16, rue de Beaune 75007 PARIS

16, rue de Beaune
75007 PARIS
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Among the ‘Carré Rive Gauche of art and antique galleries’, and not far from
the Seine river and Orsay Museum, HEGOA Gallery is a like a jewel box on two
stages dedicated to young or famous contemporary artists, with a large place for
photographers.
Their common point : sensibility, poesy, humor, sensuality and a marvelous or
critical view of the world. I present four or six weeks exhibitions, crossing messages,
cultures and generations and with conferences, concerts or exchanges between
artists and visitors.
The gallery is also a warm place, designed and decorated to feel like being at home
to meet artists, sharing events or reserve the space on the evenings for the ‘after
work of art’.
The presence of the gallery on the international art fairs, the partnership with others
galleries in France and in the world, with museums, foundations or firms, give to the
exhibitions the possibility to travel ‘beyond the walls’ for the artists’ fame.
See you soon!
Nathalie Atlan Landaburu
ADREANI Marian BENARD Eric 06 | 07
08 | 09
CHEVALLIER Philippe Alexandre 10| 11
FLORENT Ludovic 12 | 13
Laurendeau Romain
14 | 15
MANTOVANI Francesca 16 | 17
MOLINIER Gilles 18 | 19
REBOTIER Clarisse 20 | 21
TRAVERT Yvan 22 | 23
WINTER Vincent 24 | 25
photographers
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Marian
ADREANI
Photographer
Marian Adreani was born in 1989 in Romania. Adopted at 2 years old, he grew up in France. Marian
started photography at 13 years old having his parents and friends pose for him. Creating an
imaginary family by means of photography, he carefully chose a fictional and eclectic genealogy. A
set-up shot, or straight with no gimmicks, be it a celebrity or unknown, he has one desire: to come
to know his subject. By what means? Extract the essence of the other and bring it out in their
face. Commissions or personal work, Marian has made portraits of David Lynch, Roman Polanski, and
Alejandro Jodorowsky, which he has exhibited in Paris, Marseille, and Rencontres d’Arles. His work
has been published in Le Monde, L’Officiel, Côte Magazine, and Télérama among others. Marian is
represented by Galerie HEGOA located in Paris.
« Due to the intensely objective art of Marian
Adreani, his portraits deserve to be considered
as holy figures, contributing to the well being of
the world. »
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Director
Visages
Exhibition from 12/02/2015 to 21/03/2015
Making a portrait of someone comes down to extracting the contents of their brain and applying it onto their face, as Rodin
said. The formula is admittedly violent, radical, and without mercy, as my work can be, but in practice it is tender and delicate:
the triangular relation between the subject, the photographer, and the camera is almost a love affair: ambiguous, passionate,
pursuing seduction and escape. But what is the common thread between David Lynch, Béatrice Dalle, and Abel Ferrara? Why
bring them together? Because I share with them the taste of risk and audacity, as well as a faith in humanity and a profound
desire to resist the society of pure distraction in which we find ourselves.
Marian Adreani
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Béatrice Dalle - Grignan - 2014
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Eric
Benard
Photographer
A graduate in economics and Chinese, Eric Bénard has been a photographer and an independent
writer since 1989. While making contributions to the press, local authorities and companies in
reporting, portraits and architecture, at the same time he devotes himself to personal works for
exhibition and art prints. The relations and interactions between man and his environment are at
the centre of his concerns. In particular he investigates river and urban spaces in Europe and Asia,
associating words and pictures. He evokes through photography the spirit of real and imaginary
places connected to painters (the Normandy of impressionnists) and writers (Maupassant’s pays
de Caux, Marguerite Duras’s Indochina, or Roland Barthes’ Japan)
« Éric Bénard photographs always revisited,
eternal and mysterious Indochina, bearer of the
most original signs »
Alain Vircondelet
writer and Duras’ biographer
Whole days in indochina
Exhibition from 04/04/2014 to 17/05/2014
The exhibition Marguerite Duras, Entire Days in Indochina, stemmed from a double encounter : that with a work of infinite
richness, and another with oriental civilizations which have drawn me since my first trips to China. On my path as a photographer
who loves litterature, these two aesthetic worlds were bound to cross each other. Lulled by the captivating music of Marguerite
Duras, guided by my intuitions and wanderings, overwhelmed by these colours of South-East Asia, I tried to capture some
fragments of a melancholy world dissolving in the vast rivers and ricefields, and in the monsoon skies. A slow and smooth
immersion, a little out of time. The square format and argentic pictures came naturally. In the manner of her books and of her
movies, I wished to suggest a kind of drifting voyage, between a past time which resurfaces and a present which is always flying
away. Between literature and photography, a kind of dialectics sets up, a promise of a yet unknown world.
