In preparation for this year’s Art Karlsruhe, which unfortunately can only take place digitally in 2021, we will show a preview presentation (Avant-Première) of the artworks intended for the fair. This selection will be taken up as an online exhibition by Art Karlsruhe from 20 to 23 May 2021. 
In Vorbereitung der diesjährigen Art Karlsruhe, die 2021 leider nur digital stattfinden kann, präsentieren wir Ihnen eine Avant-Première (Vorschau) mit den Kunstwerken, die für die Messe vorgesehen sind. Diese Auswahl wird in Form einer Online-Ausstellung vom 20. bis 23. Mai 2021 auf der Art Karlsruhe aufgegriffen.
Für ihre 6. Teilnahme an der Messe für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst “Art karlsruhe”, die jedes Jahr mehr als 50.000 Besucher anzieht, hatte die deutsch-französische Galerie Charron aus Paris für 2021 trotz der Unsicherheiten im Zusammenhang mit der Pandemie beschlossen, ihr Ausstellungsvolumen auf 175 m2 zu erweitern, mit einem 2 Bildhauern gewidmeten 100 m2 großen Skulpturenplatz und einem 75 m2 großen Stand, der ihren zeitgenössischen Malern und Fotografen vorbehalten war. Ein gemeinsamer Nenner war das komplexe Thema « Identität ». Als besonderes Highlight war eine 3m20 hohe Skulptur des französischen Bildhauers Bruno Bossut im Skulpturengarten im zentralen Atrium der Messe mit dem Titel “Henry’s Column” vorgesehen, eine technische Meisterleistung als Hommage an den berühmten französischen Seiltänzer Henry’s (1931-2013).
Identität, ein dynamischer Prozess, der von Kindheit an geprägt wird und sowohl aus der Identität besteht, die das Individuum für sich selbst schafft, als auch aus der Identität, die andere ihm zuschreiben. Eine Ausstellung, die den Betrachter in ein Hin und Her von Korrespondenzen und Unterschieden führen sollte, die in einem Forschungsfeld der plastischen Kunst angegangen werden, produziert und interpretiert durch den persönlichen Werdegang jedes Künstlers der Galerie Charron: “Mirror, oh mirror…” von Bruno Bossut, Skulpturen, die entschlossen deformiert werden, um den Spiegel der Erscheinungen zu brechen und mit seiner Identität zu spielen. Die fadenförmigen Installationen von Alexandre Bour spielen mit Licht und Schatten in Bezug auf die Wirkung unserer visuellen Identität. Die Objekte, die uns umgeben, gezeichnet in den Gemälden von Michael Doucet, Spiegel unserer Sehnsüchte, unserer Umwelt, unserer Kultur. Spezismus mit Jules Andrieus “Eselchen”, die menschliche Identität und Tierstatus gegenüberstellen. Manfred Hamm’s Fotografien oder Irène Lussou’s “Allegorien”, menschengroße historische Figuren, die als gemeinschaftliches Gedächtnis aufgebaut sind. Die Verwirrung der Sinne in den Gemälden von Andreas Lau oder die Vermittlung von Familienwerten, dargestellt von Beatriz Guzman Catena. Der Ausdruck von sich selbst, von Erinnerungsschichten durch Schrift und Poesie, eine Befragung um geheimnisvolle Zeichen, Linien und Worte durch die Ansätze von Cy Twombly, Làszlò Lakner, Jan Voss, Max Neumann und Georges Noël.
Die Suche nach Identität als bewusster oder unbewusster Wert, die es uns ermöglicht, uns aufzubauen, zu dekonstruieren oder von anderen abzugrenzen. Aus Gründen des Covid findet die art karlsruhe vom 20. bis 23. Mai 2021 ausschliesslich online statt. ALLE KUNSTWERKE ANSEHEN
Dear faithful visitors of the Gallery,
As you know, my husband and I are pleased to participate every year in the German art fair “Art Karlsruhe”. Since its creation in 2004, this art fair receives more than 50,000 visitors per year and welcomes renowned German institutions. Over the years, it has become a real institution in the German art scene. Initially planned as every year in February, it was postponed to May due to the pandemic and then, we have just learned, somewhat unsurprisingly, that it has finally been cancelled for this year 2021.
For our 6th participation in “Art karlsruhe 2021” we had planned to increase our exhibition space to 175m2 with a 100m2 stand dedicated to two sculptors and a 75m2 stand dedicated to our contemporary painters and photographers.
And to highlight French know-how, a special place at the entrance of the fair was attributed to a 3m20 high sculpture entitled “Henry’s Column”, a technical feat created by our sculptor Bruno Bossut as a tribute to the famous French tightrope walker Henry’s (1931-2013).
