Chic Art Fair
dal 20/10/2010 al 24/10/2010
Segnalato da
20/10/2010
Chic Art Fair
Docks en Seine, Paris
Around 50 contemporary art galleries, up-and-coming ones in addition to more established and even historic galleries, as well as a section for innovative contemporary Design, will be present. The artist-curator team Halfslant (Patricia Maciesz and Adrian Sanders), in collaboration with artists from select Chic galleries, has created a utopian commercial center where tangible goods are replaced by ephemera and ideas.
With CHIC ART FAIR, a contemporary art fair is embracing Paris, taking over the Cité de la Mode et du Design, confirming its talent in organizing space, and hosting galleries from richly diverse worlds. Around fifty contemporary art galleries, up-and-coming ones in addition to more established and even historic galleries, as well as a section for innovative contemporary Design, will be present. CHIC ART FAIR, the fair for contemporary art, is in love with Paris and its galleries, and it is harmoniously and boldly inviting international galleries which would like to embrace the effervescent capital during this period of the year, to join them. Paris lives contemporary art, Paris breathes this art today, forever revisited and joined to the contemporary moment in all its diversity.
The Commercial Center Sans Commerce: Before the Shops, the Dreamers
The artist-curator team Halfslant (Patricia Maciesz and Adrian Sanders), in collaboration with artists from select CHIC galleries, has taken over the ground floor of the Cite de la mode et du Design to create a utopian commercial center where tangible goods are replaced by ephemera and ideas.
Halfslant’s site-responsive installation places art in a dynamic context where the audience is encouraged to consider each work as part of a greater whole. The Commercial Center Sans Commerce engages not only artists but actors, designers, and professionals from a variety of backgrounds to construct the fictitious utopia of a commerce-free shopping mall. With a new art fair, a new building and a new purpose, The Commercial Center Sans Commerce offers a vision of what this future commercial center could be. Instead of lifeless decoration, contemporary art provides the permanent fixtures and thematic touch-points of the space. Art work helps develop a fiction that reflects the architectural optimism of the building itself; a place were ideas are realized and where the future potential of the space is pushed in new directions.
The installation juxtaposes the shopping mall with the reality of a so-far unused commercial space, projecting both the shortcomings of the American dream and the potential of a new kind of interaction - one where exchange is expressed not through commerce but through the shared experience of the space between artists and viewers. By walking through the installation, viewers catch a glimpse of a future that is worthy of the aspirations the building inspires: rethinking, rebuilding, and ultimately renewal.
Artistes CHIC:
Igor Josifov -Galerie E.G.P
Edouard Sautai - Exit Art Contemporain
Dominique Dehais - Galerie La Ferronnerie
Laurent Fiévet - Galerie La Ferronnerie
Gerardo Di Crola- Galerie Ma Collection
Patrick Lebret - Galerie Ma Collection
Isabelle Frémin - Galerie W
Tom Price - Outdoorz Gallery
Breaded Escalope -Outdoorz Gallery
Ghyslain Bertholon - School Gallery
Cécile Le Talec -School Gallery
Benxing Song - School Gallery
Phillipe Hérault - HROOM VOZ' Images
Gilles Ouaki
David Miguel
Docks in the Sky
Docks in the Sky is a curatorial project by Adrien Pasternak for CHIC ART FAIR: on this terrace overlooking the Seine, Adrien Pasternak, an independent exhibition organizer, is offering a space that alternates between artistic discovery of monumental pieces and moments for taking a break in the deck chairs made available for visitors.
with:
Joël Andrianomearisoa, Rebecca Ballestra, Elsa Cha, Maxime Chanson, Jean-Baptiste Couronne, Collectif DOP (Olivier + David), Marie Denis, Jean–Jacques Dumont, Dominique Ghesquière, Jean-François Guillon, Shigeko Hirakawa, François Mazabraud, Michelangelo Penso, Emmanuel Régent, Pierre–Alexandre Remy
The Vanity Machine
Directed by Antoine Fenoglio & Frédéric Lecourt
At the prow of the “Docks in the Sky” is the Olympic Smoking Area, a smoking area installation that offers a spectacular podium for smokers, with a sound performance by Mildred Simantov and Nils Thornander of the Nice Institution.
The machine to create one's own vanity is an ambitious project: visitors are invited to come with their MRI scan, from which a 3-dimensional print-out will be made on site by a prototyping machine. They will then be given their vanity portrait photographed by Pierre-Anthony Allard.
The project will be presented in the heart of the fair, making the link between design and art, questioning the relation between art and its materiality, a sort of response to everything which could be defined as “the ultimate object”.
Less is More Projects presents a group show that pays homage to what Brian O’Doherty called “this unshadowed, white, clean, artificial, space devoted to the technology of esthetics” in his essay Notes on the gallery space, published in Artforum in 1976. With the artists: Phil Ashcroft, Michel Boubon, Alberto Brusamolino, Paolo Giardi, Marc Antoine Léval,Landon Metz, James Moss, Guillaume Paris and RYCA.
Luxury, Fashion and Contemporary Art
October 23, 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon
Free entry, limited seating
A panel discussion on the theme of “Luxury, Fashion and Contemporary Art”, which will reveal to the audience of CHIC ART FAIR the way in which these worlds link and dialogue. Two main threads will be addressed more particularly: contemporary art as a source for inspiration, , and contemporary art as an object / support for communications, oriented toward those in the luxury and fashion industries.
An “In and Out” CHIC ART FAIR is being organized by Lucas Delattre of the French Fashion Institute and Lydie Valentin, creator of “the thought”, a group dedicated to inspiration, exploration and manifestation, working on prospective, strategic and creative decision-making for those in the sensory arts (fashion / creation / beauty / well-being).
October 24 on the Docks in the Sky
On the terrace that has been fitted out by Adrien Pasternak (or in the VIP space, if weather dictates), CHIC ART FAIR is offering to its public a moment of pleasure to celebrate the end of the Contemporary Art week in Paris, by inviting participants of the other fairs, artists, art lovers and collectors, to gather together around a DJ in an effervescent atmosphere.
CHIC ART FAIR is placing its Contemporary Art and Design sections within the context of a larger framework which highlights both transmission and election. For this, CHIC ART FAIR has created two prizes, a Design Prize and a Contemporary Art Prize, based on the values of opening and dialogue between generations of artists. For each prize, a distinguished Selection committee of sponsors will study the offerings of the galleries that are presenting at CHIC ART FAIR in order to select a maximum of 5.
The final prizes will be given on Saturday October 23 at 5:00 PM in the VIP space of the Fair.
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Vernissage-professionnal preview: Octobre 21, 2010
Docks en Seine
cite' da la Mode et du design
34, quai d’Austerlitz - Paris 13
Hours
Friday October 22 –
from 12:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Saturday October 23 –
from 12:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Sunday October 24 –
from 12:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Monday October 25 –
from 12:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Admission
10 euros general admission
7 euros reduced rate