The young girl of Hanoi- 2012
Éric Bénard
Book by Eric Bénard :
«Marguerite Duras, des journées entières en Indochine», préface Alain Vircondelet, éditions Point de Vues, 2014
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Philippe Alexandre
Chevallier
Photographer
Philippe Alexandre Chevallier was born in 1961 in Paris. After studying cinematography, he
moved into photo reporting from 1985 to 1992, before setting up his studio in Paris. He works
with the major advertising agencies - Publicis, McCann, Leo Burnett ...- and has developed close
collaboration with them particularly with regard to culinary photography. Passionate about
travelling, he discovered Southern Africa, Namibia-Botswana in 1998. This allowed him to develop
a personal approach to this majestic yet threatened animal world which mixes the sublime and
the tragic. His approach in B & W, the choice of a short focal lens which forces him to get closer
to the animal, distinguishes him from other wildlife photographers. A black and white which is by
no means monochrome, but whose every nuance, every shade, relates the harmony of nature.
Water, mud, vegetation: the animal is at one with its environment, its habitat. This journey has
resulted in numerous exhibitions. Philippe Alexandre Chevallier collaborates with Biosphoto
Agency and GEO for his work in the field.
« My work is a tribute and a testament to wildlife
and its uncertain future »
Philippe Alexandre Chevalier
The animal soul
Exhibition from 20/11/2014 to 03/01/2015
Babouin Chacma - Botswana - 2014
On We often imagine the wild animal full of majesty yet without pity for its prey; such an actor without feelings. The final witness
to paradise on earth. Philippe-Alexandre Chevallier’s latest pictures show a different facet of animal reality. Lions, elephants, wild
dogs or baboons are living beings just like everyone else. Anxiety, flight, the feeling of living in an uncertain place all reveal their
state of being. Because they have a soul. In the Kalahari or the Strait of Okawango, Chevallier has perceived this fragility during the
rainy season. Not from a distance, as some wildlife photographers who crush horizons with their long focal lenses do, but right up
close to snouts, horns and trunks, at the risk of being charged. Eye to eye. A beast hidden in the tall grass, a lone tree that reflects
the solitude of a leopard, a desert landscape under threatening clouds, or the leap of an Impala towards the unknown puts us in
this natural place which is not expanding, like the universe, but which is shrinking at the hand of mankind. In his previous work,
Chevallier showed us conquering lions, elephants carving their glory in the mud, ballets of enchanted gazelles, suspicious rhinos,
giraffes in love. Today he shows us the hidden aspects, the cautiousness, the awareness of danger. A reflection of the era in which
we live. This is a poetic view, an honest view. In front of Philippe Alexandre Chevallier’s lens, one is tempted to say that we can see
the human side of these animals. Rather it is our own animalistic aspect that is reflected in these images.
Alain Wieder - Arte
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Ludovic
Florent
Photographer
Born in 1976 at Dunkerque, Ludovic FLORENT is a French photographer. He quickly specialized
in studio-photography focusing on the beauty of expressions, graphism and the grace of the
human body.Favouring the twilight technique, he turns his artistic research into uncluttered
represenations, indulging emotion and sophistication over the nature and seduction. Behind every
carnal envelope hides a soul that is both sensitive and flamboyant as I try to capture in each of my
photographs. Every time, it is a matter of unique meeting and trustworthy relationship, that is built
and established, between a look and a model, with the maximum respect of this last one. With each
case it is a unique match, a relationship of trust is built and established between a glance and a
model with the greatest respect thereof. Author/photographer since 2007, his work has been the
subject of three books. The first one, (Peau)ésie, was auto-edited in 2011, the second one, which is
a series of his nude pictures, was edited by Editions ESI in 2012. The last one “poussières d’étoiles”/
stardust was published in 2014. He also participated in many exhibitions. The « Poussières d’étoiles
» collection has been displayed at : GaleriMur : Poussières d’étoiles – September / December 2013
– Metz. Galerie HEGOA : Poussières d’étoiles – February / March 2014 – Paris. This same collection
has been displayed at the “Festival Européen de la Photographie de Nu (European Festival of the
Nude Photography) at Arles and at the Baux de Provence in May 2014.
