Press release - Group show Misia Gallery

October, 15th, 2016 Group Show

INAUGURATION Group Show from 18th to 24th October 2016 Opening on October 17th – 7.00 pm 17 rue des Grands Augustins 75006 Paris

MISIA gallery acts as a springboard for tomorrow's blue chip artists through the vast spectrum of opportunities offered by its nomadic structure ans its store on-line.

Du Yang, Fall Off Wonderland, 2015

MISIA Gallery – 17 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris –www.misiagallery.com - info@misiagallery.com - +33(0)6.28.20.64.19

15. 09. 2016 Communiqué de Presse Pour diffusion immédiate

MISIA Gallery is pleased to present a preview of its photographers, sculptor and designers : Harry Benhaiem, Tami Bone, Du Yang, Gaëlle Girbes, Claire Guyard-Aschehoug, Paul Kaptein, Jim Kazanjian, Olivier Marin et Julien Vinet.

The artist is the first actor in the art market since his path and reflection are the essence of art galleries. Through the vast spectrum of opportunities offered by its nomadic structure, Misia Gallery's itinerant concept imposed itself as an evidence in the current artistic landscape.

In order to break the tedium of a conventional art gallery, MISIA takes over atypical spaces, both private and public, as well dedicated temporary locations during international art fairs. MISIA Gallery assumes a new visibility that fits the profile of young collectors.

In addition to its permanent online presence, individual collectors are invited to contact us in order to organize the presentation of the arworks in the best conditions.

Founded by Caroline Courly, gallery director and art historian, MISIA Gallery is a tribute to the romantic Misia Sert (1872-1950). Through her unwavering support to painters, writers or musicians, Misia was a reference to the promotion of contemporary art.

Misia Sert, anonyme.

MISIA Gallery – 17 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris –www.misiagallery.com - info@misiagallery.com - +33(0)6.28.20.64.19

HARRY BENHAIEM (France, born in 1985)

Trained at SPEOS School of Photography, Harry Benhaiem specializes in photojournalism (SIPA Press) and documentary. Through both the series N.O.B.O.D.Y, MISIA Gallery represents an artistic and intimate version of his work he has especially developed during humanitarian missions in Ethiopia and Cambodia.

Composed as a non-chronological photographic sequence, N.O.B.O.D.Y series binds to a multi-linear narrative reading . Harry Benhaiem creates a temporal ellipse to invite the viewer to settle quietly in his poetry.

Harry Benhaiem, série N.O.B.O.D.Y, New York, 2016.

MISIA Gallery – 17 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris –www.misiagallery.com - info@misiagallery.com - +33(0)6.28.20.64.19

DU YANG (Beijing, born in 1988)

Yang Du's snapshots are full of random and uncertainty. They are the unexpected noises of life. To the artist, living an unsettled life is always a pioneering process. During this process, photos are not only her memory device; photography itself becomes a countermeasure for loneliness and anxiety.

These passing snapshots make up our whole lives, and she believes that growth begins by confronting the day-to-day minutiae and the boring details to our shortcomings and imperfections.

Du Yang, Fall Off Wonderland, Untitled no.4, 2016

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TAMI BONE (Texas, USA)

"The Mythos series is inspired by my childhood in deep South Texas, and one that held more than the usual share of mystery. My mind, always busy with imaginings, was also trying to see past the veil of obscurity that was my normal. Not knowing the people I came from, or how I came to be where I was, led to a heightened sense of wonder. This wonder imbued most everything; as long as I can remember, it has been entwined with a sense of hope and possibility. Mythos developed from these early queries, of trying to see the unseeable and to know the unknowable - longings that we all share in some way or another. And while my work is my own tale of wonder, it is a token of the shared mystery that binds us together."

Tami Bone

Tami Bone, Série Mythos, Fauna, 2014

Tami Bone, Série Mythos, The Big Dipper, 2013

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GAELLE GIRBES (France, born in 1976)

Tango is an improvised dance in which both partners walk together towards a spontaneous and an unxpected direction. Gaëlle Girbes provides the viewer with a simple and delicate metaphor of the rythm slowly generated by the body langage. Through the double exposure, her post-digital work captures the geometric basis of the dancer's gesture . Axis and equilibrium points are fragile and tense, modelled on our contemporary social language.

