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  . Maguy Banq

  Maguy Banq was born in 1954, in Marseillan, South of France. She graduated from

  the School of Fine Arts of Mexico in 1992. She shares her life between France and Mexico

  and exhibits regularly in these two countries.

   

  Fed to the classic techniques, Maguy Banq allies the work of the bronze to materials and forms

  of the minimalist art. Because the work lies itself in the association of its pure, geometrical,

  multiplied forms where her bronze work, as a way of cross, takes back the stages of the human

  condition. She is interested from the beginning of her researches in the "cycle of the absurd ",

  eternal resumption, symbolized in her works by the myth of Sisyphus. She experiences and

  expresses labour, absolute quest towards an ecstatic and calmed plenitude, which as for Albert

  Camus would tighten towards an "happy men".
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  . Helder Batista

  Born in 1964, in Paris. Helder Batista is self-taught. He lives and works  near Cahors.

  He was strongly marked by the gap between the contemporary society and the condition of those which drive it.

   

  Helder Batista uses interdisciplinary techniques: sculptures, inclusions, neon and installations.

  The artist introduces the series " Flag Gun ", for which he is known, arm wrapped with flag, banner

  of country which took weapons in the name of the constitution (2d American Amendment), of the

  nation or the religion. He pursues his societal researches highlighting what questions the evolution

  of the society, its nonsense, its abnormalities on the background of globalization, overconsumption,

  hegemony … He does not look for explanation
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  . Manuèle Bernardi

  Manuèle Bernardi, was born in 1959 in Saint-Tropez. She lives and works in Roussillon.

  After her studies to the Academy Roederer and to Beaux-Arts de Paris, she becomes a decorator

  and a wardrobe master then an illustrator, before choosing to express herself by the painting

  and finally, the sculpture. 

  This plastic artist explores the feminine representation in what she has of links
  in her ecosystem. She makes perceptible invisible emotion of two beings which connect,

  the alchemy of a group which moves towards a common destination. Her sculptures, Callipygia,

  in feet anchored well in the reality, rise unconditionally towards the other one, the waves pass.

  In her installations, of which the fragile material , of paper and wax, is strengthened by invisible threads,

  Manuèle studies the flora and fauna as the source of an inspiration for a common life where

  the link makes rampart, sets up itself as protective shield of a materialistic everyday life. 

  If the installations of Manuèle Bernardi have a high poetic density, they contain in their

  heart a disturbing fragility. Attached to nylon threads, these little things flicker happily on

  themselves, unaware of their meaning. Individually they are only the traces of a past life, of a

  manslaughter, together they reform a quivering ecosystem that seeks to protect its center.

  A new constellation around a visible or concealed star that brings back a form of life.

  The allegory does not stop there, Manuèle protects her installations of a sheet of

  transparent plexiglass which is reminiscent of the ozone layer. 

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  . Benjamin Bichard

  Benjamin Bichard was born in Nice, France, in 1982. He’s graduated from the famous Villa Arson in 2010.

  After his studies he lived few years in Paris and was selected by the 57th Montrouge Salon for the young

  creation where he was discovered by Geraldine Banier gallery. In 2014 he came back to his native city,

  He still lives and works at Nice today.

  He has chosen everyday objects, assimilated to our consumption, to realize them into new forms by

  accumulation, assembly, twisting and cutting. His modular objects reveal the aesthetic power of

  these invisible actors of our everyday life. 

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  . Joachim Biehler

  Joachim Biehler was born in 1981 in Strasbourg. He received the National

  Superior Diploma of Expression of Plastic Arts (DNSEP) of the Superior School of

  Art of Perpignan. 57th Salon of Montrouge.

   

  Familiar with the contemporary art milieu, he knows any of its subtleties or references, a

  nd enjoys twisting them with humor. Most of his works play an attraction-repulsion game.

  In the “like project”, one of his first series, Joachim substituted his face from contemporary

  art icons’ ones, such as ORLAN or Jeff Koons. The photomontage, a bit disturbing, makes us

  smile and wonder about the young generation’s place in this well-organized star-system.

  “Big sugar vanity” is also based on an ambivalent process: candies appeal and disgust us at the

  same time, placing us in direct confrontation with the vanity symbol. As a consequence, we connect

  sugar with our annihilating, blinded, consuming, warrior society.

  This work rests on a system of paradoxes. Through candies, Joachim captures a part of our senses:

  sight, sense of smell, taste. Our emotions are torn by the artist’s use of a material which deeply reminds

  us of childhood and feelings of immediate affection. Vanity reveals itself as a metaphor of today’s society,

  where the human being, often unconscious, sinks into warrior madness. With humor, poesy and irony,

  Joachim Biehler calls for a return to feelings.
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  . Jung Min Choi

  Born in Seoul in 1973, South Korea. Works and lives in Toulouse, France.

