2011 Los Angeles Film Festival Winners

Winners Announced for 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival, Presented by Los Angeles Times

Stephane Lafleur's Familiar Ground and Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi's Wish Me Away Win Jury Awards

Recently (June 26, 2011) the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times and supported by L.A. LIVE, announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by CHAYA Downtown for the second year, and sponsored by Dove® Hair Care. Allison Janney and John C. Reilly were on hand to present the awards. The Los Angeles Film Festival ran from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday, June 26 in downtown Los Angeles.

"David, Doug and the team continue to raise the bar with the quality of our programming slate. We're enormously proud to host such an exceptional and diverse group of films and filmmakers at this year's Festival, and to have introduced audiences to their wonderful work," said Los Angeles Film Festival Director Rebecca Yeldham.

The two top juried awards of the Los Angeles Film Festival are the Narrative Award and Documentary Award, each carrying an unrestricted $15,000 cash prize, funded by Film Independent, for the winning film's director. The awards were established by the Festival to encourage independent filmmakers to pursue their artistic ambitions.

"It was such a rich year in competition films, so our juries had really tough choices to make. The winning films are the cream of a particularly delicious crop, and we're delighted that they reflect the Festival's dedication to movies from all over the world," said Festival Artistic Director David Ansen.

The Narrative Award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition at the Festival and went to Stephane Lafleur for the North American Premiere of Familiar Ground. The Documentary Award recognizes the finest documentary film in competition at the Festival and went to Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi for the World Premiere of Wish Me Away.

The award for Best Performance in the Narrative Competition went to Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street, and Gabriel Diamond for their performances in Amber Sealey's How to Cheat. Given to an actor or actors from an official selection in the Narrative Competition, this is the eighth year the award has been given at the Festival.

For the first time, the Los Angeles Film Festival awarded an unrestricted $5,000 cash prize to each short film category. The award for Best Narrative Short Film went to Saba Riazi's The Wind Is Blowing on My Street. The award for Best Documentary Short Film went to Susan Koenen's I Am a Girl!. Mikey Please's The Eagleman Stag won the award for Best Animated Short Film.

The Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature went to Attack the Block, directed by Joe Cornish and the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature went to Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, directed by Michael Rapaport. Asif Kapadia's Senna won the Audience Award for Best International Feature.

The Audience Award for Best Short Film went to Blind Date, directed by Joe Rosen. Can't Shake This Feeling, directed by The General Assembly's Adam Littke, Ryan McNeill, Adam Willis won the Audience Award for Best Music Video for Grum.

The Narrative Feature Competition jury was comprised of director Lynn Shelton (Humpday, My Effortless Brilliance), Head/Founder of Giant Robot Eric Nakamura, and screenwriter Daniel Waters (Heathers, Batman Returns). The Documentary Feature Competition jury was comprised of Spirit Award-winning director Jeff Malmberg (Marwencol), Executive Director of the International Documentary Association Michael Lumpkin, and Co-editor of Slake magazine Laurie Ochoa. The Shorts Competition jury was comprised of casting director Margery Simkin, film critic Alonso Duralde, and actress Lisa Gay Hamilton.

Now in its seventeenth year, the Festival is recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world. As previously announced, the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries.

The Festival kicked off on Thursday, June 16 with the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie, sponsored by Virgin America, and will close tonight with the world premiere of FilmDistrict's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, directed by Troy Nixey. Gala Screenings included the North American premiere of FilmDistrict's Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn; the world premiere of Summit Entertainment's A Better Life, directed by Chris Weitz and sponsored by CBS2/KCAL9; Lionsgate's The Devil's Double, directed by Lee Tamahori; and Screen Gems' Attack the Block, directed by Joe Cornish.

In addition, the Festival held Conversations with James Franco, Julie Taymor, Jack Black, and Shirley MacLaine, with panelists and moderators including Diablo Cody, Dustin Lance Black, Ruben Fleischer, Robert Ben Garant, Andy Garcia, Rachael Harris, Quincy Jones, Richard Kelly, Thomas Lennon, Derek Luke, Frank Pierson, David Milch, Thomas Newman, Philip Noyce, and Jason Ritter. Poolside Chats at the JW Marriot Pool Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE ION Rooftop Pool Bar, a two-day seminar on Money Talks & Art Matters, and free outdoor anniversary screenings of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Stand By Me and Rudy were held throughout the ten days.

Guillermo del Toro was this year's Guest Director of the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. In his role as Guest Director, del Toro presented Pupi Avati's The Arcane Enchanter, a rarely seen Italian horror film that has inspired his work. Erykah Badu and Daniele Luppi served as this year's Artists in Residence. As Artists in Residence, each programmed an event that inspired their work. Grammy Award-winning musician Erykah Badu selected Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying, followed by a conversation, and composer Daniele Luppi selected Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe, followed by a conversation about movies and music.

Dove® Hair Care proudly sponsored the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival, supporting the filmmakers, industry professionals and emerging talent that make a beautiful difference in the entertainment world. Throughout the festival, Dove® Hair Care introduced its next generation of nourishment, Dove® Nourishing Oil Care collection, which transforms dry, rough, frizzy hair into beautifully smooth hair (even in Hollywood).

Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the newest CHAYA combines urban chic and European sensibility with Japanese hospitality. CHAYA Downtown features a lively bar, lounge, and sushi bar that sit off the main dining room and look out into the large garden patio. CHAYA Downtown is proud to return as sponsor and host of the Los Angeles Film Fest Awards Brunch for a second year and offer its delectable cuisine to filmmakers and VIPs.

Awards were given out in the following categories:

Narrative Award (for Best Narrative Feature)

Winner: Familiar Ground written & directed by Stephane Lafleur

Producers: Luc Dery, Kim McCraw

Cast: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Sylvain Marcel, Michel Daigle, Suzanne Lemoine

Film Description: (Canada) This droll, deadpan comedy from snowbound Quebec features an unhappy brother and sister whose fates seem to be known by a mysterious Man From the Future. Not too far in the future though. Just next September.

The Narrative Award carries an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000 funded by Film Independent, offering the financial means to help filmmakers transfer their vision to the screen. The award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition, and is given to the director. A special jury selects the winner, and all narrative feature-length films screening in the Narrative Competition section were eligible.

In bestowing Familiar Ground with the Narrative Award, the Jury stated:

"An entire tree sticking out of a fireplace…a beaten-up snowman…an operatically dancing inflatable blue dude…the anything but familiar images of Familiar Ground won't soon be forgotten. In a strong narrative competition this year, this was the singular vision that stood out the most."

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Documentary Award (for Best Documentary Feature)

Winner: Wish Me Away directed by Beverly Kopf & Bobbie Birleffi

Producer: Beverly Kopf, Paul Mailman

Film Description: This intensely personal documentary chronicles the heart-wrenching decision Nashville singing star Chely Wright to come out of the closet despite the potentially crushing response from the industry and her fans.

The Documentary Award carries an unrestricted cash prize of $15,000 funded by Film Independent, offering the financial means to help filmmakers transfer their vision to the screen. The award recognizes the finest documentary film in competition, and is given to the director. A special jury selects the winner, and all documentary feature-length films screening in the Documentary Competition section were eligible.

