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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.

Independent Boutiques in Paris 9ème: Le Rocketship

Text + Images: Anne Ditmeyer, Prêt à Voyager

As the holidays quickly approach, it's always a good reminder to support local businesses. I'm lucky to call the 9th arrondissement home, which is full of interesting, independent shops, and one of the most recent additions is Le Rocketship. Part design boutique, and part coffee bar, owner Benoît Touche has been dreaming up this project for ages, but only officially opened its doors on October 5th.

The location is prime in the 9th arrondissement, around the corner from Hotel Amour, a block from rue des Martyrs, and just a few steps away from a handful of restaurants with sprawling terraces. Additionally, it's an area full of locals, giving the neighborhood extra charm.

Minuit à Musée d'Orsay ~ The American Friends Gala

Photo: Anastasia Nielsen

Text: Natalie Turturro

At 7 pm sharp on Saturday November twelfth, a group of prompt and elegant patrons stood outside Musée d’Orsay.  Flicking cigarettes and talking gaily in tight circles, they waited for their exclusive entrance inside the museum to mark the launch of the American Friends of Musee d’Orsay (AFMO). 

Cork popping and hors d’oeuvres noshing (pinky out!) was to last until midnight.  I stood alone, hoping that my borrowed Chanel heels wouldn’t turn into soppy pumpkin on the twelfth stroke by those two massive clocks. 

The gala was sold out: 300 well-to-do members of the Franco-American community had come to see what museum president Guy Cogeval dubbed “the crème de la crème of our collection.”  An aura of sophistication danced around the ground floor statues in silver stilettos and polka dotted bow ties.  The night was ripe with celebration to foster American and French artistic relations. 

Introducing Hannu Karjalainen

VINGT Paris Presents:

Paname Fibres

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A nomadic project pointing at Paris from various, artistic perspectives, and exploring the diversity of the different Parisian city areas. 

 

We're proud to announce our first artist in residence:
Hannu Karjalainen
 

Image: Hannu Karjalainen in his temporary home, located in the 15th arrondisement. 

Hannu Karjalainen, arrived in Paris Saturday Oct 19th in the late evening. He and VINGT Paris curator Philip Tonda met each other for the first time outside the nearest tube station, and after a short stop at the residency apartment to drop off bags and get introduced to the 15 square metres that Hannu will occupy during the next 30 days, the real introduction to Paris started: Off they went in the direction of Montmartre (30 min away by subway), to join a party in a small, eclectic art gallery, where Hannu turned out not to be the only one mastering the Finnish language.

 

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.

 

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.

2011 Nuit Blanche: Montmartre / Anvers (18e)

 
Image: Frances Dubois
Text: Susie Kahlich

Some very cool stuff is happening around Montmartre / Anvers, where everything is within a stone’s throw of a bar or café open all night to keep your whistle wet and your nuit, well, blanche:

For reasons I have yet to discover, Montmartre is home to frequent parades and Nuit Blanche is no different.  Nuit Blanche 2011 kicks off with Italian artist Marcello Maloberti and his troupe forming a human caravan, parading 70 porcelain tigers through the winding streets up to the Arènes de Montmartre off rue Chappe, where the tigers will be on display throughout the night. The official literature says this performance is somehow supposed to combine art and social utopia, which makes sense if your utopia includes socializing with porcelain jungle cats.

Not to be a big creep about it, but as someone without children it’s a treat to get a peek inside Paris’ elementary schools without worrying about being arrested.  At the École Élementaire Foyatier, Icelander Ragnar Kjartansson’s video installation “The End – Rocky Mountains” will be projected on five screens positioned around the gymnasium, while in the school courtyard artist Virgina Yassef’s mythological paleontology findings are on display.

At the Gymnase Ronsard, get a preview of art collective BGL’s installation “Entertainment + problems”, on exposition in October at the MAC / VAL.  Using recycled materials and found objects to evoke a huge bonfire, the piece is meant to “tickle the urban tribal instinct.”  Kind of like Burning Man, without the sand, hippies and actual flames.

Befitting an area rife with sex clubs, transvestites and hookers, Jesper Just's experimental film No Man Is An Island plays at Le Divan du Monde.  A meditation on masculinity, gender roles and societal masks set in a dying strip club, the film is centered around interpretations of Roy Orbison’s classic broken-heart song, “Crying.”

Montmartre's famous funicular will be transformed to a moving heartbeat in France Dubois’ installation “Extra-systole”.  Bathing the cab in pulsing red light that refer to a beating heart, watch the pulse slow down on the cab’s descent and speed up on the cab’s rise, just like your own heartbeat will be doing if you decide to walk the 200+ steps to the top.

At the top of the hill at Place Louise Michel, just in front of the very Catholic Sacre Coeur, artist Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil recreates his tribute to the 400^th anniversary of Galileo’s presentation of his telescope on Mount Gianicolo.  Using 500 candles, the installation maps out what the sky will look like 100 years in the future on 1 October 2111. And while you’re at the top, visit the Église St. Pierre and watch Adrian Paci’s 35mm film “Per Speculum” a beautiful and pastoral work depicting children playing with mirrors, slings and the reflection of sunlight.

More installations and performances are scattered around the Butte, but one of the most interesting is Belgian artist Filip Gilissen’s installation at the Église St. Jean de Montmartre just across from Place des Abbesses.  Titled “The Winner Takes It All”, the work will only be activated once during the night, when the 5000^th visitor triggers a golden explosion inside the beautiful Art Nouveau church.  Easily revisited in between verres du vin, check in repeatedly to try and catch the 5000^th visitor, or park yourself at one of the cafés across the Place and start counting. If you haven't had too much to drink, race across the Place and into the church as soon as you get to 4999.  Bonne Nuit!