  Doctor in Plastic Arts, University of Paris VIII, Sorbonne.

   

  He settled down in France in 1999. In 2001,

  he began his thesis at the Sorbonne, Paris, about stylistic persistence in art history. These

  writings and his work as a correspondent for two Korean newspapers not only mark out and

  guide his personal creations in recovery and appropriation of news feed, but also revisit

  the perpetual patterns in art history.

  He had a solo show at Art Paris Art Fair in 2014, where the "Great Days" 2013,

  365 drawings were shown, along with major sculptures and paintings.
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  . Frédéric Garnier

  Frédéric Garnier was born in 1970 in Troyes.

  All his really protean creations stage our questioning on the human existence.

  Its beginning and its term. Its meaning. What we name collectively « After «.

  Then what survives us is born, takes place in memoirs, « tracks of life ».

  Visual artist, he expresses himself through numerous mediums: sculpture, installation,

  photo, video and drawings. His reflections concentrate on the object, which makes link between

  the human being and the world. By using materials of our time (foil blanket, cement, plexiglasse),

  it anchors its works in our period. They crystallize questionings in the intimate and universal echos.

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  . Benjamin Grivot

  Benjamin Grivot was born in 1994 in Dijon (France). He lives and works in Dijon.

  
  He graduated from EMA Fructidor (204) and Ensa Dijon (2016).
  
  Emerging artist, he exhibited in group exhibitions in the United States and 
  France in Galleries and institutions (Consortium of Dijon).
  
  His work revolves around the relationship between visual arts and music. 
  His different experiments are built around the subject matter of objects, 
  to their learning at first glance. He uses his materials as a support for 
  sliding between two universes.
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  . Ottmar Hörl

  Ottmar Hörl (born 1950 in Nauheim, Germany) is a notable German artist, art professor and writer.

  Hörl has become famous with large installations in Berlin and Munich, among others, and will now realize a spectacular project of his "Art in the public environment" in the city of Nuremberg where he teaches as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts since 1997.Using about 7000 plastic replicas of Dürer's hare Hörl will transpose the central square in the old town of Nuremberg into a large green corridor of 2500 m². For two weeks, the Nuremberg Main Market will become a "Large Piece of Hare" in honor of Albrecht Dürer before breaking up in its individual components and so to speak merge into the population.

  Duplication, the idea of serial production, and large numbers are the center of Hörl's projects. His art intends to inspire communication and to include as many people as possible. Dissolving of the large piece of hare into individual components is part of the concept. After two weeks, one may take a piece of hare home against a nominal charge. The hares move from a public to a personal environment. "I want to reach out with my work, set an impulse and let people take their Dürer home to allow individual, undogmatic altercation."

  Hans-Jörg Sigwart.

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  . Boris Jean

  Was born in Rabat (Marocco) in 1963.

  Leaves and works in Chelles (France)

   

  Stemming from the Beaux-Arts school of Tours and from the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français, Boris Jean

  became an art director and a director in the film industry (Les Épaves, Grand prix du festival d’Avoriaz),in

  advertising and live performance. Influenced by the Stanley Kubrick’s cult movie, he leads since 2001 his own

  odyssey, by building « Little Big », a futuristic city realized in miniature with rubbish and simply recycled objects.

  He who learnt with Jean Giraud aka Mœbius, to raise eyes towards the sky, invites us to look at the city as if it

  was overflown by a plane we were in, perceiving its lights through the porthole, and looking close to discover the

  way he plays with the architecture of the masters of the reinforced concrete and the vacuity of the Haussmann order.

  And because it is also a game, the spectator is urged to click three times on his smartphone to obtain a night even

  more mysterious, even more poetic, even more fantastic, urban vision of the landscape.
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  . Michel Laubu and...

  Michel Laubu, creator and artistic director of Turak since 1985, and Emili Hufnagel,

  co- director of the company since 15 years.

  Michel Laubu presents his theater in France and abroad ( Indonésie, Russie, Syrie, Norvège...).

  He was artisartner at Volcan, national stage of Havre, at Bateau Feu, national stage of Dunkerque,

  at Subsistances in Lyon...
  In short terms, he brings in France and abroad this strange theater, poetic and visual. The company

  has just its birthday of 30 years in 2015.

  Emili Hufnagel, accomplice of Michel Laubu, co-writes the projects with him. She is also a comedian

  in all the shows of Turak. 

  Turak in few words

  Turak, is a Theater of Objects and Puppet company, that develops a visual theater «all ground compatible»

  fed by diverted objects, by old or imaginary mythologies, by languages in multiple and invented accents.