In bestowing Wish Me Away with the Documentary Award, the Jury stated:

"For its honesty, humor and potential to change minds and even save lives, the jury awards the Documentary Award to Wish Me Away."

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Best Performance in the Narrative Competition

Winner: Amber Sealey, Kent Osborne, Amanda Street and Gabriel Diamond in Amber Sealey's How to Cheat

Film Description: An L.A. couple's struggle to get pregnant sets off the husband's wandering eye in this comedy that reveals marriage to be as funny as it is heartbreaking.

In bestowing the actors with the Best Performance, the Jury stated:

"At a time where actors are often asked to take a larger role in the creation of what is said in a film and how it's done, the performers of How to Cheat deserve special distinction. Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey, Amanda Street, and Gabriel Diamond dug deeper and messier, heroically past the point of comfort."

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Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature

Winner: Attack the Block directed by Joe Cornish
Producers: Nira Park, James Wilson
Cast: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Email, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, Nick Frost

Film Description: (England) – From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block follows a gang of tough inner-city kids who defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, turning a South London apartment complex into an extraterrestrial warzone.

This award is given to the narrative feature audiences liked most as voted by a tabulated rating system. Select narrative feature-length films screening in the following sections were eligible for the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: Narrative Competition, Gala Screenings, International Showcase, International Spotlight, Summer Showcase, Community Screenings, Ford Amphitheatre Screenings, and The Beyond.

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Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature

Winner: Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest directed by Michael Rapaport

Producers: Edward Parks, Bob Teitel, Frank Mele, Robert Benavides, Eric Matthies, Michael Rapaport, Debra Koffler

Film Description: The rancorous break-up of a Tribe Called Quest frames Michael Rapaport's exuberant exploration of the turmoil and joy that drove these pioneers of bohemian hip hop.

This award is given to the documentary feature audiences liked most as voted on by a tabulated rating system. Select documentary feature-length films screening in the following sections were eligible for the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Documentary Competition, International Showcase, International Spotlight, Documenting Mexico, Summer Showcase, Community Screenings, and Ford Amphitheatre Screenings.

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Audience Award for Best International Feature

Winner: Senna directed by Asif Kapadia

Producers: James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner

Film Description: (England) A high-octane look at the most exciting driver to ever race Formula One — Brazil's Aryton Senna — this edge of your seat documentary explores the politics, rivalries and glamour of a sport that leaves no room for error.

This award is given to the international feature audiences liked most as voted on by a tabulated rating system. Select international feature-length films, both narrative and documentary, in the Narrative Competition, Documentary Competition, International Showcase, International Spotlight, Documenting Mexico, Summer Showcase, Ford Amphitheatre Screenings, and The Beyond were eligible for the Audience Award for Best International Feature.

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Best Narrative Short Film

Winner: The Wind Is Blowing on My Street by Saba Riazi

Producer: Mohammad Hoseseni

Cast: Rahman Houshyar, Sajjad Salehivand, Forough Bonakder, Ashraf Abolfazlian

Description: (Iran) A young girl in Tehran is accidentally locked out of her home with no scarf on her head.

In bestowing The Wind Is Blowing on My Street with Best Narrative Short Film, the Jury stated:

"For offering insight into the specifics of life under theocratic rule in Iran in a way that speaks to us all, with a remarkable lead performance by an actress forced by circumstances to remain anonymous, the jury presents the Narrative Short Film Award to Saba Riazi for The Wind is Blowing on My Street."

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Best Documentary Short Film

Winner: I Am a Girl! by Susan Koenen

Producer: Albert Klein Haneveld

Description: (Netherlands) Joppe dreams of love, marriage and children. Being born a boy only complicates things slightly.

In bestowing I Am a Girl! with Best Documentary Short Film, the Jury stated:

"For using gorgeous cinematography and energetic editing to capture a young woman's journey from biological maleness to forthright femininity, and for giving us a glimpse at an open-minded new generation with a better understanding of gender and sexuality issues than their parents ever dreamed, the jury presents the Documentary Short Film Award to Susan Koenen for I Am a Girl!"

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Best Animated Short Film

Winner: The Eagleman Stag by Mike Please
Producer: Royal College of Art
Cast: David Cann, Tony Guilfoyle

Description: (England) This unique stop-motion animated film depicts a man's haunting obsession with the passage of time and his unorthodox relationship with a beetle.

In bestowing The Eagleman Stag with Best Animated Short Film, the Jury stated:

"For mixing innovative three-dimensional paper-cut animation, a stunning white-on-white visual style, and a wryly original sense of storytelling, the jury presents the Animated Short Film Award to Mikey Please for The Eagleman Stag."



Audience Award for Best Short Film

Winner: Blind Date by Joe Rosen

Producer: Joe Rosen, Abigail Blackmore

Cast: Abigail Blackmore, Cavan Clerkin, Zeben Jameson, Matthew Blackmore

Description: (England) Waiting for her date, Rachel has an unexpected encounter.

Awarded to the short film audiences liked most as voted on by a tabulated rating system. Short films screening in the Shorts Programs or before Narrative Competition, Documentary Competition, or International Showcase feature-length screenings were eligible for the Audience Award for Best Short Film.

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Audience Award for Best Music Video

Winner: Can't Shake This Feeling by The General Assembly's Adam Littke, Ryan McNeill, Adam Willis

Music: Grum

This award is given to the music video audiences liked most as voted on by a tabulated rating system.

To download images and clips from the winning films, please visit www.image.net and search 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. If you do not have an account, please use referral code 1020 and check the Film Festivals box under Interest.

ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL

Now in its seventeenth year, the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, is widely recognized as a world-class event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and providing the movie-loving public with access to some of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals, and emerging talent from around the world.

The Festival features unique signature programs including the Filmmaker Retreat, Ford Amphitheater Outdoor Screenings, Poolside Chats, Coffee Talks and more. Additionally, the Festival screens short films created by high school students and has a special section devoted to music videos.

Over 200 features, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries, make up the main body of the Festival.

The Los Angeles Film Festival is presented by the Los Angeles Times and is supported by L.A. LIVE and Premier Sponsor Pechanga Resort & Casino, Principal Sponsor Virgin America and Platinum sponsors Kodak, Stella Artois, Melrose MAC, Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14, Dove® Hair Care, Volkswagen, Jameson Irish Whiskey®, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group and EFILM. Special support is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs, UCLA Latin American Institute, and the University of Guadalajara Foundation. The Official Screening Venue is Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE Stadium 14. Stella Artois is the Official Beer, Jameson Irish Whiskey® is the Official Spirit, and World Wine HeadQuarters is the official wine purveyor. The Los Angeles Athletic Club is the Official Host Hotel and Virgin America is the Official Airline Partner. WireImage is the Official Photography Agency and PR Newswire is the Official Breaking News Service of Film Independent.

