The Galerie Di Meo entrusted the production of the exhibition catalogue to Communic’Art.

Born in 1984 in Valenciennes, French artist Mélanie Delattre-Vogt emerged with the exhibition Dynasty at the Palais de Tokyo and Paris Musée d’Art Moderne in 2010.

Graduated from the University of Valenciennes with a Master’s degree in Plastic Arts, she specialises in drawing on paper, combining pencil, colour pigments, and sometimes blood.

Her delicate compositions, filled with inanimate characters “seem to capture (…) those instants, hanging in the air, when one awakens to the  fleeting memories of one’s dreams” (Alexandre Mare, 2011).

Largo Con Sordini
9 December 2011 – 11 February 2012
Galerie Di Meo

The catalogue Largo Con Sordini features 30 drawings by the artist:
- a series of 15 illustrations created for a book by Beatrix Beck entitled Cou coupé court toujours,
- the series Tongdaeng, biography of a Pet Dog,
- 12 variations on the topic of dogs, as well as a series of 3 drawings inspired by the artist’s sister.

It includes a foreword by Alexandre Mare, art critic and curator. Printed in 1,000 copies, this 52-page catalogue available in a French/English bilingual edition, will be on sale at the Galerie Di Meo and in all bookshops for 15 euros.

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Private opening
Thursday 8 December 2011, from 6pm

Galerie Di Meo
9 rue des Beaux-Arts – 75006 Paris
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Illustrations, from left to right : Cou coupé court toujours, VIII, August 19 – 20, 2011, pencil, colour pigments and blood on paper, 28×19 cm – Cou coupé court toujours, XIV, Septembre 23-28, 2011, pencil, colour pigments and blood on paper, 28x19cm – Cou coup court toujours, IX ,  August 24 – 26, 2011, pencil, colour pigments and blood on paper, 28x19cm.

French painter Gérard Garouste revisits the myth of Faust, filling his baroque world with a fantastic bestiary, while pursuing his philosophical and spiritual reflection about the quest for knowledge.

The Daniel Templon gallery entrusted the production of the exhibition catalogue “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” to Communic’Art.

Dream of a Witches’  Sabbath
September 8 – October 29, 2011
Galerie Daniel Templon

The creator of a timeless painting, Gérard Garouste counts among the most popular French artists of his generation. His latest exhibition, inspired by Goethe’s Faust, offers a glimpse of the artist’s sculpting, in addition to the 29 paintings shown.

From Marguerite to Méphistophélès, the painter creates a fantastic world of characters whose features remind one of the painter’s relatives.

Cross perspectives on Garouste’s œuvre

The catalogue features the 33 works shown at the exhibition, as well as essays from Bernard Blistène, director of Cultural Development at Centre Pompidou – Paris, Henri Berestycki, mathematician, and Aurélie Barnier, art historian and critic.

Printed in 2,000 copies, this 80-page book, bilingual French/English, will be available at the Galerie Templon and in all bookshops for 35 euros.

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Galerie Daniel Templon
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The galerie Di Meo has entrusted Communic’Art with the creation and publication of the catalogue L’enfer c’est les autres, for the exhibition of Pietro Ruffo, presented  for the first time in France from March 25 until May 28, 2011.

The opening reception is held on Thursday March 24 starting at 6pm in the Di Meo Gallery, 9 rue des Beaux-Arts-75006 Paris

Entitled L’enfer c’est les autres, this exhibition explores the theme of freedom, the key topic for italian artist Pietro Ruffo. His work -infused with great visual strength- is nourished by deep philosophical and geopolitical issues.

Composed of 64 pages in color, the catalogue gathers 29 illustrations of the works exhibited at galerie Di Meo.

Published in French, the catalogue presents an introduction entitled  Wild Allegory by Patrick Amine -essayist and curator.

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This text is followed by an essay written by the Italian Political Science professor Stefano Casertano, on the subject of several paintings in the exhibition: the Roman Empire and China’s current political expansionism.

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Printed in 1,000 copies, the catalogue Pietro Ruffo can be purchased at Galerie Di Meo and at www.catalogallery.com for 20€.

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Born in Roma in 1978, Pietro Ruffo has exhibited in several museums : the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Macro in Roma and in the permanent collection of the Mambo in Bologna.
The winner of the prize “premio cairo” and the “New York Prize” of the Italian Cultural Institute, he has worked in New York on a project on the topics of freedom and colonialism.

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Opening reception on Friday March 24 starting at 6pm

Galerie Di Meo – 9 rue des Beaux-Arts – 75006 Paris – Tel : 01 43 54 10 98

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The Daniel Templon gallery entrusted Communic’Art with the creation and the editing of a catalogue, on the occasion of Jonathan Meese ‘s exhibition entitled St Neutralité (Totales Ballett de Lolitadzioz) held from January 8 to Februrary 17,2011

The catalogue St Neutralité (Totales Balett de Lolitadzioz) presents all the new creation (paintings and sculptures) exhibited during the lastest exhibition of Jonathan Meese in the Gallery Daniel Templon.

