The Centre Pompidou Mobile is the first touring museum in the world. Its purpose is to bring masterpieces of modern art to the public, and specifically to the public distant from culture. Designed by architect Patrick Bouchain, the Centre Pompidou MOBILE (650m²) was inaugurated in October 2011 in Chaumont (Haute-Marne) and has since stopped in various locations throughout France. Libourne will be the next stop for the new hanging on the theme « Round and Square ».

On the occasion of the São Paulo Biennale, Destination Sud, will host projects by the three winners of the SAM Prize for Contemporary Art since its inception in 2009 (Ivan Argote, Laurent Pernot and Zineb Sedira) alongside works produced independently by SAM Art Projects finalists: Alain Bublex, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, and Jean-Charles Hue. One ‘clandestine’ exhibitor, Pierre Ardouvin, will also bring his complementary touch to this remarkable  panorama of contemporary creativity in France.

Albane Champey

albane@claudinecolin.com

La Fabrique is a new cultural space in Nantes dedicated to contemporary art and specially music and new numerical technologies. Initiated by the City of Nantes, it is part of a wider a new cultural and artistic outreach project, which combines land planning and cultural networking. Its goal is to create a network between the city’s various neighborhoods such as Dervallières, where a first lab which opened its doors in December 2009. 

Samya Ramdane / samya@claudinecolin.com 

Every year, SAM Art Projects welcomes two resident artists from "emerging"countries to Villa Raffet to create a work of art during their stay in Paris. In order to promote his 5 month participation, SAM Art Projects is hosting an exhibition by resident artist Adriàn Villar Rojas, who arrived at Villa Raffet in February 2011.

From 9th september, Villar Rojas will present a monumental sculpture in the Tuileries Garden in Paris.

Albane Champey

albane@claudinecolin.com

The exhibition aims to explore through prestigious Arabic manuscripts, Persian and Turkish held at the BNF, how at the beginning of Islam, was formed out of the figurative, original art based on geometry, the arabesque and calligraphy. The Total Foundation has, through its financial patronage, permitted the digitization of manuscripts.

Sandrine Mahaut / sandrine@claudinecolin.com

Curated by Jeannette Zwingenberger, this exhibition explores representations of cannibalism, from Greek mythology (Saturn, Polyphemus and Tantalus) to 19th century vampire legends, along with travel writings of New World explorers and children's fairytale giants. The exhibition will bring together historical pieces (paintings, drawings, engravings and scholar books) and contemporary artworks (Oda Jaune, Jana Sterbak, Philippe Mayaux, Michel Journiac, Mathew Barney, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Wangechi Mutu, Gilles Barbier, Wim Delvoye, etc.)

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com

Created in 2009, SAM Art Projects was started and developed by Sandra and Amaury Mulliez with the objective of supporting, promoting and defending contemporary creation in the visual arts domain.

SAM Art Projects wishes to stimulate cultural exchanges with an openness of spirit regarding Europe and so-called « emerging » countries. With this in mind, SAM Art Projects fulfils two complementary missions :

•The awarding of the SAM Prize for contemporary art, which rewards a project created by an artist residing in France destined for an emerging country.

•A residency awarded in the Villa Raffet (Paris 14th district) to two foreign artists from an emerging country.

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

Created in April 2009 by Sandra and Amaury Mulliez, SAM Art Projects aims to promote, support and defend contemporary creativity in the visual arts field, through a dialogue between France and “emerging” countries. On 16th December, one of the following artists will be selected to exhibit in France in 2011:

Gyan Panchal / Galerie Frank Elbaz

Valérie Jouve / Galerie Xippas

Alain Declercq / Galerie Loevenbruck

Laurent Pernot / Galerie Odile Ouizeman

Alain Bublex / Galerie Vallois

Albane Champey / albane@claudinecolin.com

For a week, the Unknown Siberia festival, organised by the Mikhaïl Prokhorov Foundation, will offer an exceptional panorama of the Russian contemporary cultural scene, for the music, theatre, dance, literature and fine arts fields. Hosted by leading cultural institutions in Lyon, these events will for the most part be exclusively presented in France. The Unknown Siberia festival is one of the key events of the France-Russia Year 2010

For several years now, performance has once more become a widely adopted medium. The goal of the 2010 Printemps de Septembre festival is to analyze this revival: what are the new arenas of performance, and what are the links between them? Where do its new challenges lie? How have artists of our day and age appropriated its essentials? How does it stand up to the limitations of exhibitions and cultural events?

These questions are all the more important because France has not seen any major exhibitions on the subject since 1994. Photographs, videos, objects, installations, sound pieces, and different documents will all be stressing the ‘live’ factor; over and above the initial gesture, it is the form displayed that will be the main object of study.

Press opening : 24 September 2010 at 2:30 pm

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com