More information can be found at LAFilmFest.com

ABOUT FILM INDEPENDENT

Film Independent is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization that champions independent film and supports a community of artists who embody diversity, innovation, and uniqueness of vision. Film Independent helps filmmakers make their movies, builds an audience for their projects, and works to diversify the film industry. Film Independent's Board of Directors, filmmakers, staff, and constituents are comprised of an inclusive community of individuals across ability, age, ethnicity, gender, race, and sexual orientation. Anyone passionate about film can become a member, whether you are a filmmaker, industry leader, or film lover.

With over 250 annual screenings and events, Film Independent provides access to a network of like-minded artists who are driving creativity in the film industry. Film Independent offers free Filmmaker Labs for selected writers, directors, and producers; provides cut-rate services for filmmakers; and presents year-round networking opportunities. Film Independent's mentorship and job placement program, Project:Involve, pairs emerging culturally diverse filmmakers with film industry professionals.

Film Independent produces the Los Angeles Film Festival, celebrating the best of American and international cinema, and the Spirit Awards, a celebration honoring films and filmmakers that embody independence and dare to challenge the status quo.

For more information or to become a member, visit FilmIndependent.org.


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Steve McCurry's Best of Photographs about Human Experience

From its Robert Capa Gold Medal to now, Steve McCurry (b.1950), member of Magnum Photos since 1986, is one of the world’s leading colour photographers. Phaidon Press have just released

Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs 

STEVE McCURRY - PHAIDON PRESS

a large-format limited edition book and print that includes 165 of his most evocative, very finest and famous photographs taking all over the world. This special edition is limited to 3300 copies each with C-type Lambda print signed by the photographer. From one photo to an other this beautifully designed book transport us in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East... A collection of best of photographs from on of the best of photographer, this is what this wonderful book about human experience offer. 

STEVE McCURRY

This best of Steve McCurry luxury book includes the photo Boy at Ganesh Chaturthi festival, Mumbai, India, 1996 and famous green-eyed Afghan Girl photographed for the National Geographic in 1985, which is one of the most recognizable photograph in the world...

STEVE McCURRY

Dust storm, Rajasthan, India, 1983 and Flower seller, Dal Lake, Srinagar, Khasmir, 1996, signed and numbered print accompagnying book.

Other books by Steve McCurry published by Phaidon

STEVE McCURRY - Courtesy Phaidon

Steve McCurry: The Unguarded Moment includes images from Mali, Yemen, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, France and the former Yugoslavia. 380 x 275 mm, 15 x 10 7/8 in - 156 pp with 75 colour photographs.

STEVE McCURRY - Courtesy Phaidon

In the Shadow of Mountains by Steve McCurry. The photographer's best known and previously unpublished images of Afghanistan and its people.

STEVE McCURRY - Courtesy Phaidon

Looking East: Portraits by Steve McCurry. 380 x 275 mm, 15 x 10 7/8 in, 128 pp with 75 colour photographs

STEVE McCURRY - Courtesy Phaidon

Steve McCurry: South Southeast. Powerful images from South and Southeast Asia. 275 x 380 mm, 10 7/8 x 15 in, 156 pp - 69 photographs.

www.phaidon.com

F. Clavère, S. Réno, L. Scoccimaro, Expo Mauvais Genre, Galerie Sollaris, Toulouse

Exposition Mauvais genre
Frédéric Clavère, Sylvie Réno & Lionel Scoccimaro 
Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse 
Jusqu'au 2 juillet 2011 

Mauvais genre réunit trois artistes qui ne s’embarrassent pas de préséance pour témoigner de la vanité de nos existences, pointer du doigt nos petites astuces bien dérisoires pour croire la vie formidable et dénoncer l’absurdité de nos petits arrangements quotidiens. Violence, angoisse, désir, mélancolie et romantisme s’entrechoquent dans cette exposition détonnante et dérangeante.

Fascinante et terrifiante, hilarante et angoissante, l’oeuvre à l’esthétique gore de Frédéric Clavère nous projette avec une diabolique efficacité dans des tableaux où la face noire de l’humanité vient se donner en représentation révélant les ignominies tapies dans les recoins de notre histoire. Le monstrueux y devient l’ordinaire du monde, la sexualité y est un lapsus mis à jour. Puisant autant dans les réserves du grand art que dans celles de la culture populaire, Frédéric Clavère sertit ses scènes de mauvais genre d’humour insolent et d’un usage iconoclaste du mauvais goût. 

FREDERIC CLAVERE

Frédéric Clavère, Hand over, 2010 

Huile sur toile, 140 x 140 cm 

Courtesy Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse 

FREDERIC CLAVERE

Frédéric Clavère, Mothers War, 2008 

Huile sur toile, 190 x 180 cm 

Courtesy Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse 

SYLVIE RENO

Browing, Hecler&Koch, Hauser, Delta Gold Cup et autres flingues peuplent l’univers “cartonisé” et compulsif de Sylvie Réno qui confectionne avec virtuosité et obsession des doubles inoffensifs, des apparences désactivées, des artefacts innocents de ces objets de fascination et de terreur. Avec une patiente ironie et une désinvolture effrontée, l’artiste expose également ses “petites” collections de curiosités, inventaire de plaisirs et dépendances, de désirs et dérives. Subutex, Rohypnol, Atarax, Heineken et Vodka, l’armoire à pharmacie de Sylvie Réno amèrement nommée “Dr Maman” pallie à toutes les angoisses. 

SYLVIE RENO

Sylvie Réno, Crâne n°30, un rêve, 2010 

Carton ondulé, 29 x 36 x 3 cm 

Courtesy Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse 

SYLVIE RENO

Sylvie Réno, Smith & Wesson 457, 2010 

Carton ondulé, plexiglas, 30 x 22 x 10 cm 

Courtesy Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse 

LIONEL SCOCCIMARO

Profondément underground par ses détournements et sa lecture décalée du monde, l’oeuvre de Lionel Scoccimaro tend aux univers du surf, du custom, du skateboard, bref à une contre-culture d’origine nord américaine dont elle adopte les codes visuels. Sous les sunlights du kitsh et du pop, les oeuvres méchamment racoleuses de Lionel Scoccimaro, bardées des couleurs de la frime et moulées dans les formes innocentes de l’enfance s’imposent comme des miroirs déformants des pulsions contemporaines : celles qui font basculer chacun vers les mondes enchantés de l’enfance, avant qu’un sauvage désir de transgression ne fasse irruption. 

LIONEL SCOCCIMARO

Lionel Scoccimaro, GAP, 2010 

Bois de hêtre, tourné, teinté, patiné ciré, clouté, 65 x 35 cm, 

Courtesy Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris / Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse

Le vernissage de cette exposition a eu lieu le 26 mai 2011 dans le cadre du Week end de l’art contemporain organisé par PINKPONG, réseau d’art contemporain de l’agglomération de Toulouse. 

La Galerie Sollertis remercie Lucy Pike et Olivier Robert pour leur collaboration. 

GALERIE SOLLERTIS
12 rue des Régans
31000 TOULOUSE

www.sollertis.com

Photographes Bruno Levy, Jean Turco Actualités, publications...

Actualités sur les photographes Bruno Levy et Jean Turco rassemblés ici par leur éditeur commun, Pearson, mais aussi par la photographie de portraits...

