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News Facts: Paris Art Week's "must see" is a must by Lili Tisseyre #PARIS Founded in 1946 by Sonia Delaunay and Auguste Herbin, among others, the "Réalités Nouvelles" exhibition has been working every year for more than seventy years to provide an essential sounding board for Abstract Art, as the great barnum of Contemporary Art installed in the Grand Palais for the FIAC fails to eclipse. The Salon "Réalités Nouvelles" should, it seems, be named after the poet Guillaume Apollinaire who, in 1912, imbued with the importance of this new artistic order that flourished around him, tried, by this mysterious name, to give him a chance to be accepted by the general public. Always stimulating, more than seven decades later, these "New Realities", crossed by many challenges, have remained under the sign of abstraction and encounter. They are welcoming 400 artists this weekend at the Parc Floral. Drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, photography, video, a very beautiful selection to give an idea of the vivacity of this "movement" and the intellectual agility of the artists who claim it. In the aftermath of the war, their sociological situation was difficult. Nowadays it may be even more so. What the salon offers is not a network, but the very idea of the collective that is at the very basis of abstract art. "New Realities" is the possibility for each guest artist to build something together, in a dynamic that is neither that of the market nor that of museums. It is a question here of meeting each other, of confronting works, generations too. This year, the Fair invites artists from Montenegro and China in particular, and in the same spirit, young people with recent diplomas or in art schools will exhibit the fruit of their work. But the association organizing the annual show is nevertheless sounding the alarm in response to the statements made by the Minister of Culture on the remuneration of exhibitors, because if "New Realities" allows each artist to sell his pieces by mutual agreement and takes no commission on sales, the voluntary system on which the association is based touches the limits of the personal investment of member artists and members of the office. The association thus calls for a common and concerted reflection which will probably be at the heart of the discussions in the aisles of the Salon. In this 2019 edition, the young generation is on the move, in total connection with the socio-political concerns of its eco-system. We then look at the sculptures of Alexandra Renne, a recent graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris with a different perspective. The repetition of gestures inherent in the process of creating her pieces such as "organize-assemble-build-cut-form" are an introspective reflection on the emotion created by the materials and the rhythm they induce in the volumes when the sculpture emerges. Also a graduate, this year, of the prestigious Parisian institution and presented at the Salon, the paintings of Gaëtan Di Pizio. A vast mapping of your mental space with large flat areas of bright colors whose multiple dashes, dots and other digital signs encode or decode our interpretation of the reality that surrounds us and plunges us into a jazzy or funky universe depending on the mood of our encounter with the work. Salon des Réalités Nouvelles from 19 to 21 October Floral Park of Paris 17 Oct 2019 #Art Abstrait #Parc Floral #Réalités Nouvelles #Sculpture #smArty Choice

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