Grand Palais, Parigi, 18 – 22 marzo 2010
Si rinnova l’appuntamento parigino con ARTPARIS la fiera internazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea giunta alla XII edizione con una nuova formula che prende il nome di ARTPARIS+GUESTS. Per il quarto anno consecutivo ospitata nello storico Grand Palais è curata da Caroline Clough-Lacoste, Henri Jobbe’-Duval, Lorenzo Rudolf. L’edizione rinnovata presenta un concetto alternativo di fiera, sfilandosi di dosso le regole delle fiere tradizionali. ARTPARIS+GUESTS propone infatti non la solita serie di stand espositivi ma una serie di progetti che hanno permesso alle gallerie partecipanti di lavorare con operatori di altri campi culturali come l’architettura, la letteratura, i media, il cinema, il design, la musica, il teatro, la gastronomia e via dicendo. Sono Cinque le gallerie italiane che partecipano su un totale di 114: Galleria d’Arte Contini (Venezia) Galleria Forni (Bologna), Galleria Repetto (Acqui Terme) Galleria Russo (Roma – Milano) e Galleria Riccardo Crespi (Milano).
ARTPARIS+GUESTS
By inaugurating a new kind of modern and contemporary art fair at the Grand Palais from 18 to 22 March 2010, ARTPARIS+GUESTS is stretching the envelope of traditional fairs throughout the world. Much more than a simple series of stands, this new edition sets itself apart through several artistic projects specially designed and carried out in direct and very exclusive cooperation with its participating galleries, which total 114.
ARTPARIS+GUESTS welcomes 114 international exhibitors with :
46 newcomers
30 galleries inviting “guests” from different fields of creation to emphasize art crossovers.
17 countries/regions represented : Austria (with 1 gallery), Belgium (5), China (3), Finland (8), France (77), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (platform), Italy (6), Luxembourg (3), Monaco (1), Morocco (1), Sub-Saharan Africa (platform), Switzerland (2), Ukraine (platform), USA (1).
7 special platforms to showcase the best of the emerging artistic scenes in global art market
For the first time ever, ARTPARIS+GUESTS is extending its range of action by creating an unprecedented opportunity to allow exhibitors, who so desire, to associate with other partners in the art market, or other players of their choosing coming from related fields: architecture, literature, media, cinema, design, music, gastronomy, etc.
Thanks to these special institutional and/or private guests, ARTPARIS+GUESTS is pushing the frontiers of creation to reflect the cross-disciplinary synergies of the world of culture, as well as those of the global art business. Such is the essential goal of the “+GUESTS” concept implemented by the ARTPARIS team beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais.
ARTPARIS+GUESTS is thus establishing itself as a “crossover” event, the intended purpose of which is to reflect the vitality of the Parisian market and the international art scene, all disciplines combined – painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, video, photography, etc. And as a preview, visitors are greeted on the square by two monumental sculptures, the Waterwagon from Atelier Van Lieshout, presented by Jousse Entreprise.
For the first time ever, ARTPARIS+GUESTS is extending its range of action by creating an unprecedented opportunity to allow exhibitors, who so desire, to associate with other partners in the art market, or other players of their choosing coming from related fields: architecture, literature, media, cinema, design, music, gastronomy, etc.
Thanks to these special institutional and/or private guests, ARTPARIS+GUESTS is pushing the frontiers of creation to reflect the cross-disciplinary synergies of the world of culture, as well as those of the global art business. Such is the essential goal of the -+GUESTS- concept implemented by the ARTPARIS team beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais. ARTPARIS+GUESTS is thus establishing itself as a -crossover- event, the intended purpose of which is to reflect the vitality of the Parisian market and the international art scene, all disciplines combined – painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, video, photography, etc. And as a preview, visitors are greeted on the square by two monumental sculptures, the Waterwagon from Atelier Van Lieshout, presented by Jousse Entreprise, and the Black Palm by Douglas White, at Nuke.
ARTPARIS+GUESTS is being organized by Lorenzo Rudolf, Caroline Clough Lacoste, and Henri Jobbe’ Duval, who have combined their expertise and knowledge of the market to bring this event to fruition.
