Lost in translation and nuclear fusion

The 44th edition of Art Basel opens today and is on till Sunday16th. Representing over 300 galleries from across the globe, Art Basel is the world’s biggest contemporary art fair. And an Italian, Giuseppe Penone from the Arte Povera movement, is the guest artist of Versailles’ contemporary art program after Jeff Koons, Murakami or Joana Vasconcelos. He has planted his poetic bronze trees in the gardens of the Sun King.

Lyon’s La Sucrière stages "Emotions", a solo show of Dutch artist Erwin Olaf. Olaf combines photographic works and videos. His aesthetic deals with notions of the bizarre and the the quirky. His images look like stills from a David Lynch movie. The visitor is often thrown into the middle of a scene, and is forced into the position of a voyeur spying on somebody else’s action. The idea of peeping through a keyhole is very much at the heart of Erwin Olaf’s work.