August 28th 2009 _ Media campaign

The new website of Roger-Viollet is up

The Roger-Viollet Agency launched an optimized version of its website for professionals of the press and publishing

The website offers more than 300 000 images telling one hundred and fifty years of History in pictures. The various collections acquired over time by Roger-Viollet Agency represent a mosaic of historical evidence of an impressive variety: big events and small businesses, arts, science, politics and daily life, travels and streets of Paris, portraits of famous and unknown men and women … So many unique documents available on the website www.roger-viollet.fr.

The new website -more complete, more functional and faster- presents larger images of the documents available. The website presents many thematic dossiers conceived by Roger-Viollet Agency on various topics.

Furthermore, the Roger-Viollet Agency distributes nearly 10 million digitized images which are not available on demand for professionals.

The Roger-Viollet Agency is a subsidiary of la Parisienne de Photographie, a SEM (public and private status company) responsible for digitazing and enhancing the photographic funds of the City of Paris.

To be noted: for the general public, a selection of images of Roger-Viollet Collection is searchable and downloadable in low resolution on the site www.parisenimages.fr

Agence Roger-Viollet – 6, rue de Seine – 75006 Paris – Tel : +331 55 42 89 00 – www.roger-viollet.fr

August 19th 2009 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Oda Jaune for Daniel Templon

For the first exhibition of the artist Oda Jaune at galerie Daniel Templon, a catalogue has been created by Communic'Art

An exhibition catalogue was created at the request of the galerie Daniel Templon by Communic’Art for the first exhibition in France of the artist Oda Jaune.

OdaJauneAt only 29 years, Oda Jaune develops a unique world, mixing a dreamlike atmosphere, influences of surrealist iconography retro, social realism, reminiscence of Hollywood films, advertising…

Born in 1979 in Sofia, Oda Jaune arrived in Germany when she was a teenager. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, where she was student of the painter Jörg Immendorff.

The work, very personal and unusually mature, explores a strange world where people, objects, unidentified shapes evolve in poetic and disturbing scenes.

Periodically, an ambiguous body -heart, a piece of flesh or tongue- is making an unexpected appearance, reinforcing a sense of sensuality, but also of strangeness, close to fantastic.

“At first glance, Catherine Millet said in the introduction to the catalog, there is nothing to disturb the harmony of his compositions, and must detach themselves from their peaceful atmosphere in getting the monstrosity of this gigantic stained finger just at the of a human torso, in line with both legs above where busy a beautician applied. To appear in the foreground of that picture, a heart to live amidst a bouquet of roses. ”

The artist constructed her paintings as a film script like the old masters, from Baroque mannerism. The themes are borrowed from a close environment: memories, readings, images seen on the Internet.

After several years in Düsseldorf, Oda Jaune chose to settle in Paris in 2008.

She has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Koblenz (2004) and the Fondazione Mudima of Milan (2007).

She has participated in many group exhibitions at the White Space Gallery in Beijing (2003), Küpperssmühle Museum in Duisburg (2007) and the 11th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura in Venice (2008).

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

August 18th 2009 _ Media campaign

Fabienne Verdier exhibits at Jaeger Bucher

Galerie Jaeger Bucher intrusted Communic'Art with the presse relations of Fabienne Verdier's exhibition, Peinture Large Canvases

The exhibition ‘Painting’ will gather some forty 
new works by Fabienne Verdier -ink on canvas 
and pastels with oil- based on three themes, 
Line space-time, Arborescence and Glow (homage to the Flemish masters).

Known for her ten-year apprenticeship in China with well-known masters of calligraphy, recounted in “Passagère du Silence”, Fabienne Verdier has since then entered a large
number of major international art collections.

Her painting is eminently personal, internal and spiritual. It is the result of an immense creative freedom and the fruit 
of a long preparatory asceticism. 
Her ancestral technique acts as both
bedrock and springboard for the emergence
of a succession of inspired fluxes, which now guide us toward a reflection on the metastructures of life.

Fabienne Verdier’s painting is continuous 
with the experiments of the American abstract artists – Tobey, Kline, Still, Pollock 
or De Kooning- and carries on the work 
of artists who have explored the line, such 
as Matisse, Michaux or Degottex…

Each of the canvases is imbued with a subtle 
balance from which emanates a constancy: 
the quest for the simple. Nothing is surplus 
to requirement. Fabienne Verdier’s great frescoes take us deep 
into the alchemy of painting and her multiple 
forms in permanent movement make us live 
a metaphysical experience.

Standing at the heart of the canvas, 
the act of painting imbues the ink with an interiority of vision suggesting the Essence of the real. The connection between the line drawn on the paper and the line on the ink sliding across the canvas is, in this respect, masterful. Through the living spontaneity of these works,
Fabienne Verdier unifies tradition and modernity 
and allows us to experience a moment of eternity in the midst of Breath.

The Jaeger Bucher gallery has entrusted Communic’Art with the media campaign of the 
exhibition ‘Painting’ by Fabienne Verdier.

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