Aug 15, 2016
Alben, star honors in America … The Wall Street Journal …
Alben is a young artist Bordeaux. Self-taught, he exercises his activity as a painter in a studio located above a nightclub on the docks of Bordeaux ( “fabrick”). Fell in art from a young age, Alben was fed by the multiplicity of images, advertising and documentaries that criminalizes “contemporary mythologies.”
These large colorful paintings are directly inspired by the street art and graffiti, but also and especially American pop art of Andy Warhol, whom he admires above all. Hollywood icons, kings, old cars, superheroes … By accumulating images mostly taken from pop iconography from the 50s to today, Alben plays with kitsch, always subtly. This symbolism, which remains enigmatic, establishes an intimate and even spiritual relationship with the viewer.
In addition to paintings, made especially for the bomb and with stencils he makes himself one by one, Alben also features original sculptures. In fulfilling its busts in resin with objects from everyday life, candy or toys for children, Alben remembers his childhood and once again underlines a latent nostalgia, very present in his work.
It is simply the way of being of Alben, autonomous and independent artist. Indeed, his art can not suffer from any classification, any specific categorization may enclose his “maniera” in a specific register. He turned to a transcript of the contemporary immediacy, experimenting and inventing clean technology responsible for digesting forms to erect the status icons. We have to make “a designer craftsman”!
The only purpose of his art, but if we had to assign one, involves the transcription of a raw immediacy. The viewer is then transported in a space-time universe shifted. This touches the ironic vein of his work. Conditioned by a society where the quest for meaning is a leitmotiv, we find ourselves pushed around, if not poor, the face of this gross delivery of images, scripted and transformed through various technical, shattered the traditional cliches of ‘art.
The artist Alben has exhibited around Europe and the United States. He also creates installations in France. His works are in public and private collections in Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong, Australia, Bordeaux, London, Zurich, Italy, Mexico, New York, San Diego and Chicago.
With the release of one of his works in the Wall Street Journal, and a third exhibition in Spring Street, Alben is best known in New York and France.
Aug 15, 2016
Françoise ABRAHAM dancing since the age of six, formed by professors from the Paris Opera, classical dance.
She discovered very quickly contemporary dance, it will be interpreted in different companies: Redah, R.Chopinot, Jazz Ballet in Paris, she will forever be marked by the symbiosis of life in motion.
The dancer is interested very quickly to the costumes, she invents her clothes. But her curiosity leads her to go further in the search form.
She slips imperceptibly costume decor then delves into the way of design. Her designs first recognized by professionals, get a major success with the public.
Demanding, rigorous, Françoise Abraham gets filled tense forms of sensuality. His female characters are propelled into space with speed and energy.
And curiously, although she likes to cultivate her curves, her sculptures show an amazing lightness.
Of course the color resin, personal technique developed by Francoise allows fantasy and give free rein to his imagination overflowing with fertility.
With this new creative field, these tinted colored resins in the mass are unique in the Art market, with an always original decor and a touch of madness.
Françoise Abraham continues her ongoing research with accessories that accompany his characters come and bring more expression of a reflection on our freedom.
Between technical skills and creativity, Francoise Abraham knows preserve this great little spark that gives life another perfume.
Co-Chair of the Salon d’Automne of the sculpture section of Paris until 2008, Françoise permanently exhibited in galleries and private exhibitions in Singapore, Paris, New York or The Hague …
The form in space with imagination, exuberance, lightness, humor and roundness. That sums up the personality of his work.
Françoise danced his sculptures.
Conquering China
… Today, Françoise Abraham adds a new string to its bow as it inaugurated a monumental sculpture of 5 meters high, in Shenzhen China, in the city center in front of a luxury shopping center. Pressing this woman, who has been permanently installed, is called “LADY FASHION”. This project was made possible by a property developer, a great art lover, who wished to have this “Fashion Lady” before the Centre that it has just built …
Aug 11, 2016
Cintract David was born in 1970.