Pour les parisiens intéressés par la photo de portraits Bruno Levy sera demain, jeudi 23 juin 2011 à 17h à la FNAC de la place d'Italie. Pearson, son éditeur, annonce la possibilité de participer à une séance photo professionnelle et de repartir avec son portrait (le votre, pas celui de Bruno Levy). Je sais que c'est un peu tard pour prévenir...

BRUNO LEVY, Le Portrait, Pearson, 2010. Courtesy Pearson

BRUNO LEVY est l'auteur d'un livre excellent Zoom sur LE PORTRAIT paru chez Pearson en décembre 2010. Après avoir exercé ses dons dans le tirage argentique en noir et blanc pour l'AFP puis pour l'agence SIPA, il entre au service photo de Libération. Depuis 2007, c'est en tant que photographe freelance qu'il collabore avec différents journaux et magazines en étant spécialisé dans le portrait. Sur son blog Bobines, Bruno Levy met en ligne des portraits réalisés au hasard de gens qu'il rencontre dans la rue, dans le métro, des photos d'amis ou de personnes rencontrées à l'occasion de son travail. Passez voir son blog, il est vraiment sympa. Vous noterez, au passage, sa préférence pour les photos de jeunes femmes au physique attrayant. Mais cela peut être lié au hasard, ou bien peut être qu'il est timide et moins impressionné par les jolies jeunes femmes. C'est une plaisanterie, car on trouve en fait sur son blog des portraits de tout style de personnes. 

Pearson annonce également la présence de Jean Turco à la même FNAC, samedi 25 mai 2011, à 16h pour une séance dédicace de son livre Zoom sur La Photo de Nu paru également chez Pearson en juin 2010. 

JEAN TURCO est un photographe connu pour ses nus mais aussi pour ses portraits et natures mortes. Il expose régulièrement ses travaux, organise des stages et réalise également de très belles photos pour la publicité ou des particuliers. 

En septembre 2011 doit paraître (toujours chez Pearson) un nouveau livre par Jean Turco sur la lumière en photographie : Zoom sur L'ART DE L'ECLAIRAGE. Le livre en trois parties aborde la gestion de la lumière naturelle en appartement (et non en extérieur), l'utilisation d'éclairages non destinés à la photographie (de la bougie à la lampe de chantier, en passant par quelques "bidouilles" maisons astucieuses) et les flashs. Ce prochain livre de Jean Turco proposera des fiches pratiques très... pratiques, avec, en particulier, des photos de portraits, de nus, d'objets, avec, pour chacun d'eux, le plan présentant l'emplacement des sources d'éclairage utilisé pour réaliser la photo. Ce guide pratique fournit ainsi de précieux conseils et des solutions clés en mains pour des prises de vue avec tel ou tel effet recherché, avec tel angle de prise de vue... en tenant compte des contraintes, dont celle du matériel disponible. Quant on connait la difficulté de l'éclairage en photographie d'intérieur on attend avec impatience ce livre. Il en existe d'autres, bien sûr, mais Jean Turco est ici dans un domaine qu'il maîtrise parfaitement. Ce sera certainement un ouvrage de référence pour ceux et celles qui s'adonnent à la photo de studio chez eux. On apprécie évidemment le fait que cet ouvrage tienne pleinement compte des photographes non professionnels devant "faire avec" du matériel abordable financièrement, faute de (ou avant de...) pouvoir disposer de ses fameux deux flash de studio 1600 w/s équipés de softbox de 1,5 x 1,5 mètres et toute la panoplie dédiée à chaque type, style et sujet de la prise de vue ;) ... et que, du reste, Bruno Levy ne doit pas toujours emporté avec lui dans le métro parisien.

Site français de l'éditeur PEARSON : www.pearson.fr

Blog de Bruno Levy : http://bobines.blogs.liberation.fr 

Pour Jean Turco : www.jeanturco.book.fr 

FNAC - Centre commercial Italie2 

30, avenue d'Italie - 75013 Paris

Pour ceux et celles qui comprendront : Wanafoto se dégage de toute responsabilité et n'encourage en aucun cas par ce post la prise de clichés photographiques en des lieux où certains (dont on ne connait pas les noms, sinon, vous pensez bien qu'on hésiterait pas) se croient autorisés à la faire alors qu'ils ont même pas le droit (remarque, il a peut être une autorisation, après tout.. oui, ça doit être ça...)

Charlotte Lichtblau: Seeing And Believing Exhibition in Manhattan

Art exhibition: Charlotte Lichtblau: Seeing And Believing 

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Midtown Manhattan, New York 

June 13 - July 31, 2011 

Opening Reception: Tuesday, June 28, 5:00 - 8:30 pm 

" My work starts from a basic and essential modernism, growing out of the European tradition of expressionism. That tradition was meant to strip away the academic and baroque overlays of moralizing and mythologizing. It brought with it a clear emphasis on form – the absolute cognition of what is – which is to say a commitment to finding such truth as one can, whether in depictions of contemporary life or in pictures of historical or biblical subjects. 

What this came to mean for me is that images and narratives should be shaped by inquiry rather than by sentiment. Some of these works are about biblical themes and subjects. My concern in them has not been to illustrate the Bible, nor have I wanted in any way to predetermine the impact of its troubling claims and tales. Instead, I have tried to let the works speak to the viewer directly about essential matters of life and death, love and sorrow, joy and despair. " -- Charlotte Lichtblau (from artist's statement)

CHARLOTTE LICHTBLAU (painter's biography) paintings are exhibited at St. Mary the Virgin in the heart of Times Square at 145 West 46th Street. The retrospective, entitled SEEING AND BELIEVING, runs through July 31st with admission daily from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm by appointment. There will be an opening reception, free to the public, next Tuesday, June 28th from 5:00 to 8:30 pm. There will be Open House on the following Mondays, from 5:00 - 8:00 pm, also free and open to the public: July 11, July 18, July 25.  

This exhibition, SEEING AND BELIEVING, is curated by Bruce Payne, Executive Director, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. 

Artist's website : www.charlottelichtblau.com 

The Art Institute of Chicago has opened its expanded new galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas

The Art Institute of Chicago recently (June 3, 2011) opened its expanded galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas. Following an extensive four-year planning, construction, and reinstallation project, the combined 7,500 square foot gallery spaces—located in the Art Institute’s lower Morton Wing (G136 and G137)—have now been freshly conceived and completely renovated to accommodate more than 550 objects on display. For the first time in the museum’s history, the majority of the Art Institute’s superb collection of African art and Indian art of the Americas can finally be seen in cohesive presentations that are impressive and enlightening.

