ART IS A HUMANISM

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

Embark with Happy Art Collectors for a unique journey to Shanghai from September 5 to 12, 2010 (possible extension to Beijing from the 13th to the 17th). An opportunity not to be missed!

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

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

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.

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

The launch Party of the CLUB ARTISTIK REZO will take place on April 22nd, 2010 starting at 6pm (by invitation only), during the exhibition “Encore Encore…” which gathers works from Nicolas Laugero’s contemporary art collection.

At 9pm, Pascal Lièvre, invited by the curator of the exhibition Anaïd Demir, will enact his new performance “Aerobic class  on Nietzsche philosophy on high heels”, or how to shake on the heels the phrases of the philosopher evoking the power of the body.

Created in 1998, Artistik Rezo currently has 200 000 subscribers to the weekly newsletter. The Club allows its members to benefit from preferential rates and exclusive invitations to the best cultural events in Paris :

- Invitations to openings of national museums and galleries

- Entrances to contemporary art fairs

- Artists studio visits

- Tickets for shows

- Previews and accreditation for film festivals

- A dedicated line to inform members on the best cultural events.

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Gallery 34 – 34 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 – www.artistikrezo.com

From April 30th until June 23rd, 2010, the Comité Quartier Latin presents an unseen photographic stroll of Bruno de Monès’ portraits. The event, in partnership with the Parisienne de Photographie and the Agence Roger-Viollet, will be held under the arcades of the Odeon – Theatre de l’Europe, Place de l’Odeon and in the bookstores and galleries’ shopwindows rue de Médicis, rue Gay-Lussac and rue Claude Bernard, and those of the Agence Roger-Viollet, rue de Seine.

The 104 photographs taken by Bruno de Monès  -a contributor to  Le Monde for many years and the official photographer of the Magazine Littéraire- gives a panoramic view of the greatest personalities of literature, film, fashion, of the 70’s and 80’s : Alain Robbe-Grillet, Francis Ponge, Marcel Carné, Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, Gilles Deleuze, alongside Claude Lévi-Strauss and many others …

Bruno de Mones’ portraits are exclusively distributed by the Agence Roger-Viollet, a reference on the French and the international market in terms of photographic archives and a subsidiary of the Parisienne de Photographie.

This unprecedented photo event is part of the mission of the Parisienne de Photographie -a semi-public company dedicated to the digitization and promotion of the photographic heritage of Paris, as well as of partnering photographers funds.

This event is a part of the first edition of the Local Utility Company ’s Week which takes place in France from the 19 to 26 May 2010 and whose objective is to highlight the activities and values of these structures serving the general public.

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Parisienne de Photographie – 3 rue des Arquebusiers, 75003 Paris – Tel : + 331 44 61 99 61 – www.parisiennedephotographie.fr – www.roger-viollet.fr – www.parisenimages.fr