November 25th 2009 _ Media campaign

JC Meynard exhibits at Riff Art Projects in Paris

Babel, the work of Jean Claude Meynard, a founder of the Fractal movement is installed at galerie Riff Art Projects in Paris from 11/26/09 to 01/30/10

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

March 3rd 2010 _ Media campaign

1 closing 2 openings at galerie Jaeger Bucher

13/03 : closing of the exhibition of Paul Wallach - 20/03 : opening of the exhibition of Rui Moreira - 29/05 : opening of the exhibition of Hanns Schimansky

WallachEncore une semaine pour aller voir les sculptures en équilibre de l’artiste américain Paul Wallach ! Le finissage aura lieu le samedi 13 mars avec une lecture par Nicolas Pesquès et une signature de deux ouvrages autour du travail de l’artiste.

Falling Up, la première grande exposition parisienne de Paul Wallach, met en scène une vingtaine d’œuvres récentes de l’artiste.

Le Frankfurter Allgemeine parle “d’utopies formelles (…) d’une extrême subtilité, conçues et accrochées au mur de telle façon que leur statique reste incompréhensible” dans un article intitulé “Se jouer de ce que notre esprit perçoit”, paru le 16 janvier 2010.

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RuiDu 20 mars au 22 mai 2010 la galerie présente Inner Monsoon, la première exposition en France de l’artiste portugais Rui Moreira.

Le travail de l’artiste repose sur une série de “paysages intérieurs” réunis en trois groupes de dessins, figuratifs et abstraits, constituant une unité de flux et de mouvements. Ces dessins évoquent tour à tour des divinités, des paysages ou encore des constructions géométriques ; chaque œuvre est réalisée avec une extrême patience et minutie tel un exercice mnémomique reposant sur une action rituelle autour du trait, répétée inlassablement.

L’exposition regroupe une vingtaine de dessins ainsi qu’un film intitulé Conquérir le concave réalisé autour de la coupole monumentale que l’artiste a peinte au sein d’une église de l’Algarve au Portugal.

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SchimanskyDu 29 mai au 17 juillet 2010,  l’artiste allemand Hanns Schimansky propose dans ces “dessins scripturés” de vivre le rytme 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 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. Des paysages et des villes apparaissent et nous font voyager.

Après avoir beaucoup exposé en Europe, notament en Allemagne, l’artiste a fait l’objet de plusieurs expositions monographiques importantes, au Gemeentemuseum à la Haye, à la Staatcliche Kunsthalle à Karlsruhe ou encore au Musée d’Art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel en Suisse.

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

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 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

January 28th 2010 _ Media campaign, News

The world of Babel by Jean Claude Meynard

The myth of Babel by JC Meynard already exhibited in China, Italy, Turkey and galerie Riff Art Projects in Paris staged in a video of Gilles Bastianelli

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.

January 8th 2010 _ Media campaign

Paul Wallach exhibits at Jaeger Bucher

The first major exhibition of Paul Wallach, Falling Up, is exhibit at at galerie Jaeger Bucher from the 23th of January to the 13th of March 2010

American artist Paul Wallach is showing some twenty recent works for his first extensive Parisian exhibition entitled Falling Up. Born in New York in 1960, Wallach studied Art and Applied Arts at the  University of Wisconsin and Boston University, then worked with Mark di Suvero as an artist-in-residence in the 1990s, before moving to Paris –where he still lives– in 1994.

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

November 20th 2009 _ Media campaign, Press

The International Glass Biennale 2009 in Strasbourg

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October 25th 2009 _ Media campaign

Photos of John Lennon and Ono at Marche Biron

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