in 2013 for a staggering £36 million, becoming the world record auction price for a living artist I thought it would be worth checking out his work with the naked eye. The Inflatable series The Inflatables is seen by Koons as his first series which he created with blow up toys that he had bought from discount stores in New York which are displayed and positioned on mirrors.  His fascination with inflatable objects is demonstrated by the use of mirrors reflecting not only a double ...

Visited: 24.09.14  'The brain is an industrial soundscape'-Archy Marshall I visited this gallery last September, it was displaying from the 5-27th and one of the COOLEST and most interesting exhibitions that I have seen. Jack and Archy Marshall aka Mistr Gone and King Krule displayed their exhibition here at the Display Gallery, the first of music, visual art and performances marking their arrival as a new, original and real voice in the world of contempo, topical and uber modern art. Mistr Gone is an artist from South East London who works with painting, illustration, drawing and photography. Within his work he tries to recapture and achieve the magic and fascination of a daily normal routine. His art is a continuous study of everyday life. He has created all the cover art for King Krule's albums who is a singer, producer and songwriter from South East London. Archy Marshall, SS/In the shower girl, spray paint on wood This exhibition was all about in...

 Visited: 03/01/15 The Saatchi Gallery up in Sloane Square ALWAYS has new, contemporary, fabulous pieces of Art (Art with a capital because it IS an important subject of society and life). This first photo is from a section of an oil on canvas painting done by the artist Fang Lijun, which is untitled done in 2010-2011, 360,250cm and so it really is a huuuuuge painting. The huge scale makes this painting extremely impressive especially since it is so detailed with all the jewels which are painted so realistically and so exquisitely. Not only does, the immensity, detailing and realistic quality of the style make this painting so magical, but equally the colours are fantastically palleted and so vibrant which resulted in having me standing and staring for a good 20 minutes just being hypnotised by the piece, unable to remove my eyes from it, guided around the huge canvas on a journey, craning my neck with goggling eyes. The whole effect...