Ana Rosa Manzanera company: a choreographic matrix

By Lea Rosa Della Volta A cosmic link, a way of reconnecting with one's roots, is how choreographer Ana Rosa Manzanera, from Valencia, Spain, created her namesake company. Her work focuses on current themes expressed and sublimated by contemporary dance. Encounters and life circumstances can often play a decisive role in an artist's life, but…

Judith De Leeuw : A flying Dutchwoman as an artist and a rebel

Suspended in the air, protected on her lifting platform, the street artist Judith De Leeuw, started aerosol cans at the age of 15 as a rebel on the street and quickly became a well-known artist receiving in 2017 the Dutch Street Art Award.  She travels worldwide to realize large scale murals in Europe, Asia, United…

Daniel Arsham : past future

Daniel Arsham keeps on investigating time through a protean work, juggling with elegance between sculpture, drawing, installation, painting and video. Somewhere between ultra-realism and an aesthetic of decay, the works of this American artist both touch and question… Born in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, Daniel Arsham grew up in Florida where, as a child, he…

Gojira an anthem to Terra Mater

The name evokes a monster coming straight out of the Japanese culture, Godzilla, from which they have chosen the Japanese name: Gojira. The Duplantier brothers, Joseph and Mario, are death metal singers, yet they are shaking up the codes of the genre. Their new album Fortitude carries a powerful message. With rich and varied tracks…

THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF : PALETTE OF EMOTIONS

Yasuke is a legend in the land of the Rising Sun. It must be said that the story of this African slave who became a samurai in Japan is fascinating. Forget the costumed heroes of Marvel studios, here reality sublimates fiction. Few things have come down to us about this man with an exceptional destiny.…

YASUKE : THE SLAVE IN SAMURAI WAY

Yasuke is a legend in the land of the Rising Sun. It must be said that the story of this African slave who became a samurai in Japan is fascinating. Forget the costumed heroes of Marvel studios, here reality sublimates fiction. Few things have come down to us about this man with an exceptional destiny.…

Solomon Souza : choice of the street

His gallery of portraits on the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem has made him one of the most prominent graffiti artists of his generation. Solomon Souza is currently in residence and has been chosen by a Foundation to promote Israeli Street-Art in the world. He could very well devote himself to painting alone,…

Sarah Schinasi, opera director: the journey of a passionate woman

Sarah Schinasi has succeeded in imposing her name in the very closed universe of the opera scene. For more than twenty-five years she has been touring the world's stages. She rehearses at the TNN in the Chat en Poche with Muriel Mayette-Holtz, a hilarious play by the scriptwriter Anat Gov. . How many women claim…

Lionel Bringuier: an orchestra conductor, a destiny

He has traveled the world like a journeyman to master his art. Maestro Lionel Bringuier is back in his native city: Nice where, at just 34 years old, he conducts the Opera Orchestra. His official biography states that nothing destined him to become an internationally renowned musician. However, from a very young age, his parents…

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac: on another side of art

His name is associated with major brands, fashion shows, stars that he has been dressing for decades, but Jean-Charles de Castelbajac cultivates a passion: Street Art, with showrooms in cities around the world from Nice to Los Angeles, from Korea to Japan through Saint-Paul de Vence. It is unexpected, even improbable like the supports on…