-Art never acts in isolation from the cultural spheres that form and nurture it-, says Lorenzo Rudolf, general and strategic director of ARTPARIS+GUESTS. -The art market differs in the large number of players and their interactions. The work of a number of artists is also nurtured by their affiliation with one creative field or another. Let us recall the architectural proposition of Philippe Rahm for -La Force de l’Art’ in 2009. Likewise, the art market must now redouble its inventive efforts to adapt to these different categories of works. It is up to ARTPARIS+GUESTS to reflect the reality of our times.-
Key points
114 international exhibitors with :
46 newcomers
30 galleries inviting -guests- from different fields of creation to emphasize art crossovers.
17 countries/regions represented : Austria (with 1 gallery), Belgium (5), China (3), Finland (8), France (77), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (platform), Italy (6), Luxembourg (3), Monaco (1), Morocco (1), Sub-Saharan Africa (platform), Switzerland (2), Ukraine (platform), USA (1).
7 special platforms to showcase the best of the emerging artistic scenes in global art market
114 international exhibitors + their guests
11 one-man-shows
Ste’phane Braconnier (Olivier Houg galerie) ; Marc Hispard (Laurent Strouk) ; JonOne (Alexis Lartigue) ; Stanislao Lepri (Les Yeux Fertiles) ; Etienne Martin (Berthet-Aittouare’s) ; Ame’de’e Ozenfant (galerie Larock-Granoff) ; Nicolas Panayotou (Valentina Volchkova) ; Ge’rard Rancinan (Albert Benamou) ; Jean-Michel Sanejouand (Haim Chanin) ; Jacques Truphe’mus (Claude Bernard) ; Je’rôme Zonder (Eva Hober).
II. ARTPARIS+GUESTS, a crossover event…
1. PLATEFORMS AND CULTURES OF THE WORLD
The ARTPARIS+GUESTS contemporary art fair reflects market evolution with seven geographic and cultural platforms having the purpose of integrating emerging scenes and new creative values. These platforms are an opportunity to buy, meet, discover, etc. The platforms represent one continent and three countries: Africa, Finland, Indonesia, and Ukraine. But also Paris, the international capital of art, with its Marais district galleries at the Utopia/Dystopia platform and the Rive Gauche galleries which are recreating a Collector’s Apartment, not to mention young European galleries specially combined in a curiosity cabinet entitled Visions.
In short, unprecedented sights beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais! These emerging scenes, becoming increasingly cross-border, continue to express the urgency of art as an indispensable forum for dialog between the various public and private realms. While we may think of Indonesian and African art as the most recent globalization phenomena, other countries in the Old World are just as eager to refresh their modern-day artistic discourse between emotion and alienation.
Indonesia: The Grass Looks Greener Where You Water It
While the art world is increasingly becoming an area of convergence for international exchanges, Indonesia is now positioning itself as a new regional player that will have to be counted on in a multipolar future. In exemplary fashion, Indonesia shares its creative medium and inventiveness within emerging scenes at ARTPARIS+GUESTS. Organized by collector and patron Deddy Kusuma, the Indonesian platform entitled “The Grass Looks Greener Where You Water It” composes a surprising set of sensitive forces through the workings of its two curators Agung Hujatnikajennong and Enin Supriyanto. Trusting his instincts when he acquires works, Deddy Kusuma has always said: “Buy the works that you like as soon as you can, before others have a chance to see them.”
Reflecting new political and social aesthetics, his collection includes both works from pre- independence Indo-European painters as well as artists from Indonesia and other Asian countries. Exceptional in more ways than one, “The Grass Looks Greener Where You Water It” reserves a special place for Indonesian art within the current context of globalized art. Through a broad range of works and media: paintings, sculptures, installations, assemblies, and other volumes, this exhibit utterly escapes the canons of Western aesthetics, perfectly underscoring the diversity of modern and contemporary practices in a country imagining itself as the new crossroads of Asian creation.