We and our artists are obviously disappointed not to be able to show their creations, which we are proud to exhibit and defend every year.
However, neither Art Karlsuhe, nor the participating galleries are stopping there and in the meantime, we are all working in close collaboration, in order to introduce in May 2021 a digital version which will never replace the physical contact but which will have the benefit of allowing us all to remain in close contact, while waiting for the next physical Art Karlsruhe fair in February 2022.
I will therefore show you the artworks of our painters, sculptors and photographers selected by the Art Karlsruhe Jury and will keep you informed of the evolution of this digital project.
Yours faithfully
C.Charron
The month of February is dedicated to Art Karlsruhe where from 13 to 16.02 you can find the works of our artists in Hall 2: Beatriz Guzman Catena, Cy Twombly, László Lakner, Jan Voss, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Andreas Lau, Golnaz Afraz, Max Neumann, Hanna Sidorowicz, Gaspard Noël, Yoann Ximenes, Anne Boille, Georges Noël, Alexandre Bour, Mickael Doucet, Jazzu and Jules Andrieu.
Art Karlsruhe: from 21 to 24.02 “Loyal to the post” because Art Karlsruhe collectors are seduced by our artists, we participate for the fourth time in this German contemporary art fair and always in Hall 2 with our artists Cy Twombly, László Lakner, Manfred Hamm, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Andreas Lau, Hanna Sidorowicz, Yoann Ximenes, Alexandre Bour, Mickael Doucet and Yannick Fournié.
Back at the German contemporary art fair Art Karlsruhe from 22 to 25.02 in Hall 2 to represent László Lakner, Manfred Hamm, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Cy Twombly, Andreas Lau, Stephanie de Rouge, Hanna Sidorowicz, Vicenta Valenciano, Pierre Roy Camille, Alexandre Bour, Mickael Doucet and Mathieu Nozieres.
In addition to being a beautiful holiday region, Lake Constance – known as Bodensee in German – is ideally situated on the border of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. By registering for the art fair “Art Bodensee” which takes place in the middle of summer from 21 to 23.07, we hope to attract collectors by presenting the works of our artists : Alexandre Bour, Vicenta Valenciano, Mathieu Nozieres, Stéphanie de Rouge, Rayk Goetze, Mickael Doucet, Cy Twombly, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Walter Stöhrer, László Lakner, Georges Noël,
Within the framework of the Month of the Photo Off from 20.04 to 01.05, we will collaborate with Fotofever who has elaborated a gallery tour by Parisian district in order to create a unique route for each art photo collector. During his visits, the amateur or collector will be able to find in the gallery the photographs of László Lakner, Manfred Hamm, Stephanie de Rouge and Gilles Compain.
“Écriture et Poésie : le geste maîtrisé” As part of the prestigious retrospective devoted to Cy Twombly at the Centre Pompidou, Galerie Charron is privileged to present seven lithographs by the artist, taken from the portfolio “Six Latin Writers and Poets”, created in 1975 and published in 1976. With this exhibition entitled “Écriture et poésie, le geste maîtrisé” (Writing and poetry, the mastered gesture), Galerie Charron proposes a questioning around the sign, the line and the word, through the approaches of Cy Twombly, Walter Stöhrer and László Lakner, three poets of painting from the second half of the 20th century. With this portfolio, Cy Twombly pays homage to the Ancients through references to ancient literature. Testifying to the artist’s passion for mythological resources, he draws a skilful blend between the elaboration of writing and the inspiration of myth, bringing out the six names of these Latin poets and writers. At times clear and confident, at other times more tormented, with superimposed writing, this style is not unlike the work of László Lakner and Walter Stöhrer. The work of these artists is a constant reflection on the tension between abstraction and figuration. It also imposes the gesture as a new form of writing, always with lyricism at the origin. Far from its initial informative aspect, the word then appears as a space of plastic freedom and is at the heart of the spatial composition of the work. Faced with these paintings, the viewer finds himself in a condition where affect takes precedence and can let his imagination run free when confronted with the word and what it evokes. Walter Stöhrer, whose technique is reminiscent of Cy Twombly’s early work, breathes his poetry into a voluptuous and eventful painting, where incomplete figures mingle with an alphabet to form his “Malerei und Grafik” (Painting and Graphics). László Lakner’s “Schopenhauer”, for whom the gesture of writing is fundamental – and often monumental – is a sketch of a letter, made up of writing combined with a very particular spatial composition. The exhibition “Writing and Poetry: the mastered gesture” presents the encounter of this new writing with the pictorial: the grapheme, at the origin of painting, drawing and writing, is nothing more than a sign. The complex spaces, cleverly composed while leaving room for spontaneity, combine raw linearity, figures and explosions of colour, revealing the full expressiveness of these revolutionary artists as they flow by.