The Ambre International association, following the Sophipolitan success of ARTOUR dedicated to contemporary Algerian creation, has opened up to China by involving seven artists from the PACA Region in the China International Galleries Exhibition (CIGE) at the prestigious World Trade Center in Beijing.
GregBot, an artist and operator in the art world, a graduate of Villa Arson, and an active member of the association, initiated this adventure with the support of the Galerie Art’iane from Honfleur in contact with CIGE and the International Communication Company 2U2.
Thanks to a privileged partnership with Fernando GALAN, director of art.es, an international contemporary art magazine from Spain, the artists had access to a large exhibition space. The group also relied on the support of XU Li, Producer of 2U2 and Consultant in Economics and Aesthetics to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
The artists from Ambre International: Lydia CORBEAU, Elena PYRONNET, GREGBOT, JENKELL, and METCUC, were accompanied by artists Marie Stรฉphane, Laurent Hodebert, and finally Jean-Georges INCA, an atypical senior artist from Tende who consistently exhibits everywhere with good commercial success and who had a painting reserved by a Beijing collector after just 10 minutes of exhibition! Nice residents are thus making their mark in this giant city with its friendly population.
GREGBOT, Art Designer from 2U2 and the Producer XU Li created the closing event cherished by contemporary art, which seeks to ascend today’s stage and open up towards business and science. The ‘Bei Yu’ experimental art’dvertainment they created is a work in itself that cast a ray of Cรดte d’Azur sunshine on the Imagine gallery’s stand, as well as on that of the art.es magazine, which underwent the original experience of performances by the Feng Ying Experimental Contemporary Dancing Studio.
The concept of “Bei Yu” was based on the relationship between the moving body and the exhibited artworks, which were stationary, cold, dead, resting in the gallery’s monumental tomb. The empathy of the Chinese dance troupe was such that they revealed and accompanied the meaning of each artwork. The large audience benefited from a second reading of the artwork through its staging.
Artists from the Imagine Gallery respond:
Thomas Ryce exclaims:
“In my opinion, an artwork must be very alert, capturing the dynamism of life: Feng Ying understood and emphasized this through their gestures as precise and expressive as Chinese brushes.”
Tung Wen Margue marvels:
“The breath and movement of the dancers in relation to my sculpture felt like a blessing as if they had given it a soul. I see it differently now.”
Laetitia GAUDEN, director of Imagine Gallery in Beijing, enthusiastically agreed to exhibit the only and unique sculpture by GREGBOT, HighTech Extrusion, representing the famous artist Picasso, who he brought with him to China, thinking it was the most beautiful. Fernando GALAN, a discerning art critic, would not disagree. Picasso is famous in China, and perhaps he was also a bit of a communist.
GREGBOT concludes: “We have often talked about contemporary art staged at Villa Arson, but I had to come to Beijing to truly achieve it. In this culture of blandness, simplicity amazes, there is no longer a need to surprise. I am discovering Banal Art, and it has already won me over.”
GREGBOT and Rody KLEIN.
