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Véronique Bigo

Her artistic career began in 1974 with her participation in the 25th Salon de la jeune Peinture in Paris. The painter Véronique Bigo was born in Lille in 1946. In 1970, after studying at the Beaux Arts in her native city, she decided to leave for Rome where she lived until 1986. It was there that the artist laid the foundations of her painting; the palette is black - a few rare traces of . . .

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Shu Takahashi

Sorry this section is only available in french for now.Le sculpteur, photographe, peintre et graveur japonais Shu Takahashi est né en 1930 à Miyauchi, préfecture d'Hiroshima. Après avoir terminé le premier cycle du secondaire, il interrompt ses études pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale ; le jeune garçon exerce alors différents petits boulots. En 1950, il déménage à Tokyo ; et malgré l'opposition de sa mère devant ses aspirations . . .

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Zeng Hao

Sorry this section is only available in french for now.Le peintre et graveur chinois Zeng Hao est né en 1963 à Kunming, province du Yunnan. En 1989, il obtient son diplôme de l’Académie centrale des beaux-arts dans la section « peinture à l'huile ». Au début de sa carrière, le jeune artiste est attiré par les styles occidentaux, comme le post-impressionnisme, le cubisme et l’expressionnisme abstrait.De 1989 à 1993, Zeng . . .

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New elements

Artists' childhood photograph, stamps, posters, tributes recently added.

Catalogues raisonnés

2 new catalogs in our library.

Events and exhibitions

Events or exhibitions we visited

Events and exhibitions

Not having had the opportunity to visit new exhibitions since the end of March, we leave online the page of these News of our previous update (March 2022). We have of course the idea of visiting some exhibitions during the summer which promises to be really very . . hot!

In recent months, the health situation having finally improved a bit, we have finally been able to make some trips. We hope that the situation will improve again, and that this new Omicron virus will not be too virulent! Are we going to be able, in a few months, to fully revive our passion?

BARTHELEMY TOGUO - LA MALMAISON - CANNES

Affiche de l'exposition Bathélémy Toguo à Cannes

From 26/07/2021 to 14/11/2021 - « Barthélémy Togo - Kingdom of Faith »

Pioneer artist in the recognition of African art in the world. Born in Mbalmayo in Cameroon, he trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Abidjan, at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art in Grenoble and then at the Kunstakadémie in Düsseldorf.

The exhibition presents various works by this artist who experiments with many techniques (watercolors, photographs, sculptures, etc.). Sculptures and installations are confronted with large formats allowing to apprehend a vast part of the work of this eclectic artist. Committed, Barthélémy Toguo is also a witness artist. Witness to the world around him that he transcribes in his own way, witness to forgotten people, to the nature he celebrates in his work. For Kingdom of Faith, the artist collected postcards written by young girls during the Rwandan genocide. A way to carry forgotten voices, little stories crushed by the weight of the big one.

In another room, it is a return to the earth that is played out in the most literal sense: a square of potting soil is strewn on the ground, as if waiting to be sown. On the walls are exhibited strange and poetic figures, sorts of half-human, half-plant creatures.

A successful exhibition! It ended in mid-November 2021.

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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM MOMA - JEU DE PAUME - PARIS

Affiche de l'exposition Chefs-d'oeuvres photographiques du Moma.

This exhibition (from 14/09/2021 to 13/02/2022), "Photographic Masterpieces from the Moma - The Thomas Walther Collection" was held at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris and closed a month ago. In 2001 and 2017, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) acquired over 350 photographs from the collector Thomas Walther. This collection, which is now a cornerstone of MoMA's modern collection, was presented for the first time outside New York in an exhibition of approximately 230 images. Comprising iconic works from the first half of the twentieth century, the ensemble allows us to write a history of the European and American photographic avant-gardes. Through the works of a hundred or so photographers, from Berenice Abbott to Karl Blossfeldt, from Claude Cahun to El Lissitzky, from Edward Weston to André Kertész, between masterpieces and lesser-known images, the collection traces the history of the invention of modernity in photography.

Mixing genres and approaches (architecture and urban views, portraits and nudes, reportage, photomontages and experiments, etc.), the exhibition explores the artistic networks of the inter-war period, from the Bauhaus to Surrealist Paris, via Moscow and New York. Through its radical visual invention, the exhibition gives a perfect account of the utopian spirit of those who wanted to change images in order to change the world, and makes us fully understand the words of the photographer and theoretician Lazlo Moholy-Nagy who, a century ago, stated that "the illiterate of the future will not be the illiterate, but the ignorant in matters of photography".

An absolutely splendid exhibition!

VIVIAN MAIER - MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG - PARIS

Affiche de l'exposition Vivian Maeier au Musée du Luxembourg.

The Musée du Luxembourg, from 15/09/2021 to 16/01/2022, presented an extraordinary exhibition on the photographer Vivian Maier.

