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Catalogues raisonnés

3 new catalogs in our library.

3 new Catalogues raisonnsé

Robert Malaval

"Oeuvre", oneartyminute

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Jean Legros

"Oeuvre", oneartyminute

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Charles Lapicque

"Estampes", Bernard Balanci et Georges Blache, Prestel Verlag, Munich,1981

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Events and exhibitions

Events or exhibitions we visited

Events and exhibitions

Time flies and, let's face it, we're often overwhelmed with work! In recent months, we have finally been able to make many trips, in France and abroad. Of course, we had the opportunity to visit many exhibitions, most often magnificent, and to discover or rediscover museums. Here are the main points.

ROTKO-VUITTON-PARIS

from 18/10/2023 to 02/04/2024

Several trips to Paris, allowed us to visit many exhibitions. Among them, we can only point out the extraordinary exhibition of Mark Rotko at the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

Unfolding in all the spaces of the Foundation, following a chronological path, this extraordinary exhibition traces the entire career of the artist from his first figurative paintings to the abstraction that defines his work today.

First retrospective in France devoted to the American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) since that of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in 1999, the exhibition presented at the Foundation brings together some 115 works from the largest institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Tate in London and the Phillips Collection in Washington, and international private collections including the family of the artist.

“I became a painter because I wanted to raise painting to the same degree of intensity as music and poetry.”

In 1958, Rothko received a commission for a set of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant designed by Philip Johnson for the Seagram Building – under construction by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in New York. Rothko finally gave up delivering the order and retained the entire series. Eleven years later, in 1969, the artist donated to the Tate Gallery nine of these paintings, distinguished by their deep red hues, constituting a room exclusively dedicated to his work within the collections. This set is presented exceptionally in the exhibition. In our opinion, these are magical (hypnotic) links created between these works made of lights and the spectator! Poetry, indeed, the deepest!

The permanence of Rothko’s questioning, his desire for a dialogue without words with the viewer, his refusal to be seen as a «colorist», allow through this exhibition a renewed reading of his work - in its true plurality.

An exhibition, a masterpiece!

CLAUDE VIALLAT - NÎMES

from 27/10/2023 to 11/02/2024

The exhibition "Et pourtant si …" is orange-coloured at the Carré d'Art in Nîmes. For the first time, the hometown of Claude Viallat, where he has lived and worked for more than 40 years, presents a wide selection of his recent works, which invests the entire space of Carré d'art, from the hall to the two levels of exhibitions. Drawing from the crucible very close to the Nîmes studio, this exhibition will show all the generosity of a «numerous and spiral» work as the artist himself describes it, in the diversity of its materials, its dimensions and its imaginations. Claude Viallat tirelessly develops a work both immediately recognizable and constantly in motion. The painted fabrics and objects that form so many fragments of a large house of painting in solidarity and tension will be presented in all directions, from floor to ceiling, thus restoring the immersive character of Claude Viallat’s work;

The work of this founding member of the Supports/Surfaces movement continues to amaze, give to feel and think for almost 60 years now.

ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI – PALAZZO DUCALE - GENOA

from 16/11/2023 to 01/04/2024

Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman admitted to an art academy, the first recognized as an artist, the painter who chose to make her passion for art his reason for living is at the center of the exhibition of the Palazzo Ducale.

A model of tenacity and genius, courage and determination, Artemisia Gentileschi was marked by the suffering of her mother’s untimely death and a controversial relationship with her father. Victim of violence, she was forced to be the protagonist of a trial from which she emerged both winner and loser, deeply wounded in her soul.

In the course of the exhibition, special attention is paid to the troubled relationship with his father Orazio Gentileschi - an illustrious painter of the time, friend of Caravaggio and teacher of Artemisia - which then gave rise to a real rivalry. Several close comparisons between paintings of the same subject make it possible to understand how the artistic talent of the girl was able to overcome the language of her father. The two artists are also put in dialogue with the style of Caravaggio.

Between exciting family events, revolutionary artistic solutions, dramatic images and female triumphs, the exhibition – curated by Costantino D'Orazio – offers a faithful portrait of the complex personality of one of the most famous artists of all time, through more than 50 paintings of all time. European.

In her paintings, Artemisia Gentileschi teaches us how a gesture can contain the expressive force of the character and be the fulcrum of the opera scene. His paintings emerge, highlighted with strength and skilfully by effects of shadow and light, resolute gestures and looks full of pain, pride, courage, tenacity, anger.

Ignored for centuries, rediscovered about fifty years ago, the Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi is honored at the National Gallery in London until January 24, 2021. An extraordinary retrospective in the image of the painter.

A very nice exhibition!

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VILLA CROCCE - GENOA

permanent collection

The Villa Croce Museum, housed in a 19th century neo-classical style villa located on its own grounds, opened its doors in February 1985 and hosts an exhibition programme covering all year long research into contemporary artistic research.

In addition to exhibitions, the museum houses permanent collections of up to 4,000 works of art that were essentially Aniconic from the 1930s to the present day. The collection Cernuschi Ghiringhelli (wife of the Milanese painter and gallerist Gino Ghiringhelli.) includes, among others, works by Fontana, Licini, Manzoni and Reggiani is the core. Villa Croce also houses a specialized library of nearly 30,000 volumes.