« In our changing society, my photographic work
is guided by a humanist look, willing-ness to
foreground the natural beauty of the body, free
to express grace and personality. »
Ludovic Florent
The « Poussières d’étoiles» - Stardust collection
Exhibition from 14/02/2014 to 29/03/2014
The idea of this series came to me from an aesthetic requirement : the wish to show bodies in motion by extrapolating each
impulse, giving them a scale that allows to enroll in a temporality other than the instantanity of the photography.
By its grace and its intrinsic beauty, the use of dance immediately came to me. I wanted to collaborate with dancers stemming
from various disciplines such as classical dance, modern jazz dance, african dance, and latino…, to let myself be surprised by
the variety of existing methods of expression, intimately linked to the underlying personality of each dancer.
Indeed, it was very important for me to show bodies free to express the image of human-being in its plentitude, in a report of
their simple and entire body without alterations nor will of seduction. Thus, the nudity comes naturally due to the fluidity of the
bodies within the image. It is a component of the picture without being its main emphasis. The undressed body has no erotical
pretention in this series but fully participates in the expression of the notions of liberty, plenitude, assertiveness and strength.
« Poussières d’étoiles » : when the infinitesimally small stands alongside the infinitesimally tall. For me, these slender, fully
terrestrial bodies, seem to dance with the whole universe. In its own way, this photographic series is a plea against all the
shackles, whether cultural, religious or ideological ones which surround, repress and undermine the human-being.
Electra - modèle Mathilde Genvrin - 2014
Ludovic Florent
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Romain
LAURENDEAU
Photographer
Roman studied photography at the ETPA in Toulouse where he lives. Perhaps it derives its
strength from the healing of a disease that nearly blind. In 2009, a cornea transplant saved his
sight and life, he feels reborn photography. Therefore, he decided to devote himself body and
soul. It alternates artist residencies in France and author during his many trips documentaries.
Her intimate questions define it as well as curiosity that door to another. His quest for absolute
truth, can certainly be explained by querying a world that judges too often superficial. Behind the
scenes, stories and emotions are so simple for him, as many sources of inspiration. This research
shows selected for the Bayeux-Calvados, the price Roger Pic and gets a heart stroke of ANI. In
2012, he won the Leica summilux.net price, unique cases, two public and professional salon
zooms the picture. Then he exhibited in Japan, where it will be noticed by Jean-Luc Monterosso,
director of MEP. In 2014, he joined the studio Hans Lucas.
« Roman Laurendeau is one of those
photographers committed and passionate,
talented and brave. He always goes to the end
of his convictions. »
Sylvie Hugues
Editor of the magazine Responses Photo
Vague - Danse dans l’âme series - 2010
Danse dans l’âme
Exhibition in june 2015
« So I» dance «with them, following their movements, anticipating their actions, giving me the impression of not being
single photo viewer, but rather an actor. This is a method in which all elements, mechanical or human, come alive in space,
synergistically. I discovered a state of surrender creative outlet where the spontaneity retains a dominant position, where
prolific accident disrupts a predictable narrative. Therefore only deal with the movement to express what I feel seems illusory.
Inexorably, the notion of time is unavoidable, the movement is a mathematical given a visible phenomenon of its flow. For the
same choreography, it can be seen as a dream just like a fresco that suspended moment. The perception of time is relative.
