This video program offers a selection of five Croat artists, from several generations (Dalibor Martinis, Igor Grubić, Andreja Kulunčić, David Maljković and Renata Poljak) working with films and videos, embodying different aspects of the Croat contemporary art scene, as part of the Festival d’Automne and ‘‘Croatie, la voici".

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

The Artists Libraries are a new program for which each term, Palais de Tokyo invites an artist to exhibit the implicit connection of his mental universe. Ryan Gander’s « Esperluette » inaugurates these Bibliothèques d’artiste. The title of the exhibition designates the logogram « & », a written form attached to the coordinating conjunction «and», interlinking several concepts in a single relation, a fundamental principle in the work of the artist. The main installation,  « Ampersand », is a gigantic and closed white cube. Only a little opening permits the visitors to see furtively some objects displayed on a treadmill.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

Palais de Tokyo welcomes Fabrice Hyber (b.1961), one of the most inventive and influent artists of his generation. Seduced by the new spaces of Palais de Tokyo, Hyber takes them over and creates « a reformatting place, with two ways in: one is active, the other contemplative ». Thanks to an overhanging environment, putting old and recent works in perspective, the artist reorganizes the parameters of the world. These totally new constructions, like deconstructed logics, cause new habits to appear. Starting with an exploded and imploded world, Fabrice Hyber, creates a new universe through prototypes and drawings.

From the idleness to the artwork, from the reverie to the object, from moving to embezzlement, from hesitations to fulfilments, the exhibition Letting the Imagination Drift (Les dérives de l’imaginaire) brings visitors into the heart of the creative act. To shed light on these movements of the mind, a few individuals crop up during the exhibition circuit, mixing contemporary artists and old masters, documents and artworks.

For over twenty years, Printemps de Septembre has acted as a platform for contemporary creativity through its dynamic programme of exhibitions, events, film and radio as well as educational initiatives. This contemporary art festival is now established as one of the leading events of the cultural calendar in France. The theme for the 2012 edition of Printemps de Septembre is History Belongs to Me. Placed under the artistic direction of Paul Ardenne, historian and art critic, this edition gathers around forty artists who work individually on the question of history today.

Valentine Dolla / valentine@claudinecolin.com

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011” by Damien Hirst.

The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986– 2011” makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.

Dorelia Baird-Smith / dorelia@claudinecolin.com

As part of a new series of exhibitions dedicated to the art scene in large cities, the Maison Rouge first honours the city of Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada). Using a variety of media, visitors will discover works marked by a historical and mythical heritage as well as a certain despair tinged with immigrant humour, which populated the region during the 19th and 20th century. Artists such as Sarah Anne Jonhson, Jon Pylypchuck, Shary Boyle, Guy Maddin, William Eakin and Diana Thorneycroft, will provide visitors with one of the most complete look into Winnipeg’s fertile and imaginative artistic community.

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com

German collector Thomas Olbricht will present pieces from his collection at la Maison Rouge in Paris, while its founder Antoine de Galbert will reveal parts of his own collection at ME COLLECTORS ROOM in Berlin in an exhibition dedicated to the young French art schene, The title of the exhibition in Paris refers to Laurent Grasso's piece of the same title "Memories of the future" (2010).

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com

This ambitious exhibition revisits the work by André Lanskoy (1902 – 1976), a self-taught artist from Moscow, who studied painting alongside pre-eminent artists of the Russian Diaspora. Presenting works made of the different techniques he practiced, from figurative Intimist painting of the 1920-1930's, to the lyrical abstraction which reigned over Paris after the war, the exhibition includes pieces from LaM's permanent collection, as well as loans from international museums and private collections. Among other artists presented are Natalia Gontcharova, Michel Larionov, Sonia Terk-Delaunay, Vassily Kandinsky, Nicolas de Staël, Serge Charchoune, Serge Poliakoff, Jean Pougny, Iouri Annenkov, Philippe Hosiasson and Youla Chapoval.

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com

The 21st edition of the Printemps, directed by Anne Pontégnie, is placed under the theme “Another World”. The idea is to discover artists whose work draws on elementary energies that artists have tended to neglect over the last thirty-odd years in favour of a constant rereading of the modernist heritage. For over twenty years, the Printemps de Septembre has acted as a platform for contemporary creativity through its dynamic programme of exhibitions, events, film and radio as well as educational initiatives. In Toulouse for the past 10 years following a decade in Cahors, it is now established as one of the leading cultural events of the fall calendar in France.

Nocturnes and Soirées Nomades from 23 - 24 - 30 Septembre and 1st Octobre 2011

Julie Martinez / julie@claudinecolin.com