Art Exhibition
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Art Deco Splendor at Galerie Dumonteil
Axel Marteau, Franck Laverdin, Romain MarteauGalerie Dumonteil hosts cocktail party and preview, “Splendor on the Riviera” by Camille Roche
Last week Wednesday, Galerie Dumonteil held a reception in honor or Camille Roche, a french artist identified early as a prodigy and was established in his own atelier with tutors and models at age fifteen. In his late teens Roche’s work was commissioned by the Parisian elite such as Coco Chanel, as well as collected by the Director of the Musée Rodin and the Musée du Luxembourg. These works now form part of the drawings collection of the Musée d’Art Modern.
In 1919 Roche received his first commissions from the Director de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. This relationship was to last for eighteen years during which Roche exhibited in the 1925 and 1937 Expositions Internationales (World’s Fairs). Following the numerous critically-acclaimed works exhibited in the 1937 Fair, commissions came from, amongst others, Baron Robert de Rothschild and the Marquess of Cholmondeley for their homes on the Riviera. Much of Roche’s work remains in the Roche family and the collections of his patrons’ heirs. However, at their request, these works are now being exhibited around the world. Camille Roche in 1920 having been the first recipient of the Prix Blumenthal, in 1932 his work was exhibited for the 18th anniversary of the Florence Blumenthal Foundation at the Wildenstein Gallery in New York City. Due to family tragedies resulting from World War II this artist’s works have only been rediscovered and appreciated. Galerie Dumonteil is located at 475 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
Pierre Dumonteil, Dorian Dumonteil, David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, Sarah Rose Cholmondeley, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Franck Laverdin
Herve Pierre
Vyna St. Phard
Karina Lepiner
Stuart Sundlun, Roric Tobin, Geoffrey Bradfield, Pierre-Michel DumonteilImages by Annie WattAll rights reserved
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Versailles Most Desirable Wild Side – Now On Full View
The Ahae Exhibition in Versailles, FrancePhoto courtesy Sarah Boutinon-Tharse for High End Weekly™East of Eden: The AHAE Exhibition – Part IWe were delighted to be invited to attend the opening of the AHAE exhibition in Paris just about a few days ago. Since then, I’ve been so busy with various projects that I was unable to talk about it (we also have at least 4 interviews coming up in the next week or so). This show was very special. For one thing, I think it’s quite remarkable how through a single window, from dawn to dusk, the Korean photographer AHAE, now in his 70’s, embraces the world in the details and landscapes of nature with photographs taken from a single window, day in, day out, all year long.
A modest man, AHAE and his supporters have exhibited his works at Grand Central Station in Manhattan, at the Louvre in Paris last summer, among other locations around the world, and now at the Palace of Versailles, in conjunction with the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of legendary royal landscaper André Le Notre. Until September 9th, 2013, visitors will also be able to experience the extravagant natural beauty of Le Notre in the gardens, juxtaposed with the simplistic natural beauty of AHAE’s photography in an exhibition.His photographs are spectacular, and I find them quite candid as well. I hope you’ll enjoy them, as well as the few glimpses of that famous chateau called Versailles.
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Parisian Photographer and fencing champion, Sarah Boutinon-Tharse, and Joan Parker
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1stdibs and Serge Castella Gallery Presents Jacob Semiatin
Jacob Semiatin Untitled #31 ca. 1952On View May 2 through 31.1stdibs GalleryJACOB SEMIATIN Watercolors: 1950-1962
1stdibs and the Serge Castella Gallery are set to present an exciting exhibition of Jacob Semiatin’s Watercolors. This is the first selling exhibition of works by this noted and reclusive Brooklyn Abstract Expressionist artist in over half a century. Opening May 2nd at the 1stdibs Gallery at the New York Design Center and simultaneously online at 1stdibs.com, the show will reintroduce Semiatin’s work to today’s art and decorative world with a colorful exhibition featuring over 20 of his dreamlike abstract watercolors created between 1950 and 1962. It runs until May 31st and is open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm. Serge Castella, owner of the eponymous gallery and noted interior designer based in Girona, Spain, recently discovered this trove of Semiatin’s work in Europe. Castella along with 1stidbs has curated the collection and he states how lucky he was to discover Semiatin who until today has been almost forgotten.
