Text description provided by the architects. The surrounding context is significant for the evolution of the urban fabric. We observe a transition from individual morphology to collective housing. The project proposes to extend the pedestrian path from Chemin des Gourettes to the mall, thus creating a connection with the east of the city. This passage allows the preservation of the small existing watercourse.
The adjoining plot is treated as a landscaped space by the creation of allotment gardens in direct connection with the mall, making it possible to enrich it with social life and create a shared space for residents. In line with the neighboring project, "les Passantes," the project is distributed by exterior walkways, which once again create a place for social life as a direct extension of the housing and in connection with the landscape.
well-ventilated home already constitutes a good basis for meeting the challenges of sustainable development
The thickness of the buildings being 11.60m
all the accommodation is through and therefore benefits from good ventilation
an additional living space in the accommodation
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The sixth Dragon Hill X ArtReview Writers Residency considers waterways as metaphors for connection as well as for the flows of power and money
‘entangles our bodies in relations of gift
I spent four weeks at Dragon Hill artist residency in the French Riviera
gazed out over the Mediterranean and wrote
It had been drained to reveal its flat concrete bottom
human-made waterways invariably entail forms of movement other than those they intend
At a conference presentation to accompany her film Creatures of the Lines (2021)
artist Sonia Levy described how the opening of Egypt’s Suez Canal in 1869 impacted sea levels and enabled largescale migration of creatures such as fish
molluscs and parasitic crustaceans from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean
Another unanticipated intrusion: in 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser’s nationalisation of the Suez Canal prompted Britain and France to join Israel’s full-scale invasion
Levy’s screening and presentation were part of ‘Waterways: Arteries
a three-day conference at Tate Modern in October 2024
presentations and panel discussions that forged connections through water across time and place
when curator Nabila Abdel Nabi promised a programme that would speak “from rivers to seas”
amid conversations about colonial extraction
racist nationalisms and ecological collapse
Israel’s then and ongoing genocide of Palestinians would never be far from our minds
This was most explicit through a searingly brilliant collective-singing workshop led by sound artist Bint Mbareh
The workshop took place in a glass-walled room that overlooked the Thames from the top floor of Tate’s Natalie Bell Building
speaking to the complex and violent interconnectedness of water and money and power and death
laughed and listened and screamed together – many voices
all lapping over each other and resonating through our bodies
“The Thames remembers / washes in rather than washing away / washes in Blavatnik’s name / with the blood of my cousin / BLAVATNIK!”
all of the gathered participants in unison
‘Waterways’ also sensitively made space for moments of relaxation and joy
artist Léuli Eshrāghi conceived of water not only as a carrier of history
but also something cleansing and revitalising
where the third day of the conference took place
Taey Iohe led a slow walk of connection and embodied grief
while Jumana Emil Abboud encouraged us to build new collective stories out of our own individual recollections
Blavatnik was accused in an editorial published by Israeli newspaper Haaretz of censoring that country’s Channel 13 broadcaster
in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
With Bint Mbareh’s text connecting multiple waterways
our performance of it forged connections between multiple bodies and voices to emphasise communality as a form of resistance
Throughout 2024 I was one of many people involved in campaigning to end the cultural sector’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians
but one that was also shaped by the rich textures of collective organising
Since October 2023 I’ve found myself crying at all the wrong moments
Bint Mbareh’s work spoke to all of this at once
At a time when marginalised people are abused by politicians and racist rightwing media for speaking out for Palestine
this work opened a space to grieve and rage together
and precisely in doing so as a group it made it safe for everyone
sometimes it is setting individuality aside that enables us to find our voice
as I read and reread lines from Bint Mbareh’s poem
I tried to think through these connections between water and life
Bint Mbareh reminded me: the objects that wash up on its shores can be surprisingly well preserved
returning again and again to the same places
it is this: however much money people spend to put their names on art galleries
continually sounding the truth out loud together
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The BioCanteens Transfer Network is using the preparation of school meals with locally grown
