June 12th 2007 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Nunzio for galerie Di Meo

Communic'Art has created the catalogue for the Italian artist Nunzio's new exhibition presented in summer 2007 at galerie Di Meo

Galerie Di Meo presents Nunzio’s recent works from May 25th to July 21st 2007. To accompany the exhibition, the gallery has mandated Communic’Art to create a catalogue reproducing all the works in the show, along with a text by Lydie and Nello Di Meo and an introduction by Emmanuele Trevi.

NunzioThe exhibition presents the most recent works by Nunzio, the only true sculptor of the artistic movement “New Roman School” which gathers artists like Pizzi Cannella, Dessi or Gallo.

Nunzio works with wood, bronze and wood combustion. He transforms lead into mural presence that he sets up like a pure challenge to emptiness.

The material is corrugated and perforated, like a new alphabet which the meaning only belongs to the artist, leaving spectators imagine their own language.

The Italian art critic Emanuele Trevi writes in the catalogue’s introduction « with the patience and determination of an explorer clearing a path through the brush, Nunzio works his way inside sawing, melting, grinding, sanding, painting, burning… Behind all of these gestures, (…) we can distinguish the echo of the same, deep need: the moment of schism, the separation, the elimination of the superfluous…».

Nunzio was born in Cagnano Amiterno in the Abruzzi in 1954. Since 1978, his exhibitions follow one another from
galleries to museums in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the United States, France, Japan, Serbia, Switzerland but also in Italy.

A large retrospective was devoted to him in MACRO, the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea of Rome, in 2005.

The catalogue, of an elegant small size, offers an intimate glance on the works and their richness of texture. Photographs taken in the artist’s studio also allow the reader to penetrate his universe.

This catalogue is distributed by PARIS MUSÉES, ine France near 300 bookshops of which 50 specialized laying out an “Art” district. It is also referenced in about forty professional databases of which the Fnac, Amazon and Dilicom, like on websites of sale online. It will be also distributed in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Galerie Di Meo – 9 rue des Beaux-Arts – 75006 Paris – Tél : +331 43 54 10 98 – www.dimeo.fr

June 11th 2007 _ Catalogues

The 1st monograph on Navarro for Templon

Communic'Art created for Galerie Daniel Templon the first monograph of Chilean artist Iván Navarro

The first monograph of Iván Navarro, realised on Galerie Daniel Templon’s demand by Communic’art, presents a series of works createdbetween 1996 and 2007.

NavarroThe catalogue gathers 68 illustrations witha text by John B. Ravenal, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Of chillian origins, Iván Navarro was born in 1972 in Santiago, where he followed his art studies at the Universidad Catolica from 1991 to 1995.

He made himself known in New York, where he resides now, thanks to his post-minimalist sculptures conceived with standard industrial elements- light bulbs, fluorescent lights, glass mirrors – that he diverts into trompe l’oeil, furnitures or installations.

At first sight, his tools are not without recalling the minimalist language of the 70s and in particular Dan Flavin’s neons sculptures that Iván Navarro pays sometimes homage to, with humour.

However, this appropriation of modernism is just a way to subvert its codes. Iván Navarro enjoys creating pastiches or illusion games that appeal to the spectator and proposes a politicaland sociological criticism of contemporary America. Silla Electrica, a chair inspired by Rietveld’s design, takesthe shape of denunciation of death penalty.

Iván Navarro grew up under Augusto’s Pinochet dictatorship which he denounces in his works.“From this experience, Navarro kept, like many of his compatriots, an acute perception of the discrepancies between appearance and truth. Nothing surprising, therefore, in the fact that his luminous works show an interest forpower and double meaning” writes John B. Ravenal, in the introduction of the catalogue.

This catalogue is distributed by PARIS MUSÉES, in France near 300 libraries of which 50 specialized laying outan “Art” district. It is also referenced in about forty professional databases of which the Fnac, Amazon and Dilicom, like on websites of sale online. It will be also distributed in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Galerie Daniel Templon – 30 rue Beaubourg – 75003 Paris – Tél : +331 42 72 14 10 – www.danieltemplon.com