Art Institute of Chicago's new African Art gallery 

Art Institute of Chicago: Digital gallery rendering, African art gallery. Copyright © 2011 wHY Architecture

“ The new galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas will be a revelation to visitors,” said James Cuno, President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute. “Our collections are extraordinary; only a small fraction have ever been seen. They will now be shown in their true glory. A great deal of time, effort, research, and creativity went into conceptualizing these state-of-the-art installations. Viewers will find them unlike any of our other galleries, and they will be at the forefront of professional practices for years to come. We are really looking forward to seeing our visitors experience these galleries and these collections. We believe their patience will be well rewarded. ”

Seeking a unique approach to displaying African art and Indian art of the Americas, the Art Institute commissioned wHY Architecture and Planning—the California-based architectural firm responsible for the museum’s renovated galleries for prints and drawings, European decorative arts, and Japanese art—to create a unified set of galleries that present an exciting range of forms and materials. The new galleries, with expanded installation space, allow visitors to view never-beforeseen works of art, as well as familiar favorites, in a new light. Upon entering, visitors will notice vibrant wall graphics, harmonious lighting, and specially designed display cases lining the walls. Some of these cases extend into the center of the room, or stand freely in the space, creating “gateways” filled with art works. Viewers will thus feel they are stepping into the displays, forming an interactive relationship with the art.

Art Institute of Chicago: Digital gallery rendering, Indian art of the Americas gallery

Digital gallery rendering, Indian art of the Americas gallery. Copyright © 2011 wHY Architecture

The galleries also feature new interpretive materials, including maps and a comparative timeline. Additionally, for the first time in a permanent installation at the Art Institute, both galleries also feature original video presentations that are designed to complement the works of art on display. The videos play for approximately two to three minutes and then disappear completely for four or five minutes—leaving no shadow on the wall—before the next sequence begins. Richard Townsend, Chairman of the Department of African Art and Indian Art of the Americas and curator of Indian art of the Americas, has conceptualized a video display that combines a concise and poetic narrative with visually striking images of works of art, archaeological sites, landscapes, and seasonal phenomena to convey significant, overarching themes. Kathleen Bickford Berzock, curator of African art, commissioned three original video presentations by Susan Vogel, edited by Harry Kafka. Working closely together, Berzock and Vogel selected three themes that broadly represent important areas, art forms, and concepts related to the collection. The presentations use a three-channel triptych format that suggests contrasts and connections, and shows multiple aspects of a given work. It also permits a playful, almost musical use of imagery, bringing the texture of daily life into the gallery. Each sequence interweaves images of works of art in the museum’s collection and the museum context itself into its theme. Footage for the videos was shot by Susan Vogel, Prince Street Pictures, and by the late Robert Rubin. 

The new installations highlight a significantly broader selection of artworks than previously seen and showcase examples of the culturally and visually varied fields of African art and Indian art of the Americas. The Art Institute’s African art collection includes sculpture, masks, household and personal adornment objects, and regalia from across the continent. While the core of the collection features sculpture from West and Central Africa, acquisitions over the past 20 years bring attention to important artistic traditions from eastern, northern, and southern Africa. In the greatly expanded African art gallery, sculptural works of art are presented in the round, with African textiles displayed on a rotating basis in two locations. The museum’s holdings of Indian art of the Americas span more than 4,000 years and include outstanding works from across the United States as well as ancient Mesoamerica and the Andean countries of South America. Ceramics, basketry, textiles, stone sculpture, metalwork, painting, and beadwork present a remarkable picture of the indigenous artistic heritage and deep-seated patterns of thought and ritual performance throughout the region. Both collections have been reinterpreted for the new galleries in compelling ways.

As part of the inaugural installation of the new galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas, a fantastic selection of special loans will be on view throughout the year. One of the treasures on loan is a richly worked textile woven from the golden threads of the Golden Orb spider (Nephila Madagascariensis) of Madagascar. Made with the silk of over 1,000,000 spiders, this dazzling brocaded cloth is the only one of its kind in the world. Harvesting spider silk with a team of 80 people for almost five years, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley created this unique spider silk textile, weaving it in the elaborate textured patterns of a lamba akotyfahana, a 19th-century luxury textile of Madagascar’s Merina nobility. Completed in 2008, this stunning spider silk textile will be on view at the museum through October 2011.

Golden spider silk textile from Madagascar (detail). Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago

Another masterpiece on loan to the Art Institute is a one-of-a-kind, eagle-feather headdress from the Northern Plains. Identified as regalia of a headman of the Northern Cheyenne (Tsistsisas) people, this headdress has been attributed by scholars and traditional experts to the Crazy Dog Society (Hotam’-imassa’u), one of the six warrior bands of the Northern Cheyenne. This particular object—made of buffalo hides and arrayed with the tail feathers of the bald eagle, great horned owl, black-billed magpie, and immature golden eagle—is unusual in featuring pronghorn antelope horns on either side of the cap, unlike the much more typical use of split buffalo horns. The Crazy Dog headdress was acquired and preserved by descendants of family members of a cattle drover who was killed evidently by Cheyenne and Lakota warriors in eastern Wyoming Territory in 1872. The Northern Cheyenne headdress has been loaned to the Art Institute in honor of the unknown native artists. The unveiling of the new galleries of African art and Indian art of the Americas represents a milestone in the most ambitious renovation and reinstallation project in the Art Institute’s history.

Art Institute of Chicago
Museum's website: www.artic.edu

Expo Photo Eric Guglielmi, autour de Rimbaud à Charleville Mézières et nouveau livre du photographe

Exposition de photographies : Eric Guglielmi 
Nouveau livre du photographe Eric Guglielmi aux Editions Gang
Je suis un piéton, rien de plus 
Musée Rimbaud, Charleville Mézières 
24 juin - 29 octobre 2011 

ERIC GUGLIELMI, MUSEE ARTHUR RIMBAUD, CHARLEVILLE MEZIERE

Cette exposition met en scène les photographies réalisées par Eric Guglielmi sur les pas d’Arthur Rimbaud. Une quarantaine de photographies, dont 25 oeuvres grand format de 1,15 x 1,15 m (les autres sont au format 55 x 55 cm), sont articulées autour de la lettre d'Arthur Rimbaud à Paul Demeny d'août 1871. L'exposition est organisée en parallèle à la sortie du livre que publie Eric Guglielmi et dont l'exposition présente une partie.

L’ exposition suit une route, celle empruntée d’abord par Arthur Rimbaud au crépuscule du 19e siècle, puis réempruntée par Eric Guglielmi sur les traces du poète à l’aube du 21e siècle. On retrouve ainsi des photos de l'artiste prisent à Alexandrie, Attigny, Le Caire, Calais, Charleroi, Civitavecchia, Deville, Harar, Hargnies, Les Hautes-Rivières, Laifour, Londres, Monthermé, Obock, Ostende, Renwez, Roche, Rome, Tadjoura, Voncq… 

ERIC GUGLIELMI

Harare, Éthiopie, 2005 

© Éric Guglielmi. Courtesy de l'artiste

ERIC GUGLIELMI

Le Caire, Egypte, 2011

© Éric Guglielmi. Courtesy de l'artiste

Avec ses images, le photojournaliste d'hier affiche aujourd'hui, depuis quelques années en fait, la volonté de rompre avec la seule perspective documentaire pour offrir au regard un point de vue artistique original, personnel. Cette exposition au musée Arthur Rimbaud de Charleville-Mézières est un nouvel hommage que la ville rend à son poète. Un hommage auquel contribue pleinement Eric Guglielmi, né à Charleville-Mézières, dont cette exposition permet d'apprécier, à travers 37 oeuvres réalisées au cours des années 2005 à 2011, un très beau panorama d'un travail artistique qui mérite d'être connu. 

