PARIS.- Drawing Now Art Fair - the first contemporary art fair dedicated to contemporary drawing in Europe founded by Christine Phal and directed by Carine Tissot - announces its 70 participating galleries for its 16th edition which will take place from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 March 2023 at the Carreau du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement in Paris. For the second year in a row, we are contributing to the influence of the drawing all We are offering visitors and VIPs a combined ticket for the Old Master Drawing Fair (22-27 March 2023) and the Contemporary Drawing Fair. In order to enhance the discovery and experience of contemporary drawing, Drawing Now Art Fair is increasing the number of events and is offering a combined programme of an ex- hibition and talks.
Since its first edition in 2007, the selection of exhibitors at Drawing Now Art Fair has been carried out by an independent committee made up of professionals from the world of contemporary art and contemporary drawing:
Joana P. R. Neves, Artistic director of the fair;
Emilie Bouvard, Art historian, heritage curator, scientific director of the Giacometti Foundation;
Anita Haldemann, Deputy Director and Head of the Prints and Drawings Department at the Kunstmuseum Basel;
Catherine Hellier du Verneuil, Art historian and collector;
Pascal Neveux, Director of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Picardie;
Philippe Piguet, Independent art critic and curator;
Daniel Schildge, Collector;
Dirk Snauwaert, Director of WIELS in Brussels.
70 PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
70 Galleries Including:
30% of new exhibitors (never participated, or not recently)*.
21 international galleries (30%) from 13 countries represented:
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Serbia.
110 Galerie*, Paris, France — Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris, France — Galerie Aline Vidal*, Paris, France — Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France — Galerie Analix Forever*, Geneva, Switzerland — Archiraar Gallery, Brussels, Belgium — Galerie Ariane Chauffert-Yvart, Paris, France — Galeria Artizar*, Laguna, Spain — Backslash, Paris, France — Galerie Barbier, Paris, France — Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France — Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France — Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès*, Paris, France — Galerie Bessières*, Chatou, France — Galerie Binome, Paris, France — Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Paris, France — Ciaccia Levi*, Paris, France — Creative Growth*, Oakland, United States — Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, France — Dilecta, Paris, France — Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise*, Paris, France — Drawing Room, Hamburg, Germany — Galerie Antoine Dupin*, Cancale, France — Galerie Eric Dupont*, Paris, France — Galerie DYS, Brussels, Belgium — Espace à vendre, Nice, France — Galerie F, Senlis, France — Galerie la Ferronnerie/Brigitte Négrier, Paris, France — Galerie 8+4, Paris, France — Galleria Studio G7, Bologna, Italy — Galerie Claire Gastaud, Clermont- Ferrand and Paris, France — Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris, France — Galerie gugging nina katschnig, Maria Gugging, Austria — Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France — Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom — Hestia*, Belgrade, Serbia — Huberty & Breyne - Les Arts Dessinés, Paris, France — Galerie Houg, Paris, France — Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul de Vence, France — Iragui, Moscow, Russia — Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels, Belgium — Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France — Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France — Kitai, Tokyo, Japan — Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany — By Lara Sedbon*, Paris, France — Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France — Galerie LMNO, Brussels, Belgium — Lullin + Ferrari*, Zurich, Switzerland — Galerie Maïa Muller, Paris, France — Galerie Martel, Paris, France — Galerie Maubert, Paris, France — Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, Netherlands — Galerie Miyu, Paris, France — Modulab, Metz, France — Galerie Papillon, Paris, France — PARIS-B, Paris, France — Galerie Polaris*, Paris, France — Galerie Provost Hacker*, Lille, France — Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France — quand les fleurs nous sauvent, Paris, France — Semiose, Paris, France — Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels, Belgium — Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France — Galerie Templon*, Paris France — Galerie Patrice Trigano*, Paris, France — Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany — Galerie Vazieux*, Paris, France — Galerie Wagner, Paris, France — Wooson Gallery*, Taegu, South Korea.
List as of 8 December 2022
NEW EVENTS
An exhibition curated by Joana P.R. Neves: The feminine spectrum: machines, oocytes, threads, potions
This exhibition is a gendered look at contemporary drawing, through the historical, technical and physical prism of practices attributed to women, as well as areas where women have had a crucial, if invisible, contribution. Thus, somewhat provocatively, the exhibition for the sixteenth edition of Drawing Now art fair explores four historically female domains, namely technology, the gendered/ reproductive body, textile work, and an idiosyncratic knowledge of nature.