organic food to protect people’s health and the environment
Project leaders aim to transfer good practices from Mouans-Sartoux
in France’s Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region
The dynamic created in the network pushed the partner cities to adopt a global approach by including new aspects they weren't working on
BioCanteens created a dynamic which will hopefully continue in each of the cities
has been able to reduce food waste in participating schools by around 80 %
from approximately 150 g to 30 g per plate
This compensates for the cost of switching to organic products
The accompanying educational activities raise children’s awareness of sustainable food
a municipal farm was built from scratch to provide canteens with local
social canteens have improved accessibility to high-quality meals for disadvantaged groups
Partner cities have improved their public procurement processes
developed educational activities for children and increased their share of organic products
the project’s wider vision is to create a resilient
reduce food waste and reinforce both offer of and demand for organic products in partner cities in Belgium
The good practices demonstrated in Mouans-Sartoux can be easily applied in partner cities and elsewhere to increase the quality of meals served and to facilitate kitchen management
They are implemented at various stages of the catering process
These practices can be used to help kitchen staff devise alternative menus and adapt portion sizes during food planning and preparation
Coaching during mealtimes can help educate children and food waste can be sorted and measured after meals
project leaders organised a three-day transnational meeting dedicated to good practices for project coordinators and school chefs
This involved a collective cooking session in one of Mouans-Sartoux’s school canteens
in which partners were placed into teams and cooked meals embodying partners’ local culture
The purpose was to create bonds during a fun exchange between professionals and to demonstrate the importance of actively involving kitchen staff if the initiative is to be effective and sustainable
The project was implemented as part of Urbact
the European Territorial Cooperation programme that aims to foster sustainable integrated urban development in cities across Europe
It uses resources and know-how to strengthen cities’ capacity to make improvements in four areas: governance
Total investment for the project “BioCanteens” is EUR 600 000
with the EU’s European Regional Development Fund contributing EUR 458 723 through the “URBACT” Operational Programme for the 2014-2020 programming period
Commissariat Général à l'Egalité des Territoires (CGET)
Municipality of Mouans-Sartoux (lead partner)
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it may want to take note of a prominent individual who
A joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
and the French Le Monde reveals the extent to which one of Russia’s most infamous oligarchs — Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg — is entrenched in the French Riviera
Arkady Rotenberg, Boris’s even wealthier older brother, was one of those sanctioned by the EU in 2014
losing his extensive Italian properties and the right to travel to Europe
But — supposedly thanks to the Finnish citizenship he obtained through an earlier marriage — Boris himself was left off the list
enabling him to continue enjoying his French assets
Boris Rotenberg in the French Riviera
OCCRP)These include a previously unknown multi-million-euro property containing two large villas — and plans for a third — in the picturesque seaside municipality of Eze
Rotenberg also makes use of another estate in nearby Mouans-Sartoux
is held through an opaque ownership structure that involves a company based in Monaco
registered at the same address in Mouans Sartoux
also belongs to the oligarch and his young wife Karina
These European assets highlight the degree to which
oligarchic Russian wealth has entrenched itself into some of Europe’s most desirable destinations
With respective fortunes estimated at US$ 1.2 and $3.1 billion
Boris and Arkady Rotenberg have come a long way from the chain of gas stations they ran during Russia’s period of cowboy capitalism in the 90’s
Boris Rotenberg
Wikimedia Commons.)The Rotenbergs’ relationship with president Putin was almost certainly a crucial factor in their rapid success
The friendship goes back to the men’s childhoods
when they practiced judo together in what was then still called Leningrad
the Rotenbergs became part of his inner circle
That’s what jump-started their rise to the top
But the Rotenbergs’ main gains have come from government contracting
Arkady purchased five construction and maintenance companies from Gazprom
He merged these into Russia’s leading construction group in the oil and gas sector
which since then has been among Gazprom’s key contractors winning many lucrative deals while avoiding competitive tenders
Multiple cost overruns in these projects have profited the Rotenbergs while hurting Russian taxpayers. In a 2017 New Yorker article
explains that Gazprom has “switched from a principle of maximizing shareholder profits to one of maximizing contractor profits.”
