A catalogue [b]Soulages[/b] for Galerie Applicat-Prazan

October 21st 2009 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Soulages for Galerie Applicat-Prazan

For the exceptional exhibition of Pierre Soulages at galerie Applicat-Prazan, Communic'Art has created a large catalogue

The exhibition “Dialogues I Around Pierre Soulages” will be presented in preview at the Galerie Applicat-Prazan stand at the FIAC, Grand Palais, October 22-25. It will continue at the gallery itself from October 30 to December 12, 2009.

Soulages_ A catalog was created and published by the Communic’Art agency at the request of the Galerie Prazan-Applicat. The catalog, in non-standard size (30×40cm, without binder), is arranged in two parts.

In the first part, “Dialogues,” five paintings by Pierre Soulages are presented dating from 1953, 1957, 1958 and 2007.

These large-format works show in particular the architectural research that guided the artist in the 50s.

The second part, “Around Pierre Soulages,” is “a special tribute to the unique work of Pierre Soulages in establishing an exacting dialogue between those exceptional paintings and those – among the most significant – of several great abstract artists,” writes Franck Prazan.

Communic’Art has also produced an Invitation as well as press ads for Art+Auction, Connaissance des Arts and Fine Arts Magazine, on the occasion of the exhibition.

The exhibition is of a very high level, with all works of exceptional quality. It was conceived in parallel with the Pierre Soulages exhibition at the Pompidou Center, October 14, 2009 to March 8, 2010.

For Franck Prazan, it’s a highlight in a career specializing in the presentation of the Moderns: “I have long dreamed of organizing an exhibition such as this one, around Pierre Soulages. Everyone knows the admiration I have for the man and his work. In terms of inherent quality – that of Soulages obviously, but also Riopelle, Atlan, Schneider, Mathieu, Hartung, Poliakoff and Vieira – the works speak for themselves, and there is nothing to add … I won’t say any more except that it is precisely for the privilege offered to me here to present paintings such as these that I practice the profession which is mine.”

“Dialogues I Autour de Pierre Soulages” – Text by Franck Prazan – 36 pages – Format 30 x 40 cm

Galerie Applicat-Prazan – 16, rue de Seine – 75006 Paris – Tel : 01 43 25 39 24 - www.applicat-prazan.com

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.indd 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.

>To purchase the catalogue online, please click here<

November 18th 2009 _ Catalogues

For Unesco, a book of photos by François Perri

The book Sale Gosse ! was created for Unesco for the 20th anniversary, on November 20th, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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.

saleGosse 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

October 22nd 2009 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Magnelli for Galerie Di Meo

Communic'art has created a catalogue for the exhibition of drawings by Alberto Magnelli presented for the first time, at galerie Di Meo

Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971) is considered as one of the leading masters of abstract art of the 20th century. After an initial approach to abstraction in the 1910s, he returned to austere figuration in the 20s, under the influence of Giorgio de Chirico.

Magnelli_ombre The 32 drawings presented are part of preparatory notebooks for the Stones series which, in the early 30s, marked the definitive conversion of Magnelli to abstraction.

This is the first time the drawings are shown. Produced in 1931 at Viareggio, they reveal the anthropomorphic character of the artist’s vision of marble blocks from the quarries at Carrara, the inspiration for the famous series.

“Everyone said that the stones were the starting point for Magnelli’s last abstract period. The drawings also served as models for the large number of paintings produced between 1931 and 1934,”, wrote Nello di Meo.

The book’s foreword, written by Antonio Tabucchi, another famous Tuscan, puts forward a rich account of stone and its metaphors:

“The writer looked at the stones and said to himself, What is a stone? After thinking about it at length he decided that a stone is a stone is a stone. All right. But perhaps a stone signifies something? No, a stone is itself, like a tree of itself means nothing. And then, where were they, these stones? In the air, like stars dancing in the cosmos? In the painter’s heart? In his life?”