ERIC GUGLIELMI

ERIC GUGLIELMI, "je suis un piéton, rien de plus". Arthur Rimbaud

Date de parution : 25 juin 2011 aux Editions Gang 

Livre relié plein cuir - Format : 28 x 32 cm

128 pages comprenant 64 photographies

reproduites en quadrichromie sur papier 160 gr certifié FSC

lettre d’A. Rimbaud à Paul Demeny d’Août 1871.

Textes : français / anglais - Traduction: Charles Perwarden

Editions Gang - Ivry-sur-Seine

"je suis un piéton, rien de plus", Arthur Rimbaud, titre de cette exposition, c'est aussi celui du nouveau livre de Eric Guglielmi, qui va paraître dans quelques jours aux Editions Gang. L'exposition s'appuie sur le travail publié dans ce livre autour de la lettre d’Arthur Rimbaud à Paul Demeny d’Août 1871. Le livre nous en montre toutefois davantage avec 64 photos reproduites avec grand soin en quadrichromie. Il faut souligné cet aspect, parfois un peu délaissé, fondamental en photographie, qu'est la qualité d'impression qui seule permet d'apprécier pleinement, dans le respect des couleurs, de la luminosité et des contrastes les plus subtils, le travail artistique du photographe. Ce livre est publié en français et en anglais, avec une traduction de Charles Perwarden. 

Pages extraites du livre d'ERIC GUGLIELMI 

© Éric Guglielmi / Editions Gang

ERIC GUGLIELMI : BIOGRAPHIE (SYNTHESE)

Eric Guglielmi est né à Charleville-Mézières en 1970. Autodidacte, sa première expérience professionnelle dans le domaine de la photographie, il la fait dans un labo photo parisien. Il est ensuite assistant de mode. Il réalise ses premiers reportages photographiques en Amérique du Sud. A la suite de ces reportages, il devient correspondant pour la presse française en Afrique, au Mali. Eric Guglielmi y fonde une agence de photo africaine. Retour en France en 1998. Eric Guglielmi rompt avec le photojournalisme. En 2005, il décide de se consacrer à sa carrière artistique et s’engage dans des projets photographiques au long cours avec l’Afrique et le voyage en toile de fond. Les photos d’Eric Guglielmi ne relèvent pas du documentaire. C’est notamment dans cet apparent paradoxe, entre le traitement décalé du sujet et l’acuité délicate de l’œuvre, que réside la force de son travail. 

ERIC GUGLIELMI : EXPOSITIONS 

2011 Novembre-Décembre : Méandres, Centre d’art municipale, Villepinte
        Juin-Octobre : Je suis un piéton,  rien de plus. Musée Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières
        Mai-Aout, exposition collective, Méandres, Galerie Maubert, Paris

2010 Juin: Méandres, exposition collective, lieux Sambalou, Bruxelles
        Galerie Brugier-Rigail, exposition permanente
        Méandres, Nanterre l’Agora
        Méandres, exposition collective, maison Carpe Diem Ségou, Mali

2009 Méandres, Festival de l’eau, Valenton
        Touba, Galerie Cri-d’art, Metz

2008 Touba, Bibliothèque Elsa Triolet, Bobigny
        Touba, Biennale du carnet de voyage, Clermont-Ferrand
        Touba, Galerie Atiss, Dakar, Sénégal

2007 Je suis un piéton, rien de plus, Galerie Chab, Bamako, Mali

ERIC GUGLIELMI : LIVRES

Touba,  voyage au cœur d’un Islam nègre, Editions Alternatives, Paris, 2007
"Je suis un piéton, rien de plus", Arthur Rimbaud, Editions Gang, Ivry-sur-Seine, 2011


MUSEE ARTHUR RIMBAUD 
Quai Arthur Rimbaud
08000 CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES
www.charleville-mezieres.fr

EDITIONS GANG
101, rue Victor Hugo
94200 Ivry sur Seine
www.editions-gang.com

Live art sound performances at Raven Row, London, June-July 2011

Gone with the Wind 

Live Art Sound Performances 

Raven Row, London 

June & July 2011 

Photo of ESTHER FERRER - Unesco Paris - CourtesyRaven Row, London 

In conjunction with the sound art exhibition Gone with the Wind, Raven Row presents a programme of seven sound based performances through June and July 2011. Including established artists such as Esther Ferrer, the programme will also comprise presentations from the burgeoning experimental music and sound art scene selected by Ed Baxter, exhibition curator and director of art radio station Resonance104.4fm. 

Esther Ferrer 

Saturday 25 June, 7pm

Artist Esther Ferrer (b. 1937, Spain), is best known for her radical performances, her principal form of artistic expression since 1965, both as a soloist and as a member of pioneering experimental music and performance art group ZAJ (1959-93). Alongside composers Juan Hidalgo and Walter Marchetti, Ferrer participated in the group's ‘visible music’ actions and extended concerts. Known as a proponent of free expression, confrontation, feminism and authentic experience, Ferrer will present an entirely new performance piece in Raven Row’s gallery space.

Saturday 2 July, 2pm

The Bonham Brothers are two London based brothers and noise musicians known for making music by playing bric-a-brac as instruments. A burnt tape machine found during the recent restoration of Raven Row has been made into a sculpture by artist Richard Crow for the Resonance Open. Crow and the Bonham Brothers will resurrect the destroyed machine as an instrument for this performance. 

Thursday 7 July, 7pm

The Resonance Radio Orchestra will perform the newly composed Lascia o raddoppia? [Double or quits?], a radiophonic reconstruction of the 1950s Italian television quiz show of the same name. One of the winners of this hugely popular show was Walter Marchetti, an artist in the current exhibition Gone with the Wind, who as a teenager answered questions on contemporary music. Another contestant was quintessential avant-garde composer John Cage, answering questions about his specialist subject of mushrooms.

Saturday 9 July, 2pm

Alongside a sixteen strong choir, Israeli singer and experimental musician Sharon Gal will perform The Long Drone. Acoustic instruments and multiple voices will ‘drone’ for two hours in a style pitched somewhere between natural soundscapes, La Monte Young's The Theatre of Eternal Music and The Scratch Orchestra.

Sunday 10 July, 2pm

Sound artists and theorists Lucia Farinati and Brandon LaBelle will discuss the newly published Site of Sound, a book that considers radio as a sonic architecture. Sound researcher Ian Rawes will join them to introduce a discussion about field recording and phonography.

Saturday 16 July, 2pm

British artist Christopher Weaver will perform Variations for a Room and a Tone, an installation that will make audible the resonant frequencies of Raven Row to produce music. Weaver will be joined by the members of the electro-acoustic quartet Oscillatorial Binnage.

Sunday 17 July, 2pm

Radio artists Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann form the Anglo-German duo Tonic Train who will give a performance combining radio feedback and wine. Having recently moved to the Mosel region of Germany, in the heart of the country's wine growing area, Tonic Train will combine their new found passion for vinification with a lifelong saturation in avant-garde sonic arts.

All events are free and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Reservation needed for Esther Ferrer event.