Africas
Africa is making a very noteworthy appearance. As part of the seven-platform theme, it is none other than the mother of humanity to remind us of the common roots of Europe and the Black Continent. With two monumental works by Romuald Hazoume’ and Gonzalo Mabunda, this is an opportunity for the ARTPARIS+GUESTS fair to pay tribute to the Year of Africa in France, the twentieth anniversary of the end of Apartheid, and the World Cup of Football which will take place this summer in South Africa. Conceived by curator Andre’ Magnin, who was already the assistant director of the “Magicians of the Earth” exhibit at the Georges Pompidou Centre in 1989, “Africas” consists of some twenty artists from the Gervanne and Matthias Leridon collection created in 2000 and now consisting of more than 400 works: paintings, sculptures, photographs, furniture, etc.
From the Congolese Che’ri Samba to the South African David Goldblatt, an entire continent is expressed here… “For us, contemporary African art is much more than a heritage; it’s the expression of vital and joyous energy,- say Gervanne and Matthias Leridon. -Our collection consists of works of art that we choose, but also ephemeral artistic creations that we support. Because the vivacity of Che’ri Samba’s lines, the commitment of Robyn Orlin’s choreographies, Gonçalo Mabunda’s ground-breaking sculptures, the magic of Gregory Maqoma’s movements, or the humour of Kudzanai Chiurai’s photographs, along with many others, all partake of the same dream: that of a future of possibilities for 20th-century Africa.”
Ukraine: Concerning the Present Moment
In turn, Ukraine brings an enlightening and perhaps revelatory contribution to ARTPARIS+GUESTS. What are the objectives of contemporary art in a globalized world; how do globalizing forces prevent certain forms of cultural life while opening the door to others? Such are the top questions that Peter Doroshenko has confronted as exhibit director for -Ukraine: Concerning the present moment”, with the participation of the Taïss gallery and its new-wave Ukrainian artists. “In the humanities and social sciences, research work has evolved and now focuses on the way in which globalization is altering our concepts of culture,- says Peter Doroshenko, who is also President and Artistic Director of the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev. “The idea of globalization is leading to new conceptions of people, identities, and social practices that are gradually emerging. This comes within the context of a much broader historical movement that needs to be reinterpreted.” As the fruit of these considerations, “Ukraine: Concerning the present moment” is presenting significant works, such as “The Wedding”, a powerful photo triptych of provocative nudes by Boris Mikhailov. But also two images by Arsen Savadov from his famous series Collective Red and Donbass-chocolat. Not to mention the installations of disturbed creatures by Victor Sydorenko and the various award-winning pieces at the most recent Pinchuk Art Centre awards by Gamlet Zinkivskyi, Lada Nakonechna, Zhanna Kadyrova and the Hat group.
Finland: The Stressed Beauty
As the fourth cardinal point in an eminently prospective and pluralist ensemble, Finland is also proudly hoisting its colours at ARPARIS+GUESTS with “The Stressed Beauty”. At the heart of design and contemporary art, this is the country of northern extremes, the aurora borealis, and the midnight sun. Orchestrated with the help of the eight best galleries in Helsinki – Anhava, Forsblom, Heino, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Huuto, Kalhama & Piipo Contemporary, Muu, and Sculptor – “The Stressed Beauty” presents itself as the singular mirror of plastic contrasts in a country at the peak of the Septentrion. Staged by Leevi Haapala from the Helsinki Kiasma contemporary art museum, in turn assisted by architect/designer Ben AF Schulten and industrial designer Antti Siltavuori, some thirty young Finnish artists will be on display, revealing very selective aesthetics, between functional and high-tech lines. Let us mention Veli-Matti Rannikko, who works with aluminium and foam, HC Berg and his painting full of psychedelic colours, Kim Simonsson, who is more at home with ceramics and frosted glass, Pink Twins video connoisseur, or Liisa Lounila who sculpts light. Among other original creations, a special edition of the famous “Ball” chair by Eero Aarnio is also scheduled for a preview launch at the fair.
The Collector’s Apartment with a tremendous ceiling height, obviously!
