« Like the case containing the projectile or the explosive, each edition of the Cartouche collection shows a selected piece of the artist’s work.
Independent publishing house, Imogene Editions was created in 2018. Its catalog of illustrated books is dedicated to photography and contemporary art.
In 2021, Imogene Editions created the contemporary art collection Cartouche. This collection of monographic books aims to present a series, a practice, a period of the artist. This series can be unpublished or not, in connection with a current or future exhibition, or simply a zoom on a less known part of the artist’s work.
Each work is printed in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, plus a limited edition of 12 copies numbered from I to XII and accompanied by an original or multiple work by the artist.
The artists involved in this event are
Pierre Ardouvin
Born in France in 1955, Pierre Ardouvin lives and works in Paris. He was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007. Since the beginning of the 1990s, his work has revealed the hidden part of fossils, of what in them « lies » in the collective and individual memory. He expresses the fantasies, memories, renunciations and dreams with melancholy and humor through sculptures, paintings, installations, retouched images and drawings. Present in numerous public and private collections, his works have been exhibited in Paris, at the Palais de Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the History of Immigration and La Maison Rouge, the Mac Val (Vitry-sur-Seine), the MUNAL (Mexico City), the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), the MMCA (Seoul) and the Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires. He is represented in France and the United States by Galerie Praz Delavallade (Paris/Los Angeles) and in Belgium by Yoko Uhoda Gallery (Liège).
Makiko Furuichi
Born in 1987 in Kanazawa, Japan, Makiko Furuichi is a graduate of the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes (2011) and the Kanazawa College of Art (2009). A painter, her preferred medium is watercolor, as this technique allows her to develop vaporous forms representing beings from her imagination. In 2018, she is the winner of the Visual Arts Prize of the City of Nantes and has mounted numerous exhibitions in Europe and Asia in recent years. She also carries out publishing work and has more than fifteen personal and collective publications to her credit, including both comics and artist books. Makiko Furuichi lives and works in Nantes.
Agnès Geoffray
At the crossroads of photography and writing, Agnès Geoffray reveals a universe of latent and mysterious tensions. Often elaborating from archival sources, her proposals result from a process of fictionalized reconstruction and question the idea of reminiscence. These texts and these images that we assimilate in spite of ourselves, which are anchored in our memories, convey the idea of a collective intimacy, of a common referent. The artist re-enacts and reinvents the writings and photographs that surround us daily, inviting the viewer to reconsider his memory. Solo exhibitions at the Frac Auvergne (2020), Point du Jour (2019), Galerie Maubert (2018), CPIF (2017) have accompanied group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Paris (2019), La maison rouge (2018), Rencontres photographiques d’Arles (2017), Jeu de Paume (2016), Centre Pompidou Metz (2016), Mac Val (2015). The artist is represented by Galerie Maubert, Paris, and edited by La Lettre volée, Brussels.
Cécile Granier de Cassagnac
Cécile Granier de Cassagnac defines herself above all as a painter. The inspiration for her work is based on the living (animals, humans, plants, minerals) to better detach herself from them. She develops a plastic language which has as a starting point her travels and residences abroad, or the gleaning of objects. These travels and objects are as many curiosities that reappear in the paintings in the form of liquid memories, blurred and colored memory on the paper. Where the randomness of watercolor precisely tries to capture the reverie. Graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2007, she stayed at the Sydney College of the Arts (2006), at the Zayed University of Abu Dhabi as part of a workshop residency in partnership with Culture France (2010), at the House of Arts in Beijing (Yishu 8 Prize, 2011), or in Lome, Togo (2013).
The event will be structured as a sale and signing of the first 4 Cartridges of the collection in the bookstore in the presence of the artists with a short speech to present the collection.
