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Atelier Boba : Photo Prints ´sur mesure´

Image: Ryan Boatright in Atelier Boba

Text: Philip Tonda

The new Paris-based photo studio Atelier Boba does not only offer printing and technical advice on a high, professional level; they are also, unlike most printing places, very competent in giving artistic advise on your art project and photo work.

Owner Ryan Boatright, an artist himself, has long worked intensely with photography in various ways. When moving to Paris two years ago, he knew exactly how to proceed. He and his wife the conservator Caroline Barcella, found an old shop in Montmartre, renovated it, and gave birth to Atelier Boba. Since it's conception in 2010 they've put all their effort into making this a well-functioning, professional printing studio, working closely with artists, photographers and other people interested in photography. 

Who comes to Atelier Boba? 
It varies. We have recently worked on print projects for a contemporary artist, commercial photographer, and a documentary photographer. We've also had people coming to receive feedback and critique on their photo work, and some just come to talk about art over a coffee. Furthermore we're currently engaged in a scanning project for an individual who has a large collection of glass plate negatives that he wants digitized so he can share the images with his family on the Internet.

Mia Funk: Meta Art

Nuavecabacus 2012 © Mia Funk, acrylic, gouache, antique wallpaper

Images: Mia Funk                                        
Text:  Susie Kahlich 

Talking to the artist Mia Funk is a slightly unsettling experience, like being surprised by fizz in a drink you thought was flat.  It’s a bit of a shock at first, but then you realize it’s a pleasant shock and yes, you will have another glass of that, please.

And that’s how it is with Ms. Funk. Very direct and extremely articulate, she throws you right off balance the second she starts speaking, but leaves you wanting more.  An Irish-German Chinese-American, she physically resembles the Chinese side of her family but, although born and raised in Seattle, her 10 years in Ireland and over a decade in France has inflected her American vocabulary with a hybrid accent that comes across as vaguely German. 

And for all her intensity and intelligent observations about art, history, film, pop culture and literature, there exists an underlying social satire that is dark and deliciously addictive yet playful, like a soda designed by Edward Gorey: exotic and mysterious, probably poisonous, but delightful nonetheless.  In other words, an unexpected fizzy drink.

35 Parisian New Year's Resolutions

Image: I Still Shoot Film

Text: Guillermo Martinez de Velasco

1-Don't go to the Eiffel Tower on New Year's Eve

2-Actually do that thing where I pick an area of the Louvre per week, and visit it very attentively

3-Buy a bicycle and throw away my carte imagineR

4-Actually go to Château de Vincennes, not just talk about going

5-Promise to go to one of the presentations/lectures/workshops at Beaubourg or the Fondation Cartier per month

6-Don't cheap out on French Vogue or Egoïste

7-Finally get my membership for the Hôtel-de-Ville Library and The Bibliothèque Fornier / Go study in these libraries

8-Get photographed by The Sartorialist, at least

9-Volunteer at Shakespeare and Co. (But also check out the Abbey Bookstore)

10- Promise to learn more about wines, it's embarrassing that you always go for the 4-5 euro Bordeaux

Creative Growth: REVEALED

Text + images (from current show): Anne S. Ditmeyer

Headquartered in Oakland, California, Creative Growth is a non-profit arts organization working to bring attention to outsider artists, including artists with disabilities, self-taught artists and artists from around the world. The works are often whimsical, unimaginable (in the detail and obsession) and striking for the very art that it is not, along with the unique stories of each artist.

Creative Growth has had a presence in Paris for the past couple years with Director Tom di Maria and Gaela Fernandez running the gallery. Formerly run under the name Galerie Impaire, the gallery no longer has a full-time home, but rather holds special exhibitions around the city, along with a showroom that is accessible by appointment only. To parallel one of the largest events Creative Growth Oakland holds each year with their holiday show, Paris is hosting its own holiday show, REVEALED, at Galerie Drylewicz (18 rue Provence, 9ème–by appointment only after Christmas) now through January 12, 2012.

Get Comfy in the Maison of Photography

Image: Edu Simões

Text: Kristen Cammack

When you need to get out of the bitter cold this winter, I suggest getting cozy in the Maison Européenne de la photographie.

Open late until 8pm Wednesday though Sunday, it’s a great Museum to visit before grabbing drinks with friends. You can impress them by chatting about the current exhibitions covering subjects from the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé to early photography in Albania.

The MEP has always had a penchant for Brazilian photographers, and it continues to take visitors deeper into the culture. In 1951, José Medeiros offended the believers of Candomblé by dissecting into their sacred secrets and exposing their unique rituals. Edu Simões shows how a simple lunchbox can define the very person you are.

