Teiji HAYAMA y Jane ZWEIBEL

CÉDRIX CRESPEL: A Sensual Bouquet of Urban Women

Born in 1974, living and working in Guérande, France. Cédrix Crespel is a busy artist who continously prepares new exhbitions : Paris, Strasbourg, Lille, London, now Luxembourg, and afterwards Brussels and Birmingham. His paintings, created with glycerophtalic and acrylic paints on large canvases, are very graphic, whith flat areas and precise contours. The stroke of the painter is invisible. This cool perfection contrasts perfectly with the theme of the paintings featuring women with super-sexy high heels. Two or three models inspire him this universal woman "both submitted and dominant". For a group show last year in London he painted ten women in his life. For the solo show in Luxembourg he prepared a "sensual bouquet where women are in very suggestive poses".

Marine Karbowski en LESLIE´S Art Gallerie

Marine Karbowski was born in Paris in 1978. She studied Fine Arts in Avignon and now lives and works in Paris.
Marine Karbowski’s artworks have been exhibited in Clermont-Ferrand (2006), in the french art gallery Edgar in Paris (2006-2009), at the european contemporary art fair in Strasbourg (st-art 2007, st-art 2008) and at the artist’s atelier « Le Ventre de la Baleine » in Paris (2009).
Her artistic skill is to change the colors of the nature represented in her paintings which gives them a neo-expressionist touch. Every painting represents a very special atmosphere, referring to nowhere we have been before.
The artworks of Marine Karbowski remind us of the famous contemporary artist Edgar Doile, born in Edinburgh, whose painting entitled White Canoe was sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million in 2007, an auction record for a living european artist.

The solo show in Leslie’s Artgallery in september - october 2009 is the first personal exhibition of Marine Karbowski outside of France. You are welcome to the opening reception on Thursday september 10th, 2009, starting at 7 hour p.m.

Je peins comme je le désire, comme je le phantasme. Aucune autre technique, à part peut-être la musique qui bénéficie d’une intelligence abstraite, ne représente mieux l’affection profonde que je voue à la liberté et à la singularité. La peinture m’offre un monde parfait dans lequel je peux m’étendre, et brûler sans aucune douleur. Sa peinture est très littéraire proche des univers des grands nouvellistes fin de siècle comme Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe et Guillaume Apollinaire. Fascinée par les peintres Lucian Freud et Egon Schiele, influencée par les auteurs John Maxwell Coetzee et James Ellroy, impressionnée par le psychanalyste Carl Gustav Jung et le philosophe Gilles Deleuze et touchée par les deux frères cinéastes Joel et Ethon Cohen, Marine Karbowski crée des paysages oniriques, magiques et parfois angoissants, voire apocalyptiques. Elle raconte des histoires qui laissent place à notre propre imagination. Les tableaux de Marine Karbowski ne laissent pas indifférents. De con propre aveu, elle-même les aime autant qu’elle les déteste et sort de cette tension par son humour particulier, proche du sarcasme, qu’elle décrit comme suit : « J’utilise mon humeur sans parcimonie car en tant que caractéristique de l’être humain, il offre à l’esprit la possibilité de divaguer, d’halluciner, d’imaginer. Le burlesque, le grotesque et l’ironie me serrent la pince tous les matins. En revanche, l’humour n’est pas universel, et je peux comprendre la réticence de certains lorsqu’il s’agit de rire devant une de mes toiles. Je leur pardonne, je ne rirais sûrement pas de leurs blagues en retour. Seules les situations absurdes déclenchent en moi l’hilarité. Si je suis surprise ou décontenancée j’utilise cet état pour mieux appréhender la situation. »

Exhibitions, Publications, Awards

2009	Leslie's Artgallery, Bridel, Luxembourg	Solo exhibition (Espace I)
2009	Le Ventre de la Baleine, Ateliers d'Artsistes, Paris	Expo-Vente by 11 artists
2008	Blurb, ArtBook of Leslie's Artgallery	Featured Artist
2008	Foire Européenne d’Art contemporain de Strasbourg	Group exhibition Galerie EDGAR
2008	Galerie EDGAR, le marchand d'art, Paris	Group exhibition DISCOVERIES I
2007	Foire Européenne d’Art contemporain de Strasbourg	Group exhibition Galerie EDGAR '7 artistes pour 2007'
2006	Galerie Claire Gasteau, Clermont-Ferrand, France	Group exhibition
2006	Monthly Newsletter of the Alpha Omega Society	Three paintings from the Travesti series

Entimologist of the Imagination: DEMIAN LOUCHE-PELISSIER

Entomologist of the imagination.