Vivian Maier's career (New York, 1926 - Chicago, 2009) is atypical but it is nevertheless that of one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. It was at the heart of American society, in New York from 1951 and then in Chicago from 1956 onwards, that this children's governess meticulously observed the urban fabric that already reflected the great social and political changes in its history. This was the time of the American dream and of overexposed modernity, whose reverse side constitutes the very essence of Vivian Maier's work. The exhibition gives the public access for the first time to previously unseen archives of the photographer, discovered in 2007: vintage photographs that Vivian Maier was able to take, Super 8 films that have never been shown, audio recordings, etc. The exhibition thus allows the public to grasp the full scope of the work of this great artist and to place her work in the history of photography. Vivian Maier plunges us into the very reality of life. Without artifice or staging, she captures moments that transport us into the urban fabric of a society undergoing social and political change. Dive into her life's work for the first time in a unique exhibition about this mysterious photographer.

What a magnificent exhibition. We hope you had the chance to visit it!

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R. DEPARDON-K. DAOUD – INST. DU MONDE ARABE - PARIS

Affiche de l'exposition à l'Institut du Monde Arabe.

From February 8 to June 17, 2022, the Arab World Institute presents the exhibition "Son oeil dans ma main - Algérie 1961-2019 - Raymond Depardon et Kamel Daoud" which offers a unique testimony on Algeria in 1961 and in 2019, through the eyes of two great artists: one French, filmmaker and photographer, revisiting his photos of Algeria, the other Algerian, journalist and writer, born in 1970, after the independence of his country. A sensitive exhibition, with rare images and unpublished texts that echo each other while being able to be seen or read separately: two worlds, two independent yet complementary views that enrich each other. The exhibition presents 80 photographs by Raymond Depardon and five unpublished texts by Kamel Daoud. It includes three sections: Algiers 1961 and Evian-Bois d'Avault 1961 / Oranie 1961 / Algiers and Oran 2019. In rooms decorated with a shade of blue evocative of the Mediterranean, in a fluid scenography that facilitates the passage between the two mediums, the visitor navigates between the large texts, suspended like installations, and providing a transparency that allows the photos to be seen through them. Texts and photographs are framed identically to underline their equal importance.

An exhibition not to be missed under any circumstances!

BILAL HAMDAD - LE SUQUET - CANNES

Affiche de l'exposition Bilal Hamdad au Suquet des Artistes à Cannes.

Le Suquet des Artistes, an exhibition space in the old town of Cannes, will be presenting the exhibition « Bilal Hamdad - Solitudes croisées » from 12 February to 29 May 2022. Bilal Hamdad is a young Algerian artist, who graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018 and will be highlighted at the 2021 edition of Art Paris Art Fair; his paintings depict the solitude of contemporary society and the link between intimacy and public. Bilal Hamdad is interested in anonymous people encountered in urban landscapes. Whether it is the metro or the street, the painter calls upon a collective memory and stages the banality of these representations.

Bilal Hamdad has participated in several group exhibitions, including La Petite Collection at the Bertrand Grimont Gallery in 2018 and Enfance en eaux troubles at H Gallery in 2019. The artist had already presented his work in 2012 in a solo exhibition at the gallery of the Maison de la culture Kateb Yacine in Sidi Bel Abbès, his hometown in Algeria. The thirty works presented by the Pôle Art Moderne et Contemporain de Cannes (PAMoCC) constitute Bilal Hamdad's first solo exhibition in a French institution.

Through his paintings, with their strikingly true colours and features, the artist invites the public to become witnesses of a daily life that escapes them; he encourages us to question the lives of the anonymous people we meet every day and sets our imagination in motion. Bilal Hamdad's work has already found its way into major private collections.

A beautiful exhibition, full of promise!

FELIX VALLOTTON - MUSEUM BONNARD - LE CANNET

Affiche de l'exposition Félix Vallotton au Musée Bonnard du Cannet.

« Vallotton en noir et en couleur » (Vallotton in Black and Colour), an exhibition at the Musée Bonnard in Le Cannet, from 12 March to 12 June 2022, invites you to rediscover the "very special" Félix Vallotton, friend of Bonnard and the Nabis. Nearly a hundred works from a private Swiss collection - mainly the artist's famous woodcuts - are on display, along with some fifteen paintings, from the Nabi period to his maturity.

Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), Swiss by birth, but above all a lover of Paris, arrived in France at the age of 17. He was quickly noticed for his qualities as a portraitist. A prolific artist with an overflowing creativity, he produced more than 1,700 paintings, about 2,250 engravings and hundreds of illustrations printed in magazines and books. Not forgetting his numerous drawings and some sculptures. He also wrote 3 novels, 10 plays and about thirty reviews and texts on art.

Vallotton made a name for himself with his woodcuts, which incisively examined contemporary society and were published in numerous magazines. His woodcuts contributed to the contemporary debate and to the renewal of the art of xylography. Excellent in this technique, he knew how to work the wood like no other to preserve the white and sublimate the black. Published in the press, his engravings are merciless charges against family hell and bourgeois life.

As the critic Francis Jourdain so aptly summed it up, this "critical and restless Huguenot", morose and burlesque "will only cease to scrutinise the beauties of the ugly in order to carefully examine the ugliness of the Beautiful".

An exhibition not to be missed!

News of the gallery

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News of the gallery

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 suggests to support, with your help, either to come and support some elderly people (food, travel, etc.), or to help families in our neighbourhood in need (mainly for food and administrative assistance).
* « 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, 587 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 9891 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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