And right after admiring delicious warm meals of construction workers, Fernanda Magalhães sends you on an adventure for the ideal body of a woman. Using nude photos of obese women, their boobs, their legs, their fesses. 

VINGT Paris Presents Artist in Residency

   

 Image: Towards Architect, Hannu Karjalainen

We're very happy to announce that Hannu Karjalainen (Helsinki, Finland) will be the first artist in residency within the Paname Fibres project by VINGT Paris.

Working mainly with video and photography, his "artist studio" is his sketchbook itself, which he brings with him wherever he goes. 

Camera Obscura: nofound_photofair

Text: Natalie Turturro

Image: Vincent Delbrouck

I kind of beelined straight into the nofound photofair—glasses halfway down my nose, I saw a blurry pile of empty beer cans in Galerie Bertrand Grimont. My hazy vision misled me: these were no ordinary beer cans. (Good thing I resisted the urge to kick it.) They were photos of Kronenbourg cans stapled together by Cyril Hatt to imitate real ’bourgs crumpled under the hands of the Hulk and tossed away as trash in the corner.

I pushed my glasses up my nose, but they slid down again.  With 43 booths to cover, I set my compass to navigate around the bushy masturbation photos on the downstairs level and made my way up the ramp to the second floor.  After all, this is Garage Turenne—no stairs!

Performance from far away in Montmartre

Photo: From the video “Déjà Vu” by Filippo Berta After this weeks many contemporary art fairs you may think the Parisian art scene is up for a little, well deserved break. But there's still new art to be explored, and fun openings to go to. One of them is the exhibition PIXELPOPS! featuring performance videos by a large number of international artists.  PIXELPOPS! is an ongoing, traveling series of annual digital art exhibits, founded in 2005 by the artist and web developer Colleen Tully. The series changes with each year's new locale and the creativity each new curator brings. Year after year, the online catalogue continues to grow and provide new resonances and global connections in artistic interpretation. This years curator of PIXELPOPS! is Paris based Philip Tonda from Transient Projects To People. The theme of the exhibit is "Performance from far away": More specifically performance art made distinctly for the video camera. The videos are shown in the miniature-sized, but large-minded gallery space Nouvel Organon, located on an eclectic street in the lower part of Montmartre, creating an intimate setting for an intriguing art experience.  The opening event takes place Friday October 28, 2011 from 7pm. Between 10pm and midnight there'll be music provided by Graham Peel from the Paris/Berlin based WITTY BANTER. The event will be live broadcasted on TPTP's website. Details: TPTP in cooperation with Nouvel Organon : 20 Rue Muller, 75018 Paris. (Metro Chateau Rouge (line 4) and Anvers (line 2). Further information can be found on the website of TPTP.

 

Cutlog Paris 2011 Odyssey

Image: Cutlog 

Text: Natalie Turturro

Under the classical rooftop of the Bourse de Commerce, contemporary artists (and the promoters of their insanities) have gathered to share the ideas they’ve built in disparate lands.  Reppin’ at Cutlog 2011 are cities such as Tokyo, Hamburg, Shanghai, Berlin, Namur, New York, London, Bregen, Vienna,
Antwerp, Switzerland, Frankfurt, Milan, Providence, and of course - Paris
herself.

Taking my coat off, I ran into an acquaintance who acquainted *me* with two 
Russian sisters.  One demanded the brand of my mascara while the other 
insisted I visit Galerie Alb. Upon arriving to Alb’s charted cube, I was
greeted - nay, assaulted - with pink neon scribble divulging some sort of sexual
obscenity about “the last dick” the artist sucked. The gallery owner was 
watching me with a wry smile on her face.  The Russians waited with wide
 eyes, anticipating such blatant art would insinuate an equally undisguised
 reaction.

*Well, ladies*…this ain’t the first time I’ve been to the contemporary art
rodeo.

Paris is not black and white..It’s grey!

A conversation between Susie Hollands, Director of Vingt Paris and Philip Tonda, artist and curator.

Image: Kristijan Radakovic

Philip: When did you first get the idea of creating an artist-in-residence program?

Susie: I got the idea when I came to Paris in 2003 or 2004 to pursuit my own artistic ambitions. I met a lot of people and everybody seemed to have something in common - they came because Paris is a good place for creative souls. However, it's really hard to find a place to live and work here!

At this time I was also starting an art gallery with some friends. While this was not necessarily a sustainable undertaking, it did give some insight to the Parisian art scene and the situation for artists: Rents are sky high and there are very few spaces available. But artists need space to work.

Then we developed a community of people who nevertheless lived here, artists, photographers, writers etc. And this community has grown to what Vingt Paris Magazine is today. The idea of a residency project is really an extension of this.