VIth catalogue: World Art Society

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alberto guzmán (b. 1927)

Born in 1927 in Talara, Peru and died on November 2, 2017 in Nogent sur Marne. The Parisian sculptor of Peruvian origin, Alberto Guzmán, studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima, where in 1953 he exhibited his first abstract sculpture in welded iron. He then organized his first solo exhibition at the Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo in Lima in 1959, when he obtained, through a competition, a scholarship offered by French government to study in Paris. Two years later, he presented his sculptures in welded wire at the Musée d’art modern de la Ville de Paris as part of the exhibition "Latin American Art in Paris", then at the “Salon de la Jeune Sculpture”. Guzmán implements a universal language in which two half-spheres are held apart at a distance by metallic wires in tension which translate the impossibility for the human being to achieve essential unity. Guzmán also exhibited in Caracas and Valencia in 1965 and participated in the Venice Biennale the following year. From the 1970s, the artist sought to transpose his creations into marble and began to work in chiaroscuro by making drawings on paper or cardboard in which he then made perforations and cutouts. Guzmán received the Bourdelle Prize in 1971 and organized the following year at the Musée Bourdelle a personal exhibition of his

sculptures and drawings from 1959 to 1972. In 1973, he took part in the exhibition "Sculptures en Montagnes" on the Plateau d 'Assy in the French Alpes and then subsequently presented his work at the European Sculpture Triennial at the Grand Palais (1982) and at the Havana Biennale (1986). Along with his career as a sculptor, Guzmán produced jewelry, furniture and theater sets. In 2012, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Pau organized a retrospective exhibition of his pictorial and sculptural work which highlighted half a century of artistic reflection.

Tension

1975-2015

Bronze Sculpture 1/8 (ex) 59 cm x 64 cm x 34 cm Price on request © Copyright Brita GUZMAN

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Anthony J.P. Meyer

T.: +33 (0) 6 80 10 80 22 E.: ajpmeyer@gmail.com w.: www.meyeroceanic.art

Chen Jinan

Newtype I, No. 2 2015 Vandyck process 50 cmx 70 cm Edition of 6 Price on request

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Rasti Fine Art Ltd. M.:+852 2415 1888

E.: gallery@rastifineart.com W: www.rastifineart.com

Newtype I, No. 5 2015

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Rasti Fine Art Ltd.

M.:+852 2415 1888

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Daniel eskenazi

Raised in a family that has been collecting and dealing in Asian art since the 1920s, Daniel Eskenazi has a strong interest in both ancient and contemporary Chinese art, from which he draws his inspiration. Exposed to the best artistic and intellectual achievements of Asia from a young age, it is through this mix of cultural, religious, and philosophical influences that his sensibilities have been formed. A sophisticated self-taught photographer, Eskenazi has been creating photographic works since the early 1990s. Eskenazi’s most recent photography work is based on the philosophical process that leads one’s self to be intimately connected with the spirit of nature; in Chinese we call this li, the inner law or spirit of things, or as the German poet Schiller put it: ‘It’s the spirit which builds for itself a body.’ Side by side, his photographic images bring together natural forms as a means to trigger both man’s elemental reactions to imagery, as well as raise questions of the metaphysical.

Untitled IV, from his ‘Pictures of You’ series 2013

Inkjet print on photo rag 43 cm x 58 cm, Edition of 6 + 2AP 83 cm x 111 cm, Edition of 3 + 2AP Price on request

aRTWORk pResenTeD By:

Rasti Fine Art Ltd. M.:+852 2415 1888 E.: gallery@rastifineart.com W: www.rastifineart.com

guy Ferrer (b. 1955)

Born in 1955 in French Algeria, of Italian and Catalan descent, Guy FERRER has worked in many foreign countries creating temporary studios in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Caracas, Lima, Johannesburg, Beijing.

Since the 1980s, he has developed an international career highlighted by painting and sculpture exhibitions in numerous galleries and received several commissions from the French government, cities and important companies.

His work summons textures, pigments, collages, graphics, fragments, found objects and mixtures of earth, ashes or tar on canvas or paper. All his sculptures are bronze castings. Each work speaks as much of touch as of sight, and less of the hand than of the body as a whole.

