January
Château de Mouans-Sartoux where our first exhibit in 2025 took place: the solo show of Lamarche-Ovize revealing for the first time the complete set of Mirazur at EAC/Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux
Lio is born Jan 2. The daughter of Brecht Evens and his partner Lucile. The artist designed a birth announcement we printed for him.
Part One of the image by RRH, an Iranian trio sent to us by Louis Vuitton editions for the deluxe print of their Travel Book on Dubaï.
Émile Mariot and Lucile Vanstaevel, both printers, pulled in as extra muscle for the extravagant Jean Michel Othoniel project for Avignon in June.
Paul Moragues, cartooned by Florentine Lamarche and placed in their show in Mouans-Sartoux.
Paul Moragues doing acrobatics on the big press
Street artist Rouge lays down her first composition to be ready for the Mur Bastille project.
Marc Desgrandchamps not sure if our new etchings commissioned for his gallery Lelong are to his taste. Photo by gallery director, François Dournes, who came by to check things out.
February
Brecht Evens decides signing prints should not be in our conventional way
He asks for staged situations
And accomplishes it well
A happy man finished signing our 2025 crop, ready to join the rest for our 3 upcoming museum shows
Under the surveillance of Blaise Drummond and Michael, Léa inks the woodblock for first tests of cover for our artist book, Know Your Trees.
Michael passes through the first cover tests
Léa and Paul gathering ink on their rollers
Blaise Drummond tries mask ideas with leaves for the cover
We check out the results
Blaise Drummond tries out his first monotypes
A whole new territory to explore
Pierre Di Sciullo happy signing our first publication of four original lithographs
Rouge Hartley signing her first print with us for the Association Mur Bastille
Rouge adds to each proof with some extra brush strokes, in front of a wall of Anne-Laure Zevi proofs
Anne-Laure Zevi working hard on litho stone her composition
Anne-Laure Zevi observes Kate McCrickard's large format drypoint etching minutes before she signs the edition
Brecht Evens in wonderful pose in front of his much admired Anne-Laure Zevi's work
Kate McCrickard takes a pose with our etching printer, Gaëtan Girard, once signed our new pieces
Kate while signing Hound of Love
Suzy Murphy in from London to work large scale monotypes for her gallery Lyndsey Ingram
Léa Tupper printing in a jungle of Suzy Murphy's monotypes
One monotype
The atelier space loaded with Murphy
Michael reviewing Brecht Evens 3 years of original drawings on mylar
A selection to be made for an installation in June at our retrospective show at Fine Arts Museum of Cherbourg
American abstract artist, Howard Smith starts with Léa our first collaboration
A first display of ongoing trials hanging
Howard Smith fine tunes a composition
Michael and part time assistant, Émile Mariot, printing the last of the 5 from the Lamarche-Ovize Mirazur series
Man at work
While Gaëtan Girard advances on the ATAK run
March
And the shop moves to Brussels for a few days to show our new works at LEAF, the multiples fair in the incredible Villa Empain. Léa and Paul during set up
And its game on. Léa speaks to first customers
The shop space set up for a private reception
A sudden hot day drives us to lunch on banks of Bastille canal with shop team, interns and artist Solène Rigou
Old time partner in crime, Stéphane Bordarier in his solo show at the ETC Gallery with his curator
Marc Desgrandchamps signs his series of etchings published by Gallery Lelong with their edition's department head Marie overseeing operation
French art critic Philippe Dagen stops by to see Marc Desgrandchamps and falls on Mélanie Delattre-Vogt doing her insect etchings. She shows one of her models
Alexandre Ovize and Florentine Lamarche in true duo mode sign their Rosmarino (sunset), été edition
Four frshly minted Othoniel paintings ready to be removed and eventually end up in his show in June in Avignon at the Palais des Papes
April
The Brecht Evens solo show at the Musée de Bastia, called the Citadelle.
The old fortress hangs right over the water
Back side of the citadel
The cultural center in center of Bastia where the Comic book festival takes place
Brecht holding baby Lio and Michael at café in port of Bastia
Shop action reviewing, selecting pages of the Blaise Drummond future artist book, Know Your Trees
While the artists Mélanie Delattre-Vogt, Anne-Laure Zevi and duo Lamarche-Ovize work in immediate perimeter
While Rouge is being filmed and Maude Maris draws nearby, shop team works on Christian Schwarzwald artist book, All New Ghosts
And now the duo starts their mega project for their October show at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. No rest for the weary
Two of their ceramic sculptures in a Vallauris ashtray
Alexandre Ovize makes his first moves on new project by placing his woodcut shapes
We ink up each different wood in a variety of colors and he places them according to his master plan
Maude Maris stops by and checks on Mélanie Delattre-Vogt
First proofs of Mélanie's insects
working her etching plate
Mélanie uses models from books, toy insects or real insects
Paul hits the small size Othoniel editions
Anne-Laure Zevi signs her editions with Christian Schwarzwald in the back
Maude Maris et Rouge Hartley œuvrent côte à côte
Maude starts her La berge to be in time to show at the Musée de l'Impressionnisme in Giverny, while Rouge also lays first steps on image we'll perform together at the Musée d'Orsay in May
Michael mixing some litho drawing ink to right level for Maude
Djamel Tatah in town to sign our new three pieces
Christian Schwarzwald fussing with pages for his future artist book, All New Ghosts
Brand new formal explorations by Jean-Michel Othoniel for his solo show at the Cannes museum of contemporary art
Some of the smaller sizes of these new gems, the most complex we've done to date on gold leaf
MAY
The venerable Cahiers d'Art brings in Marina Simao Perez for a second round of monotypes and lithographs. The gallery director, Caroline Heinzman comes into spend time with us
Marina launches a whole new body of successful work
The artists starts a lithographic stone
A lovely day with the top guns of the French and Italian graphic industry in for the day organized by Grafiche Milani. An idea to spend a day together introducing the world of fine print.