Jacob Semiatin was born in Dublin in 1915 to Hungarian Jewish parents who immigrated to Brooklyn, NY. He spent most of his career living and painting the neighborhoods of his adopted town and during the 1930s and 1940s was an active member of the Brooklyn Society of Artists that included Gerard Schneider, Nicolas de Staël, and Jackson Pollock and who showed at the Brooklyn Museum. He also enjoyed friendship with James Johnson Sweeny, the 2nd director of the Guggenheim Museum (1952-1960), as well as with Leo Castelli.Says Castella: “Semiatin was a recluse long before his death in 2003. He didn’t exhibit or sell his paintings and often argued with his friend Leo Castelli about this. As a result, the majority of them were seldom shown and rarely sold.” Nonetheless, Semiatin did receive shows during his lifetime at The Brooklyn Museum, the Contemporary Arts Gallery and The Galerie Internationale both in New York. A small selection of his abstract and figurative works can be found in the permanent collections of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in NYC, Houston Museum of Modern Art, The Jewish Museum, Dublin, Ireland, the Ted Turner private collection and the William Clinton Library.
The 1stdibs Gallery at the New York Design Center: 200 Lexington Avenue at 32ndStreet, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10016.
Jacob Semiatin Untitled #2 ca. 1955
Jacob Semiatin Untitled #51
Jacob Semiatin Untitled VioletThese large format watercolors (35” x 53” framed) represent an important passage in Semiatin’s life as an artist and express a movement in American art of this time. The series replicates through changing light and color a distinct landscape through the course of the year and at different times of the day.
Jacob Semiatin Untitled #41 ca 1955
Jacob Semiatin Untitled #50“The show at 1stdibs’ Gallery exemplifies how a truly good artist, with works of quality and merit rightly belongs in today’s decorative and art world.”Serge Castella
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When Furniture Becomes Sculpture
Reading Rooms: A group show curated by Matthew WeinsteinSebastian & Barquet: February 28– April 5Reading Rooms is a group show of authors and designers curated by artist Matthew Weinstein. Weinstein will arrange seven reading areas in a large open space, using Sebastian + Barquet’s extensive archive of modern, postmodern and contemporary furniture. Each area will consist of a seat and a lamp; maybe a side table, a rug or an object will further define the arrangement. Each of these arrangements has been inspired by a novel chosen by Weinstein, and these novels will be available for people to read. For the duration of the exhibition, anybody can come in and read, for as long as they like. They will either be attracted by the novel or by the seating area when they make their choice of where to sit. In the open space, readers can watch each other read or viewers can watch people reading. A silent performance will take place every day in Reading Rooms, based on who is in there and what they are doing.Sebastian + Barquet is pleased to present Reading Rooms, a group show curated by Matthew Weinstein with selected works by Geoffrey Bradfield, Wendell Castle, Joe Colombo, Pedro Friedeberg, Graham Greene, Arturo Gomez Guerra, Johanna Grawunder, Anna Kavan, Aranda & Lasch, Peter Macapia, Carlo Molino, Ico Parisi, Charlotte Perriand, Phillip Lloyd Powell, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Krueck & Sexton, Georges Simenon, Muriel Spark, Andrzej Stasiuk, Lynne Tillman, and Mae West.As the physical object of the novel dissolves into pure information, it’s relationship to artistic issues of physicality and visual imagery becomes more and more tenuous. The look of book covers that we remember from our formative years of reading, the smell of certain books, the size of them and the typeface that we are given (as opposed to the ones we can choose on a digital reading device) are all dying properties. But the body must rest someplace while the mind reads. Where we read, what we recline or sit on while we read, the light that illuminates the space around us while we read and the rug or floor beneath our feet while we read are enduring physical factors that define our experience of reading. If you read Moby Dick on an iPhone over the course of a year of subway commutes, your experience of it will be very different from your experience of it if you read a chapter a night before going to sleep in your own bed.We are often alone while we read, but often we are in bed with a partner, on the subway, in an airplane or in a coffee shop. Reading is a way of establishing one’s privacy while one is in public. Pretending to read is a classic way of avoiding talking to someone, or of spying on someone. This exhibition is about public and private space as people can elect to be reader or viewer. The envelope of space around the reader becomes a kind of sculpture; a thing we know we are not supposed to approach too closely or pass through.Reading Rooms also considers the challenge that reading poses in a fast paced culture. It is a challenge to break from one’s day and sit down and read for half an hour. Reading is a way of claiming time as well as space and privacy. It is becoming, more and more, a personal rebellion against the social demand that we pack more and more activities into the non-expansive space of one hour.For more information or images contact at info@sebastianbarquet.comGallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10-6 PM
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Let’s Meet at Vallois!
