As early as age two, Eric Hubbes started to show interest and a natural talent for drawing…which soon led to its first painting on canvas when he was only ten. He nurtured his talent until college where he complemented it by learning graphic creation techniques. This was a key period for the artist who started to skip lessons, realizing that he preferred his autonomy to his own studio.

This quest for freedom defines the artist’s style; and now that he masters the techniques, he can play with it. The artist will embark in a spontaneous and frenetic creation of artwork, sometimes following a clear path, sometimes purely improvised, but always inspired by its own life experience, memories and thoughts. Eric Hubbes likes to quote Pablo Picasso, as like him, he would never start a painting if he already knew what it would look like at the end.

For the artist, it is always a question of inner life. Multiple shapes and layers of colors are blended in an organized chaos to give life to a face or an animal, often times uniformized by the recurring use of spiraled shell.

Influenced by the artist’s mood, every artwork takes part in a heterogenous universe. Mecenavie will exhibit some of the artist’s unique work during ArtExpo New York from April 4^th to 7^th  and at Art Shopping Deauville from April 20^th to 22^nd.

Eric Hubbes’s news : instagram.com/e.hubbes

Painting has always been a questioning for the artist. He seems to have been early influenced by Maurice Denis, a Nabis painter: “One has to remember that a painting, before being a battle horse, a naked woman or any story, is really a flat surface covered by a range of colors”.

Les colonnes, 90 x 105 cm, Mixed medias, 1996.

Luc Dartois is essentially going back to basics, but this is only to better divert and play with the fundamental painting techniques, with all the discipline and technique it requires. A canvas becomes a flat surface where colors are organized to create the illusion of an image. The coloring pigment becomes the vital element that is trying to mimic real textures.

The artist’s technique is unique: each material serves a real purpose and represents what it really is. Real sand will be used to depict a beach, some bark for a tree, cement for a building…The artist will patiently and meticulously produce his artwork, always favoring quality over quantity, often spending up to 12 months on a single piece.

Je te salue vieil Océan, 42 x 50 cm, Mixed medias, 2017 // Quais de Seine – Pont Royal, 60 x 46 cm, Mixed medias), 2018.

Once finished, the canvas becomes a unique blend of textures and colors that takes the observer in his own world. Lights are thoroughly mixed for an optimal and puzzling visual impact.

Luc Dartois will be with Mecenavie and exhibit his unique artworks at ArtExpo New York from April 4^th to 7^th. Don’t miss it !

Art Expo New York’s 41^st edition will take place at Pier 92 in New York City from April 4^th to 7^th. Once again, thousands of visitors and art galleries from all over the world are expected to flock to the Big Apple. Mecenavie will be there with its talented artists!

ArtExpo New York, April 4th – 7th

From April 20^th to 22^nd, Mecenavie will be in Deauville for the second edition of Art Shopping Deauville. The first exhibition took place in 2018 and already exceeded expectations, thanks to a large network and interests from the locals and a strategic date around Easter. Enjoy the seaside and buy art, all of that just a few step from the Grand Hotel and the city famous Casino, what a program !

Art Shopping Deauville, April 20th – 22nd

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What else better than a public library to discover the artist’s universe, where the pictorial and the text are always serving a precise narration. The concept of “drawn writing” is the thematic of the exhibition as the author is telling stories as it was a movie, the drawing and the text replacing the picture and the sub-titles.

Riad Sattouf : The drawed writing. Credits : Pompidou Center.

His biggest success, “The Arab from the future”, perfectly illustrates his style. Mostly based on the author’s memory, the autobiographic series depicts the author childhood. On one side, the drawing, sensitive and sometime flawed, features intimate people and places from his childhood. Color is used as a code to help the readers: blue for France, yellow for Lybia, pink for Syria, green for Guernsey and red for your imagination.  On the other side, the text is here to puzzlingly and precisely describing facts, anecdotes or thoughts.

Sketch – The Arab from the future #1 – Riad Sattouf.

The exhibition is split in three main parts and is centered around that connection between drawing and literature. It highlights how artistic the author’s approach is, and how it is fueled by his personal and sensible interpretation of the real world.

Riad Sattouf : The drawed writing. Until March 11th, from 11:00 to 21:00 or from 12:00 to 22:00

Press Space – Bpi, Paris

Riad Sattouf on the exhibition The drawed writing

]]> https://www.mecenavie.com/en/exhibition-riad-sattouf-at-pompidou-center/feed/ 0 https://www.mecenavie.com/en/agnes-pormente-the-nature-painted/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=agnes-pormente-the-nature-painted https://www.mecenavie.com/en/agnes-pormente-the-nature-painted/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:47:58 +0000 Mecenavie https://www.mecenavie.com/?p=12950 Agnès Pormenté lives and works in Paimpol, a village in Britany with seaside landscapes, abrupt cliffs, and green paths. A paradise for the artist, who likes to contemplate, observe and pay tribute to nature.