It seems to expand or accelerate strange, strange and unique as can be our ability to feel and be felt. Here I am drawn into
a dizzying spiral sweet, beyond the basic physical rules. A spiral where my marks vanish. A spiral where you ask the time, and
where you meet it’s time to get drunk, get drunk constantly, forever or for a moment ... The time of a dance ... «
Romain Laurendeau
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Francesca
Mantovani
Photographer
rancesca Mantovani’s career as a photographer began in 1993, following studies in contemporary
literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Her first work was for women’s magazines and
lifestyle publications. A renowned portraitist and culinary photographer, Francesca has also
produced campaigns for various marketing agencies and PR firms and published several books,
notably on architecture and cooking. All this while she has been exploring a minimalist approach
to culinary art and has been working on a personal project inspired by still life paintings. In 2009
she discovered 17th century Dutch painters Van de Velde and Peter Claesz, and their French
contemporaries Lubin Baugin and Jean Simeon Chardin. Her work, full of chiaroscuro, has been
influenced by them.
« Whereas ordinary vanitas recall death,
Francesca Mantavoni’s collection of
photographic fables evoke life.»
Sophie Nauleau
Author, doctor in French literature, graduate of the Ecole du Louvre,
producer on France Culture
L’amande et le citron - 2009
Cose Naturali
Exhibition from 23/05/2014 to 21/06/2014
Francesca Mantovani considering his «Natures Vives’ as an offering, a hymn to creation. Since she always loved to draw and
paint. And from his first photographs, she has always sought an imprint of atmosphere between film and painting light. In
2009 a traveling exhibition of Dutch painting, she rediscovers the lifes of Flemish masters. She worked for several months on
a photographic series about food and this exhibition was like a revelation. She chose the requirement of black as a backdrop,
solemn and intense, and decided to always associate the products of the earth, objects representing the know-how linked to
traditional crafts. The photographer did make all his prints on paper «fine art» for its particular grain that gives depth, especially
in dark colors. For her, photography is a poetic act. Before being a technician, photographer is primarily a contemplative.
Captivated by the beauty of a bunch of asparagus, a sea bream, a mushroom, she wanted to give to enjoy the beauty of the
world. His only quest? The search for pictorial sketch. Find the restraint necessary to restore the authenticity of the food that
nature offers us.
Francesca Mantovani
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Gilles
Molinier
Photographer
Gilles first felt the awakening of his senses to art in his paternal grandparents’ workshop, both color
specialists for antique engravings. He went on to discover photography very early on, producing
his first illustrations and photographic works. Gilles approaches photography as a veritable
language and, thus, as his particular mode of expression. Gilles created an engineering firm that
often led him to produce images and incorporate them in communication projects. In 2009, he
took a new career direction in order to fully apply himself to his profession as a photographer.
It is natural that his photographic choices are specifically on nature… it is, and has been, the
environment within which Gilles has always surrounded himself. Gilles today encourages us to
take a different look at the world around us.
« Trees bring us back to our own existence,
alone or in community ; Gilles Molinier
encourages us to take a fresh look at our fellow
travelers. »
Sophie Avril
Author
Petits saules - 2014
Arborescences
Exhibition from 8/01/2015 to 7/02/2015
Gilles knows nature, loves to walk, observe the trees and be there as they go through their seasonal metamorphosis. His work
reveals how soothing a forest can be - allowing one to escape city life and find the balance and calm necessary for our existence.
Trees remain our link between the past and future - they are the witnesses of our history. We can not live without them and to
photograph them traces their passage in our lives. Each among them brings us into a world filled with magnificence ¬- unveiling
all their strength and wisdom. We live in a world where everything moves so fast and it has become necessary to restore the
tree to its natural place, its rhythm, its essentiality; we must not forget its rich historical, philosophical, scientific abondance.
They are our heritage. To gaze upon our trees is not enough. Gilles invites us, with all his poetry, to
Sophie Avril
Book by Gilles Molinier :
Arbres – Poetry in black and white – Texts Sophie Avril - 2014
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Clarisse
Rebotier
Photographer
Clarisse Rebotier is now living and working in Paris. Clarisse’s creation cannot be dissociated from
its relationship with the body. Touched when very young by the painters’ workshops around her,
she was fascinated by the carnal print brought by the artist to the matter of his/her work of art.