Rachid Khimoune next to his Strange Fruit InstallationOut & AboutFriedman & Vallois hosted a successful art opening this past Thursday evening at their posh gallery location on East 64th Street. For the very first time in New York, an exclusive showing of French artist Rachid Khimoune‘s avant garde pieces were on display. The exhibition opened on November 8th and will run until December 21. Look for my brief interview with the artist tomorrow morning. And for additional images of the party, visit our Facebook page.
Rachid Khimoune, Robert Vallois
Margaret Le Coze (Le Bernadin) Rachid Khimoune, Eve Ruggieri
Barry Friedman, Patricia Pastor
Eve Ruggieri
Eve Ruggieri (center) and her friends
Thanhyen Nguyen
Patrick de Bourgues, Rachid Khimoune, Alexandra de Grece, Nicolas Mirayantz
Laurence Fayard
Alex Barlow, Karim Khimoune
Elodie Giancristoforo
Kahina Khimoune and friendPhoto credit Benjamin Didier -
A Natural Gift for Art
Gondelor et ses petits
Jean Arp: A COLLECTION OF WOOD RELIEFS AND COLLAGESIn keeping with the art theme for this week, allow me to introduce to you the talented works of Jean Arp. His reliefs and collages are the subject of a major exhibit at Blain|Di Donna, a gallery located inside the Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue. Since its opening late last year, the gallery has been THE destination for serious art lovers and collectors. Jean Arp, A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages, will be on view starting today, November 1st until Tuesday, December 11th, 2012. The core of this whimsical and colorful exhibition is a collection of unique painted wood reliefs and collages coming on public view for the first time in America.This group of works by the artist, demonstrates the importance of the interplay between form and color, as well as the developmental nature of the works’ physicality–from the streamlined surfaces of his paper collages to the heightened sculptural dimensionality of the wood reliefs.
De continent qui auraitArp’s forms are amoebic, embryonic, and referential of natural organisms. The “moving oval,” (you simply have to see it in person, it’s gorgeous!) so evident in these works, was the basic form that the artist referred to throughout his oeuvre, and which he never relinquished. The colors are vivid and joyous. Arp’s ambition was to harmonize man and nature and he used his art as a vehicle to achieve this. He aimed to create art as nature creates life, and his collages and reliefs employed a fittingly biomorphic vocabulary.
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All images courtesy Blain | Di Donna“The cycles of nature and of art—from collage to wooden form to print to painted form—are reconciled, as light and dark, sun and night are included in a redemptive circle of creative energy.”
Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature
at the Graduate School of the City University of New YorkArp and the print publisher Louis Broder collaborated on many projects and publications, beginning in 1957. Their most ambitious was an album published in 1966 titled Le Soleil recerlé (The Re-circled or Re-ringed Sun). Arp created the paper collages in this exhibition as a prerequisite for this publication’s prints and then created the unique painted wooden reliefs on view. Therefore, each medium informs the other directly, forging their interdependence; spatial tensions result from their oscillating relationship between flatness and depth, light and dark. Early Friday morning, I will post more pictures of the press preview on our Facebook Page. Say tuned!BLAIN|DI DONNA is located at: 981 Madison Avenue, New York City. The opening reception for the show is today, Thursday, November 1st from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. -
Objects of Desire at The Joan Mirviss Gallery
The Joan Mirviss Gallery introduces Five Leading Japanese Women in CeramicsRaise your hands if you love Asian art as much as I do. The ubber cool Japanese gallery, Joan Mirviss will hold their seminal exhibit by highlighting Japan’s foremost female ceramic artists and calligrapher.The exhibit – The French Connection: Five Japanese Women Ceramists and a Passion for France” Guided by the Brush”, will take place on Thursday, June 7th until Friday, August 3rd, 2012. The gallery is located at 39 East 78th Street, New York City.
