17/10/2011
85-87 FBG ST MARTIN
Different venues, Paris
A collective exhibition curated by thirteen french galleries, claiming their vitality and engagement with artists they support and defend fervently. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to discover artists and their works in the center of Paris.
85-87FBG.STMARTIN is a collective exhibition curated by thirteen French galleries,
claiming their vitality and engagement with artists they support and defend fervently.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to discover artists and their works in the center
of Paris 1àth district at EURO RSCG - BETC.
This pioneering event enjoys the excitement of a week in Paris dedicated to
contemporary art in Paris.
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Michel Verjux
Born in 1956 in Chalon-sur-Saône. Lives and works in Paris, France
« [...] Rather than light, I generally prefer to use the term lighting when talking about
what have become my main physical elements and technical tools.
I use light, but it is light in action within the immediate environment of the human being,
for example within an exhibition setting that is viewed in a particular and individual way
by the visitor as he passes through.»
Michel Verjux
Galerie Jean Brolly
16 Rue de Montmorency Paris
www.jeanbrolly.com
galbrolly@wanadoo.fr
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Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Born in 1978 in Paris. Lives and works in Bruxelles, Belgium.
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet paints abstract paintings, in very various formats, most frequently oil
paintings, but he sometime also has recourse to lacquer, spray, glitter or collage. He starts to
work with a vague idea – for instance landscape – but without ever aiming representation
or illustration. He wants to avoid pictorial tags that would betray an identification to “abstract
painting”: large expressive brushstrokes, gesture presence, virtuosity, lyricism... He rather
strives to let things happen and to let the painting manage itself the process by which it
is produced : each mark, trace, color is a transitory step which leads to an other, and to
an other, again. The artist works by transfer, imprint, erasure, accumulation and exhaustion
rather than by inscription, writing or composition. Thus, far from claiming the all-might of a
plastic demiurgy, he instills doubt in the heart of the production system.The main object of
this work is the impossibility of painting, although combined to the necessity of doing it.
Galerie Torri
7 rue Saint-Claude Paris
www.galerietorri.com
contact@galerietorri.com
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Nathalie Elemento
Born in 1965 in Saint-Nazaire. Lives and works in Paris.
Nathalie Elemento primarily devoted herself to painting before asserting herself as a sculptor
in the late 80’s. Early on, she developed a rich and abundant world. More as sculptures
or objects, her works are true «interior architectures» that combine both the architectural
elements, furniture or other familiar objects whose meaning she constantly seems to
question. Meaning in which she trifles and plays with, as evidenced by the titles of her works
or exhibitions, both loans of irony and poetry, all of which are riddles and metaphors of the
world where we live.
Galerie Jean Fournier
22 rue Du Bac - 75007 Paris - www.galerie-jeanfournier.com
info@galerie-jeanfournier.com
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Julien Salaud
Born in 1977. Lives and works in Paris, France
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
7, rue Pastourelle - 75003 Paris - www.suzanne-tarasieve.com
info@suzanne-tarasieve.com
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John Beech
Lives in 1964 in Winchester, England. Lives and works in Brooklyn, USA.
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire - 75003 Paris - www.fillesducalvaire.com
info@fillesducalvaire.com
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Presence Panchounette
french collectif 1969-1990.
Between 1969 and 1990, Présence Panchounette goes to war against art world.
At first asset in Bordeaux, the group spreads its action to the international artistic scene
celebrating « the chounette spirit «, making the apology of the worst, of the commonplace
or the vulgar against the seriousness of the «modernity», Presence Panchounette takes the
opposite view, values and taste defended by the cultural circles of this time.
Ironically, the swashbucklings of the group will anticipate 80’s art movements as appropriation
or neo conceptuel art which will find well and truly place in historical genealogies.
Semiose Galerie
54 rue Chapon - 75003 Paris - www.semiose.com
b.porcher@semiose.com
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Olivier Kosta-Thefaine
Born in 1972, in Bezons. Lives and works in Paris, France.
In each of his interventions, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine plays with the codes and clichés of
popular culture. He uses the languages and codes of the city and its suburbs, changing or
modifying their original meaning so it can be understood by a broader public. His reflection
is essentially based in rehabilitating the, often deconsidered, elements that belong to the
city. His fascination for the suburbs has switched to a passion that is essential to his everyday
work. The city is his muse, the drive for his artistic inspiration. He tries to decipher a discredited
world through simple and ironic little mechanisms which he then transposes into galleries.
By introducing the language of popular culture into the white cube, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine
uses the suburb’s many clichés, plays with the truth and distorts the elements of pop culture.
Galerie Jeanrochdard
13 rue des Arquebusiers - 75003 Paris- www.jeanrochdard.com
info@jeanrochdart.com
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Jean-Francois Leroy
Born in 1982 in Dunkerque. Lives and works Paris, France
From Jean-François Leroy’s workshop sculptures raise that still carry with them - by design -
the traces of their elaboration. The plaster plates, basic material chosen by the artist, even as
cut, pierced and precisely assembled, inexorably show the stigmata of the used processes.
The raw edges act as visible seams, echoes of the research work, incomplete by necessity.
The building site is still active and the workshop at hand. The site of all experimentation, it’s
the no man’s land where things are made and undone, sheltered from external looks.