And what a tribute! Each artwork is photographically but also sensitively true to these fascinating landscapes. Soft and luminous, Agnès Pormenté’s compositions immerges us into a world where nature is as stunning as it is immutable. We can rest there, leaving the tumult and the hassle behind us, replenishing our spirit, as we were actually facing the beauty of the landscape.

Agnès Pormenté – Golgotha

Art is the story of Agnès Pormenté’s life. Her childhood has always been animated by music and paintings. From the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, she used to regularly visit sculptor Madeleine-Pierre Querolle’s studio. She will finally decide to pursue a high school teacher career but never far from the practice of painting.

She uses pastel with her fingers as she would be playing the piano. Nature becomes a moving, harmonious and colorful sheet. The artist never put herself forward and she says: “She learnt from music how to serve a text, an author, or others’ inspiration by stepping aside”.

Agnès Pormenté, Cascade (1), Majeur (2), Force, sollicitude et protection (3) – Pastel sur papier.

But the eye and the hand remain autonomous interpreters and we recognize a work by Agnès Pormenté to its vaporous treatment of matter, its pigments filled with light, its subtle details.

Agnès Pormenté will exhibit with Mecenavie on the art fairs ArtExpo New York (April 4th – 7th) and Art Shopping Deauville (April 20th – 22nd).

Website of the artist : Agnès Pormenté.

Our first exhibition of the year will take place in New York from April 4^th to 7^th. ArtExpo, one of the biggest and famous art fair in the world, will celebrate its 41^st anniversary. Once again, Mecenavie will be there with its talented line-up of artists. Maori Overstreet’s urban woman touch, Julian Villalba’s subtle portraits, or Eric Hubbes’s poetic and psychedelic universe, just to name a few…

Mecenavie will be back to France and will have the honor to participate in the second edition of Deauville’s Art Shopping from April 20^th to 22^nd. It will certainly leverage on the success of 2018 innovative exhibition. We will be proud to exhibit Brigitte Szpiro’s smooth figuration or Richard Dubure’s glowing abstract artworks.

Art Shopping, it is first and foremost Paris, where thousands of visitors and galleries from all over the world are flocking to the famous Carrousel du Louvre from May 24^th to 26^th and October 18^th to 20^th. Mecenavie will have a center spot at both editions, right at the entrance of the art show! Visitors will have a more than a chance to be charmed by Sunah Oh’s rigorous art work, Clairsin’s authentic sculptures or Marie-Reine Comptios’ pictorial emotions.

In November, ART3F Belgium will open its doors to galleries and visitors from Northern Europe and the rest of the world. Photography, sculptures and paintings, all type of art support will be represented! We will be there too with Jean-Pierre Poisson and his chromatic textures, or Chantal Canuet and here narrative abstractions.

Mecenavie will end the year with flying colors at Art Spectrum Miami. During the famous Miami Art Week in December, Art Spectrum is not to be missed! In 2018, Mecenavie was honored with two prestigious awards: best booth and selection of artists, as well as an individual award for Ulku Yilmaz. In 2019, we already have very exciting artists lined-up for the show: Jose Schvartz-Couturier, Dominique Andre Woisard or Agnes Pormente.

Exciting isn’t’ it? Join Mecenavie artistic adventure and exhibit with us at one of these unique art fairs !

The sacred parenthesis, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm. Chantal CANUET.

So, what does her art tell us then? In fact, the artist use of complex pictorial indices creates a fascinating confusion and the mix of figurative and abstract leads us to a unique interpretation of every paintings. This fusion of color and shapes is reaching our subjective consciousness much more than our objective knowledge. Whenever we think we are in front of an abstract, a barely visible human outline would get us out…and vice et versa.

The lifted veil, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 65 cm. Chantal CANUET.

Nathalie Lescop-Boeswillwals, PdD in Art History, describes the artist’s artwork as a questioning on our collective consciousness. Being in front of her artwork takes us to our own unique path, it is no longer a question of “seeing” but “being”.  Sometimes, the paintings’ titles can help or at least raise a question: “The twilight of the gods”, “The lifted veil”, or “The sacred parenthesis”. Always poetic, these titles guide us to what really animate the artist: spirituality, fantasy and inner life.

Back to the sources, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm. Chantal CANUET

This quest is as passionate as it is universal. Chantal Canuet has exhibited all over the world for more than 20 years. Alongside Mecenavie, the artist will present her unique universe in November at the ART3F art show in Bruxelles and in December at Art Spectrum Miami.

ART3F Bruxelles, from 23rd to 25th November.

Spectrum Miami, from 05th to 9th December.