Japan’s five renowned female ceramic artists and the country’s leading calligrapher and painter (she’s 99 years of age!) are the heroines of a ground-breaking exhibit that pairs Japan’s most significant art mediums-ceramic and calligraphy-in the hands of women and illustrates their worldwide success in two male-dominated fields. Each theme will explore the dramatic rise and importance of Japanese women who traditionally played a subservient role in these art forms. These women have become celebrated artists by freeing themselves from the traditional and restrictive society in Japan where women have traditionally been denied the freedom to chose a career and express their artistic side. While augmenting their studies in clay in France, these five sculptors, who have now liberated their unique artistic voices, are Futamura Yoshimi, Katsumata Chieko, Nagasawa Setsuko, Ogawa Machiko, and Sakurai Yasuko. In addition to the art of clay, the exhibit examines creativity and independence in Japanese calligraphy and painting through the eyes of the doyenne of Japanese Abstract Expressionism. Pioneering new forms and shapes in clay and on paper, these remarkable women have established themselves in the global art market as a reflection of the movement and changes occurring in Japanese art and society over the past three generations.
Katsumata Chieko
Ogawa Machiko
Ogawa Machiko
Sakurai YasukoPhotos courtesy Joan Mirviss Ltd.
All rights reservedGiven the formality within the ceramic tradition in Japan, the relative openness pervasive in the French art world and its lack of gender bias held the allure of freedom for many Japanese women artists. The five Japanese women participating in this show have received classical training in clay but developed their craft through studies in France. Each artist sought to make France a major central component in her artistic evolution and life, which in turn has ultimately led to international recognition.These women artists are masters of their medium and confront tradition yet expose the very nature of clay, exploiting its flexibility and suppleness in arresting ways-using clay as a way to flaunt the limitations of their medium or defy it altogether. As a result, they are at the vanguard of the development of Japanese ceramics in what is certainly one of the richest and most diverse periods in its long history. These groundbreaking ceramists whose works are featured in this exhibition stand on the world stage, with their work entering major museum collections across the globe.About Joan Mirviss: Ms. Mirviss is a distinguished expert in Japanese art, specializing in prints, paintings, screens and ceramics for more than thirty-five years. She is the leading Western dealer in the field of modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics and from her eponymous gallery on Madison Avenue she exclusively represents the top Japanese clay artists. As a widely published and highly respected specialist in her field, Joan Mirviss has advised and built collections for many museums, major private collectors and corporations.
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The Weekender: Todd Burris
MODERN NOSTALGIAThe opening reception for the mesmerizing photographs of Todd Burris will take place on Wednesday, May 9th, from 5:30-8:30pm at the Robin Rice Gallery. The exhibition will be at the gallery until June 17th. This is the second collaboration between the artist and Robin Rice, so expect to see a series of beautiful photography which are like a visual dance of contractions. Each one of his muse is whimsical, sophisticated, stylistic and simple – but at times, studied and carefree. His work challenges the traditional symmetry of beauty.Todd Burris, Look Away, 1990
“In ‘Mercer Street, NYC’ we are taken back to the darker days of Soho in 1992. A woman is shot from behind, walking down the gravel filled street in a long white flowing cloak, There is a patina of glamour set in the grit of real life. This sense of asymmetry threads throughout the exhibit.”Photos courtesy Todd BurrisAll rights reservedThis is not surprising since the artist takes a photojournalist approach to most of his work. Todd Burris worked as a fashion photographer, and became a fine artist by instinct. His early career was spent working with fashion photographer Bill King. This exhibition explores a collection of black and white images which conveys a sense of effervescence and Élan, which includes photographs from Burris’ time in Los Angeles as well as earlier experimental work in Milan and New York City. Some of his prints have a purposefully grainy and soft contrast, reminiscent of a newspaper photo. Burris manipulates the film during developing to create an “un-reproduced” effect. Prices range from $600 to $2,200. To view the exhibition, please visit http://www.robinricegallery.com.