Indeed, SGM Group reported earnings of nearly $4.6 billion in 2015
The Rotenbergs have made billions elsewhere, too. According to the US Treasury
their friendship with Putin netted them construction contracts worth more than $7 billion for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
The elder Rotenberg also won a major tender to build a new bridge between the Russian mainland and the newly-annexed Crimean peninsula (work continues on the project to this day)
The success of Arkady Rotenberg is reflected in his regular appearance in Forbes’ “Kings of the State Order” lists
which rank Russian businessmen by the total value of state contracts they’ve won
Foreign sanctions struck the Rotenbergs in 2014
sanctioning both brothers personally and then blacklisting their major companies
The EU instituted its own sanctions — but just on Arkady Rotenberg — that July. Around €30 million of his assets, including an upscale hotel in Rome and two villas in Sardinia, were seized by Italian authorities in September 2014
a Monaco-based endurance motor racing program called SMP Racing
trains its competitors in the French city of Le Luc
the Russian oligarch owns a 2.7-hectare property
Rotenberg’s getaway was valued at €25 million by Societe Generale
Located on the French Riviera between the cities of Nice and Monaco
Eze is known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and impressive sea views
The municipality is just a 30-minute drive from the St
a vestige of Tsarist Russia built in the early 20th century
Rotenberg’s property boasts a swimming pool
and two villas that total 1300 square meters in size
municipal records show that Rotenberg had big plans for expansion
he obtained authorization to add a large third villa to the property
construction of the third villa began in 2009
and then restarted this January after being reauthorized in February 2015
according to the local construction company
neither Rotenberg nor his wife Karina have been seen at the house in nearly a decade
the construction at the estate has been supervised by the couple’s assistant
a Ukrainian-born French citizen named Sergiy Pavlenko
Pavlenko was at one point registered as director of SMP Racing France (a subsidiary of the SMP Racing in Monaco
France’s national address book lists Pavlenko as registered at the Eze home
a French Riviera town near which the Rotenbergs also have a significant presence
Just across the street from Pavlenko’s home in Grasse
in the neighboring municipality of Mouans-Sartoux
lies Boris and Karina Rotenberg’s other French estate — a secluded property roughly 29 hectares in size
with the initials “K B R” monogrammed on the gates
Boris Rotenberg’s property in Mouans-Sartoux
is concealed on all sides by walls and protected by cameras and floodlights stationed at regular intervals
It stands out both for its enormous size and for its secretive atmosphere in otherwise modest surroundings
In a 2016 interview with Tatler
Karina Rotenberg described the role the estate (which she calls their “dacha,” or country house) plays in her and her husband’s lives
explaining that they split their time between Russia and nearby Monaco
But according to municipal records examined by reporters
the ownership status of the Mouans-Sartoux estate has been rendered opaque by its foreign holding company
The estate is owned by a real estate firm called Tannor 2 that is registered in Monaco
a jurisdiction that forbids the disclosure of shareholders
though the property appears to belong to the Rotenbergs
it is impossible to determine its ownership conclusively
Boris Rotenberg did not respond to requests for comment for this story
but rather rent it from an undisclosed landlord
being an avid participant in European equestrian competitions
as it is too expensive to transport them from Russia
reporters learned that Tannor 2 shares its Monaco registration address with Getad
Luxembourg’s honorary consul in the country
That connection appears to be more than a coincidence: Lecourt appeared in Mouans-Sartoux in 2014 to apply for permission to begin a new round of construction on the Rotenbergs’ estate
Lecourt declined to comment on his relationship with the Rotenbergs
only confirming that Getad provides Monaco addresses for companies wishing to register there
Another Rotenberg connection to the Mouans-Sartoux estate also concerns Karina Rotenberg’s passion for horses
a French company called Societe Civile d’Exploitation Agricole des Canebiers (SCEA des Canebiers)
which claims in its official filings to be involved in horse breeding and trading
The company is believed to be owned by the Rotenbergs
Yet its ownership is not exactly straightforward
One percent of shares in SCEA des Canebiers belongs to a Luxembourg-based lawyer named Michael Dandois who appears to have made a business of creating obscure corporate structures
the firm at the heart of the Panama Papers leak
which is owned by Boris and Karina Rotenberg
the couple employed Dandois as a director of the company in 2013
Michael Dandois refused to comment on the arrangement or on the reasons behind it
