One more week to go see the balanced sculptures created by American artist Paul Wallach! The closing will take place on Saturday, March 13th with a reading by Nicolas Pesquès and the signature of two books about the artist’s work.

Falling Up, the first major exhibition in Paris of Paul Wallach, gathers twenty recent works.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine describes them as “formal utopias (…) extremely subtle, designed and hung off the wall so that their static remains incomprehensible” in an article entitled “To Play with What our Mind Perceives,” published January 16th, 2010.
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From Marth 20th until May 22nd 2010, the gallery will present Inner Monsoon, the first exhibition in France by Portuguese artist Rui Moreira.

The artist’s work is based on a series of “interior landscapes” assembled in three groups of drawings, figurative and abstract, creating a system of fluxus and movement. These drawings evoke divinities, landscapes or geometric constructions; each work is carried out with extreme patience and meticulousness as a mnemonic exercise based on a ritual, repeated endlessly.

The exhibition will gather twenty drawings and a film, Conquer the Concave, based on the monumental dome that the artist painted in a church in the region of Algarve in Portugal.
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From May 29th until July 17th 2010, German artist Hanns Schimansky will exhibit his scriptured drawings in which he captures and extends the intensity of the elusive moment in order to live the rhythm of the world. By inviting and provoking randomness, the artist stands in the wat of the staggering speed of our world eaten up by the media.

The geometric forms or the intertwined lines, accented by folding paper, create an energy writing specific to  Schimansky. Landscapes and cities emerge to make us travel.

Hanns Schimansky has exhibited widely in Europe, particularly in Germany and has had several major solo exhibitions at the Gemeentemuseum at the Hague, at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Staatcliche or the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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

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.

Created 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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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 post-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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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, Germany. 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

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For Artparis + guests from the 18th to the 22th of March 2010 at the Grand Palais, Jean-Claude Meynard presents a new version of Babel as a sphere. Entitled World, the work embodies the universality of myth.
The myth of Babel is revisited by Meynard who makes an infinite architecture oh human : the silhouettes become the matrix of a universal writing.

His sculptures are exempt from narrative content. With very few means, they emerge off the wall at a dynamic point and unfold in space, as if suspended in dialogue with it. After an extended moment of observation, the diverse materials, –wood, plaster, fabric, metal and glass– take on a coherence that gives the work unity. These different materials overlap, because of their own specific weight, in order to generate a delicate balance, resulting from the dynamics of gravity. The permanent quest for a center of gravity is thus one of the factors that constructs form.

None of these sculptures can be absorbed at a glance: they change radically according to the spectator’s point of view. The work is an an event that alters in composition from moment to moment under the viewer’s eye. It possesses an essential mobility that is inherent to its discovery, a motion of constant unfolding that also puts the spectator in motion, inviting them into a slow exploratory choreography of their own gravity.

Between the wall and these objects emerges an intermediate space that prompts reflection: a reflexion of the shadows and colors that are an integral part of the work and demand the viewer’s attention. Paul Wallach’s sculpture continually reveals a space in its entirety, including the hidden spaces within the work.

Concentrating space and energy in the intimate quest for a balance of forces, unfolding out into space like spatial dwellings, Paul Wallach’s works are animated by an incessant twofold movement of contraction and expansion which would seem to be the basis of all creation.

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

One says a work of Meynard is distinguished by two signs: there is always, in appearance or transparency, a human figure, and the complexity is without limit and without smudging. For over three years, Jean Claude Maynard has been working on the human figure to achieve an icon of complexity: Babel.

Men conceived Babel as an limitless brick architecture to reach the sky. God, to thwart their plan, had created discord by inventing languages. Jean Claude Meynard diverts the myth and does of Babel a limitless architecture of men, inventing the signs of the same writing.

First declined in high glass slides and exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2007, Babel has taken the mythic shape of a human-sized tower for a year (1m80 high).

The work, the result of a repeated matrix of human silhouettes, is broken down into three different transparencies that create the appearance of a latticework.

As often with Jean-Claude Meynard, the whole gallery becomes the work, a fractal cube where visitors immerse themselves.

The Babel is made for travel: it is an architecture of reconciliation.

After China (Shenzhen) and Italy (Sermione) in 2008, the work is to istallée Riff Art Projects gallery in Paris from November 26 to January 30, 2010, and Turkey (Istanbul) in December and again in France in September 2010 at Villa Tamaris (Var).

Riff Art Projects – 48, rue Chapon 75008 Paris – Tel : +336 30 52 27 19 – www.galerieriffartprojects.com

With the support of Chantal Biya, First Lady of Cameroon and Goodwill Ambassador of Unesco for education and social inclusion, the book Sale gosse !, Communic’Art created for Unesco for the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on November 20th.

The photographer François Perri presents and comments 50 portraits of children taken over 20 years during trips to Africa and Asia. A sensitive eye on the difficult situation of children in the south.

These images will be exhibited from November 20th at Unesco Headquarters and then travel all over the world.

The Book Sale gosse! is a powerful testimony of life and hope. We are entering the world of these children at work, school, near rivers, in the streets or on landfills. These images help us to understand. To understand in order to better act.

For each book sold, 3 euros will be donated to Unesco to finance children’s support programs.

François Perri says “I’ve always been sensitive to their ‘resourcefulness’ face of adversity, their dignity and courage … Schoolboys without equipment, workers without machines, sellers of everything and nothing, street children and slum youth Palestinian refugees and orphans in Cambodia … to all these young, hapless heirs of a world often ruthless, I wanted to pay homage.”

A photographer specializing in Ethnosociological topics, François Perri travels the world since 1976 and publishes its reports in leading French newspapers : Grands Reportages, GEO, Photo, Marie-Claire, Match, Figaro Magazine… Nicknamed the “tailor of images” by a Tuareg chief, Perri conducted pinhole camera workshops worldwide and published several books, especially after his world tour sailing in the framework of Operation “Dans le sillage de Magellan”.

This book will be distributed by Communic’Art’s partner, Le Comptoir des Indépendants, to 600 general-interest and 50 specialized bookstores. It will  also be referenced in 40 professional databases and on online bookstores.

UNESCO – 7, place de Fontenoy, 75 732 Paris ou 1, rue Miollis 75 732 Paris – Tel : +331 45 68 10 00 - www.unesco.org

On the occasion of the 4th World Antiquity, le Marché Biron, located at the Puces de Saint-Ouen has presented an exhibition of 100 photographs of the couple legendary John Lennon & Yoko Ono taken by Henry Pessar during their visit to Paris in 1969 .

The talent of Henry Pessar, photographer of celebrities for Paris Match, has made this show one of the artistic events of 2009! During the weekend opening of the exhibition, 9 to 11 October 2009, the music of the Beatles and John Lennon was broadcast across le Marché Biron to attract the audience into the world’s most famous band in the world.

The funds of the 100 outstanding photos Pessar Henry is a testimony to a turning point in the life of John Lennon. One of the photos taken by Henry Pessar moreover been published exclusively to illustrate the marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, delivered in the privacy and incognito in Gibraltar March 20, 1969!

Le Marché Biron, founded in 1927, is today considered one of the most prestigious art market in France. It includes 220 antique and art dealers and owes its international renown to several generations of traders who have built their reputation on profound knowledge and quality of works they propose: jewelry fixtures, furniture, jewelry, paintings, graphic arts, photos, glassware …

Le Marché Biron – 85 Rue des Rosiers 93400 Saint Ouen – Tel : + 3301 40 11 59 69 – www.marchebiron.fr