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02/12/2008

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Dagen, Philippe

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Le Monde - France | 27/09/2007

Gustave Courbet's 'Femme Nue Couchée' is back

Philippe Dagen is glad that the painting 'Femme Nue Couchée' by the French painter Gustave Courbet has been found in Slovakia, for it is "one of his most beautiful, most erotic ... . A work that had 'disappeared': it hadn't been seen since an exhibition in the spring of 1940, in Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts. ... Because of its importance in Courbet's body of work, its quality, its long disappearance and its sudden reappearance, this painting, the property of a London collector, will be one of the rarities on show in the Courbet retrospective opening at the Grand Palais in Paris on October 13th. The reappearance of 'La Femme Nue Couchée' is all the more important for illustrating Courbet's will to go as far as possible with the female nude. Her languid attitude seems that of a woman after lovemaking, who does not seek to hide her belly or armpits that are delicately clouded over by a thin haze of hair."

Le Monde - France | 24/07/2006

Artist Pierre Huyghe takes London by storm

Correspondent Philippe Dagen is delighted to see the works of visual artist Pierre Huyghe on display at London's Tate Modern. "For the first time since it opened, the illustrious British museum is dedicating a personal exhibition to a young French artist - Huyghe was born in 1962. This is said to be a sign of renewed interest in art from the other side of the Channel in the capital of Young British Artists." Using the same title, the event - Celebration Park - presents, in a different manner, works shown last Spring at the Musuem of Modern Art of the city of Paris. "The videos, and particularly 'A Journey That Wasn't', presented as the culmination of the exhibition, are highlighted in an effective manner. This confirms what we already knew: Pierre Huyghe's ability to use the spaces he is given to maximal advantage in order to bring to life visions sprung from a realm between the psychedelic and the symbolic."

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