RAVEN ROW, LONDON, UK

www.ravenrow.org

Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Walter Marchetti, Resonance104.4fm - Pioneers of sound art exhibition at Raven Row, London

Exhibition: Gone with the Wind 
Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Walter Marchetti, Resonance104.4fm  
Raven Row, London 
Through 17 July 2011 

RAVEN ROW LONDON

This exhibition brings together three pioneers of sound art, Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi and Walter Marchetti. Each artist has developed a distinct approach to the problem of representing immateriality, while sharing a lightness of touch, approaching sound with patience, restraint and fidelity. As well as presenting new and historic work, the exhibition comprise live performance, and a selection of material from the artists' substantial archives.

MAX EASTLEY (born 1944, UK) is an artist and musician whose sound sculptures play on a balance between the natural environment and human intervention. His musical collaborations include the 1975 album New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments with David Toop, produced by Brian Eno. His response to the interior of Raven Row is a meditation on the 18th century Picturesque, achieved with 21st century technology and a ‘Bergsonian’ approach to time. 

TAKEHISA KOSUGI (born 1938, Japan) is a major figure in modernist sound art. In the early 1960s his event pieces were realised by Fluxus in Europe and the USA. Kosugi pioneered the development of Japanese experimental music with Group ONGAKU and the Taj Mahal Travellers. Since 1977 he has been a composer/performer at Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and became its Music Director in 1995. As well as archival material, Takehisa Kosugi will present a number of works including the sound installation Mano-Dharma, electronic, 1967/2011.

WALTER MARCHETTI (born 1931, Italy) was a founder member of ZAJ, a recalcitrant Mediterranean parallel to Fluxus, which in the 1960s produced action-music-performances, anarchic gags, and elegant assaults on the music establishment. Marchetti befriended John Cage in 1958, and went on to collaborate with him on a number of projects. His work has often focused on the grand piano – for more than 50 years he has been preparing them like a chef intent on marinating sound. Two of Walter Marchetti's pianos, alongside works from Emanuele Carcano's Collection, are exhibited. 

WALTER MARCHETTI

Walter Marchetti, Musica da camera n. 182

Milano, Pianofortissimo, 

Fondazione Mudima, January 1990. 

Photograph by Fabrizio Garghetti 

Courtesy of Raven Row, London

Alongside these positions, RESONANCE104.4FM is installed at Raven Row for the duration of the exhibition, broadcasting, and hosting workshops and live events, as well as presenting an 'overhung' sound installation – the Resonance Open – with contributions solicited from local and international sound artists. Resonance104.4fm is the world’s first radio art station, established by London Musicians’ Collective, it started broadcasting on May 1st 2002. Its brief is to provide a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting.

The exhibition is curated by ED BAXTER, director of Resonance104.4fm.

RAVEN ROW, LONDON, UK
56 Artillery Lane
London E1 7LS

www.ravenrow.org

Resonance104.4fm website: www.resonancefm.com

Une peinture de Chu Teh-Chun à Drouot Richelieu le 15 juin 2011

Annonce Vente aux enchères organisée par la SVV Eve 

Drouot Richelieu, Paris, Salle 10 

Expositions publiques :

Mardi 14 juin 2011 de 11h à 18h

Mercredi 15 juin 2011 de 11h à 12h

Enchères : 15 juin 2011 à 14h

Le mercredi 15 juin 2011 à Drouot Richelieu, la société de ventes volontaires Eve organise une vente classique : Archéologie - Tableaux anciens et modernes, objets d'art et meubles

La pièce phare de cette vente est une huile sur toile de Chu Teh-Chun (né en 1920), intitulée Atmosphère hivernale, 89. La toile est signée en bas à droite, dédicacée, titrée et datée au dos. Elle mesure 60 x 73 cm et est estimée à 40 000 / 60 000 €. Une autre oeuvre de Chu Teh-Chun, Composition, 83 est mise aux enchères (lot 275). Il s'agit d'une oeuvre à l'encre noire et lavis. L'oeuve est signée et datée en bas à gauche ; un cachet rouge est apposé en haut à gauche. Ce travail de Chu Teh-Chun mesure 68 x 45 cm et est estimé à 8000 /12000 €

CHU TEH-CHUN - BIOGRAPHIE

Chu Teh-Chun est un peintre contemporain, né en 1920 à Baitou Zhen en Chine. Peintre abstrait de la même génération que Zao Wou Ki, il a tracé son sillon personnel dans le paysagisme abstrait. Le 29 mars 1955, Chu Teh-Chun embarque pour l’Europe, et s’installe à Paris. Il peint des paysages de Paris, dessine à l'Académie de la Grande Chaumière, visite le Louvre, les galeries et les expositions.

En 1956, il découvre « de visu » l’art abstrait, notamment lors de la rétrospective Nicolas de Staël. De 1956 à 1961, il rencontre ses premiers succès à Paris, et dès 1964, sa réputation se propage à l’étranger à l’occasion d’expositions au Carnegie Art Museum, à Pittsburgh, Jérusalem, Athènes, et en 1969, à la Biennale de Sao Paulo. En 1976, il renoue avec la calligraphie qu’il a pratiquée dans sa jeunesse.

Il a été élu en 1997 à l’Académie des Beaux Arts (France), section peinture, au fauteuil de Jacques Despierre, puis en devient le doyen en 2008.

Vente à Drouot Richelieu – Salle 10 : Mercredi 15 juin 2011 à 14h

www.drouot.com

Maison de ventes volontaires Eve : www.auctioneve.com

Catalogue de la vente en ligne sur le site

Vente aux enchères SVV Eve à Drouot Richelieu - Tableaux de Chu Teh-Chun

Annonce Vente aux enchères 

organisée par la SVV Eve 

Drouot Richelieu, Paris, Salle 10 

Vente le 15 juin 2011 

Expositions les 13 et 13 juin 2011 

Le mercredi 15 juin 2011 à Drouot Richelieu, la société de ventes volontaires Eve organise une vente classique : Archéologie - Tableaux anciens et modernes, objets d'art et meubles.

La pièce phare de cette vacation (photo ci-dessus) est une huile sur toile de Chu Teh-Chun (né en 1920), intitulée Atmosphère hivernale, 89. La toile est signée en bas à droite, dédicacée, titrée et datée au dos. Elle mesure 60 x 73 cm et est estimée à 40 000 / 60 000 €. Une autre oeuvre de Chu Teh-Chun, Composition, 83 est mise aux enchères (lot 275). Il s'agit d'une oeuvre à l'encre noire et lavis. L'oeuve est signée et datée en bas à gauche ; un cachet rouge est apposé en haut à gauche. Ce travail de Chu Teh-Chun mesure 68 x 45 cm et est estimé à 8000 /12000 €

CHU TEH-CHUN est un peintre contemporain, né en 1920 à Baitou Zhen en Chine. Peintre abstrait de la même génération que Zao Wou Ki, il a tracé son sillon personnel dans le paysagisme abstrait. Le 29 mars 1955, Chu Teh-Chun embarque pour l’Europe, et s’installe à Paris. Il peint des paysages de Paris, dessine à l'Académie de la Grande Chaumière, visite le Louvre, les galeries et les expositions.

