Les artistes 2010

from 03 April to 03 November 2010
Anne Poirier was born on 31 March 1941 in Marseilles and Patrick Poirier on 5 May 1942 in Nantes. They now live at Lourmarin in Vaucluse. After studying at the Paris Decorative Arts School, they were resident artists at the Villa Médicis from 1967 to 1972. Right from the start of their time there, they decided to work together and to pool their ideas and sensitivities.

from 03 April to 03 November 2010
Bob Verschueren is a self-taught visual artist who was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1945. He started his artistic career at the end of the 1960s in the field of painting. In 1978, he moved in the direction of land art by creating “Wind Paintings”, natural pigments spread by the wind in the landscape and “Light Paintings”, a reflection on nature confronted by light.

from 03 April to 03 November 2010
Côme Mosta Heirt was born in Le Havre in 1946 and now lives and works in Paris and Etretat. After studying at the Fine Arts School, the Sorbonne and the Louvre School, he created his first exhibition in 1970 on the premises of his friend, Jacques Bonnefoux, an antique dealer in Paris. His meeting with François Matey, curator at the Decorative Arts Museum, was crucial.

from 03 April to 03 November 2010
Marie Denis was born in 1972 in Bourg-Saint-Andéol, Ardèche. She lives in Paris and works everywhere. After studying at the “Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts” [National Fine Arts School] in Lyons, she was a resident artist at the Villa Médicis in 1999. She works on everyday and universal objects or places. By bending rules, reference points and know-how, she enables us to see them differently, with a poetic imprint.

from 03 April to 03 November 2010
Benoît Mangin and Marion Laval-Jeantet have formed the “Art Orienté objet” duo since 1991. They live and work in Montreuil-sous-Bois (France) and Douala (Cameroon). Using different media (installation, object, video or photography), they develop a poetic reflection on the relationships between art and science and reveal our behaviours, when faced with existence and the environment.

from 03 April to 03 November 2010
Karine Bonneval was born in La Rochelle in 1970 and now lives in both the Paris and Cher areas.She has been represented by the Martine et Thibault de la Châtre Gallery in Paris since 2001. She has also been creative assistant to Olga Berluti since 1996, a great name in luxury leather goods.

from 03 April to 31 August 2010
He is a landscape photographer, but is a long way from a picturesque and pastoral landscape tradition. His interest in the “in-between”, in places that are both shaped by man and strangely empty, fits in with his search for the “most appropriate distance possible”, thus avoiding the pitfalls of lyricism along with those of clinical coldness. The photographer, always choosing to step back from his picture, gets his motivation much more from a desire for a “working drawing”, which enables the revelation of the very essence of what is there to be seen.

from 03 April to 31 August 2010
Toshio Shimamura was born in Kyoto, Japan. He studied industrial design at the National Institute for Industrial Creation (Les Ateliers) in Paris, starting in 1987. He then became assistant to the designer Gaetano Pesce for three years in New York. During his time there, he added photography to his modes of expression.

from 03 April to 31 August 2010
Marc Deneyer was born in Brussels in 1945. He now lives and works in France, near to Poitiers. First of all, he was a musician and newspaper cartoonist and came late to photography. His work quickly focused in on landscape and nature. From his numerous journeys (to Greenland, Tuscany, Scotland, Morocco, Japan, etc.) he brought back images and texts that tell of his search for a pure light and age-old places.

from 03 April to 31 August 2010
Marie-Jésus Diaz was born in Spain in 1944 and lives in Vitry-sur-Seine in France. After being a theatre photographer, doing reportages, working in broadcasting and teaching photography, she has devoted herself to personal research and photography for twenty years or so.

from 09 September to 31 December 2010
Marc Riboud was born in 1923 in Lyons. At the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1937, he took his first photographs with the small Vest Pocket camera that his father gave him on his 14th birthday. In 1944, he was involved in the fighting in Vercors. From 1945 to 1948, he studied engineering at the Central School in Lyons and worked in a factory. After spending a week’s holiday photographing the Lyons Festival, he omitted to go back to the factory and decided to devote himself to photography.

from 09 September to 31 December 2010
François Trézin was born in Varéas, Vaucluse in 1982. He grew up at the Château de Grignan, where his father was curator for more than ten years. At the age of nine, his father gave him a camera for his first trip abroad. After studying graphic design at the Estienne School in Paris, he decided to further his photographic research at the Fine Arts Institute in Nantes and then at the Paris-Cergy

Ralph Samuel Grossmann

from 09 September to 03 November 2010
Ralph Samuel Grossmann was born in the Alsace (France) in 1968. He currently lives and works in Berlin (Germany). He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography (Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA), as well as a bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Art History. His first exhibition took place in New York City (Nikolai Fine Art Gallery) in 2001. Between 2003 and 2005, back in France, he pursued his photographic practice, exhibiting in Berlin. During the same period he curated two exhibitions at the Carnavalet Museum in Paris.