Today, it is through photography that she keeps exploring the same question of our presence in
the world. After brilliant literary studies, she left to explore the Arab world and settled in Tunisia
for four years. Then serious health problems forced her to come back to France. In Tunis, like in
Paris, she was solicited for the writing and the staging of live shows (theatre and contemporary
circus). Her approach of such a discipline was sensual and humorous, sometimes confusing. She
then realized that her « rage of expression » was, above all, a photographic one. Thus, for 3
years, Clarisse has entirely dedicated herself to photography as a hard-working autodidact. Her
pictures are concentrating on the presence of the body, that she viscerally feels as fragile with a
precarious balance. She has always tried to capture the fugacity of existence, to reveal life, and
at the same time, the vertigo of perishability. Her photographs are exhibited and sold in galleries
in Paris and in New York.
« In this series erotic-chic, Clarisse Rebotier
explores the staging and photographing the many
relations that the human body with the spatial
universe ... vegetables. »
Hervé Colombet
Editor of Vallée de la Culture
Instant Sex Food
Exhibition from 14/02/2014 to 29/03/2014
«The « eroticoculinary » series is associating little sculptures of sensual women with varied daily food stuff. The staging,
completely made up in a studio, is trying to merge at best such elements through a voluntarily palpable light, the practical
monochromatic allowing, like in a painting, for a close exploration of the different tones of white. A list of carnal recipes
proposing a glance altogether sensual and humorous on the body, which is offering to the viewer little bits of women « to
savour » : Dita Von Endive, Bettie Chou-fleur, Peggy Sue Camembert… as many miniature strippers stretching like Pin’ups in
our plates.
Clarisse Rebotier
Bianca Riz - Instant Sex food series - 2013
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Yvan
Travert
Photographer
Born in the North Cotentin, Yvan Travert has gone up very early to Paris where the African
Diaspora’s singers have given him the opportunity to be his first subject of publication. He is in
his early twenties when he goes to visit « The Surmas » in Ethiopia to realize his first illustrated
report. He will never stop going everywhere . Since more than forty years, he travels alone,
being the privileged witness of these thousand little worlds that he grabs in very gentle way
with considération and proximity with his subject.
« In this world to often darkened with
betterness and fear I dreamed of paths of lights
to steal bits of foreign beauties. »
Yvan Travert
Naga, out off boarder
Exhibition from 16/10/2014 to 15/11/2014
Pnom young lady - Nagaland - 2011
Le Nagaland Is The Negaland real ?
Yes, there is somwhere a people who, in less than a century, massevely converted to Christianity, destroying himself most of
the signs of his ancient culture such as weapons, jewellery, costume and practises. For once the colonists, the missionaries
or the army - the usual triple union of the cultural intégration - were not responsable for it. This existing people agrees to
the indian supervision as a necessary evil without ever ceasing from being in conflict with himself (It must be said that the
ethnic fights never stop in Nagaland) or with the Central State (who could attempt to make it outlandish) This existing people
rediscovers and reinvents his own traditions for his saule benefit – the expected tourist remaining rare - A people who tries
to exist as a nation . Finally a people who loves the blues, the mobile phones, the 4/4 cars as well as the tribal dances, the
opium and the distant memory of the severed heads . A turbulent, vindictive, courteous, cheerfull character people , inventing
a certain modernity, without leaving his mountains and without ignoring the rest of the world who does not hardly pay it back.
A people out of boarder.
Yvana Travert-Lavelle
Book by Yvan Travert :
Naga, Portrait out off boarder - Editions Magellan & Cie – 2014
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Vincent
Winter
Photographer
After his beginnings as a figurative painter in 1970s New York, Vincent Winter made a radical shift
to conceptual art. In spite of a certain success, this culminated in a rapid disenchantment with
the “gallery scene.” Suddenly he decided to leave for Africa to try and grasp why artistic creation
was such a profound human need. He carried a camera with him at all times and found that the
camera was far more than a paintbrush: it was his partner.On returning to New York, he began
a career as a magazine art director, working for some of the most well-known U.S. titles before
opening his own design agency. In 1986 he decided to reconnect with photography and moved
to Paris. Since that time, Winter has continued his career as an art director while simultaneously
working as a photographer of award-winning photo-reportages. For the last seven years he has
focused on more personal “artistic” images. Winter still lives and works in Paris.
