Nicolas Buffe, studiolo (the vestibule) until January 20th, 2008 at the Maison Rouge

The work of Nicolas Buffe (born in Paris in 1978) refers directly to the grotesque, these wall paintings of the sixteenth century, as well as a personal imaging, often associated with popular culture and his childhood.

For this exhibition at the red house (la maison rouge), Nicolas Buffe will perform a wall drawing in black ink specifically designed for the vestibule. Studiolo refers to rooms of the same name, which during the Renaissance were cleverly ornamented spaces to stimulate the thinking of those who worked there. Like the Duke Federico da Montefeltro's studiolo containing profane and Christians characters according to the humanist taste, Nicolas Buffe draw a studiolo where classical and popular references mix with elegance and irony.

Nicolas Buffe, studiolo (the vestibule)
from December 20th to January 20th, 2008

Maison Rouge
www.lamaisonrouge.org
10, boulevard de la bastille
75012 Paris

Hours : 18h-21h
Closed on January 1st, May 1st an December 25th
T. 01 40 01 08 81
Mail : info@lamaisonrouge.org

Metro : Quai de la Rapée ou Bastille
Free access

Liu Jianhua's Unreal scene (2005-2007) until February 9th 2008 at the Paul Frèches Gallerie

Liu Jianhua (1962-)
Pop modern porcelain to installations – trash accumulations of ready-made objects Liu Jianhua, a visual-craftsman.
Many of his works feature a refinement of form and a glossy sheen in keeping with the Chinese tendency towards glazed surfaces.
By the age of 12, he was learning porcelain-work techniques at the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen. Hard on the outside, yet fragile, porcelain is a fitting medium for addressing the dialectics of surface and depth. It is a statement of identity. Several thousand years of history have made porcelain a forerunner to Made in China export products. As used by Liu Jianhua, it becomes a strategic way into the international contemporary art scene, led by the categorizing, exoticism-seeking western world, despite grand speeches on globalisation, in which pluralism, it seems, can have varied meanings.
Liu Jianhua’s use of porcelain, however, is far from systematic. Under the influence of the eighties New Wave, he rejected it in favour of the possibilities of fibreglass sculpture, and in his more recent work Liu Jianhua’s interest has turned to the use of ready-made objects in large-scale accumulation-installations, as in Yiwu Survey (2006).


In December 2007, Liu Jianhua will be presenting a brand new piece created specially for the Paul Frèches Gallery : the “Unreal Scene” installation, which will be exhibited with photographs (2005-2007) of Shanghai becoming a kind of eerie casino…

Unreal scene (2005-2007)
December 7th 2007 – February 9th 2008

Galerie Paul Frèches
WWW.PAULFRECHES.COM
12, rue André Barsacq
75018 Paris

TEL+ 33 (0) 1 53 09 21 12
FAX + 33 (0) 1 53 09 23 22

Metro : Abbesses, line 12 / Anvers, line 2
Bus stop : Chappe or Drevet line Montmartrobus
In Montmartre : just climb the stairways along the Funiculaire
(first street on your left).

Wednesday to Saturday, 2:00 to 7:00 pm, and by appointment,
closed on Bank Holidays.
The gallery will be closed on December 25 to January 2, 2008.

Rooms, Conversations at Le Plateau / FRAC Ile-de-France until February 17th, 2008

Within the framework and the extension of the exhibition "Rooms, Conversations" about our collection, Le Plateau / FRAC France endorsed the initiative of the city of Paris which is celebrating four years of residences at the Recollets convent and the "Cité Internationale des Arts" with the Residents exhibition organized at the Espace Electra.

For the occasion, Fabrice Gygi's Mobile Video, a piece of the collection is installed in the experimental area of the Plateau to host a wide range of videos by many artists who have been in residence in Paris since 2003. As stated in the protocol of the Swiss artist's piece, visitors are invited to freely consult videos of their choice and can thus (re) discover the works of these artists. In parallel, like viewing through many focal length, some of these videos will be presented in the permanent programming.

This exceptional programming - by the quality and the extreme diversity of the artists represented - makes a very wide status on the creation from artists welcomed in Paris during the past four years.

Artists
Fabrice Gygi et dans la programmation vidéo: Sandy Amério, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Emmanuelle Antille, Vasco Araujo, Dafne Boggeri, Botto & Bruno, Xavier Cha, Joseph Dadoune, Johan Grimonprez, Christoph Keller, Hassan Khan, Glenda León, David Maljkovic, Graeme Miller, Sebastian Dias Morales, Ivan Moudov, Julien Prévieux, João Penalva, Jorge Queiroz, Marie Reinert, Mario Rizzi, Lee Show-Chun, Gregg Smith et Lidwen Van de Ven.