As Le Corbusier had already commented, “the purpose of architecture is to connect to us”. Such could be the caption of the “Collector’s Apartment”, imagined by five representative Rive gauche galleries, which were the impetus for its appearance beneath the glass dome of the Grand Palais for the duration of the ARTPARIS+GUESTS fair. As a contemporary yet vintage synthesis of extreme whim and extreme quality, this ephemeral apartment combines all the necessities fully furnished in theatrical form, including accessories and paintings, for a loft in Saint-Germain-des-Pre’s comprising a living room, dining room, and large bedroom… with an attention to detail going so far as to include a household pet and a toilet! In any event, on a very serious note, the pieces are signed by: Superstudio and Masanori Umeda (Memphis) for Downtown François Laffanour, Atelier Van Lieshout, Louidgi Beltrame, Thomas Grünfeld, Charlotte Pierrand, and Pierre Paulin for Jousse Entreprise, Mark Dion and Damien Deroubaix for In Situ/Fabienne Leclerc, Dewar & Gicquel and Bruno Peinado for Herve’ Loevenbruck, and Boris Achour, Gilles Barbier, Julien Berthier, Mike Bouchet, Raymond, Hains, and Richard Jackson for Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois. Already one wonders: who will be the lucky one to acquire this interior dreamed up by 20th-century Saint-German-des-Pre’s?
Visions
The “Visions” platform was born from the idea of a curiosity cabinet focusing on artists represented by four European galleries chosen for the unusual nature of their ultra-contemporary approach: Aeroplastics contemporary (Brussels), Bongoût (Berlin), Riccardo Crespi (Milan), and Eric Mircher (Paris). For the first time in France, Aeroplastics Contemporary is showing the lightboxes of the American painter Terry Rodgers in which he explores his sexy and trashy genre scenes in different ways. The gallery is also providing a new Samuel Rousseaux installation and two sculptures by John Isaacs. One of the sculptures portrays “the rock of Rodin’s Thinker after the Thinker has fled the scene” (sic). The Eric Mircher gallery is showing a diversified collection focusing on contemporary interpretations of chiaroscuro. Next to a monumental sculpture by Max Streicher specially made for the fair, we discover a gathering of black-and-white works by three artists from the gallery: The American Steve Galloway and his mental landscapes, drawings by Marko Velk, and pieces embroidered with black thread on a canvas representing skulls and women in ecstasy by Donato Amstutz. The Riccardo Crespi gallery is offering a set of very contemporary pieces that weave formal and metaphorical links to architecture: photographed ruins and a heap of gray beams by the Dane Søren Lose, as well as sculptures by Stephanie Nava. Bongoût is a young Berlin gallery founded by Christian Gfeller and Anna Hellsgard. It operates as a contemporary art gallery, publisher, and graphic workshop all at once. It belongs to a new generation of galleries bearing the direct imprint of Anglo-Saxon rock culture. For its first participation in a contemporary art fair, Bongoût will be part of the “Visions” platform with a presentation of paintings by Laurent Impeduglia.
Utopia/Dystopia
“Utopia/Dystopia” gathers audacious artists presented by 6 Parisian galleries from the Marais/Beaubourg district: David Renaud, Yona Friedman, Jean-Baptiste Decave’le for galerie Anne Barrault ; Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Raphaël Boccanfuso, Baptiste Debombourg represented by Patricia Dorfmann ; Rainer Lericolais, Davide Balula and Justine Kurland from Frank Elbaz’s gallery ; Douglas White and La Fratrie from Nuke ; Brigitte Zieger or Laurent Pernot presentedy by Odile Ouizeman ; Nicolas Moulin and Veit Stratmann by Chez Valentin. The curator of this platform is the architecture critic Christophe Le Gac, who conceptualized its ins and outs. He explains: “Everyone knows the word -utopia’ and has a vague idea of its definition. Historically, utopia is a literary genre invented by the English diplomat, statesman, and philosopher Thomas More. The word “utopia” comes from the title of his work written in 1516 and the name the author gave to the island where the action takes place…” Throughout the story a description of an ideal world emerges… but what a disappointment! The pages reveal the dark side of this supposedly marvellous world, which is in fact a totally regulated one. “The -dystopia’ (or -anti-utopia’) incarnates this dark side. No need to list the numerous “isms” of the 20th century to see the obvious: whenever man has sought to assure his own happiness, a catastrophe has ensued. For a very long time, artists have been fascinated by this ability of humanity to always turn dreams into nightmares. Often, they take pieces of the most banal reality and mix and assemble them in such a way that their works reflect this fascination with and repulsion for this human schizophrenia”. Thus, at this contemporary art platform, a bittersweet parable creates the general atmosphere of a journey to be seen as “a dystopian landscape where drawings, paintings, photographs, videos, volumes, and installations form the nooks and crannies”.
