Meetings and signings with the greatest photographers, limited editions, books that are sold out everywhere else… La Nouvelle Chambre Claire is a bookstore but also a photography gallery, offering limited edition photo prints of remarkable quality.
Saint-Laurent Babylone has taken up residence at the historic Saint-Laurent Rive-Gauche address, the very place where Loulou de la Falaise often dressed in a flash in the morning for work, after dancing until dawn with Saint-Laurent’s entourage. In this space, Anthony Vaccarello, the designer for the House of Saint Laurent, sought to create a hybrid venue that promotes the many facets of cultural life and artistic expression, while remaining true to his vision. For fashion is not the designer’s only playground; he also supports the art of cinema with Saint Laurent Productions, contributing to films by Gaspar Noé, Pedro Almodóvar, Jacques Audiard, and David Cronenberg, as well as photography with Editions Saint Laurent Rive Droite, which publishes numerous art books.
A space with raw, minimalist architecture that, in addition to art books, vintage editions, magazines, and vinyl records, offers photo exhibitions, author readings, book signings, and DJ sessions.
Nobuyoshi Araki, Martin Parr, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Dado Moriyama, Mohammed Bourouissa, Anish Kapoor, appear amongst the artists represented by Kamel Mennour. This self-taught man managed to do in ten years what others spent a life-time to achieve : to present world-famous artists in an international gallery and try to make contemporary art accessible to the largest number, in particular by publishing numerous monographs.
On the wall, a photograph of a Milanese cabbage, a sort of artifact that pays homage to Claude Lalanne’s L’Homme à la tête de chou, which inspired Serge Gainsbourg in 1976 for the title of his eponymous album. This sculpture which was always a bit of his double and which can be found in the center of his house. The place, which has become cult since his death in 1991, has remained identical, timeless, preserved as it is by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who had long wanted to make it a museum.
On the ground floor of this universe imagined by Serge Gainsbourg and the English decorator Andrée Higgins, who over the years has entered the collective imagination, we discover a large room with walls hung in black like the rest of the house. It was here that he worked, composed, entertained, lived a large part of his days and nights. The entire world of the famous dandy is there, before our eyes: musical instruments, photographs, manuscripts and works of art come together in a clever mix. Dali or Klee dialogue with Chopin, Rouget de Lisle or even Bardot. Collections of rare or unusual objects accumulated over the years. Gainsbourg was a collector, but above all he kept everything, and each thing, once it had found its place, never changed.
Upstairs, portraits of the women in his life: Jane, Brigitte, Catherine, Marylin… tiny, overloaded pieces: a library of rare books, first editions or collections of poetry, the complete works of the esthete Joris-Karl Huysmans. The dolls’ room, Jane Birkin’s, and the composer’s room, always black. In the bathroom, the sublime crystal chandelier, but also Jane’s perfumes which have not changed, as if they had always waited for her return…..
Opposite, at 14 rue de Verneuil, Charlotte Gainsbourg wanted to create a museum in homage to her father: a space dedicated to permanent exhibitions and another to temporary exhibitions. In the permanent tour, eight chronological chapters immerse us in the incredible life of the composer. 450 original, emblematic objects, manuscripts, clothing or jewelry behind windows, and opposite, screens broadcasting a selection of photographic, cinematographic, television or radio archives, some of which are unpublished and which remind us of the immense heritage left by the artist.
Still at 14, a bar, prettily named Le Gainsbarre, not only in homage to Serge Gainsbourg’s dilapidated years, but also to those, at the very beginning of his career, when he played the piano in the cabarets of the Left Bank.
Like the artist, Le Gainsbarre will also live from early morning until the end of the night, offering lunches, dinners, but also Afternoon Tea, then piano bar. From live concerts to film screenings, the place should obviously become unmissable.
Marie-Victoire Poliakoff has a unique world of her own, full of freshness, color, and surprises. The artists she showcases in her gallery don’t necessarily conform to the current art market’s criteria, but rather to her own. Regardless of the artist’s medium or level of recognition, they always share a sense of whimsy and poetry with their gallerist. Whether in solo or group exhibitions, the works reveal themselves, sometimes slightly hidden behind glass cases, and one is always captivated by this world unlike any other.
Artists permanently featured : Laurent Baude, Pauline Bazignan, Rok Bogataj, Brigitte Cardinal, Bernard Cousinier, Annabelle d’Huart, Cristina Elinesco, Rupert Mair, Martin McNulty, Denis Polge, Jean-Luc Poivret, Alexis Poliakoff, Alexandra Roussopoulos, Anne Sedel, Jonathan Siksou, Florentin Tanas, Sarah de Teliga, Irina Volkonskii, Sébastien Kito Jean-Baptiste Marot, Bernard Michel, Charles-Henri Monvert, Elizabeth Lennard, Michel Duport, Gibb Slife
Dans ses deux galeries, à Paris et à Bruxelles, Marie Hélène de La Forest Divonne représente des artistes qui ont en commun beaucoup de poésie et une certaine vision du monde. Figuration ou abstraction, peinture, sculpture ou installation, ils ont chacun un univers qui se rapproche de celui des autres, un peu comme s’ils formaient une communauté d’artistes autour de leur galeriste.
Artists permanently featured : Arthur Aillaud, Bruno Albizzati, Gilles Altieri, Vincent Bioulès, Pierre Buraglio, Jérôme Bryon, Bernadette Chéné, Lucien Hervé, Alexandre Hollan, Jeff Kowatch, Astrid de la Forest, Jorg Langhans, Sarah Le Guern, Guy de Malherbe, Jean-Bernard Métais, Anna Mark, Illés Sarkantyu
Agent of photographers, Madé Taounza decided in 2001 to open her first photo gallery within her own agency. Highlighting photographic creation will therefore pass for him through his mission as a gallery owner, on the lookout for singular visions. Since 2013 and its installation in Saint-Germain-des-Près, showing contemporary photography in all its forms has been the credo of the Madé gallery.
