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dimanche 25 octobre 2026

dimanche 4 octobre 2026

Benvenuto Cellini ... Benvenuto Cellini était un orfèvre, médailleur et sculpteur italien (Florence 1500-1571). Cellini a eu une vie extrêmement agitée, alternant périodes de gloire et disgrâces auprès des grands de son temps. Ses mémoires, qu'il dicta à un de ses élèves et qui ne seront publiés qu'en 1728, ont fait connaître cette vie aventureuse, qu'il mena à Rome, à la cour de France et à Florence. Dans cette œuvre emplie de détails réalistes et burlesques sur le milieu artistique en Italie et en France, s'exprime à la fois l'exigence artistique et l'ambition de la réussite matérielle de Cellini. Ce récit eut beaucoup de succès en Europe – Goethe en donna une traduction en allemand. On peut le considérer comme la première autobiographie « moderne », en ce sens qu'il accorde une part importante à l'expérience individuelle et à l'apprentissage de l'artiste. La Nymphe de Fontainebleau (haut-relief en bronze, vers 1543, château d'Anet, puis Louvre) marque les débuts de Cellini dans la sculpture de grand format, dont il sera l'un des meilleurs représentants maniéristes en Italie. On retiendra aussi son Persée de la loggia dei Lanzi, à Florence (1545-1553). Besides his works in gold and silver, Cellini executed sculptures of a grander scale. One of the main projects of his French period is probably the Golden Gate for the Château de Fontainebleau. Only the bronze tympanum of this unfinished work, which represents the Nymph of Fontainebleau (Paris, Louvre), still exists, but the complete aspect can be known through archives, preparatory drawings and reduced casts



 

mercredi 30 septembre 2026

Aleksandar Antonijevic ... Aleksandar Antonijevic (b. 1969) is a Canadian fine art photographer, as well as an internationally acclaimed Principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Canada. He was born in Pozarevac, former Yugoslavia. He was trained in classical ballet at the National Ballet School in Novi Sad and joined The National Ballet of Canada in 1991. An accomplished international guest artist, Antonijevic has performed with the English National Ballet, Inoue Ballet Japan, Ballet Santiago of Chile and PACT Ballet South Africa. He extended his love of dancing from the stage to the camera, implementing the same principles of form and space into his passion behind the lens. Aleksandar Antonijevic deals primarily with the form of the human body. In his photography, the artist captures that unquantifiable dynamic between two beings, to reveal the inner conversation of a lone model and to explore their meaning and impact on the viewer. The artist was influenced by the form of ancient Greek monumental sculptures, the work of Auguste Rodin and his ability to model the complexity and the elegance of the human figure; and the highly stylized and provocative contemporary photography of Robert Mapplethorpe. Describing Aleksandar Antonijevic’s body of work, Peter Clothier, art critic for Art News, wrote: “His images reveal to us, at first sight, the breathtaking beauty of the human form in its perfection; and the dramatic beauty of its ability to reach the absolute limits of its potential. He invites us into the most intimate places of the human anatomy and makes them a matter of pure line and contour. As viewers, we are enchanted by the chiaroscuro, the play of light and dark, the mysterious, quasi-minimalist abstract forms created by those draped figures, tensed against the drapery that enfolds them.” Aleksandar Antonijevic lives and works in Toronto.

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