2. PROJECTS OF GALLERIES +GUESTS
With the enlistment of some thirty galleries, the -+GUESTS- concept is broken down into diversified areas that can be put into three thematic groups of original co-productions: Art History, Aesthetics, and Communication.
a. ART HISTORY
Whether from a government museum or private foundation, the GUEST will be participating primarily as a partner of the gallery in question. The GUEST can co-produce the stand in the same way as a curator. Several galleries have opted to collaborate with prestigious institutions, while others are collaborating with collectors sharing the same artistic affinities. Let’s take a look…
Collections/Collectors
For instance, Antoine de Galbert, founder of La Maison Rouge in Paris and Art Brut collector, is the guest of the Strasbourg-based gallery Ritsch-Fisch, which also specializes in this field. With a list of works from his own personal repository, he participates closely in an original reading of the field, for which Ritsch-Fisch is broadening its welcome at the Moroccan gallery Damgaard. In twenty years, Fre’de’ric Damgaard has raised the bar of his requirements very high in the selection of these unusual artists from Essaouira, which include Ali Maimoun and Mohamed Tabal, who regularly sell to His Majesty the King of Morocco. Playing the card of a collector/dealer, Galerie Guillaume is inviting Paul Facchetti (born in 1912) along with the American Shirley Goldfarb, Greek painter Alecos Fassianos, Dutch painter Ger Lataster, and French painter Pierre Wemaëre… Four moderns exhibited by Fachetti in his time, he who was the representative of informal art, American expressionism, and the lyrical abstraction of the 50s and 60s. And because he is also a photographer, Galerie Guillaume is reserving a portion of its display space for him. Curiously, his black-and-white images give some keys to understanding the artists that he championed throughout his life. Pierre Wemaëre, Akanakka, 2009, huile et acrylique sur toile, 162×114 cm, cre’dits photos: photo P. Goetelen, Courtesy Galerie Guillaume, Paris Around the fractal cube of its artist Jean Claude Meynard, Riff Art Projects seems to conjure up the forces of sensible abstraction through a combination unique to its genre. Indeed, the -Grilo/Fernandez-Muro- collection that the gallery is showing at ARTPARIS+GUESTS represents the work of an entire lifetime, of two Argentinean artists: Sarah Grilo (1920- 2007) and Jose’ Antonio Fernández-Muro (born in 1920). Husband and wife, these two artists have produced a monumental body of work that varied both in its style and technique, depending on the movements in which they participated over the past 70 years. Also worthy of note are several prominent personalities whose careers reveal the crucial role that collectors play in the various scenes of modern and contemporary art: Daniel Filippacchi, surrealistic art collector invited by Les Yeux Fertiles. And Alexander Reznikov, a promoter of Russian and Austrian contemporary art, at Ernst Hilger.