With a text by Richard Leydier, chief editor of art press entitled, Jonathan Meese, childhood of art, this catalogue is available in a bilingual edition English/French.

Printed in 1,000 copies, the lastest catalogue of Jonathan Meese can be purchased at Daniel Templon Gallery and on www.catalogallery.com. Price : 20 euros

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Following a two-year absence from the world of gallery exhibitions, Berlin artist Jonathan Meese has chosen Paris as the venue for his reappearance.

Often described as the enfant terrible of the Berlin art scene, Jonathan Meese is now 40 — and as turbulent as ever.

Born in 1971 in Tokyo, the artist spent time in both Berlin and Hamburg before taking up permanent residence in the capital. Cannibalising texts and images from sources as varied as Stanley Kubrick, Richard Wagner and the Marquis de Sade, he has created a mythology that is all his own. His works also have an obsessive focus on the artist himself, and conjure up the vital energy at the heart of his conception of art.

Galerie Templon has been working with Jonathan Meese since 2001. This will be his fourth exhibition at the gallery.

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For the Oda Jaune exhibition catalogue’s day out, Once in a Blue Moon taking place at Galerie Daniel Templon, thre will be the artist signing place at the Centre Pompidou’s bookstore on Saturday, November 27, 2010 from 5pm to 8pm.

The catalogue was created and published by the agency Communic’Art at the request of Galerie Daniel Templon.

Communic’Art has already created and published nearly fifty catalogues and monographs which are distributed by “Les Belles Lettres” in over 600 general-interest and 50 specialized bookstores.

The catalogue Once in a Blue Moon presents 37 recent paintings, most of them are exhibited at Galerie Daniel Templon until December 31, 2010.

A text by Judith Lavrador, art critic and curator, presents the work of the artist in the catalogue’s introduction.

The artist will also sign the book First Water published by Hatje Cantz in September 2010 which includes a hundred drawings and recent watercolors.

The catalogue Once in a Blue Moon is listed on 40 databases and on online bookstores.

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Librairie du Centre Pompidou – Niveau Forum – 75004 Paris – Tel : + 33 1 44 78 43 22

Galerie Daniel Templon – 30 rue Beaubourg – 75003 Paris – Tel : + 33 1 42 72 14 10 – www.danieltemplon.com

An exhibition catalogue has been created and published on the demand of Galerie Daniel Templon by Communic’Art for Oda Jaune’s second exhibition at the gallery.

The exhibition is held from November 6th until december 24th, 2010.

Under the title Once in a Blue Moon, this exhibition should be a singular encounter : an incantation will lead the spectator to the threshold of an odd fairy tale.

Deformed pin-ups, drowned children, nightmarish bridal couples… her paintings provides us with troubling scenes of intermingled gentleness and violence. They speak of a total lack of inhibition and demand that same self-abandonment from the viewer.

« This variety of tone, from the tragic to the comic, derives no doubt from the fact that Oda Jaune conceives her figures as members of one big family. One ought perhaps to say that her work forms one large conception of the universe, except that she speaks of her figures with such affection that it may be better to keep it simple. Even if, in this case, all is not so simple, neither for them nor for us” writes Judicaël Lavrador, art critic and curator, in the catalogue’s introduction.

Born in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in 1979, Oda Jaune has lived in Paris since 2008. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Kunsthalle in Koblenz (2004) and at the Fondazione Mudima in Milan (2007). She also was part of several group exhibitions including at White Space, Beijing (2003), Küppersmühle Museum of Duisburg (2007) and the 11th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura in Venice (2008). The first artist exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon, entitled May You See Rainbows, was held in 2009 and was accompanied by a catalogue created and published by Communic’Art as well.

Oda Jaune, Once in a Blue Moon, text by Judicaël Lavrador, bilingual English/French, biography and bibliography, hardcover 27 x 33,5 cm, 56 pages, price : 20 €, ISBN : 978-2-917515-07-5. Available for sale at galerie Daniel Templon and in bookstores.

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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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French artist Loïc Le Groumellec and American artist Will Cotton present their second exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon, starting April 29, 2010. For their previous exhibitions, Galerie Daniel Templon entrusted Communic’Art with the creation of two monographs.

Loïc Le Groumellec is showing his latest work at Galerie Daniel Templon: a monumental black and white triptych, and, for the first time, a new series of paintings in which he introduced colour.

Born in 1957, Loïc Le Groumellec made his name with his iterative minimalist paintings whose shadowy shapes cast by megaliths and houses constitute a language of their own, almost an obsession. He has been ceaselessly exploring these themes for the past thirty years, creating a body of work almost series-like in nature and that speaks to us of a quest for utter perfection. The exhibition takes place between April 29th and May 29th, 2010. 