Permanently presented artists : Michel Amet, Pascal Amoyel, Ella Bats, Marguerite Bornhauser, Bertrand Cavalier, Céline Clanet, Blanche Clément, Alain Duplantier, Alain Eglinton, Allyssa Heuze, Anne Immelé, Géraldine Lay, Jean-François Lepage, Andrea Modica, Hally Pancer, Marie Quéau, Lia Rochas-Paris, Anne-Sophie Soudoplastoff, Mark Steinmetz, Joséphine Vallé Franceschi
Eric Mouchet is a recognized expert in the pictorial and graphic work of Le Corbusier, but a collector and gallery owner attentive to contemporary creation, he also works alongside the young curator Léo Marin to represent several generations of modern and especially international contemporary artists, whose work reflects the major political and gender issues of their time.
Extending the Modulor concept developed by Le Corbusier in 1945 to harmoniously create functional and pleasant spaces, the artists represented by the Gallery very often place their plastic and conceptual research in a relationship to the body and space through sculpture, the installation or the video.
Permanently presented artists : Christine Barbe, Christine Crozat, Pierre Gaignard, Matthieu Gafsou, Eikoh Hosoe, Hudinilson JR., Kubra Khademi, Bérénice Lefebvre, Robert Michel & Ella Bergmann-Michel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ken Matsubara, Samir Mougas, Remi dal Negro, Gwendoline Perrigueux, Isabelle Plat, Tony Regazzoni, Louis-Cyprien Rials, Capucine Vever, Vincent Voillat, Cyril Zarcone
Founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos at 14 rue du Dragon, in the heart of Paris, “Cahiers d’Art” designates both a magazine, a publishing house and a gallery. The beginnings of Cahiers d’Art coincide with the advent of the Bauhaus, the discovery of Le Corbusier, Klee, Kandinsky, and with Zervos’ research on the primitive arts and archeology of the Cyclades. From the 1930s until the outbreak of the Second World War, the journal was mainly interested in the work of Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Léger, Ernst, Arp and Giacometti. In 1932 the first volume of the Catalog Picasso appeared; a project that will become the work of a lifetime, a collaboration between Zervos and Picasso materializing in 33 volumes that have since become the reference work on Picasso’s work. Artists’ collaborations with Cahiers d’Art have often resulted in original works.
Christian and Yvonne Zervos organized at the Galerie Cahiers d’Art between two to five exhibitions a year from 1932 to 1970, in particular those devoted to Calder, Gonzalez, Tanguy, Laurens, Brauner and Picasso.
Since its relaunch in 2012 by the Swedish Staffan Ahrenberg, Cahiers d’Art has reissued the 33 volumes of the Picasso catalog by Christian Zervos, in collaboration with the Picasso Administration, available in French and English for the first time in its history. In parallel, Cahiers d’Art presented new exhibitions, published new books and limited editions in collaboration with Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Philippe Parreno, Rosemarie Trockel, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Thomas Schütte, Martin Kippenberger, Inge Mahn and Monika Sosnowska .
Dina Vierny, Maillol’s last model, opened her gallery in 1947 at 36 rue Jacob, a former bougnat transformed into a wooden case by Auguste Perret. The gallery became famous in Paris thanks to a first Maillol exhibition, then asserted itself with exhibitions by Rodin, Henri Laurens, Matisse, Vollard, Picasso, Kandinsky, Pougny, Dufy, Doucet, Charchoune, Gilioli, Couturier or Zitman. The gallery owner then fell in love with modern Primitives. In the early 1970s, she traveled to the Soviet Union where she discovered Kabakov, Bulatov, Yankilevsky and Oscar Rabin. She smuggled their works out of Russia and organized the famous exhibition Russian Avant-garde – Moscow 73.
Still driven by this same eclecticism, the gallery was then directed by Olivier Lorquin, son of Dina Vierny, who has now given way to his two sons, Pierre and Alexandre Lorquin, in January 2021. They are now redirecting the strategy from the gallery towards impressionism, modern and post-war art, by diversifying the list of artists. This global project aims to present new ambitious exhibitions at the gallery and outside the walls, but also to set up a series of publications related to these exhibitions.
Permanently presented artists : André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Erik Boulatov, Robert Couturier, Jacques Doucet, Jean Ève, Émile Gilioli, Nikifor Krynicki, Ra’anan Levy, Séraphine Louis, Aristide Maillol, Fikret Moualla, Jules Pascin, Serge Poliakoff, Oscar Rabine, Judit Reigl René Rimbert, Louis Vivin, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Fahrelnissa Zeid
Delpire & Co is both a bookstore of art and photography books, but is also a partner of many literary events and photo exhibitions. Conferences, signatures, it sometimes also becomes the place of very beautiful exhibitions, in particular during PARIS PHOTO.
In this former Parisian bougnat that belonged to Dina Vierny, muse of the sculptor Maillol, Carole Korngold has created a unique place between studio and gallery, which is inspired by an aesthetic of modesty, imperfect beauty to leave room for revelation. and the expression of contemporary artists belonging to very diverse fields, sculptors, ceramists, painters, visual artists, photographers. .. all linked by the same thread, that of Tourrette by Carole Korngold.
She never ceases to express an aesthetic commitment and to invent her universe of expression, in the filiation of art dealers, she nourishes with the artists and this very inhabited place a fruitful dialogue, seeking the sensitive trace of the hand, the part of the gesture, the journey and the process where the emotion resides.
