DAVID LEDOUX vision abstract
Vision Abstract is the new exhibition of photographer’s David Ledoux, opened from now at the OFR gallery in Paris. His argentic work is based on light in a computer free environment. He likes challenging laws of physics to arrive to a certain surrealist feel with a soft grainyness, a coarse finish and unexpected floating threads of light to form shapes. It’s all about questionning the paradoxes between light and movement. Definitely step in!
PRESENZA ASSENZA Italian born photographer Daniele Tedeschi lives in Paris. Energetic and passionate, he dedicates his works to life and its interpretations.
He comes back today with a special photographic project calls Presenza Assenza started few years ago in Italy and still continued today with a compulsive fury! My hand enters the picture to capture the character and make it appear or disappear from its context and is only depending on my mood…
A kind of imaginary quest of itself, of us, of the life which is perhaps a necessary escape?
Most of the black and white photos were shot by using argentic film process with my personal Olympus MIU! Story telling in triptych form, multiple images sequences or stills. All these stories are mainly buried in my notebooks, themselves locked into an old cardboard suitcase at home. But i’ve decided today to reveal part of this work while reserving some other safe from prying eyes … Waiting for a first book and an exhibition soon… Photos by Daniele TEDESCHI
TIM BARBER relations On view now at Capricious 88 Gallery, Tim Barber’s Relations presents a meticulously curated selection of the photographer’s latest works. Coherent with his established aesthetic, Barber continues to explore the potential energy held by everyday subject matter to produce images of ethereal quality. With every photograph comes an opportunity in which the organic moment transforms into the beginnings of a well-crafted tale. Embodied within the title of the exhibition, Barber’s aim for this series is to delve into not just the narratives within each individual photograph but also how these photographic narratives relate and intertwine with one another to create a web of alternative perspectives.
Words and photo by Leila Samïi
CAPRICIOUS 88
88 Eldridge Street, 5th FL
New York, NY 10002 On view through June 23rd
VOLUPIA by Samantha Casolari Exhibition at the Rouge 58 gallery… feeling Voluptas and Sensual Pleasure.
Samantha Casolari is an Italian photographer based in New York.
She’s just published her first book “Ode to Street Hassle” Photo report by Pascal Gillet
SNAPHONE untitled gallery Here is presented a snapshot photo gallery exclusively made with an iPhone. Art is everywhere and everything might be Art! Photo by Pascal Gillet
ARTHUR AUBERT exposition Young artist photographer Arthur Aubert is graduated of the school of design, graphic art and interior architecture, ESAG, Paris. He exhibited yesterday a solo and private exhibition at the Fouquet’s Barriere hotel in Paris. Every witness might have a personal reading, understanding and interpretation… Photos report by Pascal Gillet
THOMAS LELU tendre violence When Art meets Cars, questioning our relationship between Automobile and women! Yesterday, Thomas Lelu exhibited tendre violence, a serie of car-hoods layered with erotic pictures published in “magazines of charm” in the 70s. A highlight on this very first event organized at the new agency office “L’Ecurie” which publishes, among others, the Intersection magazine.
L’Ecurie Gallery
44, rue Lucien Sampaix
75010 Paris February 5th — March 5th, 2014
From January 29th to April 5th 2014, Galerie des Galeries opens its doors to belgian talented fashion designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard. A former prize winner of the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères, he has fashioned the Till We Drop exhibition in his own image : quirky and socially conscious. For his first solo exhibition in Paris, Jean-Paul invites visitors to explore his creative process. Drawing from the identically titled 2014 collection, this exhibition evokes the exuberance of life at Mexico’s giant Mayan Riviera hotels and expresses the artist’s take on this artificial paradise, a world steeped in euphoria, sin and freedom. Dressed as a bee and using a series of installations, Jean-Paul Lespagnardtakes us down a guided tour of the rituals and customs of impulse tourism, freed from all material contingencies. As prolific designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard exhibits his work at Galeries Lafayette, several visuals from his Till We Drop project will be displayed in store windows on the rue de la Chaussée d’Antin as well as the store’s first upper floor. photos by Pascal Gillet
GALERIE DES GALERIES Galeries Lafayette
40, Bd Haussmann
75009 Paris January 29th — April 5th 2014
On the occasion of 80th anniversary of L.12.12 (the iconic polo shirt Lacoste and its famous crocodile) the artistic director of the brand Felipe Oliveira Baptista has called upon photographer Charles Freger. He is a photographer of groups, codes and uniforms: his approach is both artistic and documentary, making him the ideal partner for this tribute. The result is a book L.12.12 edited by Steidl. Photo report by Pascal Gillet
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will present América Latina1960-2013, coproduced with the Museo Amparo in Puebla (Mexico). The exhibition will offer a new perspective on Latin American photography from 1960 to today, focusing on the relationship between text and the photographic image. Bringing together seventy-two artists from eleven different countries, it reveals the great diversity of photographic practices of artists who appropriate the medium in different ways. This unique presentation will provide the visitor with the opportunity to delve into the history of the continent and to rediscover the works of major artists rarely exhibited in Europe. photos report by Pascal Gillet
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain
261, boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris From November 19, 2013 — April 6, 2014
La Grande Épicerie — know-how at work! The finest delicatessen in Paris, entirely redesigned. A reality and a dream. The address that used to foster the exceptional now displays it. After 18 months’ of renovations, it blends culture, fashion and fine food like no other. As “the” menu of the age, design, photography and literature adopt a culinary feel. Fashionistas become foodistas, the must-haves are cream puffs, and the collections new flavours of macaroons. More than ever before, good taste simply adores good food. What if La Grande Épicerie de Paris became the finest market in France, or even Europe ?
