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L’art indigène des colonies françaises _ Pavillon de Marsan (Louvre, Paris) 1923

Stéphane Chauvet et l’exposition du pavillon de Marsan

Stéphane Chauvet est né le 27 Novembre 1885, à Béthune dans le Pas de Calais, il était normand d’origine, riche d’une magnifique hérédité scientifique et intellectuelle. Son père inventa la lampe à arc et le treuil Chauvet qui révolutionna les conditions d’exploitation des mines.

Entraîné dans ce courant très jeune, Stephen Chauvet manifesta une vivacité d’intelligence dont on rencontre peu d’exemples. Lauréat au concours général, bachelier de philosophie à 15 ans, le naturaliste Mangin, directeur du Museum, frappé par ses dons d’observation l’arrache à la préparation de polytechnique pour l’orienter vers la médceine et les sciences naturelles. Depuis le jour où après la guerre 14-18 il obtint de la veuve du commandant Bertrand revenant de >Zinder une petite statuette féminine du Soudan et un masque double, Chauvet fut touché par la grâce de l’art nègre et par le démon de la collection.

De 1920 à 1935 quinze années durant il sera un des plus surts animateurs de ce mouvement qui oriente l’opinion publique vers les arts indigènes et en particulier

Primitive arts in Kaos
Le Journal des Arts - n ° 220 - September 9, 2005

The young Parisian journey Kaos has quickly become the global meeting place among lovers of primitive art. With a fourth edition even richer.
It took only two years at Kaos-Course Worlds in Paris Saint-Germain-des-Prés, home of the primitive arts, to win. Modeled on that of Bruneaf Brussels (Brussels Non European Art Fair), Kaos is an open event bringing together specialist dealers concentrated in one area (ie, exhibiting in their walls or hosted by other galleries). But while Bruneaf is losing momentum in recent years, Kaos is getting stronger. Created in 2002 from an idea by Rik Gadella (among other founder of Paris Photo), the appointment of Parisian art lovers first hosted the first year 21 galleries around the axis of the Rue de Seine, then 40 participants in 2003. The formula took off in 2004 with 51 exhibitors from around the world and has already reached international fame. This latest edition was also shown the excesses of the success of Kaos: merchants had refused leased spaces on the course to enjoy the commercial success generated by the event. Without dwelling on the subject, "not to do their advertising, its management announced a reinforcement of the signage" Kaos "to foreclose any parasites.

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This year, 55 galleries will open the festivities on the evening of Sept. 14, in a friendly atmosphere that gives the event a very special charm

Tristan Tzara (born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; April 4 or April 16, 1896 – December 25, 1963) was a Romanian and Frenchavant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishmentDada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolulwith Ion Vinea (with whom he also wrote experimental poetry) and painter Marcel Janco. During World War I, after briefly collaborating on Vinea's Chemarea, he joined Janco in Switzerland. There, Tzara's shows at the Cabaret Voltaire and Zunfthaus zur Waag, as well as his poetry and art manifestos, became a main feature of early Dadaism. His work represented Dada's nihilisticside, in contrast with the more moderate approach favored by Hugo Ball.

After moving to Paris in 1919, Tzara, by then one of the "presidents of Dada", joined the staff of Littérature magazine, which marked the first step in the movement's evolution toward Surrealism. He was involved in the major polemics which led to Dada's split, defending his principles against André Breton and Francis Picabia, and, in Romania, against the eclecticmodernism of Vinea and Janco. This personal vision on art defined his Dadaist plays The Gas Heart (1921) and Handkerchief of Clouds (1924). A forerunner of automatist techniques, Tzara eventually rallied with Breton's Surrealism, and, under its influence, wrote his celebrated utopianpoem The Approximate Man.

During the final part of his career, Tzara combined his humanist and anti-fascistperspective with a