  Known for its research work around the object, Turak mixes the puppet forms, the gestural theater and the

  plastic exploration. This tinkered poetry could be situated in the crossroads of the dance, the gestural theater

  and the plastic arts.

  The artistic approach of Turak lays on a game with the used object. Imaginary past, born from «the used of

  the object», memory and marks of an invented civilization, it is from this fictitious archaeology that shows and

  exhibitions are created.

  The shows written and staged by Michel Laubu thus address a very wide public. Every image having several

  levels of reading, the doors of access are not lacking. It is a writing in strata, with « theater in all the floors».

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  . Laurence Le Constant

  Laurence Le Constant was born in 1976 on Reunion Island. After obtaining a degree in

  fashion design, she began art studies specialized in textile design and then developed

  skills as an embroiderer, weaver and feather-worker.

   

  The ancestral gestures were patiently passed on to her in the workshop. She later chose a

  course combining visual arts at the Sorbonne with classes at the School of the Chambre

  Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, which sealed her desire to master the creation of the

  most sophisticated materials, together with the fundamental questions of visual art.

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  From 2000, she gained experience in prestigious haute couture workshops as  Chanel,

  Dior, Emmanuel Ungaro, Prada, etc. In 2010 she decided to devote herself entirely to

  her own work and finally allowed herself to show a body of work that was just waiting to be seen.

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  She has participated in several group exhibitions in Paris, Tokyo, Osaka, Dallas and San

  Francisco. The work MICHELINE (from the series MY LOVELY BONES) joined the permanent

  collection of the Dallas Museum of Art in 2012. 

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  A noteworthy selection of her Vanitas (from the MY LOVELY BONES series) was shown at

  the Art Paris Art Fair in March 2014 and March 2015.

  From May to the end of June 2014, the Geraldine Banier Gallery devoted a solo exhibition

  to her work: “HER GARDEN”.

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  2015 was marked by a series of collaborations with Massaro (Chanel’s custom-made

  shoes department). They gave rise to SUKI, EVE, DAPHNE and Mademoiselle IVES.

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  The alchemy that developed between the artist, the bootmaker of the Rue de la Paix and

  the watchmaker Roger Dubuis resulted in the creation of the ultra-limited edition watch: VELVET GRETA in 2016.

   

   

  Traduction: C.Peers.

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  . Cyril Le Van

  Cyril Le Van was born in Seine-Saint-Denis in 1970, he lives and works in Toulouse today.

  Stemming from an artistic environment, Cyril Le Van practises the drawing and the painting

  before being interested in the urban space. Brought up in Parisian suburb, he is daily confronted

  with the sociocultural disparities, entailing his artistic approach to question the violence of

  relationships between individuals and society.

   

  His realistic works take back the current social codes, common objects of consumption, such

  as food retailers, Lavomatics and designer clothes. His sculptures are installations with real scale,

  made from photos printed on cover, assembled by sewing or fasten.
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  . Sylvie Mangaud

  Sylvie Mangaud is born in 1961, in Paris. She lives and works in Paris.

   

  Sylvie Mangaud is born in 1961, in Paris. She lives and works in Paris.

  Represented for eight years by the gallery, and now shown in numerous woldwide collections.

  It’s after graphology and morphology studies that Sylvie chose to turn towards the artistic creation.

  Fascinated by the strength of the body language she tries and catches its essence. She soon chose

  the bronze to represent these «postures» she likes : Attitude, Cool, Malice, Libertine. She plays with

  the material from which she removes all the gravity by building aerial and slender feminine lines.

  From this pure line are also born some fantastic animals, svelte elephants, proud and fragile horses

  and zebus with an undeniable elegance.

  It is the crossing of her activities that brought Sylvie naturally towards the sculpture.

  Originally, a photographer’s formation allows her to know how to seize the movement,

  the emotion, and to immortalize the moment. At the same time, she follows studies of

  morphopsychology which will allow her to observe and to include the subtleties of the body.

  The naked and the animals become straightaway her territory of preference without

  respecting the proportions which will define however her style. This style which is her

  so particular has a genesis: what was an involuntary distortion on its first pieces, became

  her signature, her creations are everything in lightness, sharpness and elegance, the purity

  of their lines expressing an authentic esthetic balance.
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  . Alexia Tailleur

  Artist and photographer born in 1983 in Orleans, France, Alexia

  Tailleur studied gold leaf technique in an Italian monastery before realizing her master 

  thesis on icons, at the University of Toulouse. Today, she lives and works in Paris.

   

  Her creation enhances private stories. Her subjects, anonymous or not, reflect her personal 

  universe and are treated in the style of icons, using gold leaf technique. It generates a special 

  feeling, like an aura, that highlights the subjects and allows the artist to reintegrate them

  into society and history, sanctifying them.