As a fully self-taught artist, FERRER also extends his material artworks to explore writing and architecture. He proposes diverse perspectives and as a Citizen of the world, is highly concerned with the variety and mobility of the human being. Passionate about spiritualities, he offers his sensitive and poetic vision of humanity facing its paradoxical destiny: according to the artist, humanity is both of light and mud, and one’s pathway through life is the fundamental initiation.

Practicing his art gives FERRER the possibilities to explore the world and learn from it, step by step, thus the world becomes his experimental laboratory.

For more information’s about Guy FERRER: https://www.guyferrer.com/

Next exhibitions: Galerie Meyer - 17 rue des Beaux-Arts -75006Paris « MANA – in the Artwork, the Power » February 02 to April 01, 2023

Everard Readt Gallery at Leeu Estates, Franschhoek, South Africa « Rituals » February 11 to March 5, 2023

The Prayer Circle

2016

Painting - mixed medias

230 cm x 205 cm Price on request © Copyright Guy FERRER

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Anthony J.P. Meyer T.: +33 (0) 6 80 10 80 22 E.: ajpmeyer@gmail.com w.: www.meyeroceanic.art

lucile soussan (b. 1990)

"Born in 1990, the French multidisciplinary visual artist Lucile Soussan extends her field of action from traditional craftsmanship to contemporary art and specializes in color design for the luxury and cosmetics industry. Winner of the 3under30 prize promoted by the Galerie Daniel Blau and former student of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris at Eric Poitevin's studio. Her work is rooted in ancestral cultures. In her eyes, there is a strong kinship in the unique bond of these peoples with nature and she recognizes herself in this sacred approach to life. Photography remains for her a nomadic art to discover shoots in nature like a hunter-gatherer of images. From these collections made during long hikes, she keeps memories associated with their digital files. The challenge is to restore materiality and make this memory exist. She is imbued with images by Georges Shiras and texts by Jean-Christophe Bailly, the animal constitutes “an Other” whose discretion fascinates her. Soussan is particularly strongly influenced by contemporary Japanese photographers,

Takashi Homma and Naoki Ishikawa. The raw vivacity of their images moves her, and this is perhaps one of the reasons that motivated her to combine photography and engraving. Photoengraving allows, by means of a complex experimental technical process, to engrave a copper plate which will become what she calls ""a mold of an image"". This adventure allows her to reactivate the memory of sparks from a distant nature.

""I wanted to realize a work at the crossroads of the marvelous and the primitive at the same time purified and carnal. The anteater, by the mischievousness of its form, invites a detour. It is only after having finished this sculpture that I detected its origin in a Japanese scroll painted by Hokusai. More than the nature of the animal itself or its luminous environment, it is the artist's tone between humor, poetry and animism in which I recognized myself.""

Group exhibition catalogue : https://issuu. com/ajpmeyer/docs/contemporain_x_ancien_ catalogue"

Paradis Noir

2022

Photo - aquatint etching 60 cm x 40 cm

Price on request

© Copyright Lucile Soussan

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Anthony J.P. Meyer

T.: +33 (0) 6 80 10 80 22

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Marie Diane

A Parisian at heart, Marie Diane expresses herself through her multiple creative facets. Endowed with a refined gesture and eye, this self-taught artist practices drawing and painting. For nearly 20 years, she has been experimenting with very different styles, letting her imagination and talent run wild as she creates. In 2014, Marie Diane exhibited for the first time in a London gallery the GX Gallery where her works met with great success.

She paints, enhances, details sculptures. After several years in England, Marie Diane decided to settle in Paris. In 2020, curious to broaden her creative palette, Marie Diane creates small test drawings in Indian ink.

She visits Parisian fairs, gets inspired and imagines new forms. Little by little, the artist sketches masks and tribal statues, the best way according to Marie Diane to learn and enter this subject which fascinates her., A real bulimic artist, Marie Diane satisfies her thirst for elsewhere by reproducing all the objects she discovers in the books in her library. Her gaze is fed by masks and statues, ancestral customs and primordial rituals. She also listens to African music, watches documentaries and reads a lot in order to immerse herself in this captivating universe. Determined to see beyond the simple aesthetics of these pieces, she wishes to recontextualize them, understand their stories before transcribing them on paper. Very quickly, Marie Diane moves on to large formats.

