Unmissable event of the drawing week in Paris, the 5th edition of DDESSINPARIS, DDESSIN {17}, will invest the 700 m2 under glass of Atelier Richelieu, in the heart of the capital, March 24 to 26, 2017.

Photo: DR

This anniversary edition will confirm the major role of the event: to be a springboard and a gateway, both nationally and internationally, for the young artistic scene working on drawing in all its forms - alongside more established artists -, remaining faithful to its vocation of supporting, promoting and accompanying it. A major partner of actors in the art world, DDESSIN {17} will once again offer professionals, collectors and amateurs a moment full of discoveries, in a pleasant setting and a friendly atmosphere.

DDESSIN {17} will host around twenty French and foreign galleries, 3 solo shows, 5 artists in the Illustrators Corner, his favorite; will present a specific project highlighting the existing links between the drawing of visual artists and that of comics; will propose, in echo to SoBD 2016, a set of works by 4 visual artists questioning the notion of femininity; will question itself about drawing in the digital age through a conference; and will award 2 prizes, while honoring the work of American artist Ashley Oubré, winner of the DDESSIN {16} Prize.

Twenty French and foreign galleries

New galleries will be entering the show this year: Anna Reverdy (Paris-Cape Town / South Africa), Galerie Gratadou Intuiti (Paris), H Galerie (Paris), La Galerie (Lyon), and la maison de la beach (Tunis, Tunisia); while we will find the Céline Moine Gallery (Lyon), Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland, USA), the GALLERY MAISON D'ART (Tokyo, Japan), Galerie Jean Louis Ramand - Noorforart Contemporary (Aix-en-Provence / Paris), Galerie KO21 (Paris), LHOSTE Art Contemporain (Arles), LMS Gallery (Brussels, Belgium), Ozenne & Prazowski Gallery (London, GB), Phantom Projects Contemporary (Troyes), as well as (S) ITOR Curating differently ( Paris), having already participated in DDESSINPARIS.

© ASHLEY OUBRÉ - Beautiful nude albino, 2015 - Graphite powder and India ink 92 x 114 cm - Private collection - Courtesy of the artist and Ozenne & Prazowski Gallery, London

3 solo shows

Harold Guérin, from La Marne, will present a series of drawings made on sheets of sandpaper. The rough material is carefully scraped to reveal clouds of dust from photographs of urban destruction around the world. Cyrielle Gulacsy, living in Paris, specifically produces works for the occasion, focusing on space, and in particular on the lunar modules and capsules used during the Apollo missions. His drawings will be presented as totems, mystical and venerated objects returned from space. Brigitte Lurton, based in Mougins, will unveil a very sensitive work on Humans, carried out in ink on very long rolls of tracing paper.

Le Corner Illustrateurs - 5 artists

The artist sold by Philippe Caillaud will transport us to his absurd, fantasy and marvelous world. Popy-Loly de Monteysson, from Chambourcy, will exhibit a wall installation composed of 110 drawings made with blue ballpoint pen. The very young artist Margot Denvers, living in the Hauts-de-Seine and having Brazilian roots, will speak to us about a quest for identity through a work executed in ballpoint pen and focused on Brazil, country of which she particularly appreciates the joie de vivre and the culture. Clemence Monnet, installed in Essonne, will share with us her poetic research trying to connect words to image, through drawings with figures halfway between dream and dream, that she likes to evolve over the course of her productions, like an episodic story. Anne Touquet, living in Montreuil, will evoke, through her practice, a universe where mental landscapes, real and fictional spaces are constantly reversed. Developed by successive layers of graphite, characters in mysterious choreographic postures will take place in composite decorations.

François Andes, DDESSIN's favorite {17}

François Andes is this year the favorite of Eve de Medeiros, founding director and artistic co-director of the show. The artist, born in 1969, living and working in the north of France, will present a work entitled Preparations, made up of 5 drawings of the same size (75 x 224 cm). These drawings are based on the technical principle of the exquisite corpse: the lines of the edge of one drawing are the starting points of another, which connects to the first and is independent from it at the same time. Her work takes as a source of inspiration and reflection the experience of a wild landscape and its transformation processes, in particular the primal or old forest as a place of potential animal life. His works raise the anthropological question of our relationship to nature and to the spatial and temporal world, those of the space of the landscape as a language of the absence and the search for our temptations.

A specific project between drawing by visual artists and drawing comics

The International City of Comics and Images (La Cité) and the Higher European Image School (éESI) of Angoulême, the Les Modillons Cultural Space - located near Angoulême - and DDESSINPARIS have wanted to join forces in order to promote the existing links between the drawing of contemporary visual artists and that of comics. The four partners designed an event called “Passerelles”, which started in the fall of 2016, offering actions in Angoulême and Paris. DDESSIN {17} will host the work of a selection of young student artists and authors based in Angoulême. All of them approach comics and contemporary drawing by questioning the medium through pencil or digital. With Alexandre Clérisse, Marie Deschamps, Sophie Guerrive, Jung-Hyoun Lee, Lola Lorente, Samuel Neuhardt, and ÉESI students: Hao Deng, Denis Mello, Linda Tovar, Alexandre Turpault, and Victor von Boltenstern. Curator: Catherine Mallet.

La Trans Galerie's project around femininity

The Trans Galerie, a cross-border gallery, was born out of the complicity between Corine Borgnet, visual artist, and Renaud Chavanne, author and theorist of the comic strip. On the show, and in echo at SoBD 2016, the four artists Corine Borgnet, Jessy Deshais, Aurà © lie Dubois, and Myriam Mechita wonder about their femininity, the place that is theirs and its transformations , offering works transmuting forms, transfiguring images.

A conference dedicated to drawing in the digital age

This year, a conference will tackle the many questions relating to drawing in the digital age. Four guests will question what digital technology has brought to drawing, both in terms of practices (drawing on tablets and smartphones…) and in terms of communication (social networks…). ). The question of the appearance of a new aesthetic of the line will be raised.

The DDESSIN Awards {17}

2 prizes will be awarded this year by a jury made up of professionals from the world of art and culture and other personalities, chaired by Alain Quemin, sociologist and specialist in contemporary art. The work of American artist Ashley Oubré, winner of the DDESSIN {16} Prize, represented by Ozenne & Prazowski Gallery in London - again present this year - will also be honored at the entrance to the show.

Pratical information

DRAWING {17}

Richelieu workshop
60, rue de Richelieu - 75002 Paris
Subways: Bourse, Richelieu-Drouot,
Royal Palace-Louvre Museum

Fees :

  • Entrance: 13 euros / Reduced rate: 9 euros
  • Free entry for children under 14
  • Private visit: 15 euros per person

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From 24 to 26 March 2017

  • Friday March 24 from 11 a.m. to 19 p.m.
  • Saturday 25 March from 11h to 20h
  • Sunday March 26 from 11 a.m. to 19 p.m.
  • Press visit on Thursday March 23 from 14 p.m. to 16 p.m.
  • Opening from 18 p.m. to 21 p.m. (by invitation)