Alberto Magnelli, born in Florence in 1888, settled permanently in France in 1931. His works are exhibited in museums around the world, from the Georges Pompidou Center to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The exhibition of drawings by Alberto Magnelli will be presented from October 15 until November 28 2009 at Galerie Di Meo.

Galerie Di Meo – 9 rue des Beaux-Arts – 75006 Paris – Tel : +331 43 54 10 98 – www.dimeo.fr

September 9th 2009 _ Catalogues

Monograph of Cognee for galerie Templon

Philippe Cognée's first monograph has been created and published by Communic'Art for galerie Daniel Templon

With an introduction by Henry-Claude Cousseau (former Director of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts) and a text by Christian Bernard (Director of Mamco, Geneva), this book contains over 200 works from the past twenty years.

cognée The thematic organization of the works offer a panoramic view without imposing completeness. We perceive the profound reflection that unites them, the consistency of the artistic process of this major painter.

Aged 50, Philip Cognée figures well among the major painters of the French art scene. He explores the concepts of looking, image and memory.

He offers a reflection on the condition of modern man but also regarding the question of “subject” in painting, the relationship between abstraction and figuration, between a painted image and a photographic image.

Philippe Cognée draws his inspiration from everyday life in its most familiar form. His cityscapes, towers, highways, supermarkets, abattoirs, containers… are transcended by a broad and powerful touch underlined by an original technique of painting with wax.

“With Philippe Cognée,” insists Henry-Claude Cousseau in the book’s introduction, “everything is, so to speak, framed. The mission of the framework, materialized or not, as later the photographic process, is to focus the attention, to produce, to constitute the image as a space that forces the attention of the eyes, to capture it. Similarly, the artist contrasts the smoothness and uniformity of a painting.”

Henry-Claude Cousseau thus evokes “a game between the epidermis of a painting, grainy, mottled, suggesting volume by a clever use of glaze, and that of the surfaces worked with streaks and unevenness.”

Distributed by the Comptoir des Independants to 600 general-interest bookstores, the book is also referenced in 40 databases and on websites selling online.

Visit the Philippe Cognée exhibition at the Daniel Templon gallery from October 31 to December 31, 2009. Also note that a book-signing is scheduled at the Flammarion bookshop in the Georges Pompidou Center, on November 14, 2009.

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

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.

OdaJaune At 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

November 10th 2008 _ Catalogues

A catalogue Le Groumellec for Daniel Templon

Galerie Daniel Templon entrusted Communic'Art with the creation of the catalogue of recent works by Loïc Le Groumellec

Galerie Daniel Templon has entrusted Communic’Art the creation of the exhibition catalogue of recent works by Loïc Le Groumellec, which will be held from November 8 until December 31, 2008.

LeGroumellec Since the 1980s, Loïc Le Groumellec’s work has a specific position within French painting.

His canvases, saturated by whites and blacks, immediately mark our minds by their plastic beauty and their uniqueness.

The artiste represents strong symbols in a limited color range thus defining a strange universe bathed by solitude, mysticism, religion and paganism.

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

October 8th 2008 _ Catalogues

A catalogue on Novelli for galerie Di Meo

For Gastone Novelli's exhibition, galerie Di Meo has entrusted Communic'Art with the creation of a catalogue

For Gastone Novelli’s exhibition, which will take place  from October 10th to November 29th 2008, Galerie Di Meo has entrusted Communic’Art with the creation  of a catalogue.

Novelli The disciplined lyricism of Novelli’s paintings and drawings  refers to the linguistic avant-garde experimentation in  which the artist took interest.

This research appears in his work through text fragments, signs and irregular  shapes traced on abstract surfaces which are often white,  symbolizing nothingness as a gateway to liberation.

Novelli has devoted his work to the creation of a pictural  language in between abstraction and writing.

Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925 and deceased in Rome in 1968, Gastone Novelli belongs to the italian avant-garde  of the 50’s and 60’s. His work can be related to diverse  artistic movements such as Action Painting and Surrealist  Automatism.