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 20th 2009 _ Media campaign, Press

The International Glass Biennale 2009 in Strasbourg

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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

October 25th 2009 _ Media campaign

Photos of John Lennon and Ono at Marche Biron

Le Marche Biron, located at the Puces de Saint-Ouen presented an exhibition of 100 photographs of the couple legendary John Lennon & Yoko Ono

On the occasion of the 4th World Antiquity, le Marché Biron, located at the Puces de Saint-Ouen has presented an exhibition of 100 photographs of the couple legendary John Lennon & Yoko Ono taken by Henry Pessar during their visit to Paris in 1969 .

The talent of Henry Pessar, photographer of celebrities for Paris Match, has made this show one of the artistic events of 2009! During the weekend opening of the exhibition, 9 to 11 October 2009, the music of the Beatles and John Lennon was broadcast across le Marché Biron to attract the audience into the world’s most famous band in the world.

The funds of the 100 outstanding photos Pessar Henry is a testimony to a turning point in the life of John Lennon. One of the photos taken by Henry Pessar moreover been published exclusively to illustrate the marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, delivered in the privacy and incognito in Gibraltar March 20, 1969!

Le Marché Biron, founded in 1927, is today considered one of the most prestigious art market in France. It includes 220 antique and art dealers and owes its international renown to several generations of traders who have built their reputation on profound knowledge and quality of works they propose: jewelry fixtures, furniture, jewelry, paintings, graphic arts, photos, glassware …

Le Marché Biron – 85 Rue des Rosiers 93400 Saint Ouen – Tel : + 3301 40 11 59 69 – www.marchebiron.fr

October 22nd 2009 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Magnelli for Galerie Di Meo

Communic'art has created a catalogue for the exhibition of drawings by Alberto Magnelli presented for the first time, at galerie Di Meo

Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971) is considered as one of the leading masters of abstract art of the 20th century. After an initial approach to abstraction in the 1910s, he returned to austere figuration in the 20s, under the influence of Giorgio de Chirico.

Magnelli_ombreThe 32 drawings presented are part of preparatory notebooks for the Stones series which, in the early 30s, marked the definitive conversion of Magnelli to abstraction.

This is the first time the drawings are shown. Produced in 1931 at Viareggio, they reveal the anthropomorphic character of the artist’s vision of marble blocks from the quarries at Carrara, the inspiration for the famous series.

“Everyone said that the stones were the starting point for Magnelli’s last abstract period. The drawings also served as models for the large number of paintings produced between 1931 and 1934,”, wrote Nello di Meo.

The book’s foreword, written by Antonio Tabucchi, another famous Tuscan, puts forward a rich account of stone and its metaphors:

“The writer looked at the stones and said to himself, What is a stone? After thinking about it at length he decided that a stone is a stone is a stone. All right. But perhaps a stone signifies something? No, a stone is itself, like a tree of itself means nothing. And then, where were they, these stones? In the air, like stars dancing in the cosmos? In the painter’s heart? In his life?”

Alberto Magnelli, born in Florence in 1888, settled permanently in France in 1931. His works are exhibited in museums around the world, from the Georges Pompidou Center to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The exhibition of drawings by Alberto Magnelli will be presented from October 15 until November 28 2009 at Galerie Di Meo.

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

October 21st 2009 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Soulages for Galerie Applicat-Prazan

For the exceptional exhibition of Pierre Soulages at galerie Applicat-Prazan, Communic'Art has created a large catalogue

The exhibition “Dialogues I Around Pierre Soulages” will be presented in preview at the Galerie Applicat-Prazan stand at the FIAC, Grand Palais, October 22-25. It will continue at the gallery itself from October 30 to December 12, 2009.

Soulages_A catalog was created and published by the Communic’Art agency at the request of the Galerie Prazan-Applicat. The catalog, in non-standard size (30x40cm, without binder), is arranged in two parts.

In the first part, “Dialogues,” five paintings by Pierre Soulages are presented dating from 1953, 1957, 1958 and 2007.

These large-format works show in particular the architectural research that guided the artist in the 50s.

The second part, “Around Pierre Soulages,” is “a special tribute to the unique work of Pierre Soulages in establishing an exacting dialogue between those exceptional paintings and those – among the most significant – of several great abstract artists,” writes Franck Prazan.

Communic’Art has also produced an Invitation as well as press ads for Art+Auction, Connaissance des Arts and Fine Arts Magazine, on the occasion of the exhibition.