Boris’s wife Karina Rotenberg was once the director of SCEA des Canebiers herself
two months before Boris Rotenberg was sanctioned by the US
the couple’s Ukrainian-born assistant and sometime property manager
Pavlenko was also named director of SMP Racing France
a position he held until the company closed in April 2017
Offshore holding structures of the type used by the Rotenbergs can offer certain benefits
Beyond ensuring confidentiality through opacity
the tactic of registering a real estate company in Monaco could be part of a tax savings or avoidance strategy
“If there is a complex chain of interlocking offshore companies
there is a fair chance that the French tax authorities won't find the true beneficial owner and will just stop their research — especially when companies use proxies
So there might be a strategy of avoidance of the special wealth tax in this case,” said a French tax lawyer who asked not to be named
One possible reason to register a company at a French address held by a Monaco-based firm may be to generate false expenses that could be declared as an offset against taxation
the owner would rent the land from the Monaco company through the French company
which would then declare the rental payments as a cost of doing business
entitling it to claim them against taxes owed to the French state
The expenses would then count as revenue for the entity in Monaco
taking them out of French jurisdiction and safeguarding them against French taxation
If the intention behind these corporate arrangements is to purposefully obscure Boris and Karina’s finances
it would not be the first time a Rotenberg’s attempt to hide assets has come to light
a dataset of 100,000 offshore entities released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
revealed that some of their money had been channeled out of Russia into companies registered in the British Virgin Islands — three connected to Arkady and three to Boris
Despite his close relationship to the Russian president and the fantastic wealth he has earned — partly the result of a major Crimean infrastructure project — Boris has retained the full enjoyment of his French investments
Forbes reported that it was his previous marriage to a Finnish woman — and thus his Finnish citizenship — that has enabled Boris Rotenberg to avoid being subject to the sanctions that were applied to his brother
in a statement given to Finnish news agency STT in March 2014
Finland’s then prime minister Jyrki Katainen said that Finnish citizens were not automatically protected from such sanctions
The true reason for Boris’s lucky exemption
and why he is allowed to continue to do business in Europe
When asked whether Boris Rotenberg faces any potential risks due to his ownership of property in France -- given the high-profile arrest last November of Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov in connection with his luxury properties in the country -- a person close to the oligarch replied
“they’ve lived under these circumstances since 2014
Every avenue which could have been closed to them has already been closed
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Boris and Arkadiy Rotenberg belong to one of Russia’s richest families
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Like a home straight out of the Flintstones’ town of Bedrock is this sculptural residence in Mouans-Sartoux
a small town in the Provence region of France
Designed by self-taught French architect Jacques Couëlle in 1962
the home is one of five “landscape houses” that he created
as well as a grand example of the architecture-sculpture movement
The maison integrates itself into its environment with its organic curves and natural textures while opening outward to the Bay of Cannes and the Esterel Massif range
where the 231-square-meter (or 2,486 square feet) interiors are characterized by rough stone
and a large open-plan living area with a rounded fireplace and sliding glass doors that offer indoor-outdoor connections to the pooled terrace
A bronze mural by Constantine Andreou conceals two doors
one leading to the kitchen and the other to the cellar
Just 15 minutes from Cannes, this exceptional, heritage-listed property is offered at 2.45 million euros, or $2.88 million, by Espaces Atypique
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broke into a mansion near the French Mediterranean resort of Cannes belonging to a member of Qatar's ruling family
a source with knowledge of the matter told Middle East Eye on Friday
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al-Thani, Qatar’s Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, was not present when the four people broke into his residence in Mouans-Sartoux, a source told AFP, confirming a report from RTL
"The people present complied under threat (with the burglars) when they saw the weapon," the source said
they "did not have a pistol put to their heads"
members of his family were in the residence
A number of law enforcement organisations in the cities of Grasse
and Marseille have opened an investigation.