The monograph on Loïc Le Groumellec created by Communic’Art for Galerie Templon and was published in 2008. Introduction by Itzhak Glodberg, bilingual edition French/English, hardcover, 230 x 294 mm, 64 pages, price : 20€ TTC, ISBN : 978-2-917515-04-4.

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Will Cotton comes back at Galerie Templon with a new exhibition that examines the lacanian theme of desire and lack : landscapes made of icre cream and candyfloss, the most ephemeral of sweets.

Playfully alluding to 18th century French painters such as Fragonard and Boucher, Will Cotton’s paintings are utopian evocations. Bountiful landscapes are inhabited by creatures bedecked in confectionery diadems, a cross between angel, goddess and pin-up. Their scantily covered bodies, inviting yet inaccessible, are ‘posed’ within an ambiguous universe where the boundary between earth and sky has disappeared. The exhibition takes place between April 29th and June 19th, 2010. 

The monograph on Will Cotton created by Communic’Art for Galerie Templon and was published in 2004. Text by Ann Hindry, bilingual edition French/English, biography et bibliography, hardcover, 294 x 230 mm, 68 pages, price : 20€ TTC, ISBN : 978-2-9523914-0-8.

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All the catalogues created and published by are distributed by the Comptoir des indépendants.

This monograph of 288 pages and over 200 reproduced works, was created and published by Communic’ Art for Galerie Daniel Templon, with the support of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques.

Henry-Claude Cousseau tells us about the artist’s work, his background and his pictorial evolution and gives all the measure to Philippe Cognée’s work, at the foreground of the French art scene.

- Philippe Cognée’s works are based on Photography. Which aspects of this medium attracted him?

H-C C : The photography did become essential for Cognée. We would soon see it going through all its current mutations, from video to computer image. The photographic act, like the document to wich it gives form, is at once a supoon and study note, essentially a “working tool”. It neutralises  the powerful mythological space in wich his work had up to then been enclosed. It enables him to rethink the question of the subject, to find a new freedom and “leave imaginary lands”. From now on, photography would be with him all the time, for it stands not only for immersion in the real, immediate contact, but also, above all, for mastery of the instant, even if this is illusory.

- The landscapes, the objects, the faces are blurred at Philippe’s Cognée’s … Do these “images” set up themselves as sets on the perception collection?

H-C C : These pieces that we must call images, for that is their overt function, introduce one of the paradoxes with wich Cognée has already made us familiar. Far from competing in terms of realism, precision and virtuosity in fidelity to the customary principles of representation,  afr from playing at simulacra, these images also play games with optical perception, they locate themselves in another register, that of the elusiveness of matter, of the difficulty of defining it, of representing it.

- In 1990, Philippe Cognée’s residency at the Villa Medicis marked a change of direction in his work. Do you think that this experience was a kind of “liberation” for the artist?

H-C C : He had his mindfull of his personal myths, but what he saw in Rome was not the epic city, mother of all cities and place of triumphs, but a city of earth, of soil and successive sediments where history was burried, depths where lives were swallowed up forever paradoxically, then it was Rome that expedited the break with the past and that as if re-emerging into daylight brought him back to the real, to the surface of things opening his eyes once for all.

- Philippe Cognée’s most recent works seem to convey a current uneasiness. How does he try to interpret it, to sublimate it ?

H-C C : We are tempting to see in the Cognée’s latest paintings has a desperate effort to sublimate the confusion into which  the worl seems to be sinking. Previously concerned with his familiar  environment, as if this were reality that justified his art, the artist is no preoccuped with the destiny of the whole world, of which he realises that his world was merely a fragment.

- Philippe Cognée spent a part of his long childhood years in Benin, in Africa. How do you think this experience imbued his work ?

H-C C : Cognée owes a great deal to this Afican part of this life, wich helped shape his sensibility and imagination, becoming a permanent part of  his world. The memories of this are still vivid. The smlls, the visual impressions, the materials and the crafsmen’s techniques all constituted a stock on wich he drew for many years, and many aspects of his work, even today, can be explained by the experiences he had there.

- At 50, Philippe Cognée is the one of the leading painters of the French art scene, how this monograph contributes to establish his international reputation ?

H-C C : There was no monograph for approaching and interpreting the overall work of Philippe Cognée yet. This publication by the abundance of prints, their outstanding quality, the clarity of the carrer wich allow to follow the pictural evolution of his painting, his critical apparatus finally, constitute the first instrument of knowledge and difusion of work which has continued for twenty years to establish itself as one of the most successful and most consistent.

The fact that it is bilingual is obviously capital. It will allow to amateurs and connoisseurs, on an international level, to finally take the measure of the work of an artist who is at the forefront of the French scene.

Philippe Cognée’s monograph, Henry-Claude Cousseau’s introduction, text of Christian Bernard, bilingual English / French, biography and bibliography, hardcover, 240 x 300 mm, 288 pages, price : 50€ TTC, ISBN : 978-2-917515-03-7.

Available to the sale at galerie Daniel Templon.

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