Initialement prévue jusqu’au 17 juillet 2010, l’exposition La Ligne Claire d’Hanns Schimansky, à la galerie Jaeger Bucher, a été prolongée jusqu’au 25 septembre 2010.

Depuis le 29 mai, l’artiste allemand Hanns Schimansky présente une quarantaine de dessins récents réalisés entre 2007 et 2010.

Il propose dans ses dessins scripturés de vivre le rythme du monde en captant et en prolongeant l’intensité insaisissable de l’instant, en convoquant le hasard et en le provoquant, opposant ainsi un ralentissement délibéré à la vitesse vertigineuse de notre monde médiatique. Les formes géométriques ou encore l’entrelacs des lignes, accentués par les pliages du papier, créent une écriture énergique propre à Schimansky.

Hanns Schimansky est né en 1949 en Allemagne de l’Est. Ingénieur agronome de formation, il décide de se consacrer exclusivement à l’art et plus spécifiquement au dessin en 1979.

La galerie Jaeger Bucher a confié à Communic’Art les relations presse de l’exposition. La galerie est ouverte du mardi au samedi de 14 à 19h jusqu’au 17 juillet, puis sur rendez-vous du 20 au 24 juillet. Elle ouvrira à nouveau dès le 1er septembre 2010.

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Galerie Jaeger Bucher – 5&7 rue de Saintonge – 75003 Paris – Tél : 01 42 72 60 42 –www.galeriejaegerbucher.com

Visits to the World Expo 2010 and ShContemporary fair in Shanghai are scheduled along with artists studios and galleries visists. Claude Fain, founder of Happy Art Collectors, and two art experts will accompany the participants:

- Ami Barak, Curator of the exhibition “Art of the World”⎯which assembles 25 Chinese and international artists in the public space at World Expo 2010

- Jérôme Sans, Director of the Ullens Foundation and former Co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, will also be present during visits in Beijing.

Reservation and registration at the club

The price of the Journey to Shanghai is € 3,780 per person for the flights, the visits, the overnight stays in hotels ***** in a double room (supplement of € 700 for singles). The restaurants are not included.

In order to register for the trip, one needs to become a member of Happy Art Collectors. There are two annual subscription packages, either “solo” for €300 or “duo” for €500.

Simply visit www.happyartcollectors.com to join and book your trip. The price for the trip extension to Beijing is available upon request.

Happy Art Collectors, for a unique access to the exclusive world of contemporary art.

In January 2010, the club Happy Art Collectors was launched. It is directed at experienced or budding collectors, art lovers seeking advice or anyone who would like to get as close as possible to artists and their work.

The mission of Happy Art Collector is to offer collectors the best possibility to understand contemporary art, to open the doors of artists’ studios and places most wanted, to provide thorough advice in order to understand the world of contemporary art in the most thrilling way possible.

Happy Art Collectors entrusted Communic’Art with the media campaign of his club and of the journey Shanghai-Beijing.

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Happy Art Collectors - 88 avenue Henri Martin – 75016 Paris – www.happyartcollectors.com

In autumn 2009, the Comité Professionnel des galeries d’Art entrusted Communic’Art with a communication campaign on corporate sponsorship.

Based on a forceful slogan “Of Which Artist will you become the Sponsor?” (“De quel artiste vivant allez-vous devenir le mécène ?”) Communic’Art created a four-page brochure which explained the law with explicit examples.

During the Salon du dessin contemporain in Paris, the agency Communic’Art, thanks to the law in favor of cultural sponsorship, acquired from Gallery Espace à Vendre, “Foule Sahara” a drawing by French emerging artist Emmanuel Régent.

Born in Nice in 1973, Emmanuel Régent graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In his works, he uses the concept of loss to create spaces for projection, wandering and dispersion.

Depicting crowds, demonstrations or disciplined queues, the series Foule refers to the idea of uncertainty and fragility of the visible that has always fascinated the artist.

The benefits of the law :

- Companies have five years of reduced tax base equal to a sum equal to the purchase price in the annual limit of 0.5% of their turnover.

- These deductions are made equally over five years.

-All companies are concerned.

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Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art – 83, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré – 75008 Paris – www.cpga.info

Reimondo’s theme is human beings in their environment. Bread, a religious symbol for the human body, is omnipresent in his work. In his installations, where maps for exemple, are created with slices of bredd and toast, a single toast doesn’t mean anything by itself, but altogether they are a world map. It is a metaphor for human beings ; a single man does not mean anything, but altogether they are humanity, a country, a city… Through his work, the artist questions man’s environment, his identity. How does man want to be perceived ? How does he portray himself ? REIMONDO strives to answer these questions by dipicting our world, the cities we live in, our buildings, our clothes…

“Reimondo’s work is inhabited by a divine presence, or in any case an ancient mythology, a creator who creates man out of his experiments…” wrote Raphael Turcat, editor chief of Technikart in the catalogue’s introduction.

David Reimondo catalogue, created and edited by Communic’Art for the gallery  Di Meo, was released in June 2010.

Texts of Nello and Lydie Di Meo and Raphael Turcat, trilingual English / French / Spanish, hardcover, 135 x 170 cm, 64 pages, price: 20 €, ISBN: 978-2-916277-28-8

Galerie Di Meo – 9 rue des Beaux-Arts – 75008 Paris – Tel : +33 1 43 54 10 98 – www.dimeo.fr

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SHOW OFFís ìEmergenceî section is dedicated to featuring young emerging galleries with less than three years of experience under their belts. With SHOW OFFís new commitment to Solo Shows, young galleries will have a unique opportunity to feature a single artist and create a solo show of their work. 12m2 booths at an all-inclusive affordable price make Show Offís section for emerging galleries one not to be missed.