The family has owned a mansion in Mouans-Sartoux mansion since the 1990s
Its grounds sprawl over 30 hectares (75 acres)
Al-Thani made a gift of one million euros to the small commune
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The United States on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Karina Rotenberg
the wife of Russian billionaire and close Putin associate Boris Rotenberg
Karina Yurievna Rotenberg was removed from the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S
Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control
Leaked documents indicate that Karina Rotenberg
Despite the European Union sanctions imposed on her husband following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has continued to travel internationally
according to the independent Russian news outlet SVTV
she posted Instagram videos from an exclusive resort in southeastern France
where she was seen practicing Pilates at a studio in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Karina Rotenberg heads the Moscow Equestrian Federation and she and her husband continue to maintain elite stables in Europe, according to the independent news outlet Vyorstka. Databases from the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) and the Russian Equestrian Federation (FKSR) show that the Rotenbergs own at least 24 horses
Karina Rotenberg financially supported her husband through loans issued by foreign branches of Russian banks
according to the investigative news outlet IStories and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
Leaked documents obtained by IStories and the OCCRP show that an offshore company registered to Boris Rotenberg’s former bodyguard deposited 2 million euros in the Cyprus branch of Promsvyazbank
which then issued a loan of the same amount to Karina Rotenberg using that deposit as collateral
The documents further reveal that Karina Rotenberg owns half of her husband’s Western real estate holdings. She holds a share in a 30-hectare estate in Mouans-Sartoux, 50 kilometers from Monaco, which was valued at 17 million euros in 2014. The couple’s total assets in Monaco and France exceed 60 million euros
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the EU lifted sanctions on Dmitry Pumpyansky
the billionaire founder of the Pipe Metallurgical Company
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despite sanctions that have targeted him since the start of the war in Ukraine
By Abdelhak El Idrissi
DAVID ISTVAN / OCCRP Who owns the Chemin des Canebiers estate
This vast 30-hectare complex in Mouans-Sartoux (southeastern France
just north of Cannes) includes a villa with a swimming pool
apartments and an equestrian center with two riding arenas and two stables
nestled in the heart of farmland and vast woods
But there's no family name on the letterbox
Since the successive purchases of the land that makes up this little kingdom
questions have been flying about the identity of the owner
Publicly available documents only hint at the name of a Monaco company: SCP Tannor 2
the king of this realm is none other than Boris Rotenberg
a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin
According to our investigation – conducted on the basis of confidential documents and public sources and in collaboration with several international media outlets
including the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) consortium and the iStories website – Rotenberg owns a vast
hitherto unknown real estate portfolio on the French Côte d'Azur
Although the oligarch has been subject to European sanctions since February 2022
much of his property has escaped the freezing measures imposed by the French authorities on other oligarchs
this allows him the opportunity to circumvent the sanctions by selling his properties
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The Young Aiglon Tournament came to a close on Sunday
The U11 national competition was won by Paris Saint-Germain
the Rouge et Noir won the regional edition
the club from the capital continued the winning tradition by capturing the Young Aiglon U11 Tournament
This victory in the final crowned a team that was a pleasure to watch
against an opponent that played well throughout the tournament
It could also have been the case for OGC Nice
The Gym fell in the quarter-finals to the eventual winners
They then did their job to get the best possible result
"It's well deserved," said Deniz Ondeyer
given what we showed against PSG in the quarter-finals
quality and tactics." The Aiglon coach praised the overall performance of his group
"It's a disappointment for the children
They gave it their all and put in a really good performance," he said
"The outcome is very positive in terms of what we showed
We didn't lose a match in the tournament
it remains a source of pride to take part in this magnificent tournament
This is also what the Young Aiglon Tournament is all about
A competition organised by passionate people to put a smile on the faces of children
the General Manager of the OGC Nice Foundation
Under the watchful eye of Dave Brailsford (INEOS Sporting Director)
Johan Audel or the former manager and educator Jean-Pierre Auda
as well as Philippe Manassero (president of the local Olympic and Sports Committee) and Martine Martinon
(deputy delegate for sports in the City of Nice)
The 2022 edition also saw OGC Nice win the other tournament
ahead of 23 other teams representing 21 amateur clubs
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Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec given two-year suspended sentence over cache of 271 works that retiree claims artist gave him as gift for odd jobs
drawings and “crumpled paper” was no more than a dull-looking gift that he left in a cardboard box in his garage for 40 years
But Pierre Le Guennec, a retired electrician from the Côte d’Azur, and his wife, Danielle, were convicted on Friday of possessing stolen goods in the form of a staggering cache of 271 works by Pablo Picasso
Pierre Le Guennec said the works had been a present to him from the painter after doing odd jobs on his estate
A court in Grasse handed the couple a two-year suspended sentence
ending years of intrigue surrounding a mysterious suitcase full of drawings that the couple took to Paris in 2010 to show Claude Picasso
the late painter’s son who represents the artist’s heirs and estate
making it the most important discovery of Picasso art since his death
included nine rare Cubist collages from the time Picasso was working with the French artist Georges Braque
including portraits of his mistress Fernande
A legal battle began which one lawyer described in court as so “surrealistic” that it felt like a Picasso work in itself
View image in fullscreenNu Assis (Sitting nude) by Picasso
described themselves in court as simple folk who didn’t do much talking
In 1970 Pierre Le Guennec had been called to the home of Picasso and his last wife
Then for three years until Picasso’s death he did odd jobs and electrical work
including fitting an alarm system at the Picassos’ southern French properties
including the celebrated La Californie in Cannes
the Château de Vauvenargues and the mill at Notre Dame de Vie in Mougins
Pierre Le Guennec worked for Picasso’s widow for another decade and had been known as a trusted and friendly figure
He told the court: “Picasso had total confidence in me
Monsieur and Madame called me ‘little cousin’.”
