The Circuits

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In 2001, Pierre Yovanovitch founded his interior design and decoration agency, marked by a haute couture aesthetic and very attached to craftsmanship and excellence, exceptional know-how and "made-in-France". He leads a team of more than 120 employees in Paris and New York and works on international projects: private residences, hotels and restaurants, scenography of artistic projects for cultural institutions. In 2019, he published his first monograph with Rizzoli and is on the lists of the prestigious American magazines Architectural Digest and Elle Decor every year.

"Drawing helps me create. The first stroke of the pencil materializes the beginning of the idea and the field of possibilities.
Then, as it becomes clearer, the line gives the intention to my teams and to the craftsmen I like to work with. I hope and expect them to be able to anticipate with me the steps to be followed from the sketch: the development of the details, the technical transcription, the choice of materials and colours, the construction, the manufacture. Drawing is this narrative link between the concept and its concretization. Between thought and reality.
Beyond the functional role of drawing in my daily practice, I am also very sensitive to the artistic scope of this means of expression. I admire its poetry, audacity and strength, but also sometimes its humility."

Pierre Yovanovitch
Architect

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© Alessio Boni - Pierre Yovanovitch

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Parallax

Parallax, a selection by Joana P.R. Neves (Artistic Director of the fair), Claudine Grammont (Head of the graphic art cabinet Centre Pompidou) and Elsy Lahner (Curator for Contemporary Art at the Albertina in Vienna), offers an immersive experience, where drawing is only revealed through a new look at works that, at first glance, escape the classic definition of drawing.

Parallax is the impact of changing the observer's position on the observation of an object.

Over time, we change our perspective on history, which not only gives more color to the past, but also to the present, and possibly the future. Much more than an incursion into the past, the exhibition reveals the exceptional or paradigmatic character of certain contemporary proposals. It thus offers the visitor a unique look at particularly innovative practices that deserve to be put into context.

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Drawing Now _ Credit photo Say Who : Ayka Lux 41

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LIGHT LEAK

In the night we pass through

"It is through the wound that light enters." — Rûmî

Somewhere between Rûmî's thought and the technical accident in photography*, the curatorial journey proposed by Claire Luna explores the quest for light in contemporary drawing. A light as a force of resistance, permeating the paper of our struggles. A paper that is no longer content to be a medium: it reacts to light, captures it, summons it or plays with it, like the photographic process. Both to reveal and to silence.

* In photography, light leakage refers to the accidental infiltration of light through a flaw in the body of a camera or other optical instrument.

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"There is a crack in everything,That's
how the light gets in"
— Léonard Cohen

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Claire Luna_Michaël Huchard

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