Halfway between Warhol and Lichtenstein, the artist projects his vision of consumer society on all media : paintings, dolls or mannequins.
While paying tribute to the great artists Pop, David Cintract has stood out thanks to his strong personality, becoming a key figure in the movement that he founded: “The Pop free.”
David Cintract has a fascination for the exuberant sculpture and storage works so “Aladdin’s cave”.
Inspired by current events and social issues, his work carries with it the ambiguity of a quirky, childlike artistic universe, the tinted optimism tragedy.
Gaiety of colors and patterns, sparkle and communicative joy, but also depth of questions and symbols, such is the David Cintract trademark of refusing ease and laying discrete connections between very poetic forces and darker impulses.
Using techniques as diverse as oil, photo, inclusion or digigraphie, it develops on all media (paintings, models, cars …) several themes at the heart of our postmodern society:
-L’homme Face a frantic and frivolous consumption
-The Place of the fantasies and erotic adult games
-The Loss of our part of childhood in a society that no longer believes in dreams
David Cintract sets worldwide and, thanks to its universal artistic language, nourishes deep exchanges with audiences from all backgrounds and all cultures.
Interview by Mr DAVID CINTRACT LIVE:
“My art reigns in me, but does not rule me”
DJ image and matter, David Cintract is defined as a visual artist and existential touch.
Multisensory, it passes with disconcerting ease of traditional painting techniques with modern technologies such as digigraphie, photography, the inclusion of other products / toys …
Through its mannequins that “dandyse” its Mutantoy’s Candy Box and he makes of individuality in the manufactured and deposited his poetry in the series of objects.
Q: “Is being an artist is obvious to you”?
Art and philosophy are to me the best way to aesthetize my existence. With these two means of expression and reflection, I was able to optimize my tragic optimism and reverse the general neuroticism contemporary works. My wish is to deal with company or topical subjects more or less serious, and to attempt a democratic and positive transcription. For me it is a fun way to play with images and frivolous objects that recall childhood with filigree the finding of a report obsession we have with frivolous consumption, fueled by advertising constantly renewed. This work brings me also to wonder if happiness would not exhausted the pleasure of consumption
Jun 4, 2014
François Boucheix was born January 7, 1940 to Montcheneix, a small village at the foot of the Monts d’Auvergne. He began drawing very young. Fatherless at 15, he has to learn a different profession of his artistic aspirations. Malgrè the hard work of the day, he held the evening and part of his nights to paint, and his days of freedom.
At 17, supervisor at Marist in Riom, he as a neighbor room the painter Jean de Rocca Serra, Rome Prize and former professor at the School of Fine Arts in Florence, who taught him the painting for a year.
He made his first exhibition in February 1960 in Tunisia, then in Auvergne province in particular and in the south of France. Four years in Chamonix, where he reads an advertisement in a national newspaper, the gallery seeks Sèvres painters. It responds to the announcement by sending photographs, and shortly after he learns he is retained.
It manifests itself in Paris in 1963 at a major exhibition at the Galerie de Sèvres where he met Bernard Bellaïche. From 1966 to 1972 he regularly exhibits in this gallery notably Lebasque, Othon Friez, Dignimont, Crau Salaboudet Madeleine Luka, Marie Laurencin and the paintings of Salvador Dali and Foujita.
François Boucheix offers a surreal view of the world with total freedom of inventive richness and wonder gift that keeps intact his fidelity to his roots and his land Auvergne. [Not neutral]
Bernard Bellaïche he meets Salvador Dali and that day everything changed. Dali tell him “your painting is good … besides she likes to Gala. ”
This is a result of a famous exhibition at the Sèvres gallery in Paris “Dali to Boucheix” with paintings by Meissonier he decides it will be a surrealist painter of dreams and happiness and not a sad surreal .
He also met with the Sèvres gallery of Yasmine Ouezan, friend of the arts at all Paris of that time, the meeting will pass 30 years of friendship.
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