February 4th 2010 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Degottex for galerie Di Meo

Communic'Art has created a catalog for the exhibition of Jean Degottex at gallerie di meo from the 12th of February to the 3th of April 2010

Galerie Di Meo has entrusted Communic’Art with the creation of a catalogue for Jean Degottex exhibition held from February 12th until April 3rd, 2010.
The opening will take place on Thursday,the 11th of February 2010 from 18h.

Jean Degottex was born in 1918 in Ain Sathonay. As twenty-one years, during a trip to Algeria and Tunisia, he begins to paint. In the immediate Degottex_couvs1.inddpost-war, described the practice of self heir of Kandinsky, lyrical abstraction movement.

He received the prize in 1951 Kandinsky and participates in the creation of the Fair in October, which defends the lyrical abstraction. In the 1970s, the painter confuses respect and support, and deletes made any concept of representation. The work is the painting itself, not what it supports.

All 15 works on display, mostly monochrome black and white, is representative of the technical report used by the artist, with three types of reports: the paper strips, the reports-and oblique lines-reports-black . This technique is detailed in a text of great poetry by Maurice Benhamou, the specialist must work Degottex.

About the painting “levitation” Benhamou says: “The lines have been stamped no removal of pigment. Black on black, they are barely visible. They guess rather they see themselves. The eye in start reading from the extreme left, scans, wondered for a moment if he does not produce itself. “

Galerie Di Meo – 9 rue des Beaux-Arts – 75006 Paris – Tél : +33 1 43 54 10 98 – www.dimeo.fr

Jean Degottex 1976-1978 will be held from February 12th until April 3rd, 2010. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, February 11th starting at 6 pm.

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February 1st 2010 _ Media campaign

Paul Wallach opens his studio to the Frankfurter Allgemeine

An article on Paul Wallach was published mid-January in the Frankfurter Allgemeine for his exhibition presented until March 13th at galerie Jaeger Bucher

Paul Wallach exhibits his work at galerie Jaeger Bucher until March 13th, 2010. A laudatory article on the artist’s work was published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine on January 16th. The author, Andreas Platthaus retraces on more than half a page Paul Wallach’s background and reveals many aspects of his work.

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Below, the article entitled “Play on what our mind perceives” :

“A little over ten years ago, the roof of Paul Wallach’s studio was blown off. On December 26th, 1999, Hurricane Lothar devastated Europe and caused very serious damage in and around Paris.

At Versailles, for example, a large plantation of Castle Park was uprooted. But that day, other parts of wood have also experienced significant damage.

At Ivry-sur-Seine especially, in the southeast suburbs of Paris, where the sculptor Paul Wallach had established his studio since 1994. He occupied the heights of the building, an old perfume factory.

Were French women fleeing chic? Was luxury no longer appropriate? In any case, the owner recognized that there was nothing to gain by maintaining production. So he rented out to artists all four floors of the building.

Paul Wallach was one of the first to move there. Born in 1960 in New York, the sculptor had just landed in Paris after several years in Düsseldorf, articlewallachp2Germany. He chose to install his studio in the attic. A choice that would have serious consequences five years later.

“I had just left to spend Christmas in Austria, with the family of my wife. When we came back, my studio was in the air. My tools – and some of my sculptures – were intact where I had left them before leaving. However, a sculpture especially complex had been washed away by the wind along with the roof. It was laying on the ground in the street, several meters away.“

While Paul Wallach recalls that in the factory yard, he looked with nostalgia at the roof terrace, which was repaired long ago, over the long row of windows. After the event, he chose to locate his new studio below in an old factory which unique floor is advances in the courtyard. Here, we feel nothing of the wind currently blowing in Paris. “

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Galerie Jaeger Bucher – 5&7 rue de Saintonge – 75003 Paris – Tél : +033 1 42 72 60 42 – www.galeriejaegerbucher.com

January 28th 2010 _ Media campaign, News

The world of Babel by Jean Claude Meynard

The myth of Babel by JC Meynard already exhibited in China, Italy, Turkey and galerie Riff Art Projects in Paris staged in a video of Gilles Bastianelli

For Artparis + guests from the 18th to the 22th of March 2010 at the Grand Palais, Jean-Claude Meynard presents a new version of Babel as a sphere. Entitled World, the work embodies the universality of myth.
The myth of Babel is revisited by Meynard who makes an infinite architecture oh human : the silhouettes become the matrix of a universal writing.

January 26th 2010 _ News

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Today, in 2010, explaining, communicating, educating, collecting, sharing about artists and works is more necessary than ever and exciting…

January 8th 2010 _ Media campaign

Paul Wallach exhibits at Jaeger Bucher

The first major exhibition of Paul Wallach, Falling Up, is exhibit at at galerie Jaeger Bucher from the 23th of January to the 13th of March 2010

American artist Paul Wallach is showing some twenty recent works for his first extensive Parisian exhibition entitled Falling Up. Born in New York in 1960, Wallach studied Art and Applied Arts at the  University of Wisconsin and Boston University, then worked with Mark di Suvero as an artist-in-residence in the 1990s, before moving to Paris –where he still lives– in 1994.