In June 2021, gallery owner Eric Hertault invites her to exhibit in his gallery during Paris Tribal Fair. This unprecedented dialogue between both arts was a real success. With their disturbing realism, Marie Diane's paintings quickly find their audience. The artist extendsher exhibition there during

the Parcours des Mondes in September and at Galerie Mingei, both located in the heart of Paris in the VIth district. The artist also signs the invitation card for the highly anticipated Toshimasa Kikuchi exhibition at the Musée Guimet (2021). Marie Diane sees, in ink, a way to go further in creation. She spends many hours on each drawing, from nine to fifteen hours for a large format. The application of Indian ink, a complex play of light and transparency, requires several stages of drying, for a better restitution of depths and volumes, leading the artist to work on several drawings at the same time. Working with Indian ink undeniably offers a new dimension to drawing. Marie Diane likes to challenge herself on different textures. Wood, blade, basketry, leather, the artist always makes sure that the work keeps its relief, its depth, its authenticity. Meticulous, she observes and analyzes each detail in order to reproduce the essence of each sculpture as accurately as possible. She works from contrasted pictures which help her to ""enter the light and take possession of the object. Marie Diane's drawings offer a new look at extra-Western creation. Her works are a kind of ""zoom"", an invitation to admire the incredible play of light and matter of those pieces. From Africa to Asia, Marie Diane ’s graphic lines seem to have no limits.

As for painting, her other refuge, there is no doubt that we are no longer talking about precision. It is a complete letting go; a timeless and personal interpretation of space. Highlighting direction with colors is her only finality. The eye is quick to detect the permanent research, to put clarity on this agitated painting which is nevertheless dominated by very structured organizations.

Marie Diane daringly seeks to master and burst color through various superimpositions with a painter's knife."

Ligbi

OBJeCT pResenTeD By: Eric Hertault

T.:+33 6 15 38 64 81

E.: hertault.eric@gmail.com W. : www.eric-hertault.com

Yaouré

Chinese ink

60 x 80 cm (framed)

Price:

OBJeCT pResenTeD By: Eric Hertault

T.:+33 6 15 38 64 81

E.: hertault.eric@gmail.com W. : www.eric-hertault.com

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Ming Tong

"Ming Tong has a degree in environmental sculpture from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China. He has been living and working in Lille (France) since 1994 as an independent artist, specialising in painting, calligraphy and sculpture. He teaches art and sculpture at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art in Tourcoing and Arras since 1996. He also works in conceptions of urban art creations.

Today, Tong Ming is mainly concerned with ceramics because of its affinity with the natural material, especially clay. As a sculptor he likes volume, where roundness goes hand in hand with softness. He takes his inspiration from the basic techniques he developed during his years as a sculptor and through study. His creations are the result of inspiration from both Western and Chinese culture and are characterized by humor, beauty and serenity. His career is characterized by various solo and group exhibitions in France, Belgium, Holland and China.

Gallery Famarte Asian Art started the collaboration with Ming Tong early 2019 and shows his unique art works at national and international art fairs.

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Ecoute

Signed by the artist China 2021 Ceramic with red pigment 41 cm (h) x 24 cm x 22,5 cm Price: 5.200 euros

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Farah Massart M.:+32 495 289 100 E.: art@famarte.be W.: www.famarte.be

printFly Japan Air Lines, Calcutta

Ancient Hindu Temple, Konarak, India

99,06 cm x 61,6 cm

Price on request

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Kapoor Galleries

T.: + 1 (212) 794-2300 E.: info@kapoorgalleries.com w.: www.kapoorgalleries.com

India, Air France

1967

98,43 cm x 59,16 cm Price on request

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Kapoor Galleries

T.: + 1 (212) 794-2300

E.: info@kapoorgalleries.com w.: www.kapoorgalleries.com

Germany Frankfurt, Air-India

85,73 cm x 60,96 cm Price on request

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Kapoor Galleries

T.: + 1 (212) 794-2300

E.: info@kapoorgalleries.com w.: www.kapoorgalleries.com

There is an Air about India, Air India

85,73 cm x 60,96 cm Price on request

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Kapoor Galleries

T.: + 1 (212) 794-2300 E.: info@kapoorgalleries.com w.: www.kapoorgalleries.com

Roger Boulay (b. 1943)