« I believe I’ve been preparing for these
particular photographs my whole life. »
Vincent Winter
Parisian sonata
Exhibition from 27/06/2014 to 25/07/2014
Shortly after the economic crisis, Winter started wandering around Paris with a pocket camera. One day, displayed in a store
window, he saw a photograph he liked and took a shot of it. Afterwards, he discovered that the camera had seen something he
hadn’t intended: Not only was the intended picture semi-obscured by a reflection of the buildings and life behind him, but that
he, too, was reflected in the new image. This became the basis of “Reflexions,” a series of “integrated self-portraits.” Five or six
years later, after seeing a retrospective of André Kertész, he had a revelation. It was like a huge billboard screaming: “embrace
where you are!” Immediately Winter started aiming at shadows, walls, everything. One day when he made a close-up shot of
a Parisian sidewalk, he realized that he had entered into a parallel universe. The traces of humans, animals and machinery
on the urban skin — once extracted from their context— revealed everything from galaxies to pure abstractions. He called
this series “Passages.” “Sights,” on the other hand, is meant to be somewhat humorous, while attempting to reveal the interior
monologues of the people captured. These three series add up to “PARISIAN SONATA.”
Glam’ - Réflexion series- 2004
Vincent Winter
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BILGER Marie-Paule 28 | 29
HERZOG Sylvie 30 | 31
HUSSON Géraldine 32 | 33
LE VAVASSEUR Kathy 34 | 35
RAYNAL Paul 36 | 37
de SOOS Marine
38 | 39
visual artists
Marie-Paule
BILGER
Visual artist
Marie-Paule Bilger has been on the art scene since 1980’s. Her body of works is multidirectional
and multifaceted in the light of her personal journey, travels and interests. Born in Mulhouse
she was trained in classical dance and embarked on studies of visual arts at the University of
Strasbourg in order to become a painter. For her the artist embodies both personal and collective
history and therefore places her focus on a social and political debate to examine the state of
the world. Her paintings, which deals with the current issues, have carved her artistic path :
the events and conflicts that have occurred since September 2001 till now. Experimenting with
painting materials (transparent substrates, plastic, plexiglass, glass) led her to the use of the
video. She likes to translate «oxymoron» visuals through this medium.
« I am particularly fascinated in the social body
including the mass, which Elias Canetti, Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1981, defined its power
struggle so well »
Marie-Paule Bilger
Chaos - Oil painting on glass - 2012
Chaos «we’re all related to each other»
Exhibition from 16/01/2014 to 11/02/2014
Painting war to defend peace, working with media-based materials. Building this work over time (2001 to 2013). Simulating the
«readymades» by reproducing reproductions. Acting slowly in the times of iPad and immediate storage of information. Working
from documents to stay intimate with them. Observing the «We». I work like a weaver. My work deals with images from media
and can take different forms. « I am particularly interested in the social body and that body as power struggle » Elias Canetti,
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, described.
Marie-Paule Bilger
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Sylvie
HERZOG
Visual artist
Graduate from Arson Villa in Nice ( south of France ), Sylvie Herzog has been leading a dual
activity of both a fresco and a studio painter since 1989. A hyperrealist artist, she paints with
much sensitivity and sensuality objects to which she gives an appearance of smooth creaminess.
Since 2001, she’s made regular exhibitions, alone as well as with other artists, in France and also
in other countries. Among others works, she made several mural paintings for her native town of
Mulhouse, where her studio is situated, as well as a mural work for Basel EuroAirport. Resolutely
realist, her paintings as her murals open the way to illusion, to a journey, to dreaming, ….
« The objects I present are my way of grasping
everyday life. They become mirrors reflecting the
world »
Sylvie Herzog
Watering mouth
Exhibition from 17/10/2013 to 12/11/2013
Being inspired by her daily environment, Sylvie Herzog paints from her own photos and displays. Her painting embodies
what she calls « living lifes ». The artist tries her hand at freezing the instant, a picture that can change instantly, depending
on the light, on the subject or on the figures reflecting in it. Each shot is her own one. She alone knows the moment, the
circumstances, the date and the place. Thus her work is a « reflection » on the fleetingness of life and an incitement to know
how to enjoy the beautiful, simple, obvious and positive moments that meet our eyes every day. So her cherries and her chillies
are transformed into harmonious and flaming explosions of colours and become dreamlike mirrors. There’s no doubt that her
works are subjective.