His sculptures are exempt from narrative content. With very few means, they emerge off the wall at a dynamic point and unfold in space, as if suspended in dialogue with it. After an extended moment of observation, the diverse materials, –wood, plaster, fabric, metal and glass– take on a coherence that gives the work unity. These different materials overlap, because of their own specific weight, in order to generate a delicate balance, resulting from the dynamics of gravity. The permanent quest for a center of gravity is thus one of the factors that constructs form.

None of these sculptures can be absorbed at a glance: they change radically according to the spectator’s point of view. The work is an an event that alters in composition from moment to moment under the viewer’s eye. It possesses an essential mobility that is inherent to its discovery, a motion of constant unfolding that also puts the spectator in motion, inviting them into a slow exploratory choreography of their own gravity.

Between the wall and these objects emerges an intermediate space that prompts reflection: a reflexion of the shadows and colors that are an integral part of the work and demand the viewer’s attention. Paul Wallach’s sculpture continually reveals a space in its entirety, including the hidden spaces within the work.

Concentrating space and energy in the intimate quest for a balance of forces, unfolding out into space like spatial dwellings, Paul Wallach’s works are animated by an incessant twofold movement of contraction and expansion which would seem to be the basis of all creation.

Galerie Jaeger Bucher – 5&7 rue de Saintonge – 75003 Paris – Tél : +331 42 72 60 42 – www.galeriejaegerbucher.com

November 25th 2009 _ Media campaign

JC Meynard exhibits at Riff Art Projects in Paris

Babel, the work of Jean Claude Meynard, a founder of the Fractal movement is installed at galerie Riff Art Projects in Paris from 11/26/09 to 01/30/10

One says a work of Meynard is distinguished by two signs: there is always, in appearance or transparency, a human figure, and the complexity is without limit and without smudging. For over three years, Jean Claude Maynard has been working on the human figure to achieve an icon of complexity: Babel.

Men conceived Babel as an limitless brick architecture to reach the sky. God, to thwart their plan, had created discord by inventing languages. Jean Claude Meynard diverts the myth and does of Babel a limitless architecture of men, inventing the signs of the same writing.

First declined in high glass slides and exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2007, Babel has taken the mythic shape of a human-sized tower for a year (1m80 high).

The work, the result of a repeated matrix of human silhouettes, is broken down into three different transparencies that create the appearance of a latticework.

As often with Jean-Claude Meynard, the whole gallery becomes the work, a fractal cube where visitors immerse themselves.

The Babel is made for travel: it is an architecture of reconciliation.

After China (Shenzhen) and Italy (Sermione) in 2008, the work is to istallée Riff Art Projects gallery in Paris from November 26 to January 30, 2010, and Turkey (Istanbul) in December and again in France in September 2010 at Villa Tamaris (Var).

Riff Art Projects – 48, rue Chapon 75008 Paris – Tel : +336 30 52 27 19 – www.galerieriffartprojects.com

November 18th 2009 _ Catalogues

For Unesco, a book of photos by François Perri

The book Sale Gosse ! was created for Unesco for the 20th anniversary, on November 20th, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

With the support of Chantal Biya, First Lady of Cameroon and Goodwill Ambassador of Unesco for education and social inclusion, the book Sale gosse !, Communic’Art created for Unesco for the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20th.

saleGosseThe photographer François Perri presents and comments 50 portraits of children taken over 20 years during trips to Africa and Asia. A sensitive eye on the difficult situation of children in the south.

These images will be exhibited from November 20th at Unesco Headquarters and then travel all over the world.

The Book Sale gosse! is a powerful testimony of life and hope. We are entering the world of these children at work, school, near rivers, in the streets or on landfills. These images help us to understand. To understand in order to better act.

For each book sold, 3 euros will be donated to Unesco to finance children’s support programs.

François Perri says “I’ve always been sensitive to their ‘resourcefulness’ face of adversity, their dignity and courage … Schoolboys without equipment, workers without machines, sellers of everything and nothing, street children and slum youth Palestinian refugees and orphans in Cambodia … to all these young, hapless heirs of a world often ruthless, I wanted to pay homage.”

A photographer specializing in Ethnosociological topics, François Perri travels the world since 1976 and publishes its reports in leading French newspapers : Grands Reportages, GEO, Photo, Marie-Claire, Match, Figaro Magazine… Nicknamed the “tailor of images” by a Tuareg chief, Perri conducted pinhole camera workshops worldwide and published several books, especially after his world tour sailing in the framework of Operation “Dans le sillage de Magellan”.

This book will be distributed by Communic’Art’s partner, Le Comptoir des Indépendants, to 600 general-interest and 50 specialized bookstores. It will  also be referenced in 40 professional databases and on online bookstores.

UNESCO – 7, place de Fontenoy, 75 732 Paris ou 1, rue Miollis 75 732 Paris – Tel : +331 45 68 10 00 - www.unesco.org