Jacqueline Picasso had handed him a closed box containing the works
Danielle Le Guennec had separately recalled a different version: that her husband came home with a stuffed rubbish bag
and told her Picasso had given the works to him when tidying his studio
Pierre Le Guennec had looked inside and found what he called “drawings
He said he and his wife did not look through everything
Asked by the judge whether he wasn’t a little curious
I didn’t have in mind that they were works of art; they were essays
Pierre Le Guennec began worrying about what might happen with the works after his death
He contacted the administration of the Picasso heirs in Paris and arrived with the suitcase
The Picasso family dismissed as utterly ridiculous the notion that the painter
would ever have given away such an enormous range of work and without signing or dating it
View image in fullscreenA drawing of a horse by Picasso
Photograph: APAlthough the couple were found guilty of possessing stolen goods
the case did not establish who was responsible for the theft
The Picasso heirs’ lawyer had suggested in court that the couple might have been manipulated by an art smuggling ring
he had personally used books about Picasso to draw up an inventory that was found with the cache of 180 lithographs
lawyers cast doubt over whether he wrote the inventory himself
It contained a note about a similarity to a Picasso work at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
Pierre Le Guennec seemed not to have ever heard of MoMA
View image in fullscreenA painting of a hand by Picasso
Pierre Le Guennec said: “We’re disappointed.” His wife added: “We’re honest people
Maybe we don’t know how to speak … We’re little people
Their lawyer could appeal against the verdict
The works have been seized by authorities and will be returned to the Picasso Administration
There has been no value placed on the collection
but it is thought to be worth at least €60m (£43.5m)
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In response to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea
the European Union banned more than 100 Russian officials and businessmen from entering its territory and froze their European assets
The move was meant to punish well-connected Russians who have profited from their country’s aggression against Ukraine
and the French Le Monde reveals the extent to which one of Russia’s most infamous oligarchs — Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg — is entrenched in the French Riviera
Arkady Rotenberg, Boris’s even wealthier older brother, was one of those sanctioned by the EU in 2014
But — supposedly thanks to the Finnish citizenship he obtained through an earlier marriage — Boris himself was left off the list
These include a previously unknown multi-million-euro property containing two large villas — and plans for a third — in the picturesque seaside municipality of Eze
oligarchic Russian wealth has entrenched itself into some of Europe’s most desirable destinations
Boris and Arkady Rotenberg have come a long way from the chain of gas stations they ran during Russia’s period of cowboy capitalism in the 90’s
The Rotenbergs’ relationship with president Putin was almost certainly a crucial factor in their rapid success
The friendship goes back to the men’s childhoods
That’s what jump-started their rise to the top
But the Rotenbergs’ main gains have come from government contracting
He merged these into Russia’s leading construction group in the oil and gas sector
which since then has been among Gazprom’s key contractors winning many lucrative deals while avoiding competitive tenders
Multiple cost overruns in these projects have profited the Rotenbergs while hurting Russian taxpayers. In a 2017 New Yorker article
explains that Gazprom has “switched from a principle of maximizing shareholder profits to one of maximizing contractor profits.”
Indeed, SGM Group reported earnings of nearly $4.6 billion in 2015
The Rotenbergs have made billions elsewhere, too. According to the US Treasury
The success of Arkady Rotenberg is reflected in his regular appearance in Forbes’ “Kings of the State Order” lists
which rank Russian businessmen by the total value of state contracts they’ve won
The EU instituted its own sanctions — but just on Arkady Rotenberg — that July. Around €30 million of his assets, including an upscale hotel in Rome and two villas in Sardinia, were seized by Italian authorities in September 2014
Rotenberg’s getaway was valued at €25 million by Societe Generale
Rotenberg’s property boasts a swimming pool
the construction at the estate has been supervised by the couple’s assistant
France’s national address book lists Pavlenko as registered at the Eze home
Just across the street from Pavlenko’s home in Grasse
lies Boris and Karina Rotenberg’s other French estate — a secluded property roughly 29 hectares in size
with the initials “K B R” monogrammed on the gates
In a 2016 interview with Tatler
Karina Rotenberg described the role the estate (which she calls their “dacha,” or country house) plays in her and her husband’s lives
Luxembourg’s honorary consul in the country
That connection appears to be more than a coincidence: Lecourt appeared in Mouans-Sartoux in 2014 to apply for permission to begin a new round of construction on the Rotenbergs’ estate
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« Le Clos » villa is a life project: living your retirement from the calm and gentleness of the Mediterranean hinterland.