Galleries will enjoy a prime location at the foot of the Grand Palais and the FIAC.

This new emerging galleries section will include :

Gift, Zizou series, 2007 - Photograph, 30 x 22 cm - Courtesy of Russiantearoom Gallery

- RUSSIAN TEA ROOM, Paris,

Featuring DMITRY SOKOLENKO

www.rtrgallery.com

The Russiantearoom Gallery opened its doors in Paris in 2007, dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary Russian artists throughout Europe.

Director Liza Fetissova will present the work of Dmitry Sokolenko at SHOW OFFís 2010 fair.

Born in 1977 in Russia, the microbiologist-turned-photographer works with simple forms of points and lines on a plane, complicating these seemingly simple forms with carefully chosen titles that invoke deeper semantic questions and complicate the space between the verbal and the visual.

Ne vois-tu rien venir ?, 2010 – Watercolor and ink on paper, 140 x 200 cm - Courtesy of Ladiray Gallery

- Ladiray Gallery, London,

featuring VINCENT BIZIEN

www.jeromeladiray.com

Having established itself four years ago in France, Ladiray Gallery will open its doors in London in 2010.

The gallery represents 20th-century avant-garde artists specializing in modern and contemporary drawing. For SHOW OFF, the Ladiray Gallery will feature the work of French artist Vincent Bizien, inheritor of expressionist energy and a major figure of the French contemporary drawing world.

The Conqueror, 2009 - light and mirrors and stuffed wooden box - 50 x 50 x 145 cm - Courtesy Room-Art-Space

- ROOM ART SPACE, London,

featuring GORDON CHEUNG

www.roomartspace.co.uk

Room Art Space opened in 2008 under Sandie Macrae, and will feature at SHOW OFF the work of the young British artist Gordon Cheung. Raised in London, Cheung’s works traverses cultures through a juxtaposition of images, symbols and ideas from a diverse range of sources.

Cheung’s diverse use of material recalls the globalized world at the crux of illusion and disillusion. He won the prize Laing Art Solo in July 2007 and his works are part of international collections in the Hirshhorn Museum, Museum Whitworth or the ASU Art Museum.

SHOW OFF, qui a confié ses relations presse à Communic’Art, s’installe à nouveau sur le Port des Champs Elysées situé aux pieds du Grand Palais et de la FIAC.

Dates to remember for the 5th edition of SHOW OFF, the fair of SOLO SHOWS :

Open to the public October 21 – 24, 2010 from 12 to 8pm

Press preview October 20, 2010 from 12 to 6pm

Public opening October 20, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm

Port des Champs ElysÈes, Pont Alexandre III Paris 8th

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Show Off - 7, rue des Filles du Calvaire – 75003 Paris – Tel : 01 83 62 25 67 – www.showoffparis.fr

The magazine comes with the great project of the Vallée de la Culture led by the Department and its president Patrick Devedjian to claim universal access to culture.

Communic’Art created the graphic design and accompanied the making of the first issue.

The magazine showcases the rich heritage and culture of the department of Hauts-de-Seine, its landmarks, museums, parks, festivals and all art forms – visual arts, performing arts, music, theater, dance …

A true historical evidence of art and architecture of the Hauts-de-Seine, this magazine is punctuated by a lively layout and carried by the talent of scholarly feathers. Contributors to this first issue are : Marc Fumaroli, a member of the French Academy, and many specialists and art heritage actors.

In the magazine subjects, among other, a study on the symbolism of the Domaine de Sceaux by Dominique Bremen, a record of the City of Sèvres’ceramics by Anne Brandenburg, a text about contemporary art in Montrouge by Stéphane Correard …

A literary and visual journey thanks to visuals wich reflect the beauty and the greatness of cultural heritage of the Department, the Vallée de la Culture itself as a benchmark.

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Vallée Culture – www.vallee-culture.fr

SHOW OFF expands this year to 1 500m2 to accommodate galleries, artists, and the public in two luminous and elegant tents at the foot of the Grand Palais.

The first tent offers 800m2 of space, an additional 200m2 from SHOW OFF’s 2009 edition. Located opposite this tent, SHOW OFF offers this year a second tent with 700m2 of exhibition and animation space.

Once again, SHOW OFF will be located at the Port of Champs Elysées at the foot of the Grand Palais and the FIAC. The only art fair offshoot of the FIAC, SHOW OFF is not to be missed.

In its 5th year, SHOW OFF will feature solo show booths, with three sizes available: for emerging galleries – less than three years old ; medium booths at 18m2 ; and large booths at 24m2.

In 2010, SHOW OFF expands for the benefit of its participating galleries, artists, and the public at large :

• SHOW OFF’s unique focus on solo shows reinforces its identity as a fair in its own league

• New signage and an eye-catching layout set the fair apart for increased visibility

• SHOW OFF’s fair-trade pop-up restaurant will make it an instant « it » spot during Paris’s contemporary art week

• Transparent tents offer a stunning view of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower

• SHOW OFF VIP members will have exclusive access to the FIAC at Grand Palais and courtyard. A comprehensive VIP program (visits, evening events valet parking, etc.) will also be available.

Dates to remember for the 5th edition of SHOW OFF, the fair of SOLO SHOWS :

Open to the public from October 21 to 24, 2010 from noon to 8 pm

Press preview October 20, 2010 from noon to 6 pm

Public Opening October 20, 2010 from 6 to 10pm

At the Port of Champs Elysées, Pont Alexandre III Paris 8e

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Show Off - 7, rue des Filles du Calvaire – 75003 Paris – Tel : 01 83 62 25 67 – www.showoffparis.fr

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.

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

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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.

>Download the press pack<

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