Bel Air Fine Art
FL
Miami
United States
Phone: 7866158158
Email : miami@belairfineart.com
URL : www.belairfineart.com/en/
Jennifer Lavigne
François Chabanian
About
Since the opening of a first gallery in Geneva in 2004, the Bel-Air Fine Art group has settled in the most prestigious locations in Switzerland : Crans-Montana, Verbier, Gstaad, Lausanne & Saint-Moritz. The group then pursued its growth with permanent locations in Europe: Paris (Place des Vosges, Rivoli, Montmartre and Le Royal Monceau – Raffles Paris), London, Saint-Tropez, Cannes, Aix-en-Provence, Megève, Courchevel, Venice (San Marco & Dorsoduro), Forte dei Marmi, Knokke-le-Zoute and more recently Monte-Carlo & Honfleur. The group also has a gallery in North America in Miami (Design District) but also temporary locations in Middle-East (in Abu Dhabi, Dubaï and Beirut). At the head of the group, father and son François and Grégory Chabanian attach great value to present a rich selection of internationally acclaimed and emerging contemporary artists from different artistic movements.
Bel-air fine art is now followed by over 60.000 art lovers including 15.000 active collectors around the world.
About the Artist
Leo Manelli is an artist who merges classical paintings with anachronistic elements of art and luxury to create lively artworks that mingle times and cultures.
Ace of realistic painting, the talented artist reproduces meticulously masterful paintings, often from the greatest museum collections, and takes them over to create a bridge between centuries.
Manelli’s art meets a growing success with the art lovers anywhere in the world. Leo Manelli lives and works in the province of Firenze, Italy.
The background is made up of thousands of photographic fragments of feminine curves. In the foreground stands an image that radiates intensity, a symbol of intimacy, a face.
The photo mosaics of Joël Moens de Hase first began to emerge in 2011. They rapidly caught the interest of a national and international viewership, and both were highly receptive. This digital art form, a contemporary alternative of pixel art and pointillism, has the ability to surprise and seduce through the originality and aesthetics of the concept. .
Complexity, simplicity: intensity
His art reflects a digitalized and hyper-connected society. Those thousands of pictures composing the work echoes the over representation of images, advertisement and erotic representations that invade us on a daily basis. These small pictures give the artwork depth and an impression of infinity. They can be read in two ways, depending on whether the viewer is looking at the content or the form.
Obsession with the beautiful
In this almost obsessive race for images, Joël Moens covers a wide range of different sources: fashion photos or advertisements, mail order catalogues, electronic periodicals, eye-catching websites and much more besides. Until now, his highly selective eye has roamed over more than 20 million images in order to choose 100,000, which he croped one by one. Following this exercise, he then started to compose in an almost haphazard way, helped by the powerful software he uses and his influence over the result it produces, repeating the operation until the rectangular particles really begin to make sense to him as a whole.
An area of freedom
But whilst the artist attaches greatest importance to representing the form and to its aesthetic qualities, he also prides himself on the ability to surprise, move, transport, unleash the senses and imagination, and create the divine, or even sublime.
At the heart of his artworks, the desire, the passion, the men’s attraction for woman...his woman. The one we secretly desire. The one we approach subtly, the one who devour us from inside. This desire, which is part of the essence of men, his human condition, his little death as the philosophe says.
And at the same time, the subconscious of each man reflected by those thousands of little pictures that compose the artworks. The noble side of eroticism through these women without faces that invite you to dream.
But also the Woman with a capital W. The divine woman and creator, the woman subject or/and object of desire. But also the idependent woman. The one that has right to offer herself to God as the nun does in “Adoration”. The right to be a mother and a mistress or neither one nor the other...
Cédric Bouteiller was born in 1970, in Rognac, France. He lives and works in the South of France.
Bouteiller studied plastic arts and philosophy at the University of Aix-en-Provence, before starting to travel around in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai.
In 2009, when he exhibited in the Galerie DX in Bordeaux, he gets closer to the Street Art. From this form of Art, Cédric Bouteiller takes symbols, graffiti, stencils and posters. His artworks are composed by printed images, collages, drawings and tags on brush aluminium covered with a translucent resin. His artistic expression is a combination of different techniques, a mixture of modern photographic perspective, contemporary painting, graffiti, digital art and collage.
The inspiration of Cédric Bouteiller comes from Anthony Tàpies and Pierre Alechinsky. When he moved to Arles, he also focuses on Picasso art and Cocteau literature.
Cédric Bouteiller gathers different images and memories about his travels, which embellished his artworks. The artist shows a visionary urban view of the cities that he visited.
Bouteiller is an alchemist, too. A mystic alchemy transcending his human condition, a mystic alchemy raising his conscience; the artist speculates on the oxidization of the substance, the stiffening of the plasticizer, the evaporation of the painting.
Born in 1986, Paul Sibuet is a French visual artist. Trained in Design and Art, he perfects his know-how painting with his masters. His work is distinguished in numerous competitions, in Tokyo and Paris. Soon, he breaks free from the techniques taught by exploring his own perceptions of the object and volumes, thus creating his signature. He lives today in Lyon and exhibits in particular in Geneva, New York and Venice.
Sibuet structures forms, colors and materials. He freezes the movement in abundant lines. An unstructured order. He uses the impertinence of his conception of the vice and of the innocence in sensible light and shadow effects.
In his "installations", monochrome and representational productions, the artist plays with physical constraints to bring spaces to life.
They highlight a reflection on past and future codes. Gold leaf, marble in "trompe-l'œil", matte white are all materials which make the monumental and the somptuous resonate, mocking the immaterial, as they are its colors, and the sacred, the divine, the infigurable, the infinity resound in them. While liberating from the diktats and offending sometimes the academicism, the artist offers us pieces freed from the notion of space, flowing out the artwork for calling out to us. In the "Snapshot" series, the artwork mocks the technique, being the fruit of a work on the distortion of the stretched canvases.
Pushing even further the paradoxes in the "Breaking the glass" series, the artist confronts the childhood imaginary with the adult imprudence. He offers us a dreamlike reality with a kind of pulsions more or less inappropriate. A mass of life that he breathes by overdose to us.
Through his productions, the artist gives us the feeling of a deep freedom, almost anonymous, in which each can find itself or get lost ... He reveals us a universe which is close to us, always on the edge of the reality and the unknown.
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