Rooms, Conversations
until February 17th, 2008

Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France
http://www.fracidf-leplateau.com
33, rue des Alouettes. 75019 Paris
18h-21h

Metro Jourdain ou Buttes-Chaumont
T. 01 53 19 88 11
Mail: info@fracidf-leplateau.com
Free entrance

G A O B R O T H E R S until November 24th, 2007 @ Albert Benamou Gallerie

Photographs - Sculptures
Exhibition from October 25th to thursday November 24th, 2007


For more than 20 years, the Gao Brothers - Gao Zhen & Gao Qiang - team up to form a brilliant artistic couple which work is attempting to describe all over mutating China's paradoxes. Born in Jinan, in the province of Shandong, located in the north of China, both of them studied Art and together, they produce for the international an ensemble of virtuoso multimedia including video, photography, theatre, performance, painting and sculpture not to mention numerous critical essays and their mentoring of other artist's exhibitions.
True leaders, and despite repeated censorship from their fellow authorities, their are the over conscious observers of all transformations and turmoil happening in their country.

The Gao brothers stay away from any judgement or form of cynism. They watch mankind like scientist stare at viruses through a microscope. They reproduce human behaviours with a touch of choregraphy.

Galerie Albert Benamou
www.benamou.net
24 rue de Penthièvre. 75008 Paris
Metro: Miromesnil
Opening hours 06:00pm - 09:00pm
Tel: 01 45 63 12 21
Email: albertbenamou@gmail.com

Free entrance
The exhibition will be presented until november 24th,2007.

INVOCATIONS * BKRW * SEBASTIEN PONS until the 23rd of November

BKRW is starting the celebration of its first anniversary by an exhibition of the artist behind BKRW's world. the fingers and the brain behind all BKRW logo, artworks, and graphical world: SEBASTIEN PONS.

INVOCATIONS is the work of a french artist with rare and original style, his latest artworks are mixing sweet pop colors, primitives and asian arts, imaginary world and characters, colorfull demons.
This exhibition will take place in the new GALERIE x CONCEPT SHOP x KIDS ATELIER x STUDIO: called L'ISSUE, a 180 square meters place located in front of CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU aka BEAUBOURG, deep downtown. A brand new exhibition place we've fall in love for : because of its architecture, its concept, and its kids programs with the artists of the gallery.

INVOCATIONS
www.bkrw.com
to the 23rd of NOVEMBER

L'ISSUE
http://www.lissue.com
38 RUE QUINCAMPOIX
75004 PARIS
Opening hours: Wedenesday to friday - 12 Noon to 09:30pm; Saturday & Sunday 11:00am to 08:00pm
Metro: Etienne Marcel / Rambuteau

Valerio Adami "Jusqu’ici" from Saturday October 27th to December 29th, 2007

Exhibition: Saturday October 27th to December 29th, 2007

Valerio Adami, the "Frenchier" Italian painter is coming back at the Daniel Templon gallerie with a new serie of painting made between 2006 and 2007. Entitled "Jusqu'ici" (up to here), the exhibition offer a filling past of themes dear to Valerio Adami's heart for the last 50 years: litterature, travel, relationship between poetry, music and painting.

After being absent for nearly 10 years, Valerio Adami did a spectacular come back with his 2004 first exhibition @ the Templon gallerie. we rediscovered his famous solid colors and his thick dark outlines reminding us the clear line of comic strips.

In this new exhibition, drawing still plays a fundamental role. For Adami, the outline, and notably the closed shapes, are tighly connected to language and words. Numerous literary references are appearing between the lines: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Claudel… Like poems of an intimate atmosphere, the paintings develop memories of childhoods, theatre stages, vision of orient and hotel's rooms. Despite the richness of colours, the tone of the exhibition is somehow more introspective and gloom seems to haunt the painting's characters.

Valerio Adami "Jusqu'ici"
Press release (french)

Galerie Daniel Templon
www.danieltemplon.com
30 rue Beaubourg (at the back)
75003 Paris
Tel : 33 (0) 1 42 72 14 10
Fax : 33 (0) 1 42 77 45 36
e-mail :info@danieltemplon.com



Open: monday through saturday from 10:00am to 07:00pm
Press Contact: Anne-Claudie Coric 01 42 72 14 10
Metro: Line 11 - Rambuteau
Line 4 - Etienne Marcel ou les Halles
Line 1 - Hotel de ville