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Galerie Kamel Mennour is a Parisian contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Kamel Mennour. ==History of the gallery== The first space, 50sqm, was inaugurated on Rue Mazarine in 1999.〔Manou Farine, « Kamel Mennour : le culot de réussir à s’imposer sur le marché », L’Oeil, juin 2008〕 Dedicated to contemporary photography, the gallery showed works of international artists, little known in France, like Larry Clark, Stephen Shore or Nobuyoshi Araki, alongside more established artists such as Pierre Molinier.〔Olivier Wicker, « Portrait : Kamel Mennour, sonar de l’art », Libération, 27 septembre 2009〕 Meanwhile, the gallery began to publish catalogs, accompanying these exhibitions. Today more than forty catalogs have been published by Kamel Mennour Editions.〔Anne Fulda, « Kamel Mennour, les secrets du galeriste », Le Figaro, 30 décembre 2011〕 The gallery gained reputation abroad by participating for the first time at Paris Photo in 1999, at the FIAC in 2000 and at Art Basel in 2003.〔Roxana Azimi, « Portrait : Kamel Mennour », Le Journal des Arts, 4 novembre 2005〕 Since, the gallery is present in most of the major international art fairs such as Art Basel, FIAC and Art Basel Miami Beach.〔Bruna Basini, « En route pour Miami Beach », Le Journal du Dimanche, 11 décembre 2008〕 In 2003, the gallery starts to diversify its programming by promoting young contemporary artists as well as established artists working in different media: Daniel Buren, Claude Lévêque, François Morellet and Martin Parr gradually integrate the gallery’s roster.〔Stéphane Guibourgé, « Kamel Mennour, loin des clichés », Le Figaro Magazine, 13 octobre 2007〕 In September 2007, the gallery expands and invests a new space of 400 m2 in the Hôtel particulier of Vieuville (seventeenth century), located at 47, rue Saint-André-des-arts. Designed by architects Aldric Beckmann and Françoise N'Thépé, it was inaugurated with a solo exhibition by Daniel Buren.〔Thomas Humery, « Galeriste au singulier : Kamel Mennour », L’Optimum, septembre 2007〕 The initial space of the Rue Mazarine shows specific projects. In the following years the gallery continues to exhibit young emerging artists (Mohamed Bourouissa, Camille Henrot, Latifa Echakhch, Dario Escobar, Alicja Kwade) and established artists, which include among others Huang Yong Ping, Anish Kapoor, Tadashi Kawamata, Lee Ufan, Gina Pane or Martial Raysse. Besides solo exhibitions, historical dialogues are held regularly (Daniel Buren and Alberto Giacometti in 2010, François Morellet and Kasimir Malevich in 2011), as well as group and thematic exhibitions, such as the exhibition of "Lux Perpetua" (2012) addressing the treatment of light from Delacroix to Ann Veronica Janssens, or “L’image pensée" (2013, curated by Donatien Grau), dedicated to the use of slideshows by contemporary artists. Parallel to the gallery program, the gallery regularly collaborates with institutions to conduct significant off site projects, such as "Arche 2009" by Huang Yong Ping in the Chapelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris,〔Richard Leydier, « Huang Yong Ping Arche 2009 », artpress, décembre 2009〕 the 2011 and 2012 Monumenta exhibitions, respectively by Anish Kapoor〔http://2011.monumenta.com/fr/2011/partenaires〕 and Daniel Buren〔http://www.monumenta.com/fr/partenaires-galeries〕 at the Grand Palais. Other major collaborations were Claude Lévêque’s solo presentation at the 2009 French Pavilion in Venice Biennale as well as Sigalit Landau’s contribution to the Israelian Pavilion in 2011 and recently Camille Henrot’s video ''Grosse Fatigue'' (2013), awarded with the silver Lion for the most promising young artist.〔Philippe Piguet, « Camille Henrot : à Venise, la ‘meilleure jeune artiste’ », L’Oeil, septembre 2013〕 In September 2013, the gallery doubles its exhibition space by opening a second space on 6, rue du Pont de Lodi which allows to host monumental works under a vast glass roof, as inaugural exhibition by the Arte Povera artist Pier Paolo Calzolari.〔Caroline de Bodinat, « Kamel Mennour, l’accrocheur né », Madame Figaro, 24 octobre 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Galerie Kamel Mennour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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