The exhibition is of a very high level, with all works of exceptional quality. It was conceived in parallel with the Pierre Soulages exhibition at the Pompidou Center, October 14, 2009 to March 8, 2010.

For Franck Prazan, it’s a highlight in a career specializing in the presentation of the Moderns: “I have long dreamed of organizing an exhibition such as this one, around Pierre Soulages. Everyone knows the admiration I have for the man and his work. In terms of inherent quality – that of Soulages obviously, but also Riopelle, Atlan, Schneider, Mathieu, Hartung, Poliakoff and Vieira – the works speak for themselves, and there is nothing to add … I won’t say any more except that it is precisely for the privilege offered to me here to present paintings such as these that I practice the profession which is mine.”

The exhibition “Dialogues I Around Pierre Soulages” will be presented in preview at the Galerie Applicat-Prazan stand at the FIAC, Grand Palais, October 22-25. It will continue at the gallery itself from October 30 to December 12, 2009.

“Dialogues I Autour de Pierre Soulages” – Text by Franck Prazan – 36 pages – Format 30 x 40 cm

Galerie Applicat-Prazan – 16, rue de Seine – 75006 Paris – Tel : 01 43 25 39 24 - www.applicat-prazan.com

October 10th 2009 _ Advisory service

Of which artist will you become sponsor

Le comite professionnel des galeries d'art entrusted Communic'Art with the creation of the communication's campaign on corporate sponsorship

At the time of FIAC in october 2009, the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art, chaired by Patrick Bongers and gathering over 180 galleries in France, took the initiative to communicate strongly on the sponsorship law updated in France in 2003. If the law is aimed at both businesses and individuals, the Committee chose initially to target businesses and explained the tax measures reserved for businesses.

Communic’Art created a communication’s campaign around the forceful slogan “De quel artiste vivant allez-vous devenir le mécène?”( “Of Which Artist will you become the Sponsor ? “. The slogan is declined on a four-pages brochure and two advertising inserts in the fairs catalogues. The booklet presents four devices of the law:

- The measures favouring the commitment of all businesses in supporting contemporary art creation.
- The scarcity of constraints to become the sponsor of a living artist.
- Three examples of calculation to evaluate the benefits of the law.
- Why it is still wise to buy in an art gallery.

Printed in 10 000 copies, this brochure will be distributed during FIAC and Slick by members of Le Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art. The double page in the catalogue of the FIAC, space offered by the organizers, summarizes the description made in the brochure. It is the same for the single page in the catalogue of Slick, space offered by the organizers.

The entire text of the law can be found on the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art website : www.cpga.info.

Comité Professionnel des galeries d’art – 83, rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré – 75008 Paris – Tel : +331 42 66 66 62 – www.cpga.info

September 9th 2009 _ Catalogues

Monograph of Cognee for galerie Templon

Philippe Cognée's first monograph has been created and published by Communic'Art for galerie Daniel Templon

With an introduction by Henry-Claude Cousseau (former Director of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts) and a text by Christian Bernard (Director of Mamco, Geneva), this book contains over 200 works from the past twenty years.

cognéeThe thematic organization of the works offer a panoramic view without imposing completeness. We perceive the profound reflection that unites them, the consistency of the artistic process of this major painter.

Aged 50, Philip Cognée figures well among the major painters of the French art scene. He explores the concepts of looking, image and memory.

He offers a reflection on the condition of modern man but also regarding the question of “subject” in painting, the relationship between abstraction and figuration, between a painted image and  a photographic image.

Philippe Cognée draws his inspiration from everyday life in its most familiar form. His cityscapes, towers, highways, supermarkets, abattoirs, containers… are transcended by a broad and powerful touch underlined by an original technique of painting with wax.

“With Philippe Cognée,” insists Henry-Claude Cousseau in the book’s introduction, “everything is, so to speak, framed. The mission of the framework, materialized or not, as later the photographic process, is to focus the attention, to produce, to constitute the image as a space that forces the attention of the eyes, to capture it. Similarly, the artist contrasts the smoothness and uniformity of a painting.”

Henry-Claude Cousseau thus evokes “a game between the epidermis of a painting, grainy, mottled, suggesting volume by a clever use of glaze, and that of the surfaces worked with streaks and unevenness.”

Distributed by the Comptoir des Independants to 600 general-interest bookstores, the book is also referenced in 40 databases and on websites selling online.

Visit the Philippe Cognée exhibition at the Daniel Templon gallery from October 31 to December 31, 2009. Also note that a book-signing is scheduled at the Flammarion bookshop in the Georges Pompidou Center, on November 14, 2009.

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