February 19th 2010 _ Media campaign

The International Fair : 21st Century Drawings

56 students, 16 schools of art of 9 countries in Europe are going to participate of International Fair of drawing the 26th 27th and 28th of March

The FID, International Fair : 21st Century Drawings, has entrusted Communic’Art with a press campaign for its second edition which will take place between Friday March 26th and Sunday March 28th, 2010 at Loft Marquadt, 10 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris.

logoFIDhdCreated by Serghei Litvin, the International Fair : 21st Century Drawings is characterized by the youth of its participants : 56 students of 16 art schools from 9 countries!

Selected by a panel of art professionals, the 56 students participating to the FID present  their best work, with more than 1 000 drawings! A Prize will be awarded to one student by the jury.

The FID is a real opportunity for these young students to live their first experience of artists in the contemporary art market.

The presentation of the works is quite original : the drawings are shown in a large open-space, unframed, flat on tables in drawing boxes.

Visitors are invited to discover the works, meet the students and acquire very reasonably priced drawings – between 100 and 300 euros!

In 2009, the FID gathered an enthusiastic an audience of art lovers. 2010 will undoubtedly confirm this success. Tthe FID aims at becoming a strong and thrustworthy platform for promoting the European artists of tomorrow.

Dates and opening hours :
Friday, March 26th
Saturday, March 27th
Sunday, March 28th
From 11am to 7pm

La FID – Loft Marquardt, 10 rue de Turenne, 75004 Paris – Tel : +331 43 20 12 13 – www.foireinternationaledudessin.com

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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