! Press Release- April 2018 Contemporary Art invades Le Royal Monceau-Raffles Paris ! Exhibition/Sale from May 4th to July 31th 2018 URBAN ART, POP ART & LIVE PERFORMANCES A surprise art attack will be mounted on the illustrious Royal Monceau- Raffles Paris with color as the weapon of choice! Here creativity, art and culture have been omnipresent ever since the acclaimed Philippe Starck refurbished this luxury hotel. In the form of a scavenger hunt, the works will be spread around, from the Art Library, through the central lobby to wind up at the recently-opened Art Gallery. The well-known luxury boutiques which have recently opened in the hotel, such as ba&sh and La Maison Mauboussin will also participate in this artistic event by presenting works in their space. More than 30 works arising out of «Street and Pop Art» have been selected by Art Photo Expo, the exclusive art partner of this prestigious luxury hotel in Paris. The works of French and international artists, such as: Jef Aérosol, Banksy, Mr Brainwash, JonOne, Kokian, Bradley Theodore … to cite only a few, will be exhibited and available for sale from May 4 to July 31, 2018 by Audrey Trabelsi, Founder of Art Photo Expo France. She has set up this exhibition like a Paris street, offering «Live performances* » by several of the artists, such as Jef Aérosol who will come and spray the window and the floor, and Tempo Nok who will take over some of the gallery's walls to turn them into artworks. A promise of amazing art shows and not-to-be-missed events is yours for the visit. *Live performances: Reservations required to attend the live performances and the artists' behind-the-scenes preparations for the exhibition. List of artists: Jef Aérosol - Hiro Ando - Banksy - Giuliano Bekor - Remy Bond – Mr Brainwash - Deborah Bruni - Cali - Chloé B.B - Christophe Catelain - Annick B. Cuadrado - Robert Combas - Erro - Invader - JonOne - Kokian - Jeff Koons - Luke Newton - ODN - Tempo Nok - Deborah Sportes - Swoon - Bradley Theodore - Thierry Trivès - Robyn Ward. A bold meeting of Art, Luxury and the Street Every one of the artists presented here has cultivated their artistic identity through different media, including stencils, calligraphy, graffiti, drawing, sculpture, photography, painting and collage. «For some of the artists, whose first «canvases» were the walls of inner-city streets, exhibiting here alongside famous contemporary artists on the walls of one of the most renown luxury hotels in the world, represents a great achievement and the height of recognition,» acknowledges Audrey Trabelsi, the founder of Art Photo Expo France. Plan your visit: «ART ATTACK»: Exhibition/Sale from MAY 4 to JULY 31, 2018 Works for sale from 1 600€ to 20 000€ From Tuesday to Saturday, from 11:30 am to 7 pm (free admission through Le Royal Monceau) Sunday and Monday from 2pm to 7pm For more information : www.artphotoexpo.com / [email protected] Art Photo Expo - Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris- 37-41 Avenue Hoche, 75008 Paris Press Contacts : Art Photo Expo Le Royal Monceau - Raffles Paris Agathe Alezra-Cohen Barbara Sablon [email protected] - 06 11 51 96 77 [email protected] - 01 42 99 98 51 Press Release Annexe Artist’s Presentation Jef Aerosol: Born in Nantes in 1957, Jef Aérosol is a stencil artist, one of the pioneers of what everyone has today agreed to call "street art" or "urban art" (although he prefers the term "contextual art"). He affixed his mark for the first time in 1982 in the city of Tours: rock- pop-punk imagery highlighted by his signature, a mysterious red arrow. Since then, the spray dandy has left its mark on the walls of multiple cities around the world : stealth stencils or large murals. His black and white characters, illustrious or anonymous, often life-size painted, testify for the artist's attachment to deep humanist values. Jef's work is also visible in many events and exhibitions both in France and abroad. # “Bandana” Copyright © Jef Aérosol –All rights reserved. Hiro Ando Japanese multidisciplinary artist born in 1973, he's known for his sculptures inspired by traditional Japanese culture. Thus the cat, which is a lucky charm in Japan, like the Maneki-Neko, takes different forms such as the Samurai or the sumo wrestler. The artist reworks these themes with a very modern touch. The bright and smooth materials, the bright colors, the brutal but rounded shapes of Hiro Ando's sculptures take us into the world of manga in which the artist's generation grew up. Hiro Ando's art is the meeting between the Meiji era and the Manga, he undeniably belongs to Japanese neo-pop art # “Samurai Cat” Copyright © Hiro Ando All rights reserved Banksy Banksy is a famous street artist, whose private life is unknown, he never revealed his face. His name is a pseudonym, and all that surrounds his identity is only suppositions. His first creations appeared in Bristol, where he first worked as a graffiti artist. Banksy brings through his paintings an anti-system message, pushing his audience to think. He used for example the famous image of the little Vietnamese kid burned with napalm, adding around her Mickey and Donald holding his hand. Banksy has also collaborated with others artists : he made the cover of the group Blur for the album "Think Tank", worked on the highly anticipated The Sons of Man by Alfonso Cuarón, In 2010, he directed a documentary called Faites le mur!, broadcasted at the Sundance Film Festival, in which a merchant obsessed with Banksy became an urban artist. # “Petrol Bomb” Copyright © BANKSY All rights reserved Giuliano Bekor Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art. Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists. With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work. Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style. # Photographie Modernismo 39 Copyright © GIULIANO BEKOR All rights reserved Remy Bond Remy was born in 1983 in Paris, France. As a child, Remy dreamed of becoming an astronaut: he fantasized about soaring through the black vacuum of space, travelling to distant stars, bounding across the lunar soil, and contemplating the beauty of planet Earth in complete stillness. Today Remy’s dream-life has grown into a massive body of creative Artworks, which can be seen at his arts invites us into the hallucinatory universe animated by Paintings and sculptures of a rare beauty, which strike us with their essential and pure esthetic quality. The goal is to transport us to a place where time is simply suspended and conventional modes of perception are disrupted. Remy’s lunar work makes use of Pop Art codes while questioning the seemingly universal idioms of advertising and pop culture. Commonplace images and objects of our consumerist society are reconfigured in the search for a poetic meaning. Remy appropriates and radically transforms these symbols, propelling us into a dimension of experience beyond that of our everyday routines, Remy’s artworks shuttles us into a new lunar universe. At the project’s core is a series of gigantic portraits of pop culture icons, celebrities, appear dressed in NASA space suits, surrounded by cosmic landscapes, whether imaginary or monochromatic. Through these lysergic displacements of imagery, Remy pays discreet homage to these giants of the public imagination, while at the same time questioning their status and influence in our society. By inviting us into a sort of surreal Embassy of the imaginary lunar world on a trajectory envisioned by the poet Charles Baudelaire, «Beyond the sun, beyond the ethers, beyond the confines of the starry spheres. «Through his art and creativity, Remy encourages us to fulfill our own childhood dreams. # “David Bowie”-Copyright © Remy Bond All rights reserved Mr. Brainwash Mr. Brainwash aka "Thierry Guetta" is a street-pop artist based in Los Angeles. During the last decade, he has undertaken the realization of a fundamental documentary on Street Art. Inspired by his subject, he begins to pose his own stencils and posters in the streets of Los Angeles to the streets of Paris quickly gaining significant notoriety through works representing celebrities of Pop Art. Very quickly his works acquired such recognition that Madonna invites him to create the cover of her Album "Best of Celebration" and then the covers of her singles, DVDs and vinyl’s. Mr. Brainwash is also the subject of the documentary by artist Banksy, titled Exit Through The Gift Shop and presented at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin in 2010. # “Sculpture Life is beautiful” Copyright © Mr. Brainwash All rights reserved Déborah Bruni Always on the lookout for what makes the news, she never fails to create, enlight, reinvent history from a fantastic feminine point of view. She draws her inspiration from the world around her, from what sublimates it, and sometimes destroys it too. Cinema, music, politics ... are not the themes of her art, but the pretexts. Creativity has no space for it, between heaven and earth; it comes from everything, from everyone, from everywhere. she creates what is true because it is right. Her paintings are born of an inheritance left by his great heroes, with the POP ART surge, like James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselman or Andy Warhol.