Frog 12, March 2013.

Frog 12 was published in March 2013.

The Los Angeles artist Alex Israel is on the cover. Alex made this selfportrait specially for Frog at the Warner Brothers studios in L.A.

This is a very Los Angeles-oriented issue, featuring American artist ALEX ISRAEL after his show at Galerie ALMINE RECH, Paris, reviewed by Frog’s Chief editor ERIC TRONCY and pictured by GREGORY CARDON. Alex also did the picture of our editorial, and realized the interviews of American writer BRET EASTON ELLIS and actress MELANIE GRIFFITH —they were featured in his “As it Lays” web project, today in the MoCA Los Angeles collections.

Design historian ALEXANDRA MIDAL went to LA and wrote an amazing essay on privacy in architecture, visiting LARI PITTMAN’s houses —a RICHARD NEUTRA house he’s been living in for years and a quite imposing MICHAËL MALTZAN house they’ve recently added next to it.

From London, Frog’s photo editor ANTOINE ESPINASSEAU brought back an astonishing photo series in JOHN CURRIN’s show at SADIE COLES —he also went to Helsinki to photograph a brand new church by K2S architects. In New York, architect FLAVIEN MENU went to see ROB PRUITT’s ANDY WARHOL monument, and pictured the JOHN CHAMBERLAIN sculptures installed on the piazza facing the Seagram building. Regular Frog photographer MARINA FAUST went to Vienna and was very inspired by ED RUSHA’s exhibition in the collections of the Kunsthistorishes museum.

Documenta XII did not convince Frog’s Chief editor STEPHANIE MOISDON: neither did the show please ANNE PONTEGNIE and NICOLAS TREMBLEY: the 3 of them publish e-mails they sent each other after the German show. Much more adored were the two JEFF KOONS shows in Frankfurt: Frog’s associate editor JEAN-MARIE GALLAIS wrote a long essay on the most famous contemporary American artist and did really great pictures of the shows. In Paris, GAÉTAN BRUNET and CHLOE VALADIE saw REM KOOLHAAS’s show at Galerie Lafayettes and reviewed it with great attention.

French movie Director LEOS CARAX is the other main focus of this issue, with reviews of his movie Holy Motors by VIRGINIE VUILLAUME and ERIC TRONCY, and never seen before pictures CAMILLE DE CHENAY took during the filming.

And fashion specialist PAQUITA PAQUIN, in the “chronique” section, tells everything about FARIDA KHELFA and HENRI SEYDOUX’s wedding: which is, no doubt, the most discussed event of the season!

— EDITORIAL

by Alex Israel.

– REVIEWS

Léos Carax

“Holy Motors”

par Virginie Vuillaume

par Eric Troncy

Alex Israel

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

par Eric Troncy

OMA – Rem Koolhaas

par Gaétan Brunet & Chloé Valadié