4, place de Séoul 75014 Paris
from 19 to 25 october 2007 - 3pm to 8 pm
Opening October 18 at 6 pm

Patrick Baillet
Bernard Demiaux
Reynald Drouhin
Norbert Hillaire

4 place de Séoul, 75014 Paris, métro stop Montparnasse ou Gaité

Four contemporary artists exhibit their work for the first time together in the exceptional site of Place de Séoul in Paris

The exhibition " 4 Place de Séoul " presents several artworks by four contemporary artists, each of them having a different style but having in common the desire that it is necessary today to link tradition and innovation, experimentation and transmission, traditional ways of painting and digital culture -- in short, to link modernity and post-modernity.

For these artists, painting today means painting in a world ruled by digital networks, designed by technologies which expand and shape our behaviors and influence our belief systems and our artistic inspiration.

• Bernard Demiaux has been involved for a long time with informational objects such as computer codes and computer languages with which he re-invents not only nature but also the art of painting.
  
  
• Patrick Baillet, in his work pursues could be called the origins of the act of painting in its original purity and in a movement free of any conceptual add-ons. This is the sense of the works he shows 4 Place de Séoul.
  
  
• The work of Reynald Drouhin is hard to assign to a too well-defined category even if his art is clearly part of the digital arts, because he constantly renews his subjects, his objectives and his methods of investigating esthetism in our postmodern society. At 4 Place de Séoul he revisits a key topic of the modern age - the monochrome.
• Norbert Hillaire has a visual artist's approach, which is complementary to his work as theorist of the use of digital technologies in art and culture, an approach which represents the pursuit of research and theoritical thinking by other means.