october 24 - 27, 2013 press file october 2013

OCTOBER 24 - 27, 2013
PRESS FILE
OCTOBER 2013
SOUS LE PONT ALEXANDRE III
PORT DES CHAMPS-ELYSÉES
PARIS 75008
PRESS CONTACT :
LISA KAJITA
+ 33 (0) 42 61 36 08
[email protected]
A NEW SPACE
For its 8th edition, the SLICK Paris is setting up its fair by the River Seine, directly beside
Alexandre III Bridge and only a few steps away from the FIAC, located at the Grand Palais.
The proximity to the FIAC will allow art lovers to easily stroll between these two complementary fairs, while granting SLICK a unique new Parisian location: 17,000 visitors are
expected to visit the fair on the banks of the River Seine.
DISCOVER AND REVEAL
Since its launch in 2006, SLICK has been seeking out talent in the international art scene
in order to discover and reveal emerging and ambitious galleries less than fifteen years
old and with artistic rigor.
The fair is a springboard towards important fairs such as the FIAC, offering quality visibility
to artists and their galleries during the Parisian contemporary art week.
For the past two years, these young galleries have been presented side by side with
more established galleries, which also represent emerging artists among their roster.
By bringing together these two generations of galleries and artists, SLICK aims to reveal
all of the vitality of the international contemporary art scene, in an atmosphere that promotes exchanges and new discoveries.
A SELECTIVE EUROPEAN FAIR
SLICK continues to put forward a selective group of 36 galleries, as well as 13
SLICK Projects produced especially for the fair by an artist and his gallery.
60% of the selected galleries are French, in order to put forward the national art scene,
while 40% came primarily from the rest of Europe.
As was the case last year for SLICK Brussels in April, SLICK Projects are presented directly within the stands, creating a dynamic and airy scenography.
THE COLLECTORS’ PRIZE
In April 2013, SLICK launched the Collectors’ Prize in order to recognize the creativity,
originality and professionalism of an artist presenting a SLICK Project. These large-scale
works, made up of installations, videos, photography series, drawings or sculptures, are
created be the artist and produced by the representing gallery especially for SLICK, in a
special preview of the work.
Last April, the Prize was awarded to Fred Penelle & Yannick Jacquet represented by the
LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects gallery. The members of the jury linving in Belgium, included Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Galila Barzilai-Hollander, Alain Servais, Agnès Rein and
Hubert Bonnet. The artist duo has been invited to present a new project at SLICK Paris
in October 2013.
Fred Penelle & Yannick Jacquet, Les Mécaniques Discursives, 2013, gravure, vidéo et multimédia,
courtesy LKFF ART & Sculpture Projects, Prix des Collectionneurs SLICK avril 2013
The second edition of the Collectors’ Prize will take place on Saturday October 26, 2013,
bringing together the following members of the jury living in France: Pierre Hardy, Christophe, Joanna Chevalier, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Sandra Mulliez, and Jean-Pierre
Marois. The awardee will be invited to present a new project at SLICK Brussels in April
2014.
THE GALLERIES
There are some commonalities between those galleries that have been selected to
participate in SLICK Paris 2013. Most of them have chosen to focus on one
theme, format or geographic area.
Geographic Focus
Certain galleries are focused on a specific geographic area, such as Emerge Gallery (Paris), which presents artists from the Arab world, including Ahmed Mater and Farid Kamboh; or gallery Paris-Beijing (Paris), which focuses on China and Korea with a project by
Unzi Kim and photographs by Liu Bolin; as well as Revue Noire (Paris) which showcases
African contemporary artists; or even Uprising Art Galley (Saint-Martin), which will exhibit
four Cuban artists including Liudmila & Nelson and Glenda León.
Medium Specific
Ahmed Mater, Allah-o-Akbar, 2011, cartouches plastique, 110cm x 210cm, courtesy Emerge gallery
Among the galleries that will be focusing on a specific format, the Binôme gallery (Paris)
will be presenting photography by Thibault Brunet and Fabien de Chavanes, most notably; Les Douches la Galerie (Paris) will be showcasing photographs that were recently
discovered, such as those of Vivian Maier in the 1950s; the Charlot gallery (Paris) specializes in digital art with the artists Antoine Schmitt and Eric Verhnes; Island6 (Shanghai
/ Hong kong) will present interactive works by the Liu Dao collective; and finally, Céline
Moine gallery (France) will showcase paintings by Antoine Bono and Thomas Henriot.
Thibault Brunet, Série Landscape, 2013, photographies issues de jeux videos, courtesy Galerie Binôme
Présentée à la Biennale de Lyon 2013
Thematic Exhibitions
A selection of galleries will be presenting thematic exhibitions around the theme of accumulation and in an
installation by the Vincenz Sala gallery (Paris / Berlin); another theme is based on architecture and the relation
to space for Van Der Grinten Galerie (Cologne); on repetition and inscription for Petits Carreaux gallery (Paris);
or even street art for Wunderkammern gallery (Rome), geometric abstraction for Oniris gallery (Rennes).
Artists Multiples
Four participants in this year’s fair are galleries that produces and exhibits contemporary artist multiples. Bernard Chauveau Editeur and Le Néant Editeur (Paris) will be sharing a stand in order to showcase emerging
artists such as Claire Trotignon, besides more established artists such as Peter Downsbrough and Shilpa
Gupta. The Galerie Djeziri-Bonn_Linard Editions (Paris) will presents editions by Gerhard Doehler and John
Armeleder.