The head's of departments from Hermès, Chanel, Vuitton, etc... all aboard
The Orsay Days
Invited to move the shop: presses, printers, artists, paper and ideas, the Orsay museum gave us a space in the main hall to work on our everyday projects
The calm before the storm
A roped off area as to keep the public safely from us
For four days, it was a constant heave and pull
We started with a Brecht Evens poster in litho for our Cherbourg show in June
The printing team all present
Go Tigers
A majestic pose for the public, with the sexy Carpeaux sculptures flanking us
Inking the Rouge Hartley stone
One of the strangest aspect of this experience was the real Moulin Rouge dancers performing twice a day. They would start by passing by us
Working the second color of the Brecht Evens litho poster
Brecht Evens works on stone for a composition that would become Ricochet
Rouge Hartley at work to complete her piece
Cannes & Jean-Michel Othoniel
At the same time as Orsay, Jean-Michel Othoniel inaugurated his solo show at La Malmaison, the contemporary art center of the city of Cannes, right on the Croisette
We made several new style paintings with him. The first ones with 5 color passes, the most to date for this unusual process we invented years ago
One of the small pain tings with palm trees and the Croisette through the window
June
The installation of the Brecht Evens exhibit at the Fine Arts museum of Cherbourg
In June, we installed our own curated show at the Musée Thomas Henry in Cherbourg.
The shop made a concerted effort to imagine how to present all of our collaborations with the Flemish artist. It was a very special process for months.
One of the features of the show was a central installation of a working atelier with proofs hanging from clotheslines, color trials on the walls. And even color swatches with their mixing formula
The museum director, Louise Hallet, invited Brecht Evens to create live in front of the public and in the entrance of the museum, a monumental piece in one day.
Brecht Evens experimented for first time on a large scale his new approach with cut out forms and collaged shapes
Opening at Cherbourg and views of exhibition
The artist and his partner Lucile walk into the show for the first time before opening day
And the artist brings his 6 month old baby girl, Lio
It was a lovely long space where we really made the visitor take a voyage through the artist's mind. We also stressed the role of printmaking throughout.
In the 'shop' space, there was a wall of a great many of his drawings on tracing paper we would transfer to litho plate. On the press, his stone drawing from Orsay museum experience
Large wall paper blowup details of certain prints covered a wall upon which two of our beautiful manière noire lithographs hang
A great feature in a number of showcases was to display the artists source material. In this one books he used as inspiration
And here the game boards he made drawings of
At the end of the expo was a video you could see at a distance of several past interviews of the artist, and working moments and interaction with us at the shop
One of our esteemed colleagues, Théophile Berthemet, litho professor in nearby city of Caen, came several times to perform workshops with members of the public
Théophile made a great success out of the public gatherings
The other Brecht Evens retrospective in Belgium at the same time as Cherbourg
At the same time, same music, different kitchen, we had a vast monographic show of our work with Brecht Evens in the city of La Louvière, in Belgium at the Centre de la gravure et de l'Image Imprimée
Brecht gave an opening speech
The whole shop team came for the occasion
Brecht in casual wear talks to opening night visitors
Djamel Tatah becomes a spray paint artist
Djamel Tatah, who ordinarily makes his backgrounds from woodcut, decides to explore spray paint on tracing paper to be transfered to litho plate as a new tack
He draws his figures also on tracing paper to be transfered to litho plate
The ambition was to create three new large format pieces by our publishing house for his future show in May 2026 in the Fine Arts museum and national museum Magnin, both in Dijon. The show combines prints and paintings
Jean-Michel Othoniel takes over Avignon
Le pont d'Avignon
The Palais des Papes or the Pope's Palace
When you enter the palace, you fall right away in first courtyard one of his monumental sculpture
But in the historic refectory room upstairs, the artist installed all of our paintings we made for him. Paul and Michael enter for the first time
Michael and Jean-Michel in another part of the palace
We made over 60 paintings on gold leaf for the show
Please excuse our lousy Iphone shots, but sometimes they translate a more real feeling than the pro shots
Othoniel installed his work in ten different museum spaces throughout the city. Here's a shot of one of our large scale prints hanging in the venerable Collection Lambert
Our prints and paintings are hanging in red room of natural history museum Requien in city center
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