June 10th 2009 _ Media campaign

Artist Susumu Shingu at galerie Jaeger Bucher

The gallery Jaeger Bucher entrusted Communic'Art with the press relation of the exposition of the artist Susumu Shingu

Entitled Planet of Wind and Water, the exhibition is presented from May 15 to September 26, 2009. Very famous in Japan, Shingu is a complete artist unpopular in France. Sculptor, scientist and philosopher, Shingu creates sculptures that are often monumental, with movements generated by the forces and flows of  -wind, water, sun and gravity-.

“Richard Serra has shown us how far monumentality Anselm Kiefer shows us the decay of a world, Susumu Shingu offers us a message of movement and a breath of hope for humanity,” explain Véronique Jaeger, Director Gallery Jaeger Bucher.

Starting out from scientific research on movement, based on observation of the nature of thee human body and nature, Susumu Shingu has created and installed several hundred wind and water sculptures around the world, all of them mobile, dancing, polyphonic, playful, sometimes kites, birds, flowers, trees, clouds…

Susumu Shingu also works regularly in other artistic disciplines with well-known architects such as Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano, as well as with designers like Issey Miyake.

The exhibition will also include a preview of the diorama Breathing Earth, a self-sufficient Village project relying on the natural energy of wind, water and sunlight.

Produced by the gallery for the exhibition, a 33-minute film by German director Thomas Riedelsheimer shows the artist talking about his work and his research while unveiling his sculptures in their natural settings.

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

June 8th 2009 _ Media campaign

The International Glass Prize 2009 Winner

Nicolas Morin, winner of the first International Glass Prize ''Glass and Transmission", for artists using the medium glass

The son of a glassblower, Nicolas Morin proposes varied creative lines, figurative and abstract sculptures around different themes, the decomposition of light by glass, a metaphor for human diversity or the fragility of the material he uses to represent machines and mechanisms created by man.

To comply with the contest theme this year, “Glass and Transmission,” the artist has designed a disk drive in etched glass. The jury, made up of museum curators, artists and members of the ESGAA (European Studio Glass Art Association), met on May 29 to deliberate. Nicolas Morin’s work was selected from among 92 candidates, for its technical and artistic qualities as well as for the originality of theme. The competition was initiated by ESGAA in autumn 2008 in partnership with the bank CIC Est. A prize of €5000 will be awarded to the winner in October 2009 in Strasbourg, during a reception at the headquarters of the CIC Est bank.

The ESGAA, a non-profit association founded in 2003, has over 80 collector members and lovers of contemporary glass. The ESGAA originated the event at Strasbourg, Glass Capital, in 2006, which became this year the International Glass Biennial. The event highlights glass in all its aspects (art, design, decorative arts, architecture, sculpture, photography) through numerous exhibitions in Strasbourg. The International Glass Biennial 2009 takes place from October 14 to November 30, 2009. Two new exhibitions are opening in June.

Two exhibitions open their doors in June:

- From June 2009 to May 2010 : exhibition Jörg Zimmermann at the Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis à Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche

- From June 1, 2009 to January 4, 2010: exhibition “Balançoires de lumières” at the church ‘église Saint-Maurice in Strasbourg. Opening June 23 at 7 pm.

ESGAA – European Studio Glass Art Association – 68 rue du Faubourg National – 67 000 Strasbourg – www.biennaleduverre.org

June 5th 2009 _ Media campaign

Bothsides created a great event at the Mk2 Library

Bothsides Creative Agency created an evenement the 4th of juin with the opening of Watching the World Falling Down's exposition at the Mk2 Library

The exhibition at the Mk2 Library, organized by Yann Couedor, combines the works of the group As the Stars Fall. It’s composed of photographers, composers, and the video artists Steve Fraschini, Guillaume Silvestri and Remi Tobbal. It also features the photography of Geoffrey Gouverneur and Sheitan-M, as well as the videos of Clément Batifoulier, Pauline Goasmat and Sophia Leal.

The show challenges established formats and mediums to reveal a delicate but often crude world. The group As The Stars Fall was born of a deep desire to express, without artifice or constraint, an up-front vision of a world of violence and despair. Geoffrey Governor works from screen photographs of sensitive themes dealing with matter and time, bringing together a number of perceptual spaces and distinct times.
Sheitan-M produces work aimed at “freeing people from their blinders and expanding their senses.” In images that are often staged, he captures a world where loneliness and violence are expressed in the pores of his subjects.

The exhibition is part of a tree-part event not to be missed:
- Exhibition Watching the World Falling Down at Mk2 Bibliothèque until June 24
- Exhibition Welcome in my Mind de Sheitan M, Galerie Absoluty, 3 rue Eugène Varlin (Paris 10e) from June 11 until July 12
- Exhibition Cut Collection by Yann Couedor at Olympia from July 2 to 13

A new agency to promote artists, Bothsides Creative Agency was created in 2008 by Guillaume Silvestri, François Mandron and Yann Couedor. Its objective is to present visual artists in the same way as singer-songwriters, via buzz, special events, and exhibitions in spectacular and unusual places.

Bothsides Creative Agency – 3 rue Hégésippe-Moreau 75018 Paris – Tel : +331 44 69 02 66 – www.bothsides-agency.com