Cherries - Acrylic on canvas - 2013
Sylvie HERZOG
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Géraldine
Husson
Artist designer
Born of traveller parents, elsewhere and openness to the world are part of everyday Geraldine
Husson, who likes to live today in Strasbourg the crossroads of Europe. During his studies the
Graduate School of Arts Mulhouse, the young woman went to live in China for four months. An
experience which permanently mark her and directs her artistic career. In her return, her work
is noticed at CRAC Alsace where she had carte blanche to install the Room projection. Since
2006, the young artist regularly exhibits: International Biennial Contemporary Art in Prague,
inauguration of the art center of Mulhouse or inauguration Museum of Art Xuhzou China.
« In a constantly changing world
and marked by misunderstanding which we
must absolutely have control, the desire to
return the fundamental becomes instinctive.»
Géraldine Husson
Precious world
Exhibition from12/12/2013 to 14/01/2014
Multidisciplinary artist designer, Geraldine Husson slides with freedom from one discipline to another without regard to
borders. It seems that the relevance and power of her work can be found precisely in this perpetual tension between arts, she
likes to combine, separate, merge. Born of an encounter between art / fashion / design / architecture / science. Her creations
questioning the reports to the bodies, objects and spaces regardless of frontiers and having rightly an approach to the «limit»
seen as opening and place of passage. The representation of concepts of territory, border, origin coming together on the same
interface, they offer great fields of action and readings possible. By combination of materials and techniques, she pierces the
contours, and is composed along without never completely confined in a box. Influenced by the symbolic and the ideal of
freedom, the act of forming images, personal visions, has become her means of expression.
Buoy - Precious world - 2013
Géraldine Husson
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Kathy
Le vavasseur
Contemporary visual artist
Kathy has inherited a triple culture: Vietnamese, Italian, French. Her works support a reflection
to this diversity in the use of multiple materials and techniques. A graduate of l’Ecole Supérieure
d’Art Françoise Conte, Paris, she has explored numerous disciplines with undeniable boldness,
sensitivity and freedom. A mixture of techniques has been used to express her Art with materials
such as paint, glass, textiles and clay. She has exhibits in France, Austria, Vietnam, Croatia and
works for fashion, furniture, lighting and trend agencies.
photo Ludovic SACHA
« Kathy’s work is a tribute to water, symbolic of
purity, resurrection, abundance, healing and
most of all life, but the water of the Mekong is
her genuine passion. »
Aline Jaulin
Art critic
photo Ludovic SACHA
Vendavel - Stonewear, patine - 69 X 10 X 31 cm – 2013
In the arms of the Mekong
Exhibition from 04/04/2014 to 17/05/2014
It was while crossing this river..... I was but a child, coming from the capital, Saigon, we had to take a ferry to reach Sadec, my
place of birth. The crossing always seemed hazardous. On the opposite side of the shore, our house with her white colonnades
would be awaiting us, a haven of peace and quiet, a haven rarely enjoyed, due to the perturbations of the war. Here we are, in
the delta of the Mekong and its multiple arms; the place is called Cuu Long which means “The Delta of the Nine Dragons”. The
clay I use in my works recalls to my memory the muddy waters of the Mekong. My sculptures follow and adapt to the meanders
of the river, stretching out in length, dividing in arms. Just like Vietnam itself and also like the steps the Dragon makes, surging
from the river Mekong, and then disappearing. Through my sculptures I have endeavoured to depict the atmosphere of the
Delta: this immense garden of perfumes, light, and the movement of passing fishing boats. Shapes and shadows composed
of long dark waves, stretching out or restrained, sometimes upright, but finally breaking out to the open earth and sky. This
exhibit is also a tribute to Marguerite Duras who lived and met “L’Amant” (The Lover) at Sadec.
