With more than three centuries of existence, the fair celebrated its spectacular 232nd edition at the Grand Palais Ephémère with a participation rate of 55% of women, among the artists who exhibited this year.
The first edition began in 1667 in the middle of the 17th century, organized by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, in the presence of the royal court and nobles at the Louvre. From then on, it became the major event of the year, bringing the future to the artistic scene in all its diversity.
The Society of French Artists, direct heiress of this Salon created by Colbert for the King, has gone through all eras: royalty, empires, revolutions, wars, bringing in its wake the greatest names of artists who have marked these last centuries: Delacroix, Ingres, Manet, Rodin, Claudel, Bartholdi, Dufy, Picabia among others, ect.
The Society of FRENCH ARTISTS, open to all, French and foreign artists, received nearly 1,000 applications to exhibit on the 2022 edition. The regularly renewed jury selected more than 650 international artists and distributed medals and private prizes. .
The 4 lounges in a prestigious location
ART CAPITAL has established itself on the French art scene as a major event and remains the largest gathering of artists in France.
The 4 emblematic Salons offer visitors, whether they are actors in the art world, gallery owners, collectors, professionals or the general public, a journey through today’s art, an encounter with artists and their creations, a walk at the heart of current creation.
This one-of-a-kind event offers an exceptional and as complete a showcase as possible of today’s artistic production, through freedom, tolerance, authenticity, dynamism and didactic know-how.
Art Capital was born in 2006 from the will of the so-called “historical salons of the Grand Palais” and the Ministry of Culture, directed by the Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.
Each year, Art Capital brings together: painters, designers, sculptors, engravers, visual artists, photographers, architects from all walks of life, confirmed talents as well as emerging talents.
In the historical tradition of artistic fairs, 4 fairs gathered for 15 years in ART CAPITAL:
– Salon of French Artists;
– Water Drawing & Painting Room;
– Salon of Independent Artists;
– Trade Show Comparisons.
The Salon Comparaisons was created in 1956, when a virulent opposition between figuration and abstraction brought sterile tension to the community of artists, creating a tolerant tendency, each of them being presented in groups. And the confrontation became serene, fraternal even.
Today, the Salon is faithful to this prestigious past. His references serve as a spur to the committee, in the choice of artists to invite and sensitivities to put forward.
The Salon des Indépendants brings together artists of all profiles: Painters, sculptors, photographers, graphic designers, confirmed or not, interested in an internationally recognized Salon.
In addition, all the big names in art have exhibited there since the end of the 19th century, but it also opens its doors to novice artists who wish to gather the opinion of the public and thus try their luck in the creative profession.
Created in 1949, the Salon Dessin Peinture à l’Eau is one of the four so-called “historic” salons, today united within the Art Capital salon. A group of renowned artists such as Masson or Villon, the drawing and watercolor painting salons are part of the historic salons of the Grand Palais. The greatest artists have exhibited there (Dufy, Derain, Zao Wou Ki).
Art Capital pays tribute to Camille Claudel
This year of the 2000 artists present at the show, 55% are women, the Society of French Artists in collaboration with the Camille Claudel museum and the Rmn-GP have decided to pay tribute to the artist who exhibited from 1883 to 1889 , in 1903 and 1905 at the Salon.
She was living in Nogent sur Seine with her family when, still a teenager, she affirmed her vocation as an artist.
Avant-garde and impetuous, the art of sculpture by Camille Claudel, both realistic and expressionist, is similar to Art Nouveau through its skilful use of curves and meanders.
The works are part of a journey of 45 sculptures, which offer an immersion in French sculpture from 1880 to 1914.
Camille Claudel is seen today as the dramatic heroine of an emblematic story of the condition of women in the 20th century. Seen as a leading artist with a universal language who opens doors between naturalism and symbolism, the neo-Florentine current and new art.
In 2017, the Camille Claudel museum was created in Nogent sur Seine, the town where she spent part of her youth.
In 1913-1914, she was interned in the special health center of Ville-Evrard, then in the public mental asylum of Montdevergues, near Avignon and died on October 19 in Montdevergues.
Antoine Debriva and his figurines give the vision of the company to its creation
Antoine Debriva, is a painter and visual artist in his own right, sharing his creativity with a lot of humility and a light sense of humor.
It all started in 2015, while he was on vacation, where he took care of mirabelle plums and gradually discovered the stones, giving him the idea to create his project “Mille Bouilles” which he submitted to the ‘INPI. To create his works, he uses watercolour, acrylic and today oil paint.
In 2020 he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, on the occasion of the Art Capital event, his painting “Woman of heads” on a theme that is dear to him “Mille Bouilles”, faces or figurines painted on fruit stones or gravel then integrated into the paints.
This year Antoine Debriva is back at the Grand Palais Ephémère, at the Salon des Indépendants by Art Capital. The interest of the public for his works is growing, it is also a source of inspiration on his personalized creation.
It remains on its theme “Mille Bouilles” with a new work “Grand tourisme”, whose inspiration was born from the history of carpooling during the confinement period.
Antoine Debriva likes to play with subjects, choose their volume and material, the source of imagination and creativity. His paintings must have a real reason and a minimum of soul.
Jacqueline D. Béchaud orients her work towards everyday subjects
Jacqueline D. Béchaud is a professor of plastic arts in Paris, he held exhibitions in China, many in Paris, London, Morocco, Seoul.
After his exhibition at the Grand Palais Ephémère, Art Capital, Salon des Indépendants, the artist is soon offering a superb exhibition at the Jules Vallès Secular Patronage in Paris from March 28 to April 22.
Traveling is an encounter between oneself and the world
This professional artist presents her classic or contemporary works, from drawing to collage. Her work recomposes the fragments she brings back from her travels to result in timeless works. “In his work, everything is mixed together, the everyday, the archaeological, the architectural, the ecological…”, abstract art with astonishing collages of several materials, paper, photo, paints, etc., worked by degrees, by strata.
Adapt to the subject to make it stronger
The work is a compendium of visions, cultures, atmospheres, imagination to rediscover experienced sensations. It is a mixture of memories that the artist tries to understand, to grasp, “to annex everything while being respectful of the strangeness and difference of the world”.
This recomposition approach is a quest for a global sensation, integrating drawings, images and notes, creating a visual reminder by fixing fleeting elements to rediscover the emotions of places.
His latest work exhibited at ART Capital, is an imaginary graphic decor made of recycled materials, cardboard tubes, paper roll centers, which have become supports for Aboriginal-inspired graphics, presented as curtains or in installations.
The colors she handles with virtuosity are simply remarkable.
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