Roger Boulay was born in 1943 in the Sarthe region of France. He defended his doctorate in ethnology in 1986, but it was in 1979 that the decisive meeting with Jean-Marie Tjibaou took place, which anchored him in an exclusive passion: Oceania. Since then, he has developed a policy of intense collaboration with Kanak cultural institutions which led him to be entrusted with the museographic program of the Tjibaou Cultural Center (Nouméa) along with Emmanuel Kasarhérou. As a well known curator of numerous exhibitions, he was commissioned in 2011 by the government of New Caledonia to produce, again with Emmanuel Kasarhérou, the inventory of all Kanak objects kept in French and European museums (IPKD).

Some exhibitions:

- For the Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac: The aristocrat and his cannibals, 2008 Tarzan, or Rousseau among the Wasiri, 2009 Kanak, art is a word (with Emmanuel Kasarhérou),

2013 Kanak notebooks, travel in inventory, 2020-2021

- For the National Museum of Arts of Africa and Oceania: Of jade and mother-of-pearl, 1991 Arts of Vanuatu, 1996 Kannibals and Vahines, 2001

- For the Museum of New Caledonia, Nouméa: Of jade and mother-of-pearl, 1990

- For the Hèbre museum, Rochefort: Kanak notebooks, inventory trip, 2022

Announcing forthcoming exhibition ""Carnets Kanak - Voyage en inventaire de Roger Boulay"" 04/10/2022 - 12/03/2023 - Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris. #Carnetskanaks

Ornaments and jewels

2021 Watercolor and pencil on paper

46 cm x 60,5 cm

Price on request

© Copyright Bertrand Michau

aRTWORk pResenTeD By:

Anthony J.P. Meyer

T.: +33 (0) 6 80 10 80 22

E.: ajpmeyer@gmail.com w.: www.meyeroceanic.art

Ruyi

shao Wenhuan

Riotous Stone

2011 Photography and mixed media on canvas 160 cm x 105 cm Price on request

aRTWORk pResenTeD By:

Rasti Fine Art Ltd.

M.:+852 2415 1888

E.: gallery@rastifineart.com W: www.rastifineart.com

Takashi Wakamiya

Takashi Wakamiya, an acclaimed lacquer artist and producer excels in traditional lacquer techniques with a high mastery level. He has developed an interest in creating imitation pieces, such as East Asian historical objects, which are bronze or ceramic and use lacquer techniques to make the exact replicas. His studio Hikoju Makie in Wajima, Japan, creates these “imitations” with such remarkable exactness that the lacquerwares fool’s onlookers. Much more than creating decorative pieces, the lacquerwares have interesting sculptural forms and superbly subtle colors that make three-dimensional replica artefacts unique.

This work is a natsume (tea box). Its name comes from its resemblance to the natsume fruit (jujube). It is short with a flat lid and rounded bottom and is usually made of lacquered or untreated wood. This small lidded container in which the powdered tea is placed is usually employed for usucha.

Natsume (Tea caddie) Wakamiya Takeshi (b. 1964) Japan 2018 Wood and urushi lacquer, Tomobako

7 cm (h) x 6,8 cm x 6,8 cm Price: 6.000 euros

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Galerie Mingei

M: +33 (0)6 09 76 60 68

E: mingei.arts.gallery@gmail.com W: www.mingei.gallery

The characteristics of Jizhou tenmoku tea bowls include the relatively white, thinly potted clay body and the small and low foot. This rather flat bowl has straight walls opening wide toward the mouth. The silhouette of a leaf imprinted in the interior during firing gives the name Konoha (leaf) Tenmoku. The Konoha Tenmoku was born in the Jizhou kiln of China during the Southern Sung period (12th-13th century). The unique characteristic of Konoha Tenmoku is that a real leaf is applied on the glaze and then fired.

