Digital and video art fair Paris 2007 (DiVA)Opening-night Vernissage on November 15th at Le Louvre des antiquaires

From November 15 to the 18th Le Louvre des antiquaires will host in the 1st borrough of Paris the DiVA Paris 2007.
In this third edition, DiVA Paris offer a selection of 19 international galleries that have dedicated special attention to the work of artists using video and digital media to express themselves. Galleries will use Store front spaces on the lower level of the centre. Other DiVA related events and program will take place at the exhibition space of Le Louvre des antiquaires on the second floor/


DiVA is the first art fair dedicated to video and digital art. Galleries will exhibit works using the moving image, new media and digital photography.
Since the invention of photography, nothing has had a greater impact on artistic practice without the the emergence of the personal video camera, and later, digital technology. Today, cameras and video cameras, digital and otherwise, with the aid of computers, have become the ultimate tool in creating a dynamic arena for artistic expression without the limits imposed by the artist's physical surroundings.

The concentration of serious collectors in Paris, both contemporary art lovers and those who collect as part of family tradition, makes Paris one of the most important places for exhibiting video art and new media. DiVA Paris promises to be a valuable addition to the city art Arena with local collectors welcoming video pairs a serious part of their collection.

Exhibition hours
November 15 and 16th and 17th and 18th 2007 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
free admission

Opening-night Vernissage
Thursday, November 15th 2007
free admission from 11 a.m.
private reception & cocktail at the gallery at 4 p.m.
tickets are $100.00
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Digital and video art fair Paris 2007 (DiVA)
www.divafair.com
video art, digital photography & new media

Le Louvre des antiquaires
www.louvre-antiquaires.com
2, Place du Palais Royal
75001 Paris
Parking in the basement
Metro: Le Louvre - Palais-Royal

Tel: 33 (0)1 40 20 08 98

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Russian Mafia TattooSergueï Vassiliev PhotographsOpening Vernissage Monday, November 5th from 5.00pm

Sergueï Vassiliev photographs reveals the russian criminals world throughout tatoos made in prisons.

Russian criminal tattoos have a complex system of symbols which can be 'read' to give quite detailed information about the wearer. Not only do the symbols carry meaning but the area of the body on which they are placed may be meaningful too. The initiation tattoo of a new gang member is usually placed on the chest and may incorporate a rose. A rose on the chest is also used within the Russian Mafia. Wearing false or unearned tattoos is punishable by death in the criminal underworld.

Tattoos done in a Russian prison have a distinct blueish color and usually appear somewhat blurred because of the lack of instruments to draw fine lines. The ink is often created from burning the heel of a shoe and mixing the soot with urine.

Tattoos on the forehead are usually forcibly applied, and designed both to humiliate the bearer and warn others about him or her. They frequently consist of slurs about the bearer's ethnicity, sexual orientation, or perceived collusion with the prison authorities. They can indicate that the bearer is a member of a political group considered offensive by other prisoners (e.g. Vlasovite), or has been convicted of a crime (such as child rape) which is disapproved of by other criminals.

Tattoos that consist of political or anti-authoritarian statements are known as 'grins'. They are often tattooed on the stomach of a vor v zakone, as a means of acquiring status in the criminal community. A Russian criminologist, Yuri Dubyagin, has claimed that, during the Soviet era, there existed 'secret orders' that an anti-government tattoo must be 'destroyed surgically', and that this procedure was usually fatal. Consequently, such tattoos were also sometimes applied forcibly to the back of a violator of the 'thieves' code', as punishment.

Photos presented were shot by Sergueï Vassiliev, one of the most famous russian photographer , between 1989 and 1992 in camps and prisons from 5 russian regions for the making of the Danzig Baldaev book who dedicated his all life to criminals tatoos with a unique collection of more than 3600 tatoo drawings. Baldaev realized a ture ethnolog masterwork while employee in the russian penitentiary system.

Sergueï Vassiliev. Russian Mafia Tattoo

Opening preview - Vernissage: Sergueï Vassiliev. Russian Mafia Tattoo Monday, November 5th from 5.00pm to 10:00pm

ArtMenParis
www.artmenparis.com
64 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth
75003 Paris
1st stairway to your left, 1st floor, left door.
Metro Strasbourg Saint-Denis or Réaumur-Sébastopol
Contact Olivier Cerri on 06 68 20 19 69, cerri@artmenparis.com
Opening hours: 6.00pm to 11.0pm

About the artist: Sergueï Vassiliev
Born in 1936 in the Tchouvachy republic (Russie, master form the ministry of interior political institute, he is still permanent photographer for the "Vetcherny Tchéliabinsk" (the Tcheliabinsk evening) since more than 30 years. He received numerous awards and prizes in the Press photographers category, received 4 photo "Oscars" by the "World Press Photo" in 1978,1980,1982,1983 in Amsterdam …. He has been rewarded the Goldeneye price in 2003 in Russia and nominated to the title of "Russian federation artist". HIs work has been exposed worldwide in numerous collections and museums. He published over 20 books.