From muses to museums
The RX gallery is hosting the Meisenthal International Glass Art Centre, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on the basis of its artists Philippe Pasqua, Françoise Petrovitch, Georges Rousse, and Fabien Verschaere. Other galleries preferred to partner according to specific projects, and others based on selective affinities. Based in Nice on the Riviera, the Sapone gallery cultivates its friendship with the best European and American galleries and various Italian museums. Among its artists we find Enrico Baj, Pol Bury, Clave’, Noël Dolla, Gilioli, Raymond Hains, Hartung, Kijno, Malaval, George Mathieu, Bernard Page’s, Riopelle, Soto, Stampfli, Tal Coat… Today, the Alberto Burri Foundation is answering its invitation to ARTPARIS+GUESTS with a 1949- 1994 retrospective devoted to the artist. Created in 1978, the Foundation occupies the Palazzo Albizzini in Città di Castello, which dates back to the second half of the 15th century. Bought by the bank Cassa di Risparmio, the Palazzo was leased out to the Burri Foundation for free for 99 years. Open to the public since late 1981, the Palazzo Albizzini collection shows 130 works on three floors ranging from 1948 to 1990, shown in chronological order in 30 rooms with a total surface area of 1660 m2. With the addition of the old tobacco curing barns, another 138 works from 1970 to 1993 were added, resulting in the most complete Alberto Burri collection.
For quite a few years, the Lahumie’re gallery has been showing artists of constructed art: Herbin, Magnelli, Jean Gorin, Jean Dewasne, Aure’lie Nemours, Honegger, and contemporaries Dubreuil, Coignet, Perrot, Glattfelder, etc. Having for theme -A Look, 1950-2010: 60 years of constructed art in France-, the gallery is hosting the Würzburg Museum with a selection of works coming from its remarkable collection, including several canvasses by Günter Fruhtrunk, who was a friend of Jean Arp in Paris. Contrary to Germany, France has always felt a certain reluctance toward concrete art. This cultural shortcoming is now worth rectifying, especially since this trend has never ceased to grow from the early days of the twentieth century to the present time. And this perhaps more so than any other art form, as neither cubism nor surrealism ever evolved to such a degree. Since the time of Mondrian and Malevitch, these transformations have had a major impact on architecture and design.
It is in this spirit that collector Peter C. Ruppert and his wife Rosemarie offered a constructed art collection of more than 300 works to the Museum im Kulturspeicher in Würzburg. This collection, which chronicles the movement in Europe since 1945, has no equal anywhere in the world. No other establishment has focused on this trend with as many works by classical artists, such as Herbin, Vasarely, Max Bill, Richard Lohse, and Magnelli, not to mention more recent creators.
The Christophe Gaillard & Christian Berst galleries will be hosting the Arnulf Rainer Museum from Baden as a joint effort. This is truly a major event at ARTPARIS+GUESTS, as this is the first extramural exhibit of the museum, which was inaugurated in September 2009 in the native city of the artist who represented Austria at the Venice Biennial in 1978. Apart from a few exhibitions, the French public has had too few opportunities to see its outstanding collection; in 1984 at the Pompidou Centre for -Death and Sacrifice-, and in 2005 at La Maison Rouge, his Art Brut collection was reunited after nearly a half century. Born in 1929, Arnulf Rainer is also famous for his overpaintings or -Übermalungen-, which he conceived around 1990 on Art Brut works, by allowing patients from psychiatric wards to participate in his works. Indeed, the programme includes some Übermalungen by Hauser, Walla, Fischer, and Traylor. In the presence of the master and Roswitha Straihammer, head conservator of the Baden museum, some seminal pieces of Art Brut are also being shown at the Christian Berst gallery and other more contemporary pieces at the Christophe Gaillard gallery on the theme of -Spirit are you there?-
b. AESTHETICS
From the Greek “Esthetis”, this term by its etymology means sensation, the science of perception. Originally considered a critique of taste, aesthetics is now a philosophical discipline that takes a close look at art. And more specifically the emotions triggered by works of art through their appearance… Enter ARTPARIS+GUESTS!
Art & staging design
While the adjective -aesthetic- is a synonym for -beautiful-, the noun generally refers to the judgments made of a work of creation, if not one’s intuitive experience. -Today, set design is a matter of daily life, architecture, poetry, everything that surrounds us, through rigour in shape and colour, implying an artistic necessity-, says set designer Richard Peduzzi, invited to ARTPARIS+GUESTS by Olivier Waltman. Conceiving all the decors of Patrice Che’reau’s productions for more than forty years, be it in theatre, opera, or cinema, this former director of the Acade’mie de France in Rome (Villa Medicis) has also made a name for himself thanks to his museum productions (Degas exhibit in 1988, Gauguin exhibit in 1989, Titian exhibit in 1993, design of the Opera and Architecture rooms at the Orsay Museum, Ope’ra Garnier museum and library). With the idea of broadening the individual context of the three artists presented by the Waltman gallery – the photographer Jean-Pierre Attal, the plastic artist Jorge Enrique, and the painter Je’rôme Lagarrigue – Richard Peduzzi proposes a dramatized interplay of the combined works at a stand set up in the manner of a set, with its own personalized furniture and lighting.