Kathy Le Vavasseur
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Paul
Raynal
Visual artist
Après Paul Raynal studied fine arts and art history at the Toulouse School of Art, before going
on to obtain a degree in fine arts from the University of Aix-Marseille. He then trained in screen
printing at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, taking cinema classes at the Sorbonne
at the same time. Having qualified as a specialist teacher, he spent a few years teaching fine arts
in Morocco before returning to France. ! With influences ranging from Cubists like Fernand Léger
to Pop Art and Nouveau Réalisme, Raynal’s work is iconoclastic: texts and figurative elements are
not only fragmented but layered and intertwined, resulting in pieces on the edge of abstraction.
The spectator is drawn into a game of splitting and joining, invited to explore a world at once
poetic, sensual and surprising.
« Engaged in a game of splitting and joining, I
invite the spectator into a world at once poetic,
sensual and surprising. »
Paul Raynal
Movie stars
Exhibition from11/09/2014 to 11/10/2014
In my recent work, I refer to cinematic icons like Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Taylor and Steve McQueen, as well
as to the tabloid press — especially coverage of sensational crime stories and murders, like in ???’New Detective’???. I distort
the visual logic of movie posters and magazine covers to create my own ‘front page’: the painting. By taking the flood of images
we’re exposed to and picking out a face here, a phrase there, reconceptualising and reprinting a poster elsewhere, I aim to
start a new and unfamiliar discourse between these ‘ingredients’. Faces are linked by interplaying looks, composition and
colour, while typography and snippets of text punctuate the pictorial space. Out of chaos I thus hope to create coherence, a
flow unique to the painting that beckons the spectator to see beyond the profusion of signifiers to a source of
aesthetic pleasure.
A Legend - Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas - 100 X 100 cm - 2012
Paul Raynal
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Marine
de soos
Sculptor
Marine Soos exhibited since 1999 in places of inspiration and talent as the headquarters of
L’Oreal in Clichy, Primo Piano Bon Marché in Paris, La Demeure des Comtes de Champagne
Taittinger in Reims, the Embassy of France in New Delhi, the chabichou in Courchevel, Hotel Golf
de Chailly Chateau de Bois Guilbert, House Quays on the island of Yeu ... Present on many shows,
many of his works have been acquired by private collectors France and abroad and companies.
« The work of Marine de Soos is a trip.A journey
whose apparent exoticism covers the most
essential realities. We leave with Marine de Soos
a bank that binds us to one that takes us,
upwards. »
Jean-François Variot
Invitation au voyage
Exhibition from 19/11/2014 to 03/01/2015
The sculptures of Marine de Soos are an invitation to travel. A journey with its apparent exoticism covering more essential
reality. Travelling with her we leave one shore to which we are attached for another that takes us to another pinnacle. Poised
on the present moment, she invites us to gather the fleshy fruit of the soul, so difficult to pluck, from the hollows of our fleeting,
sideways glimpse. The elements that lie within us become perceptible at the site of a young flute player: a little further on
children are touching the sky with their fingers. We nonetheless remain in control, in control of the circumference of our view,
on the surface of the earth like the compass defining the horizon for this Masai shepherd. A woman with a bundle of twigs
relates the burden of her days, the camel’s packsaddle carrying a load that, deep down, sum us up. In this manner, the little
things of life flow, with sensitivity, nurtured by the smile of Knowledge. Suddenly there is a wave of a hand, the entrancing ritual
of a visit, all ears for a journey into the thoughts of others with this figure of a man from Cape Verde. Oh… walking as if in a
religious procession, capturing the riches of the world and a few weighty fish. The inaccessible is in your very depths and in
this deeply-rooted, peaceful isolation. The elegance of a camel reminds us that the elements within us are the essentials. Our
royalty allows itself to be gracefully borne along by the children we once were. Our glance counts, filtering with half-shut eyes
whatever needs to be filtered on pathways of learning. A look open to what is said about our inner windows. When man is able
to stand still, things can happen. Presence is imposed like an obstacle to draughts. The place of each person can be read in
the leaves of trees and it only takes a lamp to be born to Light and wake up to life.
L’attente - Bronze sculpture - H 72 x 26 x 21,5 cm
Jean-François Variot
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