Galerie Bertrand Grimont
47 rue de Montmorency - 75003 Paris - www.bertrandgrimont.com
info@bertrandgrimont.com
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Peter Rosel
Born in 1966 in Rockenhausen, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
Peter Rösel’s works stir the curiosity of the spectator, whose perception is modulated and
sharpened their contact ; we remember his famous sewn sculptures or paintings of mirages.
If these works lean constantly on an approach of the reality,sometimes in the fault by borrowings
of harmless elements, these always have the power to engender deep perspectives. Indeed,
they challenge the imagination of each one to establish correspondences between the
object that presents itself to our eyes and mind of the viewer, all its capacities being then
called to express himself. Peter Rösel’s works have for common denominator to be artistical
and mental constructions which operate systematically, from recordings of the real, a subtle
shift in accordance with media and unexpected materials which vary from one project to
another.
Galerie Hervé Bize
17-19 rue Gambetta - 54000 Nancy - www.hervebize.com
info@hervebize.com
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Sarah Tritz
Born in 1980 in Fontenay-aux-Rose, France. Lives and works in Paris.
Sarah Tritz does not eschew the problem of movement, that is to say, how to show it through
her productions. Her pieces made immediately, more precisely, instantaneously, express
time, temporality. The crystallized gesture binds us to her wishes, her dreams, her doubts.
Both “structural” and “wild” is Sarah Tritz’s paradox about the sign of her movements. A piece
of furniture thought as a plinth, fragments of disparate pieces, her drawings and collages
made from memory testify to the multiplicity of her works. In the maze created by the various
mediums and devices she scatters, the physical experience is part of an inescapable
structure.
Galerie Anne Barrault
22, rue Saint-Claude - 75003 paris - www.galerieannebarrault.com
info@galerieannebarrault.com
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Carmen Perrin
Born in 1953 in La Paz, Bolivia. Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland
Since the 1980’s, Carmen Perrin established herself as a sculptor. In the 1990’s she started
creating works increasingly related with architectural and landscape contexts. Through
her works she tries to create a tight relation between light, materials and architectural and
social characteristics of a public space. She pursues in her studio a research in the close
articulation between sculpture and drawing practices. Her recent works, «springs» and
«perforations», are linked to the processes and the materials that she uses in architecture as
well as to her research in the field of sculpture. Carmen Perrin is exploring her artistic ideas
through experiments with tension, with the interplay of physical forces present in what we are
becoming and what we know about what surrounds us.
Galerie Catherine Putman
40 rue Quincampoix - 75004 Paris - www.catherineputman.com
contact@catherineputman.com
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Josh Blackwell
Born in 1972 in United States. Lives and works in New York, USA.
John Tevis Gallery will present an installation of Josh Blackwell’s Plastic Baskets, semi-degraded
plastic bags sewn shut with woolen yarn. Exploring the physicality of color and texture, the
surface of these works is created through a series of repetitive interventions which render the
sacks unusable but give them a new identity as decorative objects. Josh Blackwell’s work
appears in both public and private collections worldwide.
Galerie John Tevis
47 rue Chapon - 75003 Paris - www.johntevis.com
jet@johntevis.com
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Nicolas Chardon
Born in 1974 in Clamart. Lives and works in Paris.
«This is about ten years that I have undertaken a work, mainly painting, which seeks to
demonstrate that it remains a contemporary use of the forms derived of historical
modernism. Using simple figures, basic processes borrowed from abstract vocabulary
as well as a reflection upon language legacy from conceptual art, I am interested in
showing what remains beyond the image, or against her: practice and enunciation.
That is, literally, what we do, and what we say.»
Nicolas Chardon, 2011
Galerie Jean Brolly
16 rue de Montmorency - 75003 paris - www.jeanbrolly.com
galbrolly@wanadoo.fr
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Samuel Francois
Born in 1977 in Pompey, France. Lives and works in Hettange Grande, France
Samuel François starts his works playing with urbain space. Actif member of the collective
«Inkunstuction» established in 2000, he became a witness of cultural changes related to
urban space. His work questions its representations, codes and rules. Collecting objects,
archiving images, his reflection is born from an observation which is more than contemplative.
His new works reveal a fascination for abstraction. With the help of different media, they
take shape on different supports through installations which skilfully mix objects, paint and
drawing.
Galerie Jeanrochdard
13 rue Des Arquebusiers - 75003 Paris - www.jeanrochdard.com
info@jeanrochdard.com
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Charles-Henri Monvert
Born in 1948 in Neuilly sur Seine. Lives and works in Paris.
The logic behind Charles-Henri Monvert’s pictures is based on the development—starting
from an initial grid—of a structural combination of infinite variations. The oeuvre takes the
form of a process of weaving and overlapping, which causes several overlaid time-related
planes and strata to interfere with each other. Each new layer not only covers the old one,
but, by way of impregnation, retains the memory of the original grid. From the initial pure
white to the final structuring, a whole visual gamut is constructed, a keyboard of values,
tones and grains, density and mattness, a weft which, through the resurgence of lines of
force, makes the tensions within the picture visible. An infinitesimal relief is drawn, nothing
less than fabric within fabric. This faculty of memorization and alteration makes it possible
to confront an unchanging structure and its many metamorphoses. Here, logic and hunch
join hands; each work carries within it the mark of something in the offing, and something
random.
Galerie Emmanuel Herve
6 rue Jouye-Rouve - 75020 Paris - www.emmanuelherve.com
bonjour@emmanuelherve.com
Opening tuesday 18th from 6pm-10pm
85/87, rue FBG Saint Martin
Paris
Open everyday 11am TO 8pm