Thierry Théolier par Ja'bagh Kaghado
Are Parisian nights dying despite the multiplication of bars and other trendy places? One could believe it and look back with nostalgia on a past ideal of the party, more free and less policed. And what better way to remember than with photographs of its nights, of its atmospheres threatened with disappearance by the too politically correct and the sponsoring at all costs!
What a great idea from Eleganz, in partnership with Central Color and Grolsch, to present a photographic exhibition on Parisian nights at the Pierre Cardin gallery in Paris from February 04 to March 03, 2010. From the Baron to the Chacha, passing by the Régine’s Club and the Jardins de Bagatelle, seven photographers with very different universes have captured this fauna of night birds in the trendy places of the capital.
These artists exhibit a selection of the best moments on the theme of night fragments. Some have chosen to erase identities by proposing only a part of a body, a place or a moment.
Fabien De Serres sees Parisian parties as black and white fragments like snatches of early morning memories, while Johnny Saigon sees breasts and thighs in blue, white and red mode, taking the pulse of these parties through the language of the body. The more the evening progresses, the more the bodies speak…
Maxime Antonin proposes his vision of Paris nightlife and its party places and condemns us to silence, gagged as we are by its ever more hype parties. Ernesto Forno forces us to squint to see beyond the blur and imagine that the night can be as beautiful as some days. Or is it to better remember our alcohol-fueled nights?
Ja’bagh Kaghado presents photographs from the series “Faces in the Shadow” created in July 2009 for the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow. Portraits of figures and encounters representing a certain Paris for this young New York photographer supported by MOMA since his debut. He offers us a magnificent look at Thierry Théolier, hype breaker, artist without work and specialist of Paris Underground and its counter-culture. Paris and a skull and crossbones, a whole program! Thierry appears almost fragile in retreat and his shadow behind which waits to take the place. Maybe that’s the underground side of it.
Violaine Carrère, a young painter, constructs her paintings from photographs and Bertrand Jacquot allows us to follow Nicolas Ullmann in his fantasies of a nocturnal Baron…
During the opening of February 04, two acoustic concerts took place: Patrick Eudeline who we do not present any more and The Greenspiders with Gloria Sometimes at the microphone. The opening was a success, like a Parisian night, full of night birds…
Des seins par Johnny Saigon
The artists can be followed on their website:
Fabien DE SERRES : http://www.fabiendeserres.com
Maxime ANTONIN : http://www.maxipix.fr
Johnny SAIGON : http://www.johnnysaigon.com
Ernesto FORNO : http://www.myriambouagalgalerie.com
Ja’bagh KAGHADO : http://www.jabaghkaghado.com
Violaine CARRERE : http://www.violainecarrere.com
Bertrand JACQUOT : http://www.bertrandjacquot.com/
Pierre Cardin Gallery
72 rue Saint Honoré 75001 Paris (metro Louvre Rivoli)
Open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 to 7 pm.
+33 (0)1 42 71 42 42
Marie-Odile Radom
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