How does contemporary drawing reflect these fields?
The spectrum is a form of counter-power to definitions. It is about exploring historically feminine spaces, not defining what it is to be female or feminine; boundaries are porous, and art freely explores forms and content.
We are pleased to have the Frac Picardie collection as part of our partnership, as well as the artists invited to explore this theme.
Artists: Tania Mouraud, Stéphanie Saadé, Myriam Mihindou, Nicolas Chardon, Karina Bisch, Sara Tritz, Antoine Medes, Louise Aleksiejew, Rachel Duckhouse, Jan Hopkins, Pierrette Bloch, Edith Dekyndt, Vera Molnar, Agnes Martin, Paul Pagk, Lise Duclaux, Raphaëlle Péria, Hélène Delprat, Marlène Dumas, Elika Hedayat...
The Drawing Now Prize:
For the past 10 years, the Drawing Now Prize has been supporting emerging artists and highlighting the role of galleries as pioneers. Since 2011, the Drawing Now Prize has made it possible to support a drawing artist and acknowledge the work of his or her gallery. Awarded on the occasion of the Drawing Now Art Fair, the prize is endowed with 10,000 euros, including 5,000 euros for the artist and a production budget of 5,000 euros for an exhibition at Drawing Lab, the art centre dedicated to contemporary drawing. The Drawing Now Prize is supported by SOFERIM.
Since 2011, 10 artists have benefited from the prize: Catherine Melin (2011), Clément Bagot (2012), Didier Rittener (2013), Cathryn Boch (2014), Abdelkader Benchamma (2015), Jochen Gerner (2016), Lionel Sabatté (2017), Michail Michailov (2018), Lucie Picandet (2019), Nicolas Daubanes (2021) and Karine Rougier (2022).
The selection of the artists is made by the selection committee of the fair among the artists exhibited in focus by the galleries. Thus, 5 artists are pre-selected on the basis of a dossier prior to the show, and their names will be announced in 2022 during the opening of the exhibition of Nicolas Daubanes, winner of the Drawing Now 2021 Prize.
It is at the opening of the show and after having seen the drawings on the galleries’ stands that the committee refines its choice and selects the year’s winner.
The talks progam with a roster of international guest speakers
This is a unique opportunity, a meeting beetween contemporary drawing professionals from all over the world. The fair welcomes speakers specialized in contemporary art for talks and interviews. From performance art to the feminist issues, drawing teaches new ways to address contemporary questions, each year with new themes allowing us to have a better understanding of the medium.
Le Printemps du dessin:
From March to June, spring welcomes a great drawing festival, in partnership with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Réseau Documents D’Artistes, the Artothèques, and with the support of the Ministry of Culture. Since 2007, Drawing Now Art Fair has brought together a community of art lovers, professionals and drawing experts who wish to support contemporary creation through one of its major disciplines: drawing! By creating and actively supporting Printemps du Dessin, Christine Phal has been keen to mobilize a large number of institutions, art centres and national monuments in order to address an even larger community throughout France around the artist and his or her drawing practice. Within these venues, which are open to the public, a number of drawing activities will take place between 20 March and 21 June 2023.
You can check the program on the website: printempsdudessin.com
Overview of the talks programme
All the talks - a programme of meetings with international personalities - will take place in the Espace Talks on level -1 of the Carreau du Temple. Each talk lasts 1 hour and can be found on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/ drawingnowparis.
Artist talk with David Tremlett Moderation: Joana P. R. Neves
More information to come.
David Tremlett was born in 1945 in Sticker St. Austell, Great Britain. He lives and works in Bovington, Hertshire, UK. Since the late 1970s he has been creating wall drawings at the British Embassy in Berlin, the British Council building in Nairobi, Kenya and the Capella Delle Brunate in La Morra, Barolo with his friend Sol LeWitt.
Now and then: when disegno meets contemporary drawing Moderation: Joana P. R. Neves with Irina Zucca Alessandrelli (Curator of Ramo Collection and Milano Drawing Week) and Isabel Seligman (Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum).
