The Circuits
Pierre Yovanovitch's favorites
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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Rodion Kitaev, From the series La Bête de Gévaudan, 2023 Acrylique, encre, marqueur, crayon, papier, 29,7 x 42 cm, Courtoisie de l'artiste et de la galerie Iragui
Mbaye Diop, Sans titre, 2024, pastel à l’huile et graphite sur papier, 50 x 70 cm, courtoisie de l’artiste et de la galerie Selebe Yoon
Roméo Mivekannin, Agoodjie de face Femme du Dahomey, 2021, lavis sur papier, 114 x 90 cm, courtoisie de l'artiste et de la galetrie Eric Dupont
Greta Schödl, Sans titre, Encre de chine, feuilles d’or, encres, pastels et pages de livres anciens sur papyrus, 26 x 20 cm
Joris Van Moortel, Satan in all his glory (après W. Blake), 2023-2024 Aquarelle et gouache sur papier 100% coton, protection UV, encadrement avec arthglass AR70 anti-reflet, cadre en bois (32 x 42 cm) et cadre de l’artiste en résine acrylique (45 x 55 x 5 cm), 57 x 47 x 5,5 cm © We Document Art, courtoisie de l’artiste et de la galerie
Nina Mae Fowler, Paula (Sweet Charity), 2023, Fusain sur papier, perles baroques, chaine, verre-miroir, 53 x 29 x 3 cm
Nina Mae Fowler, Sidney (The Slender Thread), 2023, Fusain sur papier, perles baroques, chaine, verre-miroir, 53 x 29 x 3 cm
Noemi Conan, Job thief, peinture et acrylique et pigment sur papier, 180 x 150 cm, courtoisie de l'artiste
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.

Alireza Shojaian, La porte du Paradis (Sharok & Arthur), 2025 Acrylique et crayon de couleur sur bois 120 x 95 cm Oeuvre unique
VOID, Smell like filter coffee and cigaret, 2024, impression à encre pigmentaire, phonautogramme (noir de fumé, son gravé) sur papier Hahnemüle, 80,5,57 cm
Lise Duclaux, Les Plantes ont des choses à dire, 2023, installation avec 3 dessins encadrés crayon et peinture sur papier et 6 impressions riso sur papier coloré, dessins: 29,7 x 20 cm / prints: 42 x 30 cm
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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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