Thursday, July 2, the Villa Auteuil welcomed Christophe Estéban de la Véga for the preview “Colors Shot” as well as Hervé Pouchol for the dedication of his book “Les 1001 secrets du baisers”.
Located in the heart of the Tennis Club Paris Jean Bouin, between the Molitor swimming pool, the Parc des Princes and Roland Garros, the Villa Auteuil is a friendly place which houses a restaurant of Italian cuisine “autentica” with flavors of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy and Sicily, a mixture of “Nonna” recipes and Italian gastronomy.
The place is ideal for enjoying a cocktail or organizing meetings, breakfasts, lunches and company dinners as well as evenings thanks to the terrace which discovers a Mediterranean decor with palm trees and deckchairs. For these reasons, Véro Véronique Koch chose Villa Auteuil for the Dolce Vita evening, “Colors Shot” exhibition around the small dishes of Domenico, the owner, all to the sound of deep, house, electro music. Dj. Many guests were present including BB Ange, Sylvain Collaro, Marc Scalia, Jacky, José Stritt, Fred Claudel, Maya El Mokhfi, Anath Tordjman Compagnon, Joy Koch, and many other friends …
CHRISTOPHE-ESTEBAN DE LA VEGA
Originally from Charentes-Poitou, Christophe Estéban de la Véga is a French painter born in 1976, inspired by emotions including “Le baiser” de Rodin “. His artist name comes from the mixture of a comic book hero, Estéban, son of the sun in “Les Cités d’Or” and Don Diégo de la Véga, Zorro. For him, the two together signify light, childhood and justice. So we are far from his training and his old job since he was in finance.
During the evening, the artist was able to exchange with the guests on his inspiration and his emotions through the movement, the energy and the vibration of the colors. The intensity of the latter transports the viewer to a positive, smiling and childlike world, taking him to another universe with a smile.
Its catalog is divided into 5 collections:
- Romantic Collection (Expression of the sentiment of love, carnal desire and drive attraction through colored petals lying on a colored bed using hidden words or symbols such as flowers or hearts).
- Inspiration Collection (Interior journeys through the symbolism of space and the seabed; there is a canvas immortalizing the image of the singer Carlos who took life on the bright side)
- Children’s Collection (to never forget to marvel and dream like a child, it is based on scribbles of paint tubes which represent what children do with colored pencils).
- Energy Collection (Force of Movement and Vividness of colors to give a real Boost of energy while smiling).
- Street Collection (based on the energy and freedom of the street to create on any recovery medium original works outside of codes such as doors or car hoods).
On July 4, 2018, Estéban de la Véga organized an exhibition at the Le Crayon hotel (75001) where he presented 2 magnificent dresses in collaboration with the fashion designer Angela Shapovalova as well as a hat in honor of the blues for world Cup. We could also find his works in solo exhibitions in Paris (Color Vibrations at the Galerie Saint Honoré in 2017; Color Show at the Loft Triangle d’Or and Color Vibrations at the White House in 2019) and in group exhibitions (Aparte at the Gallery Ernestin in 2017; Art and Voice at Château d’Anet in Dreux in 2018; Pop Art Show / Miss Pop at Art Galerie and American Film Festival in Deauville in 2019. He also exhibited in Residence at Dads’ Den in Paris (75004) in 2018.
HERVE POUCHOL
The other guest of honor for the evening was Hervé Pouchol who had come to sign his latest book “Les 1001 secrets du baiser”.
Known for his services on television and radio for more than 30 years, Hervé Pouchol is always present every morning on RTL with Julien Courbet for the program “Ca can you happen” where he is one of the two conciliators.
After starting on FR3 and TLT (Toulouse television) in 1983, Hervé Pouchol became in 1999, one of the main collaborators of Julien Courbet in the shows “Les 7 Pêchés Capitaux” and “Sans No Doute” on TF1.
In 2001, he specialized in neighborhood conflicts where he became the essential mediator of “La Guerre des Voisins” until 2009 on TF1. He also hosted 2 Prime Time in 2006 (“Neighbors, will they agree?”), Followed by more than 7 million viewers.
A radio man, he founded in 1981, with a friend, the first local radio station in Puy en Velay, in Auvergne: “Radio Stéréo 43”. From then on, he would host numerous programs for France Inter, Radio Puy de Dôme for 20 years, which he created with Christophe Dechavanne and Jean Luc Petitrenaud, Radio France Lyon where he met Evelyne Adam, Sud Radio, Radio Monte Carlo, Rire & Chanson, Honey FM, MFM.
In 1994, he joined the Radio Monte Carlo team under the direction of Jérôme Bellay in Jean Pierre Foucault’s time slot.
In addition, his 30 years experience in the media as a host, columnist, mediator and journalist, gives him the right to share it with companies through the company Hervé Pouchol Productions in the following areas:
- Help with the creation of company radios and internal newspapers in the form of a weekly audio podcast.
- Welcome training / Customer relations on the phone (Tailor-made training inspired by the media for customer service advisers in companies)
- Customer relations training (Physical reception) to improve reception in public places, provided by Hervé Pouchol.
- Speech training on TV (CEO, Managers and Management Committees)
Apart from the radio and the small screen, the journalist is the author of 4 books: “The Guide to a Good Neighborhood”, “The Neighbors’ War” A to Z “” and “Dukan Regime, Pros and Cons” ( a real investigative investigation translated into several languages). His latest work, “The 1001 secrets of the kiss” took a long time to be produced since it took almost 18 years of reflection and investigation and the collaboration of Nathalie Dunaigre This work, whose subtitle is “The story of the kiss from A to Z”, can be browsed as desired and not only in alphabetical order. Lots of literary and painting references are referenced without forget the customs according to the country.
“The kiss is the scanner of the person: we discover and guess everything in a kiss” … “When we are in the passionate kiss, we don’t think about all that, but a few years or months later, certain characteristic features of the person can stand out and it was visible from the exchange of a kiss. ”
An act, almost more intimate than love according to the specialist. “It’s the preliminary”, “it’s the temperature, the couple’s thermometer”. A good indicator to realize the solidity of a relationship. “After six months or a few years, you kiss a little less, that’s really where you have to ask the right questions.”
The first kiss is that of his mother; the first loving kiss is the one we will not forget, just like the last, whether it is linked to a separation or to a death …
“Hug me, kiss me, kiss me later, kiss me long; later, it will be too late (Prévert)
“The kiss is the way to keep quiet by saying everything” (Guy de Maupassant).
This book is presented with different jackets, each one more beautiful than the other; which makes it even more attractive …
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