Konoha Tenmoku glaze with leaf design Important Cultural Property of Japan Southern Song dynasty

12th century Jizhou ware, China 5,3 cm (h) x 14,7 cm x 14,7 cm

Provenance: The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka; Gift of SUMITOMO Group (The ATAKA Collection)

Konnoha Tenmoku (chawan with leaf pattern)

Wakamiya Takeshi (b. 1964) Japan 2018

Keyaki wood (Zelkova serrata) and urushi lacquer (togidashi maki-e for the leaf), Tomobako 5,3 cm (h) x 14,8 cm x 14,8 cm Price: 12.000 euros

aRTWORk pResenTeD

By: Galerie Mingei

T.: + 33 (0)6 09 76 60 68

E.: mingei.arts.gallery@gmail. com W.: www.mingei.gallery

This work is a seigaibon, originally a thin metal plate hammered by hand, with a calm ocean effect (seigai), used as a candy plate in the tea ceremony. This circular dish with a slightly upturned rim, executed in greenish-brown lacquer polished smooth in imitation of tin.

Lacquered Seigaibon dish

Wakamiya Takeshi (b. 1964)

Japan

2018

Wood and urushi lacquer, Tomobako

2,4 cm (h) x 16,6 cm x 16,6 cm

Price: 6.000 euros

aRTWORk pResenTeD

Galerie Mingei

T.: + 33 (0)6 09 76 60 68

By:

E.: mingei.arts.gallery@gmail. com W.: www.mingei.gallery

A chawan (literally "tea bowl") is a bowl used for preparing and drinking tea. Many types of chawan are used in East Asian tea ceremonies. The choice of their use depends upon many considerations. This chawan is created using the technique of cracking the lacquer by applying egg white when the lacquer is about to dry. Timing is very difficult, and it is a technique that requires a high level of skill. Mitate is the Japanese word for “to look again”. Mitate is one technique used by designers when creating a Japanese garden. Essentially, mitate is when something old is seen and used in a new way.

Chawan (tea bowl) Wakamiya Takeshi (b. 1964) Japan 2017 Wood and urushi mitate lacquer, Tomobako 5 cm (h) x 14 cm x 14 cm Price: 10.000 euros

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Galerie Mingei

T.: + 33 (0)6 09 76 60 68 E.: mingei.arts.gallery@gmail. com W.: www.mingei.gallery

This black Raku chawan in lacquer imitates the famous Ōguro chawan (""large black""), made in the 16th Century by Chōjirō and classified ""Important Cultural Property of Japan"".

The lacquer artist Wakamiya Takeshi has brilliantly reproduced this masterpiece of sobriety — remarkable for the irregularity of its shape, the austerity of its color and a total absence of decoration — produced at the request of the great tea master Sen no Rikyū. Like Chōjirō, Wakamiya shaped this lacquer by hand so that it rests delicately in the palm of the tea drinker, giving them the impression that it is a still malleable earthen object. This chawan embodies the depth of mind of Chojirô and Rikyû, two men of the brilliant era of Momoyama (1568-1603) who gave vital importance to the aesthetic concept of ""wabi"" and to the notions of tranquility, solitude, of simplicity and frugality.

Tanaka Chōjirō (1516-?1592) is distinguished as the first generation in the Raku family line of potters. According to historical documents he was the son of one Ameya, who is said to have emigrated to Japan from Korea or possibly from Ming China. Historical evidence shows that he produced ridge tiles for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Jurakudai palace in 1574. There is a historical document reporting that in 1584, Toyotomi Hideyoshi presented him with a seal inscribed with the character, raku, and with this ""Raku"" was adopted as the family name. He worked for Sen no Rikyū at whose request he created teabowls to be used in chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony."

Black raku Chōjiro chawan Wakamiya Takeshi (b. 1964) Japan 2017 Wood and urushi lacquer, Tomobako 8,8 cm (h) x 11,7 cm x 11,7 cm Price: 12.000 euros

aRTWORk pResenTeD By: Galerie Mingei T.: + 33 (0)6 09 76 60 68 E.: mingei.arts.gallery@gmail. com W.: www.mingei.gallery"