Amazing cocktail party and dj by Ariel Wizman. Photos by Pascal Gillet
AMERICA LATINA Preview film of the America Latina exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris. To be continued! Video film report by pascal gillet
University of Art and Design of Lausanne presents ECAL Photography. it’s an exhibition of works produced by 58 young talents during their Photography Bachelor curriculum. All these images were chosen by exhibition curator Nathalie Herschdorfer, as well as by Milo Keller (head of the Photography programme at ECAL) and Alexis Georgacopoulos (ECAL director). The scenography of the exhibition is created by Swiss designer Adrien Rovero. The ECAL Photography book (296 pages, 385 images) supports this event and is produced by art publishers Hatje Cantz. photo report by pascal gillet
Galerie Azzedine Alaïa
18, rue de la Verrerie
75004 Paris from 15 November to 15 December 2013 Every day from 10am to 7pm
JEAN FRANÇOIS LEPAGE inside the mirror — Jean-François Lepage’s photography is produced on a knife’s edge : after the photo shoot, the photographer’s hand often comes back to deconstruct and interfere with the body’s anatomy, cutting the negative to build a new, multiple image. The artist willingly speaks of « his material », not so much about the realm of reality, but the material of the negative or positive itself ; hands-on in the gelatine, like a paintbrush in oil and pigments. From these cut, multiplied, recomposed faces and bodies, a complex identity suddenly rises to the surface. The character’s individuality emerges and creates an oscillatory wave that disturbs the peaceful surface of the image, causing it to waiver between seduction and repulsion, sophistication and brutality. These images, with their stripped-back composition, are inhabited by strangely motionless beings, suspended in their own time and space ; while lost in their dreams and thoughts, they meander through a land where the imaginary world of the photographer, the model and viewer’s imagination project and come together.
(A selection of images from the ‘Memories from the future’ exhibition, presented during the 28th festival of Hyères°
Words by Raphaëlle Stopin — Photo report by Pascal Gillet
Galerie MADE
30, rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris from November 6th – January 7th 2014
TASCHEN bag lost while walking in the street in saint Germain area, Paris… Art form or non-compliance of the environment ? It’s on debate ! photo by pascal gillet
BG BOOM Dusan Reljin — Fashion photographer Dusan Reljin fuses past and present in his latest project, BG BOOM-Dusan Reljin, on display at Milk Gallery. The exhibit harmonizes two sides of Reljin’s life, that of a New York fashion photographer and his upbringing in Serbia, melding them equally into a series of provocative photographs. Each photograph functioning as a collage of its own, the numbered series layers neon images of the wreckage from the 1999 NATO bombing’s in Belgrade with sensual images of some of today’s top models, including Jessica Stam, Daria Werbowy, and Eva Herzigova. The series altogether expresses the dark contrast of Reljin’s life, albeit in a manner that hides the horror of the bombings and screams fashion editorial shoot.
Moments stolen and tamed off the women shows, during the spring summer 2014 fashion week in Paris. A perilous report which has tried our photographer Mathieu Jaïs. Throughout this busy time, he will offer you his best photographs. To be continued very soon… All photography by Mathieu Jaïs.
BEAUTY WALKS A RAZORS EDGE book and photo exhibition byRedemption Choppers. Model, Isabeli Fontana,the new face of the Italian brand photographed by Gabriele Moratti in Iceland. photos report by Pascal Gillet
Charles Fréger,OutreMer project , in a single word, which in French refers to the colour navy blue. He takes photographic portraits of “legionnaires” who are photographed upon the volcanic lands of Djibouti and are joined by naval officers from Toulon and Nouméa…
Outremer
Toulon Museum of Art 27 September – 17 November 2013
Book and exhibition of Jon Naiman… Familiar Territory. Mixing the absurd and the banal, farm animals and their owners are photographed in their family homes