For years, I have been exploring the natural world, in city parks and by the seashore, gathering bits and pieces of all kinds for my work. I turn them into fantastic insects with which to fill my imaginary.
As different parts of plants become a thorax, an elytra or an antenna, an insect appears. All it needs now is the breath of live, a lifestyle and a social role. I install these insects in a mysterious procession around a nest or cocoon, or in a museum-like display case. And so I become an entomologist of the imagination, an explorer of worlds yet to be discovered. For me this is an invitation to glimpse nature in a reinvented form, a fabulous opportunity to appreciate it's wealth.
Christian Bobin, who wrote “Le huitième jour de la semaine”, says that the simplest things, from fruit to stones, grass and stars invite us to enjoy an infinite celebration. Beauty lies in the outdoors, he explains, inside a chestnut, along a path, in the corner of a windowpane, on the dark fruit of roots, in the dust along the road and in the green of a river- everywhere there is beauty life itself.
This is how I see and perceive all of these tiny bits of nature and other found objects that are just waiting to be given a second life. Removed from their usual context, they become now more precious- like jewels or treasures. This is my take on beauty, the fragility of nature, life.


Parcours
Graduated 1989 from Ecole Emile Cohl, animation department.
Since 1990 works as an author, graphic creator and director in animation movies. In 2003 started a second career as an visual artist.


Exhibitions, Publications, Awards
2009 Leslie's Artgallery, Bridel, Luxembourg Solo exhibition Espace II
2009 Galerie L'Art à Part, Ollioules, France
Group exhibition
2009 Centre Marcel Pagnol, Lançon de Provence, France Solo exhibition "Micro Sculpture"
2008 Blurb, ArtBook of Leslie's Artgallery
Featured Artist
2008 Paris, France Caravanabraille
2008 Urban Gallery, Marseille, France
Group exhibition "Manipulations Naturistes"

2008 Chapelle St. Sulpice, Istres, France
Group exhibition
2008 La Poisonnerie, Marseille, France
Solo exhibition (Installation)
2007 Festival Vice & Versa, Valence, France Caravanabraille

2007 Insectarium, Montreal, Canada
Exhibition "Spiders on parade"
2006 Muséum, Lyon, France Exhibition "Insectes, je vous aime"

2005 Kasa Galeri, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Group show
2005 Casa de Velazquez, Ciudad University, Madrid, Spain Exhibition "Magnolia"
2005 Candyland, Stockholm, Sweden
Group exhibition « Have you ever been stung by a dead bee? »

2004 Galerie Objet Trouvé, Paris, France
Group exhibition
2003 Hall Saint Pierre, Paris, France
Group exhibition "Printemps des singuliers"

BILLY & HELL´S: The Renewed Portrait

Publicado por: Gabriela Sáenz

El trabajo fotográfico de Diane Arbus, Irving Penn y Richard Avedon fué el común denominador y la fuente de inspiración para que el binomio comercial conocido como Billy & Hells entrara en funciones en el año de 1986. Anke Linz y Andreas Oettinger tomarían sus primeras fotografías en un estudio de la ciudad de Munich, que los llevaría a destacar en el área publicitaria y de modas.
Con los años, la pareja alemana creó su propio estilo: Baryt-like (técnica ahora conocida como Lithprint) y de la cual resultan hermosas fotos de colores reducidos y efectos intensos, que emergen de un juego exacto en la combinación de diapositivas de negativos en blanco y negro con otras de color. Dicha técnica se ha convertido en el sello de la famosa firma europea que declara encontrar su inspiración en la gente común: " we are inspired by early portrait photography; people taken aou of their environments, despicted and documented in diffuse ligth"...
Prefiriendo la sencilléz de los fondos y del manejo de los ángulos desde los que hacen las tomas, estos fotógrafos logran que del espacio físico entre su lente y el modelo, surga el espejo que revele el alma de sus fotografiados, quienes quedan capturados en una confrontación directa y tensa, que, paradójicamente, es de gran belleza.
Billy & Hell´s tendrá exposición en Leslie´s Art Gallerie de la ciudad de Luxemburgo del 5 al 30 de Marzo (2009).