Irina Zucca Alessandrelli has been the Curator of Collezione Ramo (Italian Drawings of XX and XXI Century) since 2013. She is the curator of the Milano Drawing Week and the DISEGNI/Drawings section at Artissima international fair, Turin. She is the author of Italian Drawing of the XX century (Milan 2019, Silvana ed). She presented the Collezione Ramo for the first time at Museo del Novecento in Milan in 2018 with the exhibition “Chi ha paura del Disegno?” (Nov 2018-Jan 2019).
Isabel Seligman is Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Recent exhibitions and publications include Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now (Thames and Hudson, 2016) and Pushing Paper: Contemporary drawing from 1960 to now (Thames and Hudson, 2019). Isabel is particularly interested in the interaction of historical and contemporary works on paper, as explored in her most recent exhibition “Drawing Attention: Emerging British Artists“ (British Museum, 2022) which featured drawings by emerging artists, acquired with an Art Fund New Collecting Award, alongside historical prints and drawings from the museum’s collections.
Artist talk with François Olislaeger Moderation: Pascal Neveux
More information to come.
François Olislaeger is a cartoonist, press cartoonist, comic book author and graphic performer, born in 1978 in Liège (Belgium). He confronts his medium, comics, with other media: dance, theatre, plastic art, music, etc.
Drawing Society
Drawing Now Art Fair is part of the Drawing Society, which now brings together the various entities involved in contemporary drawing in two areas: the art section with - in addition to Drawing Now Art Fair - Drawing Lab and Drawing on Demand and the hotel section with Drawing Hotel and Drawing House. These activities have the same passion at their epicentre: contemporary drawing and are managed by Christine Phal and Carine Tissot.
Art Department
DRAWING NOW ART FAIR
Drawing Now Art Fair is the first contemporary art fair exclusively dedicated to drawing in Europe, created in 2007 by Christine Phal, its president and founder. Every year, in March, the world-renowned art fair welcomes more than 70 international galleries selected by an independent committee of art world professionals. These galleries present more than 300 artists and nearly 2,000 works, representative of the diversity of drawing from the last 50 years to the present day. Collectors and art lovers are invited to discover the works of emerging and more established artists.
DRAWING LAB
Drawing Lab is a private art centre dedicated to contemporary drawing, conceived and sponsored by Christine Phal, and directed by Steven Vandeporta.The programming of this non-profit venue is defined by an artistic committee. Since its opening in February 2017, it has supported over 20 artists and produced 11 exhibitions. Open every day for free, the Drawing Lab’s mission is to ensure the dissemination of contemporary drawing to all audiences.
DRAWING ON DEMAND
Drawing on Demand is a cultural engineering company specialising in the design, implementation and realisation of artistic projects. Run by the Drawing Society teams, Drawing on Demand has been carrying out projects with contemporary artists for professionals in the events, hotel and real estate industries for 20 years. Contemporary art fairs, commissions for public works, interventions in the context of «1 building - 1 work», tarpaulins and hoardings, temporary occupations of spaces (Drawing Factory and Drawing Market) or one-off events, Drawing on Demand places drawing on demand and made to measure in all types of projects.
Drawing Collection
DRAWING HOTEL
The Drawing Hotel is a 4-star boutique hotel with 48 rooms near the Palais Royal, at 17 rue de Richelieu, created in 2017 by Carine Tissot.Passionate about contemporary drawing and a collector, she gave carte blanche to 6 artists to make each corridor a permanent work of art: Thomas Broomé, Françoise Pétrovitch, Clément Bagot, Abdelkader Benchamma and Lek & Sowat. This welcoming space is a open to the city and its inhabitants through its bar and patio. It houses the Drawing Lab and its shop. The Drawing Hotel is a unique destination designed as an invitation to discover contemporary drawing.
DRAWING HOUSE
The Drawing House is a 143-room hotel, designed as a boutique hotel, which will open its doors next spring. It is located not far from the Gare Montparnasse in the heart of the Gaîté-Montparnasse district, which is undergoing a renaissance.Carine Tissot, accompanied by the Nido Architecture agency, has invited six artists to use the rooms and common areas. An exhibition space dedicated to contemporary drawing will complete the artistic component with invitations to galleries and institutions. The cocktail bar will give carte blanche to artists in a more ephemeral way. Throughout the year, the hotel will live to the rhythm of a rich cultural program and will invite the artistic community to take possession of this new living space.
Drawing Now Art Fair
From Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 mars 2023 From 11am to 8pm (7pm on Sunday)