Gaëlle Girbes, Tango, L'amour, 2015

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JULIEN VINET (Malte, born in1980)

Julien Vinet is a painter, engraver, illustrator and designer currently based in Malta. Following studies in Fine Arts at Paris VIII and Visual Communications at Jean Trubert Art School, Vinet discovered the strength of black and white – a passion that lead him to Japan where he lived for 8 years, studying calligraphy and engraving. Deeply influenced by Japanese culture, Vinet’s chiefly monochromatic body of work conveys a kinetic depth, a constantly changing and layered representation of subject through fragmented and reconstructed line. Vinet’s work has been the subject of several solo shows in Tokyo, Paris, Marseille and Malta, and has participated in a number of international group exhibitions.

Julien Vinet, Chimera, Ink on paper, 110 x 230 cm, 2013

MISIA Gallery – 17 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris –www.misiagallery.com - info@misiagallery.com - +33(0)6.28.20.64.19

CLAIRE GUYARD-ASCHEHOUG (France, born in1982)

Claire-Guyard Aschehoug defines herself as a painter while she remains aware to other forms of expression such as photographs or installation. « Lumières Quotidiennes » (« Daily Light ») is a series of digital photographs that Claire GuyardAschehoug has made at home at different daytimes. The result of these resolutely abstract prints are visual fragments of her everyday life. Thanks to the random colors of the sun on the walls of her flat, the artist begins an introduction to the brightness so dear to paint it currently produces.

Lumières Quotidiennes, composition of 9 photographs, 50 x 65 cm, 2012

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PAUL KAPTEIN (Australia, born in 1978) « A series of morning stretches (or strategies for moving energy) » by Ric Spencer As vinyl spins and sixteen tracks overlay and engrain themselves on each other, so too does the object which is sound collapse and rebound in waves, toward our eardrums, beyond and out into the space. As I write this listening to music I imagine Voyager pumping sound waves of greeting out in to the ether; these waves of sound will ultimately find refuge among the 4% of light matter which make up the part of the universe we can see, hear and touch. But there’s also much that we can’t and we call it dark (matter/energy) … an immensity of emptiness which hangs there (somewhere), in our knowing but not, in the sub-reaches of our consciousness but not. Quite simply – there is much that ain’t. This emptiness can either freak us out (as the nothing descends on Fantasia) or we can see it as a vast landscape of possibility – as a conceptual field of immateriality held together by the force of potential. (...)

Paul Kaptein, The Unknowing, Hand carved wood, graphite laminated , 50 x 50 x 30, 2015 MISIA Gallery – 17 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris –www.misiagallery.com - info@misiagallery.com - +33(0)6.28.20.64.19

OLIVIER MARIN (France, born in 1993)

Currently student at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre in Belgium, Olivier Marin surprises by the intelligence and the self-confidence of his line. He does not hesitate to transpose his cold and surreal world beyond the paper using books, objects and even the walls around his drawings. The several plans and scales takes us into a show within unreal scenes with disembodied apparitions moving in a desert of white light. The artist describes these human bodies as "souls blowed up through ecstasy." The work of this young artist reveals the violence of love, predation, wear and madness; topics that intersect and feed each other.

Olivier Marin, Catharsis 1, drawing on paper, 65 x 96 cm MISIA Gallery – 17 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris –www.misiagallery.com - info@misiagallery.com - +33(0)6.28.20.64.19

JIM KAZANJIAN (USA, born in 1968)

"Internet Unconscious" by Will Scarlett

It doesn’t require a whole lot of imagination to grasp the potential for apocalyptic visions latent in the infinity of images circulating online. That a certain improvisatory combination of photos found on the internet would lend itself to the generation of “hyper-collages” brimming with apocalyptic themes cannot come as a surprise. Perhaps even to say, as the artist seems to suggest, that this method of transforming commonplace source images into entry points to deeper realms of experience by allowing them to consume each other and fuse together rhizomatically, finally smoothing out into a landscape of apparitions, resonates with the creative frenzy which transfigures the fragments of daily existence into dreams, is by now too obvious to allow on the page (...)

Jim Kazanjian, Untitled (UFO), 45 x 45 cm

Jim Kazanjian, Untitled (Sphynx), 45 x 45 cm

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CONTACT

Caroline Courly caroline.courly@misiagallery.com +33 (0)6,28,20,64,19 www.misiagallery.com High Res Pictures are available on inquiry.

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