The project is enshrined to its physical and cultural surroundings. Adapting to the local climate has a strong impact on the project, as evidenced by constant reminders of the Mediterranean region’s particularities: minerality, simplicity of forms, the patio and the right size of the openings.
The initial shape of the project results from a set of simple and monolithic volumes emerging from the ground. Each block responds to a residential use by its height and its place in the system. These distinct entities generate a central patio where all the daily practices are articulated, it is the heart of the project.
Courtesy of Bancaù AchitectesThis intimate central space is an emblematic figure of Mediterranean architecture. It creates a shaded cool area deeply appreciated in summer, and enables a comprehensive ventilation of all surrounding spaces.
Courtesy of Bancaù AchitectesBecause living along the Méditerranée means living outside a lot, the interior is designed as a prolongation of the outdoor spaces and garden. The landscape appears in a various amount of framing. In contrast to the overexposed exterior, the atmosphere of the living spaces needs to be subdued. The local-centered approach of the project naturally led us to opt for natural materials such as oak wood joinery, mineral terrazzo floors and lime coatings.
Courtesy of Bancaù AchitectesMassive stone from Vers: The stone of Vers is an ochre shell stone which reveal its past lives on the strata traces. An emblematic material of our very limestone region and its history, the stone intertwines the project and its environment, it creates temperature inertia, natural humidity and remains infinitely recyclable.
it requires little watering and is heat resistant
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The second Dragon Hill X ArtReview Writers Residency text discusses abstraction in the context of work by Anthony Akinbola
the three artists on the Dragon Hill residency with the author
Over the course of 2024, six art and culture writers selected by ArtReview have been joining groups of visual artists selected by London’s Unit gallery on a residency at Dragon Hill in Mougins
designed and built in 1964 by Jacques Couëlle
is set in a private domain that has counted Pablo Picasso
Yves Saint Laurent and Leo Castelli among its residents
Some of the writers on this residency have written previously for ArtReview
others have not; some of the artists are represented by Unit
lived at Dragon Hill in June and early July
He has written a text on abstract painting by Black artists
the three artists on the Dragon Hill residency during his time there
We’re in a garden overlooking the hills of Mouans-Sartoux
about ten kilometres north of Cannes – abstracted
from the ‘real world’ – and we’re talking about abstraction
raised by the three artists I’m sharing this residency with
is the institutional and market demand on Black artists in the US to enact legibly Black tropes
with gatekeepers hellbent on promoting the racial content of artworks
cracks up at the assumption that the title of his fabric work Jubilee (2021) intentionally refers to the Emancipation Proclamation – an assumption made by the online voice description attending its inclusion in By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection
as things are when authority is so off the mark
but there is something worryingly reductive about overriding the very subjectivity that inclusivity is meant to bring
my responsibility as a white person comes to the fore)
when I’m seeking out the ‘critique’ in art
I’m not forcing it to assimilate to my idea of what makes it good
If abstraction – as Ad Reinhardt argued during the 1940s – puts the viewer inclined to interpretation in the position of creator
perhaps it’s incumbent on the critic not to prevail on an artwork to fill a certain political bracket
And so I set myself the task of considering how the three artists here – Akinbola
Patrick Alston and Ludovic Nkoth – have utilised abstraction to joust with hegemonic pressure to be Black on a white viewer’s terms
Alston makes his presence felt without opening it up to racial categorisation; the liberation associated with gestural forms gains undeclared political meaning
Alston has been working mainly on two paintings
slowly churning suspensions of crosshatched
whirling marks that decelerate the fleetingness of preverbal emotion; the preverbal as prepolitical
which is not to say that Alston’s practice is one of pseudo-utopian escape
his layering and blending of marks seem to carry out the palimpsestic
perpetual (because it’s perpetually thwarted) practice of sustaining a prelapsarian world
I wondered if my Edenic surroundings wouldn’t desensitise me to the harshness of life
but maintaining such indifference would be like meditating indefinitely without a single intrusive thought
It seems to me that the labour in Alston’s work – which is often evocative of a beautiful garden