Each year, temporary exhibitions are organized; the annual program is mainly focused on contemporary research, with incursions in the fields of music, cinema, theater and literature. These initiatives are also accompanied by historical exhibitions devoted to characters, movements and situations that have marked the evolution of artistic research.

A museum not to be missed!

DISAPPEARANCE OF HECTOR SAUNIER

He was 88 years old.

We have just learned of Hector’s disappearance on February 25, 2024, and would like to express to his family, to his relatives, our most sincere condolences. Sadness! We will keep from him his great kindness, his enthusiasm to share, his determination to promote engraving through the simultaneous color (technique developed by Stanley William Hayter, with which he associated) with which he was an absolute master, but also all the happy moments spent with him over several years of meetings, in Paris, but also in Cremona, Italy, during several Biennales. Together with his Taiwanese accomplice, Shu Lin Chen, who is herself a master of «simultaneous colour», he organized several years and in many countries workshops to promote his art of engraving. If this technique continues today, Hector has his share. Hector led the Atelier Contrepoint, the pursuit of the famous Atelier 17 which he renamed after the disappearance of Hayter.

Hector will remain in our hearts. Peace to him.

Patrick and Michelle Champetier

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A new website !

Our site, in its current form, is now 5 years old, the age of reason; we continue, over the months, to make improvements. Very different in the structure from the last one (which was 15 years old), you will find again most of the sections you used to consult. Very contemporary, the conception corresponds to the new technologies. We hope you will be interested to visit the new sections, and specially, the very rich « Media Library » and a « Live contact » to provide a direct and personal service.
Furthermore, we wished you could create your online costumer space, easy to access each time you visit the site; so, you could save the access to the artworks you like and eventually order them.
Opening up the new site, Michelle Champetier wants to thank all the translators (Marie, Sara, Françoise, Gilbert and Caroline) who worked hard, so that you can access to a lot of pages (in particular biographies) and a considerable amount of information in English, Italian, Spanish, and German language.
Furthermore, because of its structure, you can access and consult the site on all types of digital medias: computer, tablets and cell phone.

Since few months, we created the possibility of proposing you a vision of the works in their details by a « hover over the image to zoom in » or by an « enlarge image » by a simple click.

Complete works books

Patrick, Michelle Champetier’s husband, up to now, already achieved three catalogues raisonnes (Complete works books ) :
1 . « L'oeuvre graphique de Pierre Cayol - 1959-2015 » is available for consultation on Internet : CR Pierre Cayol.
2 . « Roger Platiel, L'oeuvre graphique 1956-1978 », after numerous working months, is also available for consultation on Internet : www.rogerplatiel.com/. This catalogue raisonné, with 200 references, is published in a paper version. This original edition is of 210 copies (10 Deluxe copies + 200 copies). Do not hesitate to obtain the catalog by an order in our gallery.
3 . « Jim Monson, L'oeuvre graphique 1966-2022 » is available on Internet ; established in association with the artist, the catalog contains 178 références (etchings, lithographs and woodcuts). Bilingual (French-English), you can consult it, in english language, by clicking the following address:
http://www.jim-monson.com/Jim-Monson-catalogue-raisonne-complete-work-prints.html
Also, you can consult the new website of the artist:
http://www.jim-monson.com/

Couverture virtuelle du catalogue raisonné des estampes de Pierre Cayol, en consultation libre sur notre site. Couverture de la version papier du catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé 1956-1978 de Roger Platiel, Ed. Les Amis de Roger Platiel, 2015.

Our first edition

Gravure de Renaud Allirand, - Nuit d'été II -, éditée en 2016 par la Galerie Micelle Champetier. Our first edition of prints was produced five years ago: two original engravings by Renaud Allirand. Each one was printed in 12 copies. These two beautiful etchiings, « Nuit d'été I » and « Nuit d'été II » are put forward on our site.
« Nuit d'été I » was awarded by the Price of the Curator of the exhibition at the Portland Print Fair in 2017.

In 2018, « Nuit d'été I » was also selected for the 4th edition of the « Triennale de gravure de L'Isle sur Tarn » (Museum Raymond Lafage)

Sections

Most of the sections which were on our website before are saved, but they have been thought again to give you a best way, easier and more effective to access.
Do not hesitate to visit:
* « Ladies of my street » (You can access from the section « Works and artists »). This section modestly proposes, with your help, either to support a few elderly people, or to help families in need in our neighborhood (mainly for food, administrative assistance and tutoring). This section has just been significantly modified.
* « Between us » gathers different items, in particular « The amazing story of M. Petitchamp », a comic strip whose pages are regularly increased !
* « Complete works » (You can access from the section « Services »). It presents, up to now, 606 references belonging to the gallery.
* And many other things !
We draw your attention to the section « See & discover » in « Media Library » ; this one should be considered a rich database for the artworks. It presents up to now more than 11052 references.

Errors or malfunctions

Our site is made of several ten of thousands pages! Despite our best and continuing attention and or our rechecking, you might find some errors, malfunctions and omissions on our new website.
We really appreciate receiving notification of it, so that this can be promptly remedied. Be sure that your comments are welcome as a friendly wave.
Thanks in advance!
Michelle Champetier and her staff.

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