Art & architecture
Just as interiors are defined as aesthetic as opposed to functional or utilitarian, two other galleries have also turned their attention to the specific arrangement of an architect and his/her sensitivity. While Jean Brolly is calling upon Jean de Gastines to design the layout of his stand around pieces signed by François Morellet, David Tremlett, and Nicolas Chardon, the Vu’ gallery is hosting Christian Biecher in connection with the ten international photographers she will be representing at the Grand Palais: Michael Ackerman, Jean-Christophe Bourcart, Christophe Bourguedieu, Hicham Benohoud, Le’a Crespi, John Davies, Denis Darzacq, JH Engström, Mathieu Pernot, and Lars Tunbjörk.
Art & design
As an enhancement to the proclaimed symbiosis of ARTPARIS+GUESTS, design also allows shapes to speak to us and become an exhibition vector at the Le’lia Mordoch gallery with Espaces 54 and Juliette Aittouare’s. Allowing itself to be seen without being looked at, her kinetic house, inspired by Jacques Tati, has paintings from the 1960s, rugs, furniture by Romain Minar, sculptures, and collectibles. Leaving its imprint on the pure lines of optical works by Yvaral, Julio Le Parc, Horacio Garcia Rossi, Francisco Sobrino, Joël Stein, François Morellet, Joël Stein, Peter Vogel, or Jesus Rafael Soto, here the marriage of constructivism and design reveals an interior symbolic of the lyricism of the 21st century.
Art & fashion
Through its eternal rebirth, fashion gives a breath of new life to contemporary creation. Accordingly, the Vieille du Temple gallery is hosting the great fashion designer Frank Sorbier to create a dialogue between his work and artists of his choosing. Poetic and innovation-minded, Franck Sorbier occupies a place all his own in the fashion world. His studio in Paris is a living model of the craftsmanship that drives him. For him, fashion is a practice in which he engages through drawing, and which he reveals through his fashion shows. Entitled -Planet Fashion-, -The legend of the kite-, or -Roads of incense-, these pure moments of grace never fail to tell stories of dreams and elegance. With ARTPARIS+GUESTS, he is creating a universe of resonances that draws parallels between his dresses and the paintings of Guy de Malherbe. But also the oil pastel interlacings of Jeff Kowatch or the abstract body lines of Herta Müller, as well as the interactive videos of Hanna Haaslahti.
Art & jewellery
Offering another contemporary and original combination, the Taïss gallery plays the cross-disciplinary game suggested by the new format of ARTPARIS+GUESTS by partnering with the Franco-German jeweller Lorenz Bäumer, who is presenting an original aspect of his creation to the public for the first time. Having inspired the vanity theme, this collaboration focuses on the idea of the self-portrait and the notion of the ephemeral. Surprising in more ways than one, the artistic director of fine jewellery at Louis Vuitton brings together, with a touch of humour, works having a high allegorical value from the Russian collective AES+F by Bernard Szajner, Simon Procter, Laurence Lenoir, and Christian Dahlgaard in connection with a series of self-portraits entitled -Me, Myself and I-. Not to be mistaken for a narcissistic programme preaching self-satisfaction, ARTPARIS+GUESTS sidesteps the pitfall of egotism with humour and generosity. Opening its horizons to the aesthetics of the South, the fair welcomes the Montpellier-based gallery of He’le’ne Trintignan, whose stand will be presenting works by Pincemin and artists of his generation paying homage to him: Pierre Buraglio, Alain Cle’ment, and Claude Viallat. He’le’ne Trintignan is inviting another gallery very active in Montpellier to her stand, Hambursin-Boisante’, and its contemporary artists: rising stars Benoit Chale’as and Eva Guionnet, as well as other more established names emphasizing the vitality of the southern art market, such as Carole Benzaken or Ste’phane Pencre’ac’h, who are known to be great fans of Se’te.
