Catégorie : News

13 – 16 November 2014

Chris Boïcos Fine Arts was part of the first edition of Fotofever, the new Paris photo fair, at the Espace Cardin in 2011 and also at the Brussels edition in 2012.

For the 2014 edition of Fotofever the theme of our stand will be « Collage ».
We will be exhibiting photographic collages by three gallery artists:

Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera
Douglas Stapleton
Vivian van Blerk

Place: CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE – 99 rue de Rivoli – 75001 Paris
Métro: Palais-Royal/Musée du Louvre

FAIR HOURS:
Private view by invitation only on Thursday 13 November 2014, from 5 to 10 pm
For free invitations for Thursday and Friday, please contact Chris Boïcos at contact@boicosfinearts.com

Friday 14 November: 10am – 8pm
Saturday 15 November: 10am – 8pm
Sunday 16 November: 10am – 7pm

Collage was first used in the art world in the early 20th century in the work of the Dada artists and the Surrealists (Ernst, Haussmann, Höch, Bayer…). Classic collage is still important in the contemporary art scene despite the advent of new digital techniques for the compilation and transformation of photographic images like Photoshop.

Our artists will be presenting photographic collages in three distinctive techniques:

Jorge Rodriguez de Rivera: Collage of figures, plants, animals or still lives, cut out from illustrations of art magazines and the French auction house magazine, the Gazette de Drouot, pasted on to photographs of urban landscapes taken by the artist.

Douglas Stapleton: Collages of images of works of art – sculptures and paintings – cut out from old art history books and magazines, assembled and juxtaposed in strange or witty configurations against a neutral background.

Vivian van Blerk: Black and white photographic prints by the artist are re-photographed in combination with found objects, sculptures and architectural models, also made by the artist, in his studio. The resulting single photographic negative of assembled and juxtaposed elements is then hand tinted in brilliant and artificial colors and printed.

One of our objectives in this exhibition is to demonstrate the ongoing importance, indeed renaissance, of mechanical and manual techniques in contemporary photography despite the advent of the digital age.

“A
 Journey
 to
 Paxos” 
is 
a 
book
 of 
83
 watercolors 
of 
the 
island
 of
 Paxos 
in
 the
 Ionian
 sea 
by 
the
 Athenian
 artist
 Pavlos
 Habidis.
 The
 book
 was 
published
 by
 Chris
 Boïcos 
Fine
 Arts
 in 
July
 2014.




“A
 Journey
 to 
Paxos” 
is
 accompanied 
by
 an 
introduction 
by 
the 
mayor
 of
 Paxos 
(2002‐ 2014) 
Mr.
 Spyros 
Bogdanos
 and
 a 
text
 on
 the 
artist
 by 
Mrs
 Katerina 
Koskina,
 president
 of
 the
 State 
Museum
 of 
Contemporary
 Art. 
The
 book
 was 
designed 
by
Jean
 Le 
Moal 
in
 Paris
 and
 LTH
 Advertising 
in
 Athens.



Paxos 
is 
one
 of
 the 
most
 beautiful 
islands
 of 
Greece
 and
 this
 is 
the
 first 
time
 a
 book 
of
 images
 of
 Paxos
 has 
been 
published
 since 
1887
(!),
 when
 the
 Austrian 
Archduke
 Ludwig
 Salvator
 illustrated
 the 
first 
book
 on
 Paxos
 and
 Antipaxos
 with 
his 
own 
sketches.



The
 book
 will
 be
 presented
 for
 the 
first
 time
 in
 a 
book 
signing 
by
 Pavlos 
Habidis 
at
 the
 Paxos 
municipal 
art
 gallery
 in
 the
 old 
custom house 
of 
the
 port
 of
 Loggos
 on 

Sunday 
3
 August
 from
 8 
to 
10:30
pm.
 The
 original
 watercolors 
from
 the 
book 
will 
be
 on
 exhibition 
at 
the
 Loggos 
municipal 
art
 gallery 
from 
3
 August
 to
 7
 September 
2014.





Full screen

The exhibition closed today, after a great success.

This bodes well for the grand opening of the Paxos gallery !

La galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos a fermé ses portes en décembre 2013 et comme vous le savez, je m’oriente vers une nouvelle aventure artistique : Chris Boïcos, Fine Arts.

Dans cette perspective, nous organisons avec Jane Roberts Fine Arts une première exposition commune – Ettore Greco/William Utermohlen – le mercredi 26 mars à Paris.