En 1956, il découvre « de visu » l’art abstrait, notamment lors de la rétrospective Nicolas de Staël. De 1956 à 1961, il rencontre ses premiers succès à Paris, et dès 1964, sa réputation se propage à l’étranger à l’occasion d’expositions au Carnegie Art Museum, à Pittsburgh, Jérusalem, Athènes, et en 1969, à la Biennale de Sao Paulo. En 1976, il renoue avec la calligraphie qu’il a pratiquée dans sa jeunesse.

Il a été élu en 1997 à l’Académie des Beaux Arts, section peinture, au fauteuil de Jacques Despierre, puis en devient le doyen en 2008.

Expositions publiques :

Mardi 14 juin 2011 de 11h à 18h

Mercredi 15 juin 2011 de 11h à 12h

Vente à Drouot Richelieu – Salle 10 : Mercredi 15 juin 2011 à 14h

www.drouot.com

Maison de ventes volontaires Eve : www.auctioneve.com

Catalogue de la vente en ligne sur le site

La Fondation du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa

Présentation de la Fondation du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa

La Fondation du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada dont la création date de 1997 est un organisme philanthropique constitué d'un conseil d'administration bénévole et de bienfaiteurs de toutes les régions du Canada voué à assurer la viabilité à long terme et le succès du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. Sa principale mission consiste à recueillir des dons et à administrer des fonds de dotation pour le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. Ses bureaux se situent au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, à Ottawa. La Fondation apparaît ainsi comme un organisme traduisant l'institutionnalisation des différents aspects du travail autour du mécénat et des donations antérieurement effectués dans le cadre du MBAC sans ce statut spécifique de Fondation.

Au travers du mécénat la Fondation du MBAC offre ainsi un appui constant au Musée. Grâce aux donateurs des différentes régions du Canada mais aussi quelques uns de l'étranger, les fonds recueillis par la Fondation ont permis la mise en place d'un programme de rayonnement de la collection permanente et l'organisation d'expositions itinérantes. Son action a ainsi permis l'accès d'un plus grand nombre de visiteurs aux oeuvres de la riche collection permanente du MBAC. La Fondation a aussi contribué à l'enrichissement de cette collection permanente du Musée.

La Fondation du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada est présidée par Thomas d'Aquino. Il notait récemment : « Nous sommes des bénévoles dévoués et nous sommes fiers de travailler avec l'équipe de professionnels du Musée qui comptent parmi les plus accomplis du monde. Le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada est à la fois un trésor national et un centre d'excellence artistique international. Grâce à la Fondation, nous sommes déterminés à faire valoir les remarquables réalisations du Musée, tant au Canada que sur la scène internationale » (Communiqué de presse daté du 10 juin 2011).

Son vice-président est le président du Musée, Michael Audain. Il souligne également l'importance du mécénat en soulignant : « Les Mécènes distingués jouent un rôle de premier plan dans les efforts déployés par le Musée pour atteindre ses objectifs. Par leur leadership et leur générosité, ils inspirent les Canadiens à appuyer cette grande institution et favorisent une appréciation toujours plus grande des arts visuels. » (Communiqué de presse déjà cité) 

Actualité de la Fondation du MBAC : la Fondation rend hommage à ses principaux donateurs et mécènes 

Les bienfaiteurs du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada se réunissent à Ottawa le 13 juin 2011 à l'invitation de la Fondation du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada et en présence de David Johnston, gouverneur général du Canada. Plus de 100 invités venus des quatre coins du Canada et de l'étranger prendront part à cette réception organisée par le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada pour les remercier. C'est la juge en chef de la Cour suprême du Canada, Beverley McLachlin, qui présidera la soirée à titre de marraine de l'événement. 

« Nous sommes très honorés d'accueillir au Musée les amis et admirateurs de notre précieux trésor national, a souligné Thomas d'Aquino, président du conseil d'administration de la Fondation du Musée et président des Mécènes distingués. Mes collègues administrateurs de la Fondation se joignent à moi pour saluer les loyaux bienfaiteurs du Musée qui reconnaissent l'importance des arts visuels dans la vie culturelle canadienne. » De même, le directeur général du Musée, Marc Mayer, a déclaré : « La Fondation est un exemple éloquent de bénévolat. La Fondation nous soutient financièrement et nous aide à mieux faire connaître le Musée, sa collection permanente et ses expositions temporaires. Les Mécènes distingués à qui nous rendront hommage le 13 juin sont une illustration des initiatives philanthropiques qui permettront au Musée de réaliser ses objectifs ambitieux. »

FONDATION DU MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS DU CANADA
www.fondationmbac.ca

Vladimir Tatlin Tower - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC

Vladimir Tatlin: Monument to the Third International  

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York 

Through July 30, 2011 

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

Poster for the exhibition 

Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York 

Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the Third International, "the definitive paradigm of Constructivism" is exhibited for the first time in the United States at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC. 

VLADIMIR TATLIN, the father of the Russian Constructivist movement, began work on the Monument in 1915 and completed his famous scale model of the colossal structure in 1920. Commonly known as "Tatlin’s Tower," the Monument, envisioned to function as the headquarters of the Communist International, was to stand in the birthplace of the Russian Revolution—the city of Petrograd. It was to be made from industrial materials—iron, glass, and steel—and stand 1300 feet, more than 300 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower or the approximate height of The Empire State Building. The ambitious engineering and architectural demands of the project, combined with political turmoil and steel shortages made it unrealistic for the massive structure to be realized.

VLADIMIR TATLIN'S TOWER AND MODEL OF MONUMENT FOR THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS - Tatlin’s Tower was exhibited in Petrograd in November 1920 and then in Moscow later that December on the occasion of the Soviet Congress. The model was erected a third time, in Tatlin’s absence, at the World Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art in Paris, 1925. The only other time that the model was installed during the artist’s lifetime was at the 1930 exhibition in Leningrad. By 1932, all traces of these models had disappeared.

The model of Monument for the Third International in Tony Shafrazi Gallery's exhibition is the first model to have been built after Tatlin’s death. In 1967, Pontus Hulten, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, having obtained permission from Aleksandra Korsakova, Tatlin’s widow, and consulting with T. M. Shapiro, Tatlin’s original collaborator, as well as two structural engineers, oversaw the fabrication of this model which made its debut in the exhibition Vladimir Tatlin at the Moderna Museet in 1968. Later the exhibition traveled to Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and Technische Hochschule Delft, Holland in 1969, and many other important museums.

In 1979, this model was lent to the exhibition Moscow-Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou. After the exhibition, the Pompidou had an exact replica made from this model for their collection, as our original model had been acquired by a private collector from Switzerland. In 1980, the Moderna Museet also made a replica from this model for their collection. Of these three versions of Monument for the Third International, the present sculpture is the only one created under the supervision of T.M. Shapiro, Tatlin’s original collaborator, and is the most accurate rendition of his original 1920 design.

Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument for the Third International is widely regarded as the defining symbol of Constructivist sculpture and architecture and remains one of the most celebrated icons of revolutionary art of the 20th century. 

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