his work on the Jenkins Johnson Gallery stand at Art Basel this year
even referencing Monet – is up against an equally inevitable rupture of innocence
Events occurring on a not-so-distant shore prompt me to read an excerpt from the Palestinian theorist Edward Said’s Reflections on Exile (1984)
in which he introduces the term ‘contrapuntal’ to define an awareness of existing in ‘simultaneous dimensions’
I think something similar to counterpoint is at play in the work of the artists I’m conversing with
I’ve been talking to Akinbola about the road
though the project is still in embryo – abstracting the phenomenology of driving
The artist’s commitment to the road’s marks and materiality poses a conceptual challenge
not to veer into signification (of a Black man driving in the US)
Is it possible for the works to be just about the road
with the work’s point of conflict being the gravitational tug between the two dimensions
I think about some of Akinbola’s developed work along similar lines
Much of it starts off with the politically charged material of the durag
which he then stretches across frames in crisscrossing striations or Sean Scully-like stripes
In these works – three of which he has made here – he tests the extent to which an emblem of American Blackness can be only form
In the local supermarket I keep seeing Moor’s heads: on wine bottles
The silhouetted profile appears on the flag of the neighbouring island of Corsica
I discover; I’m wondering whether such heraldry isn’t ancestrally ingrained in racial profiling
whether police mugshots – of Black people – haven’t something of the war trophy about them
Nkoth has been continuing his experiment with grids
each square a slightly different dark tone
Although Nkoth’s work is technically figurative
writhing brushstrokes abstract his subjects in real time
and although the mugshot served as an early point of reference for this series
dismantling the grid’s unity as the paint continues to swirl
and figures trespass into neighbouring cells
Nkoth’s figures enact the work of slipping away from easy profiling
work that – like Alston’s effort to sustain bliss – is ongoing and unfinished
Beyond its connotations of systemic oppression
the profile pertains also to criticism: the ‘profile treatment’ implying the encapsulation of a single artist’s output
To a certain degree it is inevitable that language will contain what it seeks to describe
the challenge of respecting its indeterminacy rather than reining it in to suit an agenda – especially when postimperial asymmetries are involved – becomes all the more vital
even if the result is bound to be imperfect
One subtext here is Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant’s call for opacity
More than a matter of being difficult or impossible to decipher
opacity calls on the responsibility of everyone not to reduce people to a code
in paradise or wherever – you don’t need to conceptualise them
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Marc Lewis films have neither beginning nor end and often circumscribe ordinary urban spaces
framing and camera movements give these places an intensity and strangeness dimension which switch the relationship between identity of what we see and the perception we have of it
Ligne de Force exhibition from December 11
Marc Lewis exhibition from December 11 to March 16
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La 78e édition du prochain Festival de Cannes
le Festival de Cannes s'empare de la ville et des tabloïds du monde entier
Juliette Binoche présidera le jury du Festival de Cannes 2025
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The history between Herman de Vries and the Espace de l’Art Concret is long and deep
Sybil Albers and Gottfried Honegger were already familiar with the artist’s works
held a year after the inauguration of the EAC
offering the opportunity to collect samples of over 220 crops
gathered in the surroundings of Mouans-Sartoux
The new monographic exhibition on Herman de Vries provides a unique opportunity to explore the links between his artistic practice and his activity as a publisher of artist books
The first part of the exhibition features works from the 1950s and 1960s
characterized by a radically different pictorial language
long trips to India and the Seychelles led him to discover that true art resides in nature itself
His philosophy then becomes: “My poetry is the world”
a fundamental concept that permeates his work to this day
The second part of the exhibition focuses on works made with and within nature
Herman de Vries’s view of the world is nourished by a direct experience of nature
which provides him with the tools to reflect on the interdependence of all that exists
demonstrates a particular attention to the identity and stories of these places
a contemporary art center of national interest – Donation Albers-Honegger
is located in the Château de Mouans in Mouans-Sartoux
The exhibition will be open until January 5