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Mario Dal Fabbro at Maison Gerard
“My goal is to represent spatially the complexity of profiles, the dimensions of forms which constantly seem to rearrange themselves in space and set themselves between the empty space and the concrete form.” Mario Dal Fabbro
Direction Optical, Carved Wood Sculpture, 1968
Three Squares, 1971
H: 22″ x W: 18″ x D: 6″
Signed, and bears an original tagDal Fabbro was born into a family of furniture-making craftsmen in Capella Maggiore, Treviso, Italy. He studied in Venice at the Institute for Decorative and Industrial Arts and at the Regio Magistero Artistico, majoring in art and design and graduating with honors in 1938.
Untitled, 1982
H: 6 1/2″ x W: 16″ x 4″
Signed and datedHe has authored over 20 books on furniture design, created works that are sensuously anthropomorphic and while reminiscent of Brancusi have an even more tactile quality due to his choice of woods.
Birds at play, 1972H: 19″ x W: 22″ x D: 12 1/2″Signed, dated, and inscribedIn his later career, Dal Fabbro focused solely on his sculpture, perfecting his transformation of wood into his signature fluid and dynamic shapes. This exhibition at Maison Gerard is the latest in an ongoing series showcasing artists who are little known outside the collector’s market but whose work is important and noteworthy today.
Untitled, 1978
H: 23″ x W: 5 3/4″ x D: 8″
Signed and inscribedPhotos courtesy: Maison Gerard
All rights reserved“I personally love the effortless quality of his work, the purity of form, which is the thread throughout the body of work…” Benoist F. Drut, Maison GerardMario Dal Fabbro Sculpture: Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 22nd – 6 – 9 PMExhibition from Thursday, February 23 – Friday, March 30, 2012Artists are a rare breed, and their actions are usually misunderstood. How do you explain why someone as creative and imaginative as Mario Dal Fabbro chose not to sell his important sculptures during his lifestyle? I don’t pretend to know the answer to that, but I do know that many art collectors are thankful that the wait is over.
Starting this Thursday, until March 30th, Maison Gerard will feature and sell 40 rare and exquisite wood sculptures by the artist and mid-century furniture designer at their swanky gallery, located at 43 East 10th Street. RSVP (rsvp@maisongerard.com) for this event, because quite frankly, you won’t regret it.In his lifetime, the esteemed sculptor only exhibited his works but never allowed them to be sold. Known for his seductive abstract forms, and his connection to the wood is evident in the way he highlights the natural beauty of its density, color and grain. The result is the constant interaction of solid and void, mass and movement, for pieces that are supremely architectural and structured yet sensuous and tactile. He was trained as a sculptor but took an active role in the family furniture business. I will look for you at the party in order to entertain your feedback for this special sale and exhibition at Maison Gerard. Are you thinking of purchasing one of these sculptures, and if so, which one? Look for my feedback of the preview party at the News and Events Secion at the Devenish Group, this coming Friday. See you soon.
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Sonia Delaunay at the Cooper Hewitt
We’ve waited long enough! The Cooper Hewitt National Museum is featuring the works of Sonia Delaunay now until June 19. This is the first major exhibit of Delaunay’s works in a national museum for over 40 odd years. Yes, it’s been a long time coming. Delaunay (1885-1979) was a Jewish-French artist whose design aesthetics dwell in strong colors and geometric shapes. Along with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, she co-founded the Orphism art movement.Through her paintings, drawings, painted ceramics, neon lights, sculptures, posters, textiles and costume designs, Ms. Delaunay merged art and everyday life. The beautiful textiles that she produced through her life proved her idea that color was “the skin of the world”.Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum2 East 91st Street, 5th AvenueNew York, NY 10128
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