C. COMMUNICATIONS
As an enticement to the eye, ARTPARIS+GUESTS has opened up to the most imaginative pairings. With a generosity typical of experimental encounters, the Paris fair is conveying several innovative and performative messages. At the same time, or perhaps as a prerequisite to any art reception, the mind must be open, so they say…
Art & music
ARTPARIS+GUESTS is showing the work of several artists representative of the crossover relationships between contemporary art and music. This is true of Robert Longo whose In Camera gallery reveals the preparatory photographs of his famous -Men in the cities- series. This is also true of the German Jonathan Meese, on exhibit by Daniel Templon, whose work blends punk and voodoo energy. The InSitu-Fabienne Leclerc gallery is also rising to the occasion of current music with a sculpture by Damien Deroubaix specially made for ARTPARIS+GUESTS. In France, Damien Deroubaix personifies this new generation of artists profoundly marked by the heavy metal culture of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. His work is populated by distorted and flayed creatures, tanks, and wads of dollars to which he adds threatening figures and metaphors borrowed from the heavy metal graphic universe.
Art & cinema
Polka pays homage to the 7thArt with -Cinema Mundi-: a photographic journey behind the scenes of the Hollywood era from the post-war period to the New Wave, photographed by William Klein, Willy Rizzo, Elliott Erwitt, Mary Elen Mark, Stefano De Luigi. A total of 32 colour and black-and-white photographs retracing a portion of yesterday’s and today’s film history. And in the mix are Bollywood and Nollywood. Not to mention its two -guest stars-: Cine’mathe’que française and Studio Willy Rizzo specializing in designer furniture, which decorated the stand in the likeness of a movie set. Another gallery, another genre: the Pascal VanHoecke gallery is inviting Marc Dorcel Productions. Based on the works of the emblematic Thomas Ruff and Richard Kern, enfant terrible of photography, and the controversial Tony Ward, Natacha Merritt, Robert Gligorov, or Jean-Jacques Guionnet, they are jointly interested in the portrayal of sexuality in contemporary art, with a discourse on evolving morals providing the subtext.
Art & literature
Because she wrote the text of -Iatroge’ne-, a performance by artist Jeanne Susplugas, writer Marie Darrieussecq is being invited by “gallery owner without a gallery” Vanessa Suchar, who is promoting, among others, Paul Rague’nes, Eric Michel, Elisa Fantozzi, and Martin Schoeller. And this alongside the Brussels gallery of Vale’rie Bach, who is presenting Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Pascal Bernier, and Sunghe Lee.
Art & gastronomy
Hailing from Lyon, Olivier Houg Gallery returns to ARTPARIS+GUESTS after several years of absence. On the menu is a one-man show of painter Ste’phane Braconnier. With a guest truly unlike any other: awarded twice by the Michelin guide, chef Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex from -Auberge de l’Ile- in Lyon. On the menu are three culinary events for the opening day of the fair. Three unique moments… Enough to bring one’s taste buds to attention and excite one’s sense of smell! But aren’t collectors also known for their nose? -Culinary art is also art. To assimilate a work of art is to savour it-, confirms Olivier Houg. If art deserves to be savoured rather than consumed, -it’s because it is worthy-, to borrow a phrase from a famous brand of cosmetics.
Art & media
Just as agencies’ creative talent sometimes draws inspiration from contemporary art, and vice versa, advertising is also present at ARTPARIS+GUESTS. Nathalie Gaillard who is exhibiting Aure’le, François Boisrond, and Bernard Pras, is thus hosting the agency Publicis-Dialog. The BVA institute specializing in opinion polls has joined forces with AD Galerie, which will be presenting Philippe Huart, Didier Chamizo, and Herve’ Di Rosa. Image: Agus Suwage, Luxury Crime. ,2007-2009. Stainless steel, gold plated brass, and rice. 124 X 77 X 52 cm
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