YOUNG CREATION 2007 [Exhibition/opening] Friday November 2nd to November 11th, 2007

Opening Friday November 2nd from 06:00pm

After a rather rich week for contemporary exhibitions, a new one opens up at the Bellevilloise: the 2007 edition of "Young Creation". The international exhibition for contemporary arts will take place from November 2nd to November 11th, 2007 in Paris. After "Slick 07", the "FIAC" not to mention "Show Off", Professionals and general audience will be able to discover the latest in peculiar trends from over 60 young artists, French and from abroad, selected from over a thousand candidates.

The Bellevilloise already sponsor of "Slick 07", will welcome an original setting, designed and realized from unreleased artist's projects. Relevance, innovation, diversity, multiplicity of medium and Point of vues, "Young Creation" will give you an opportunity to face the most up-to-date artistic propositions.
Much more than an exhibition, "Young Creation" strives to be a laboratory of shapes, a meeting and exchange of best practice for artists, the audience and professionals within a user-friendly space.

Young Creation 2007
http://www.jeunecreation.org
A la Bellevilloise
19-21 rue Boyer
75020 Paris
Metro : Gambetta - Line 3
from Friday November 2nd to November 11th, 2007
from 10:00am to 08:00pm Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Sunday
from 12:00 noon to 10:00pm Friday/Saturday
Entrance fee : 3 euros
Contact

The artists: carine altermatt / karem arrieta / agnès aubague / marie auvity / cécile belmont / nadia benbouta / laure-amandine béraud / nathalie bibougou / johanna blin / chimène denneulin / anna foka / mirjam fruttiger / pablo gonzalez-trejo / aurélie haberey / helga härenstam / gabriel hernandez / cédric hoareau / hop là! nous vivons / lena huber / bettina hutschek / jean-christophe kerourédan / soyeon kim / tae-gon kim / atsunobu kohira / caroline lejeune / emeric lhuisset / beat lippert / sebastien loghman / kim lux / nomusa makhubu / sylviane masson / luc mattengerger /perez-farinas mauro / ji-sook min / anne moirier / diego movilla / sandra nakamura / olivier passieux / benoît pingeot / charlotte puertas / thileli rahmoun / marina rosselle / stefana savic / sarah schastok / verena schaukal / zijian sha / banya sim / aurélie slonina / linda suk / aurélie tomas-bouil / céline trouillet / fabien villon / gabi vogt / iseo youn / siegfried zeller

The sponsors: Candy Trash / Gigacircus / 50°nord (artiste invité Grégoire Motte) / TOC / eDS (c)ollectif & espace Digital Sporadique

Lumen18 Opening october 31st, 2007 - 07:00pm Benjamin Josset, David Cousin-Marsy, Emilie Juillet

The exhibition "Lumen 18", presented at the CANOPY SPACE, offers 3 visions about the relationship an individual/Photographers keeps up with his/her environment.

With his "Already-made" series, David Cousin-Marsy reveals, through his gaze, unexpected art objects in an over-urban, bland and lonely world and pimp up our ordinary view. This very same urban environment is the setting to a walking dream by Benjamin Josset, who makes associations in his series "Rencontre" (Encounters). Emilie Juillet as for her, set up an inventory of emotion trigged by her environment. She collect faces, details, moments which become as many "Human Nature(s)". Those 3 photographers share with us the light they see in our surrounding world.


Collective exhibition of contemporary photographs
With Benjamin Josset / Emilie Juillet / David Cousin-Marsy
from october 31st to November 25th, 2007

Opening Wednesday, october 31st, 2007 - 07:00pm

Espace Canopy
www.labelette.info
19, rue Pajol. 75018 Paris
Metro: La Chapelle
Wedenesday/Thursday/Friday from 03:00pm to 07:00pm
Saturday 02:00pm - 08:00pm / Sunday 02:00pm - 07:00pm

Press Contact: Charlotte at +33(0)6 88 31 18 94
Contacts: +33(0)6 06 722 667

The Bastille's Big Contemporary Art Market Opening Tuesday Octobre 30th - November 4th, 2007 from 5:00pm

Opening on Tuesday, October 30th from 5:00pm to 10:00pm

Since 1994 this art show is a delight to art enthusiast with its eclectism and its coloufull stands.
Everything strats with the magic of the place itself... the Bastille harbour, the boats, the pool, the footbridge, the gardens, everything contribute to a very special place indeed. Listen to visitors and exhibitors: "it's "à la Bastille and nowhere else!"
The "First exhibition" zone is getting bigger. Due to last year's success, artists taking advantage of this great opportunity are coming back in numbers and want to meet again the 30.000 visitors they met for the first time last year and become full exhibitors.

This year, the 14th edition's main theme will be "the Pallet", more than 500 artists will exhibit in the middle of a rather surprising setting realized with wooden pallet - wether painters tools (Palette means also this in french) or colored handling pallet. painted or diverted from their main purpose, it'll be pallet day...

The Bastille's Big Contemporary Art Market
www.joel-garcia-organisation.fr
PRIX: 7€
HORAIRES: de 11 à 20 heures tous les jours
NOCTURNE: le vendredi 2 novembre jusqu'à 22 heures

Métro Bastille : lignes 1, 5 et 8 ou Quai de la Rapée
Bus : lignes 20,29,65, 87 et 91
Parking : Opéra Bastille (not free) - Sogéparc, Boulevard de la Bastille (not free)