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www.euronews.com The first exhibition to grace the newly opened Ayyam Gallery in London is "Shooting the Cloud" by acclaimed Lebanese artist Nadim Karam. The show comprises a series of new paintings, rich in colour and presenting a playful, almost satirical, perception of love and war. Karam's multi-disciplinary approach incorporates painting, drawing, sculpture and writing. Fusing various cultural influences, Karam's works transcend social, political and national borders. The artists says: "I grew up in Lebanon. I experienced war then, I'm experiencing it even now; it's all around us in the region. "Through the work I'm doing here, you can feel in the paintings the absurdity of war and there is this continuity of optimism that we should give to all people around us. "It shows also in the glitter that I have used and the fresh colours, to take us beyond what is presented there and to find joy and life." Founded in Damascus in 2006, the Ayyam Gallery sought to nurture Syria's dynamic contemporary art scene. The decision to open in London reflects the Gallery's mission to challenge the popular perception of Middle Eastern art and aims at an aesthetic with global resonance. The gallery was co-founded by Khaled Samawi, he says: "(The)art and culture coming out of the Middle East is a very good story and that's why people are interested in it because the Middle East is a great place and what's happening there right now, well it's violence I think will lead hopefully to a ...

Cela faisait près de quarante ans que Paris n'avait pas accueilli une exposition de Joan Miró dans son rôle de sculpteur. L'artiste catalan, davantage connu pour ses peintures, a pourtant façonné des céramiques et des bronzes exceptionnelles. Le musée Maillol le rappelle en présentant jusqu'au 31 juillet, une centaine de sculptures fantaisistes, légères et poétiques. ... fr.euronews.net

www.euronews.com Degas and the Nude is a new exhibition at the Musee D'Orsay in Paris. The works on display span half a century although they are perhaps less well known than his paintings of ballet dancers and horses. This exhibition explores Degas's evolution as an artist throughout his long career. Exhibition curator Xavier Rey said: "The nude plays a central role in Degas' oeuvre because it's where he started his career, it was at the heart of the classical art training he received. And the nude can be seen throughout Degas' career as the genre through which he innovates technically, using painting, drawing, sculpture, monotype, engraving and obviously pastels, but it's also the genre through which he evolves stylistically." Some of the works are very seldom on show due to their fragility. Others have been borrowed from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute and the New York Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition runs until July. For more information see "www.musee-orsay.fr" Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com

www.euronews.net In Bruge, in Belgium, international artists are putting the finishing touches to a series of ice sculptures, and all of them are Disney characters. The Disney theme celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Disneyland park in Paris. Alexander Deman, the organizer of Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival in Bruges said: "We have been working for five weeks with 29 international artists from 11 different nationalities. We transformed not less than 400 tones of ice, or 22 trucks full loads of ice, into 90 Disney characters."

www.euronews.net A city best known as the home of one of the world's most notorious drug cartels, Medellin in Colombia is also the birthplace of artist Fernando Botero. Born in 1932, Botero's murals, sculptures and statues are everywhere and the square in front of the city's museum is named after him.

fr.euronews.com Anthony McCall est britannique, il a fait ses armes dans le cinéma expérimental. De l'image en mouvement, il préserve un goût certain pour la lumière... A l'aide de vidéoprojecteurs, d'un logiciel de design et de machines à fumée, il dessine des sculptures à partir de faisceaux lumineux. Mouvantes, les figures géométriques racontent leur histoire. Une expérience psychosensorielle pour le visiteur, qui peut évoluer au coeur de ces sculptures de lumières mutantes. Retrouvez nous sur : Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com

Fiente de pigeon et uniformes de nazis sur corps en voie de décomposition et dans des positions parfois scabreuses : soyez les bienvenus à l'expo des frères Chapman à la White Cube Gallery à Londres.... fr.euronews.net

www.euronews.com The near-death of an actress on set nearly ended director Kim Ki-Duk's career four years ago, but after making 'Pieta', which took best picture at this year's Venice Film Festival, the maker of 2003's sublime 'Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring' is now South Korea's most feted auteur. Kim's gritty, artistic movies have shocked and carried deep social messages since the self-taught, working-class director debuted with his low-budget movie 'Crocodile' in 1996. He has remained an outsider and something of a fringe figure on the Korean arts scene, describing himself as a monster, thriving on his inferiority complex. "It is an element that makes me train myself harder and grow bigger. The word 'monster' sounds as if it's something enormous, unidentifiable and predatory. Monster means monster, but I don't think it's that bad," he half-joked. The movie, which Kim said he made as a comment on capitalism in Korea, scooped the Golden Lion award at Venice, where one critic termed it "intense". It was his 18th film, and the first one from South Korea to win a major award. It is also South Korea's entry for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2013 Academy Awards. 'Pieta', (named after the famous sculpture by Michelangelo), depicts the relationship between a heartless loan shark and a middle-aged woman who claims she is his mother. Although critics say it is less brutal than many of Kim's other films it still features mutilation, sexual violence and ...

www.euronews.net Middle eastern flavours are in the air at the London Royal College of Art's exhibition of Lebanese contemporary art, where dynamic media pieces include video, photography and sculpture.

A giant structure by British artist Anish Kapoor has been unveiled at Paris' Grand Palais. The aim of the monster-like figure is to engulf the visitor, who gets swallowed up the structure. In contemporary art, size matters. And it seems that when it comes to Monumenta, the annual indoor art project which fills the Grand Palais with a single work, the bigger the better.... www.euronews.net

www.euronews.com Toronto hosts Six Weeks of Iranian Art. The festival showcases the work of some 150 contemporary artists. The exhibits range from painting to sculpture, cinema and graphic design. What makes the show unique is the art comes from inside Iran as opposed to exhibitions which feature the art of artists in exile. Euronews reporter Mohammad Mohammadi took a trip to Toronto to take a look. Find us on: Youtube bit.ly Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter twitter.com

www.euronews.net Each year Sydney's Pacific Coast is turned into a massive outdoor art gallery. Sculpture by the Sea, which stretches from Bondi Beach to Tamarama, is expected to attract more than half a million visitors.