ART IS A HUMANISM

The photo Agency Roger-Viollet entrusted Communic’Art with the media campaign its new website launch.

Roger-Viollet, created in 1938, is engaged since 1998 in a program of digitization of their photo collections (350 000 images have been digitized so far).

Today, Roger-Viollet sells photo rigths to the press, publishers and broadcasters. The agency represents a number of foreign archives in France, as well as funds from independent photographers.

Roger-Viollet is a subsidiary of Parisienne de Photographie, a SAEML (a semi-public company) responsible for digitazing and promotic the photographic funds of the City of Paris.

On May 17th, after a test period, Roger-Viollet launches its new website www.roger-viollet.fr. The website offers over 350 000 images that tell one hundred and fifty years of history.

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

From 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.

Furthermore, Roger-Viollet distributes nearly 10 million digitized images on demand for professionals.

To be noted:

For the general public, a selection of images from the Roger-Viollet collections can be found and downloaded in low resolution on the site www.parisenimages.fr.

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

The Galerie Jaeger Bucher intrusted Communic’Art with the media campaigns of Hanns Schimansky’ s exhibition, from May, 29th to July, 17th, 2010 at Galerie Jaeger Bucher, located in the Marais in Paris.

Hanns Schimansky was born in 1949 in East Germany. Trained as an agronomist engineer, he decided in 1979 to devote his career to art and more particularly to drawing.

In this exhibition, Hanns Schimansky is showing 40 drawings made between 2007 and 2010. These drawings, written as much as drawn, attempt to capture and to prolong the present moment, to mirror the rhythm of the universe. Using and provoking the idea of chance, he metaphorically slows the headlong speed at which we live in today’s world, dominated as it is by the media. Geometric shapes and intercrossing, looping lines, accentuated by the folds in the paper he uses, form Schimansky’s unmistakeable energetic graphic style: cities and landscapes appear, through which we are invited to travel.

“By holding the instrument at an acute angle to the surface in order to make downward moving lines or rolling the drawing tool to make a twisting, rough-edged line, Schimansky undermines the more familiar, fluid movement of a pencil or paint stick across the paper. (…) In some drawings, it’s as if different abstract, hieroglyphs have invaded each other’s territory, forming a new hybrid language”, writes John Yau, poet and art critic, in the introduction for the catalogue for this show.

Hanns Schimansky has shown widely in Europe, especially in Germany, in particular he has had important solo shows held at the Gemeentemuseum in La Haye, at the Staatscliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe as well as at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Neuchâtel in Switzerland. The artist’s work figures in the public collections of the National Contemporary Art Museum in Oslo, de la Berlinische Galerie, the National Contemporary Art Museum  in Berlin and the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Neuchâtel as well as in other major public collections.

The exhibition La Ligne Claire takes place on May, 29th to July, 17th, 2010 at Galerie Jaeger Bucher. The opening with the presence of the artist, will be held on Saturday, May 29th at 3.pm.

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Galerie Jaeger Bucher – 5&7 rue de Saintonge – 75003 Paris – Tél : +33 1 42 72 60 42 – www.galeriejaegerbucher.com