Brand New & Back Again
Because SLICK has the reputation for scouting out new talent and acting as a springboard towards other
fairs, each year the fair reinvents itself with a new selection. More than a third of the galleries that have
been selected thus far will be exhibiting for the first time at SLICK, including Galerie Céline Moine
(France), Galerie Djeziri-Bonn_Linard Editions (Paris), Galerie Réjane Louin (Locquirec), Island6 (Shanghai /
Hong kong) , Zidoun Gallery (Luxembourg), Galerie Oniris (Rennes), Uprising Art Gallery (Saint-Martin),
Wunderkammern (Rome), A B Contemporary (Zürich), JBC1 (Saint-Ouen), Galerie Perception Park (Paris),
Michael Petronko Gallery (New-York), Galerie Laure Roynette (Paris) and Un-Spaced (Paris).
Lance Letscher, Crackers, 2012, oeuvre sur papier, 21 x 30 x 1 cm,
courtesy Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle
Several galleries have decided to return, pleased with previous editions of SLICK and the fair’s visitors.
These galleries include Claire Gastaud (Paris), Laurent Mueller (Paris), UNA gallery (Limoges), The Flat - Massimo Carasi (Milan), Vidal-Saint Phalle gallery (Paris), duboisfriedland (Bruxelles), Patrick Heide (Londres),
Angélique de Leusse (Bruxelles), Van Der Grinten Galerie (Cologne) and Galerie Cédric Bacqueville (Lille).
Karl Hugo Schmölz, Soennecken Neubau Bonn, 1954, Vintage Silver Gelatine
Print, Arch.Nr. 17650-3 © Wim Cox, Cologne, courtesy Van Der Grinten galerie
LIST of projects
LIST OF GALLERIES
A B Contemporary Zürich, Suisse
ArchiRAAR Bruxelles, Belgique
Galerie Cédric Bacqueville Lille, France
Galerie Binôme Paris, France
Galerie des Petits Carreaux Paris, France
Galerie Charlot Paris, France
Bernard Chauveau Editeur / Le Néant Editeur Paris, France
Galerie Djeziri-Bonn_ Linard Editions Paris, France
Les Douches la Galerie Paris, France
duboisfriedland Bruxelles, Belgique
Galerie D.X Bordeaux, France
Emerge Gallery Paris, France
The Flat - Massimo Carasi Milan, Italie
Galerie Claire Gastaud Clermont-Ferrand, France
Van Der Grinten Galerie Cologne, Allemagne
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Londres, GB
Island6 Shanghai / Hong-Kong, Chine
JBC1 Saint-Ouen, France
Angélique de Leusse Bruxelles, Belgique
LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects Bruxelles, Belgique
Galerie Réjane Louin Locquirec, France
Galerie Céline Moine France
Galerie Laurent Mueller Paris, France
Revue Noire Paris, France
Galerie Oniris Rennes, France
Galerie Paris-Beijing Paris, France
Galerie Perception Park Paris, France
Michael Petronko Gallery New-York, USA
Galerie Laure Roynette Paris, France
Galerie Vincenz Sala Paris / Berlin, France / Allemagne
Galerie UNA Limoges, France
Un-Spaced Paris, France
Uprising Art Gallery Saint Martin, France
Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle Paris, France
Wunderkammern Rome, Italie
Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery Luxembourg, Luxembourg
JOËL ANDRIANOMEARISOA, SENTIMENTAL PRODUCTS
Revue Noire
DOMINIQUE DE BEIR, POINT-TYPE
Galerie Réjane Louin
VINCENT CHENUT, SANS-TITRE (lièvre)
Archiraar Gallery
ODILE DECQ , MONOLITHE
Bernard Chauveau Editeur / Le Néant Editeur
KNUT ECKSTEIN, PARK.SITE
Galerie Vincenz Sala
MARTINE FEIPEL & JEAN BECHAMEIL, THE ROOM BEHIND
Gallery Zidoun
ALAIN JOSSEAU, TIME SURFACE
Galerie Claire Gastaud
UNZI KIM, BE-ING SPACE
Galerie Paris-Beijing
VIVIAN MAIER
Les Douches la Galerie
BETTIE NIN, PASSAGES
Galerie Perception Park
KARINE MARENNE, I ♥ ART
duboisfriedland
JÜRGEN PAAS, POPPLANET
A B Contemporary
FRED PENELLE & YANNICK JACQUET, LES MECANIQUES DISCURSIVES
LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
SLICK PARIS
24 - 27 OCTOBer 2013
Preview and Vernissage, October 23rd : 12-5pm / 5-10pm (invitation only)
Thursday 24 & Friday 25 : 12-8pm
Saturday 26 : 12-10pm (late opening)
Sunday 27 : 12-6pm
ADDRESS
Banks of the Seine
Under Pont Alexandre III
Port des Champs-Elysées
75008 Paris
France
ACCESS
M° : Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau (ligne 1 / 13)
RER C : Invalides
Bus : 42 (Grand-Palais station),
72 – 73 - 83 – 93 (Champs-Elysées)
Parking : Rond-Point Champs-Élysées (in front of 3
av. Matignon)
ADMISSION
10 € / 7 € (reduced rate)
CONTACTS
SLICK OFFICE
40, rue de Richelieu
75001 Paris
France
+33 1 42 61 99 40
[email protected]
www.slickartfair.com
DIRECTION
Unzi Kim, Be-ing Space, 2013, 4 LCD Panel, installation vidéo en 3D, 200x70x70 cm, courtesy Galerie Paris-Beijing
PARTNERS
MEDIA
Johan Tamer-Morael
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COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTION
Aude de Bourbon Parme
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ASSISTANT
COMPANIES
Margaux Beyries
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DESIGN
YAMOY
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PRESS
Agence Lisa Kajita
Lisa Kajita
+ 33 (0)1 42 61 36 08
[email protected]
ASSOCIATIONS OF COLLECTORS