COMMUNIQU DE PRESSE Janvier 2013 art neuf

La premire Foire internationale ddie au neuvime art

Paris - Du 1er au 3 novembre 2013

Foire dart indite, art neuf accueillera une trentaine de galeries internationales, acteurs incontournables du march de la bande dessine, qui exposeront les uvres originales, historiques et contemporaines, de leurs artistes pendant trois jours. art neuf a pour but de runir les collectionneurs, le grand public, les professionnels et les experts de la bande dessine. Lieu international de rencontres et de rflexion, art neuf se veut artistique et commercial. Lvnement aura lieu la Halle Freyssinet, lieu dexpositions et dvnements, dans le treizime arrondissement de Paris.

Le neuvime art, un art neuf dans lair du temps

Longtemps considres comme un art marginal, mineur et populaire ou comme de simples outils vous la reproduction ditoriale, les uvres de bande dessine ont accd au rang dart. Elles sont aujourdhui unanimement reconnues et leurs cotes ne cessent de grimper.

Un march florissant

dangoisses et ou de joie, les planches originales font aujourdhui lobjet dexpositions dans les lieux culturels, festivals et galeries. Du tout jeune auteur jusquau plus chevronn, les artistes de bande dessine sont dsormais de tous les pays et nourris de toutes les cultures et influences. Les choses dessines et racontes sont immensment riches et varies, de laventure historique jusqu la fiction moderne intimiste. Les techniques utilises et la multiplicit des genres reprsentent une diversit hors du commun.

De manire corollaire, ces uvres constituent un march en plein essor : objets de ventes aux enchres, collections de galeries spcialises ou uvres parmi celles des galeries gnralistes. Face un intrt grandissant des collectionneurs et des amateurs, il est temps de donner ses lettres de noblesse lart de la bande dessine et de lancer une foire qui reconnaitra son appartenance lart contemporain et son march spcifique.

chaque art, son Salon ou sa foire

De la bande dessine luvre dart

Alors que chaque art possde aujourdhui au moins une Foire ou un Salon qui lui est consacr, Tome 2, entreprise culturelle, lance donc art neuf, la premire foire internationale, indite ce jour dans le monde, duvres originales de bande dessine. Bertrand Morisset, fondateur de lagence Tome 2 et Directeur dart neuf, a organis de nombreux vnements artistiques et culturels. Il a entre autres dirig le Salon du livre de Paris, la Fiac et a organis un Salon de bande dessine Paris.

Avant que le grand public naccde au livre termin et avant que cet ouvrage ne parte limprimerie, il y a luvre originale. Rsultats de plusieurs jours de travail, de doutes,

Contact

Lucile Charlemagne 06 22 38 20 49 l.charlemagne@tome2.fr www.tome2.fr

Organisation : Agence Tome 2 20, rue Dauphine 75006 Paris - France

SARL au capital de 3 000 euros. Siret 494 704 489 00017 RCS Paris. Code NAF 741G. TVA intracommunautaire : FR 93494704489

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art neuf

The first international comic art fair

Paris - 1st to 3 rd november 2013

A unique 3-day fair devoted to original artworks, art neuf will host some 30 international galleries exhibiting works including major players of the comic art market - both vintage and contemporary - by the artists they represent. The aim of art neuf is to bring together collectors, the general public and comic art professionals and experts. An international forum for networking and dialogue, art neuf s vocation is both artistic and commercial. The event will take place in the Halle Freyssinet, a recently opened exhibition and event venue, in the trendy Bercy district of Paris.

The 9th art, a new art form

Long considered as a minor, fringe art form, or simply as part of the publishing process, original comic illustrations are now regarded as works of art in their own right and are universally acclaimed and sought after.

varied, from historical adventure stories to modern romance. There is an extraordinary diversity in the techniques they use and the range of genres.

A flourishing market

To each art form, its own exhibition or fair

Since each art form has at least one dedicated fair or exhibition, the cultural organisation Tome 2 is launching art neuf, the first international fair devoted to original comic artworks - the only fair of its kind worldwide to date. Bertrand Morisset, founder of Tome 2 and director of art neuf, has organised numerous artistic and cultural events during the course of his career, including the Paris Book Fair, the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC), and a comics festival in Paris.

There is currently a booming market for these works - they are appearing in auctions and in the collections of both specialist and mainstream galleries. Given this growing interest amongst collectors and aficionados, it is high time to give comic art its due recognition with an art fair that acknowledges both its place in contemporary art and its specific market.

From comic art to work of art

Before the book goes off to the printer and before the finished product is available to the general public, there is the original artwork. The fruit of weeks of hard work, doubts, anxieties and joys, these originals are now the subject of exhibitions in cultural venues, festivals and galleries. Comic artists both emerging and renowned hailing from around the globe, are drawing their inspiration from all cultures and influences. Their subject matter is immensely rich and

Contact

Lucile Charlemagne 06 22 38 20 49 l.charlemagne@tome2.fr www.tome2.fr

Organisation : Agence Tome 2 20, rue Dauphine 75006 Paris - France

SARL au capital de 3 000 euros. Siret 494 704 489 00017 RCS Paris. Code NAF 741G. TVA intracommunautaire : FR 93494704489