From January 28 to February 27, 2022, Studio Artera is organizing its very first exhibition, Close-up, curated by Elora Weill-Engerer, curator and art critic. Set in the intimacy of a showroom apartment, the exhibition brings together a selection of recent works by four of the agency's artists: Béatrice Bissara, Adeline Care, Romain Lalire and Vincent Marcq. Its title, Close-up, refers to a form of prestidigitation that involves performing as close as possible to the spectator. This theme of proximity to the work raises the question of the effect it can have on the viewer, whether he or she likes it or not. Close-up is also an opportunity for the Artera studio to present the artistic values behind this project, in contrast to certain forms of hierarchization and compartmentalization that sometimes characterize our relationship with works of art.
Elora Weill-Engerer graduated from the École du Louvre and Paris IV - Sorbonne with a degree in contemporary art and museology. An art critic and independent curator, she is a researcher in art history and contemporary art. Elora Weill-Engerer is the author of exhibition texts and articles for several magazines, galleries and books on contemporary artistic practices. With a particular taste for art on the borderline between abstraction and figuration, she attaches great importance to the coherence of an artist's work and the sincerity of his or her practice. Her areas of research also include contemporary Gypsy art, new pictorial objects and the minimalists.
BéatriceBissara questions Man's vision of the world and the place he occupies through majestic works and installations in motion. Sensitive to different states of consciousness, Béatrice Bissara unveils poetic, immersive creative processes that challenge the boundaries between time, space, body and mind. Whether in sculpture, painting, kinetic devices, light or sound installations, she brings an authentic touch of reflection on who we really are, as well as on the different ways of traveling with the mind.
Béatrice's works are a gateway to a different frame of reference, a doorway to a different way of seeing the world. Since 2005, the artist's collections of bronzes, paintings and installations have been exhibited in France and abroad in private collections and galleries. Every year since 2007, she has exhibited her work at numerous fairs on the American continent, including Scope Art - Miami Beach, Palm Beach, Art and Antique Show, Sofa New York, Park Avenue Armory - New York, Miami Art Show and Chicago SOFA Show.
Born in 1993 in a small village in south-western France, Adeline Care quickly turned to the audiovisual field before graduating from the École des Gobelins. Devoting herself to the image in all its forms, she specialized in photography and began to make a name for herself with mystical, voluptuous, almost vaporous visuals. Her inspiration is rooted in childhood memories of the vast, mysterious Dordogne forests and winding valleys filled with mystery.
Preferring argentic to digital, she won the Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2019 with her sumptuous series Aithō, je brûle, some of whose shots are distributed exclusively and in limited editions by Studio Artera. Following the immense success of this series, she exhibits at Fisheye Gallery in Paris and then at 100% l'Expo at La Villette, among the brightest talents of her generation.
Photographer and film-maker Adeline Care divides her time between the hustle and bustle of Paris and the soothing landscapes of the South-West.
Fascinated by the loss of reference points, Romain Lalire questions reality through a multidisciplinary approach. It was during his training in the art of mime at the Marcel Marceau International School of Mimodrama that the question of materializing the invisible became one of his main lines of research. Asserting his desire to reveal the most beautiful aspects of the invisible, while transforming it into an image using a variety of media, Romain has evolved his mediums over the years. Passing from mime to magic to visual art, sliding towards new ways of revealing and sublimating the invisible through new technologies.
In his search for ever more unexpected mediums, Romain Lalire takes the loss of reference points as far as the theater. In Les Ombres' show Baroque fantastique, he creates a mapping effect that plays with both the sails of the set and the musicians on stage, drawing the spectator into the unexpected. Romain also created the visual effects for Alexis Michalik's Cercle des illusionnistes, the magic effects for Cie Pernette's Ombres blanches, Estelle Savasta's Le préambule des étourdis,Jamais Jamais by Les arpenteurs de l'invisible, and most recently for Charlotte Rondelez's La ménagerie de verre.
His questioning of reality turned to the visual arts in 2018 with an interactive installation at the Palais de Tokyo, where Romain Lalire presented Kumo, specially created for the Do Disturb festival. A second, reworked version of Kumo will be presented in Shanghai for the launch of Cartier's "Magicien" collection.
Romain continues to explore new forms of writing, focusing his work on digital media. Augmented reality, generative software, real-time programs, mapping, sensory sensors... These are just some of the fabulous tools he now uses to question reality and our relationship with images: the all-digital world, the multiplicity of media, our (over)consumption of media and the omnipresence of technology in our lives.
His work now tends to give meaning to all this profusion, and materializes it in the form of photographic exhibitions and interactive installations. Romain will present his work as part of the group exhibition CLOSE-UP presented in January and February 2021 by Studio Artera in Paris.
Born in 1991, Vincent Marcq is a French photographer who lives and works in Paris. An artist from an early age, Vincent went through various creative processes (sculpture, painting and drawing) before settling on his preferred medium: photography. After graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie d'Arles, Vincent went on to study, train and specialize in the way we perceive our habitat, not without a touch of humor and emotion.
His artistic career is particularly rich. Vincent Marcq was one of the talents in residence at Villa Médicis as part of the "Création en cours" program, and won the famous Prix du Public Roederer at the Festival Planche(s) de Deauville for his incredible "Outside" series, which we are privileged to offer for sale. His work has also been unveiled at La Fab, Agnès B.'s endowment fund in Paris, and he recently exhibited at 100% l'Expo at La Villette, whose curation offers an annual panorama of the best recently graduated young French and international artistic talent.
If one day he comes knocking at your door to take a photo of your interior, say yes. Without hesitation.