Credits : Halle Saint-Pierre

In 1986, the Halle Saint Pierre is rehabilitated into a museum, whose radical and innovative artistic line will be dedicated to the “Art Brut”. This artistic movement was founded by Jean Dubuffet in 1945 and has now a unique place in the world of art. It can be best defined as a form of art for those who are not ruled or influenced by any other artistic line and who are not even recognized as artists, even by themselves…

Marie SUZUKI, Bara Bara So Waka, 2014, Paravent, stylo, 172 x 357 x 1,5 cm. Artist collection.

Jean Dubuffet first interaction with this form of art goes back to his visits to psychiatric hospitals and rural or working-class neighborhoods. Their creations come from a pulsion, or as a way to kill the time, but never with the aim to be recognized as artists. Instead, they are a reflect of the artists singular personalities. This salutary introspection through drawings and paintings is a silent testimony of their existence.

Takayuki AYAMA, Bœuf noir, 2013. Wood, engraver pen, colored pencil, 50 x 78 x 5,5 cm. Artist collection / Yosuke NISHIYAMA, Le monde de Yosuke Nishiyama, Stylo, ink on paper, 25 x 35 cm. Family’s artist collection.

The Art Brut is sincere, tortuous, and deeply human. It raises many questions but never makes people indifferent. Its aesthetic inspires many artists, arouses art collectors and passionate art lovers. It has today a significant place in world exhibitions and the Halle Saint Pierre naturally holds a privileged position.

From September 8^th to March 10^th, the Halle Saint Pierre will host a collection of Art Brut from Japan, home to many unknown Art Brut great artists, who are inspired by the country drawing culture heritage. The first part of the edition took place in 2010 and was a big success. This second edition will be more global and diverse as a way to highlight that each culture has its own artistic way. More than 40 artists will be exposed in what is likely to be a unique Art Brut exhibition.

Credits : Halle Saint-Pierre

ART BRUT JAPONAIS II – Halle Saint-Pierre (2, rue Ronsard – 18ème)

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But the one artist who changed everything was Matisse. Then aged 16, David Twose saw “The Danse” for the first time at the “L’Ermitage” museum and it was a revelation. He was deeply touched by the generosity and radicality of this painting; three colors that represents a sky, a floor and five moving bodies. David Twose saw in this painting a form of opening towards a new, beautiful and true world. The artist, who likes to observe and understand was then on a quest to make those complex imbrications of colors more visible. David Twose, the painter, was born.

David Twose, who observes deeply everything that is around him, is inspired by nature as by cities.

His artistic career started relatively late. He studied business and finance in France before graduating from a business school in Montreal. His first job was as in communication in a car company. In parallel to his studies, he learnt abstract painting with Jacques Vigot, and brought a more figurative approach to the “Grande Chaumiere” Academy. David Twose benefited greatly from these two different paths. Painting took a greater place in the artist’s life over the years and he decided to leave his firm when he was 41.

Dawn, 27, 5 x 27, 5 inch, oil on canvas. David Twose, 2018.

David Twose now lives from and for painting. His vision, between abstract and figuration, weigh in constructions and patterns from the real world in a view from Paris, a nude or a landscape. His more subjective art, inspired by the concept of memory and its shortcomings, is a form of re-activation of this first step: this is what he calls “Abstractivation”. David Twose’s sensible and colorful art stimulates the eye and our curiosity but is really trying to reach our heart.

David Twose will exhibit with Mecenavie at the Thuillier gallery, from August 31^st to September 6^th, with the public opening on September 1^st from 6:30pm to 9pm.

Artist’s website : davidtwose.com

Abstractivation, a reappropriation of reality by the artist’s eyes.

From August 31^st to September 13^th, Mecenavie will exhibit its artists at the Thuillier gallery. In the heart of the dynamic and eclectic Marais district, the Thuillier gallery has been a favorite meeting point for artists, galleries, designers, art lovers and professional buyers for more than three decades.

The timing of the exhibition could not be better. This is back to school, when Parisians are coming back to the city of light and are mixing with the latest summer tourists. All are in a positive and fresh state of mind which will be hopefully conducive to new acquisitions!

Art Shopping will take place a few weeks later, from October 19^th to October 21^st, at the Carrousel du Louvre. For more than 10 years, the fall edition of the flagship art show has kept on garnering more success every year. The affluence of art lovers and professional buyers has done nothing but growing in the convivial and friendly atmosphere which characterize the Parisian art exhibition. Mecenavie has been an historic partner of the art show which will once again prove its qualitative and acute selection of new and original exhibitors.

Tempted by these two great adventures? Take advantage of our “Paris Pack” offer! For 350 euro, you will be able to exhibit for a week at the Thuillier Gallery and will have a spot at the Carrousel du Louvre Art Shopping event! Contact us : (+33) 01 48 37 03 48.