Colorfield Gallery

A new generation art gallery

Our philosophy is to make art accessible to everyone. Colorfield is an art gallery that offers the innovative concept of on the spot exhibitions to art aficionados, amateurs or simply curious art lovers. With a diverse range of carefully selected artwork, Colorfield transposes art at home, allowing you to admire, to acquire or just to exchange points of view on works. In this space dedicated to contemporary creation, Colorfield proposes a wide collection that matches the most demanding tastes, gathering some works from emerging or confirmed visual artists, painters, photographers and sculptors.
Nowadays, appreciating or owning artwork is no longer the privilege of a small community of collectors. With the boundaries between art and interior design fading out, it becomes fashionable to enhance one's living space with a rare, original piece of art. In fact, everyone is looking for the painting, the photograph or the sculpture that will reveal their interior.

Colorfield Gallery's missions

Colorfield is a "moving” gallery. Its desire to spread arts is reflected by its active participation to art fairs and exhibitions in Europe and across the world, all year long. Colorfield also organizes private art sales for law, auditing and consulting firms. In the context of a casual cocktail, we present a selection of works to guests in a relaxed and refined atmosphere. Colorfield combines competence, experience and taste to select artworks that innovate in terms of technique, originality and beauty.

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Artists at the Fair

FRED BENOIT

Courtesy of his graphic and photographic art studies at St Luc's in Tournai, Fred Benoit has cultivated the delicate art of visual association and the marketing imperatives of communication. Far from restricting himself purely to commercial design linked to his activity as an Artistic Director, he has instead set himself this continuous challenge. This aesthete and enthusiast feeds on the designs ordered to gradually develop his craft.
Associations of consensual ideas, sharp and striking contrasts, poetic new dimensions... His style is conveyed through compositions which reflect his view of society as well as the pure pleasure of visual representation. At first sight, it would appear that all in life inspires him, but for him, it's a reality, a means of giving free rein to this need to express his emotions. It's a personal outlook on his environment, which he applies with the same verve whether in Marcq en Baroeul or New York.

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ROMERO BRITTO

Born in Recife, Brazil in 1963, Romero Britto grew up in a modest family, surrounded by 8 siblings. In his early years, he discovers his natural gift to color his life. Using all kinds of support, from old newspapers to cardboard, he creates a new form of expression reflecting his optimism and his vision of the world's beauty. His audacious character leads him to ignore the traditional system that surrounds him. In 1983, he leaves for Europe to gain better knowledge of "Masters' art". Loaded with confidence and determination, Britto chooses Miami, where Pop Art is rapidly expanding, as his next destination.
During the following years, Romero Britto will take part in several exhibitions, attracting not only young crowds but also long-time art lovers eager to discover his unique, modern skills. Britto's art is as diverse as his personal experiences and covers a wide variety of themes. It combines Pop Art with compositions inspired from cubism. In 1989, he is selected by Absolut Vodka to design their new bottle, succeeding some of the most notorious artists such as Andy Warhol.
Appointed arts' ambassador at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Britto is also a humanitarian activist. He claims that "art should reflect the celebration of simple and good things in life". His modern influences, flashy colors and fun work led him to become one of the most recognized artists of his generation. His dreams are still filled with endless inspiration. Pepsi, Apple, Movado repeatedly called for his genius when they needed to reinvent their brands. Many heads of states, political and show-business personalities celebrate his skills across the world. Romero Britto permanently redefines art and its role in our lives.

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CYRILLE CHARRO

Born in 1979 from a Lebanese father and a French mother, Cyrille Charro grew up between these two countries. Torn between two cultures, he feels disconnected from both of them, which leads him to question himself about his identity. Cyrille studied photography at Lyon's school of applied art. Inspired and creative, his favorite subjects are fashion and studio compositions. He creates a series of pictures based on the simple aesthetics of Japanese art. Inspired by the likes of Joel Peter Witkin and Nan Goldin, his photographs combine human portraits with objects in a lightheavy atmosphere.
After graduating, Cyrille settles in Lyon and undertakes a long research work about crime in our society. In an attempt to reveal to viewers the truth hidden by the media, he tries to reproduce the horror of crime scenes through the use of contemporary objects such as dolls. He expresses human schizophrenia in a world governed by information, where man is not confronted to his real nature, violence or cruelty. The human being is isolated from his true nature, he can only see what a bland society allows him to see.
Cyrille shapes an atmosphere that reinforces the morbid aspect of his subjects through the poetry of his shots. The artist is in search of a different beauty, which translates into elaborate scene settings. Without any taboo, he depicts human condition, pain, and the obscurity of life. His different photographic approaches reveal his personal vision of aesthetics: violent and natural. He presents his works in France and Europe: strange, atypical and cruel photographs that illustrate the dark side of humanity.
Now established in London, Cyrille is part of a collective of three photographers and is currently working on "Cube", a project in which the same artwork is interpreted from three different points of view. These new snapshots are a natural sequel to "Schizophrenia". His insolent and provocative art pushes the viewer into his very own intimacy. His shady art confirms his audacity. Cyrille Charro is, without a doubt, an artist that represents his generation.

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DAVID GERSTEIN

David Gerstein, born in Jerusalem in 1944, develops a talent for arts from his earliest years. His passion leads him to study in arts' schools around the world : Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Beaux-Arts in Paris, Arts Students League in New York and St Martin's school of Art in London.
At the end of the 80's, David Gerstein creates a series of artworks called "Sculpted Figures". He sculpts wood and metal in three dimensions in an original way, with a unique, humoristic style. His hand-painted sculptures are rich in colors, funny and try to depict joy, sadness, or simply some typical moments of the modern, urban life. Opposed to conventions and established rules, David's sculptures are in movement rather than inert, which confers them a contagious optimism, a stimulating force. His most characteristic work is probably the famous "Wall Sculptures". Through his exceptional style, David Gerstein presents an astonishing art and defines a unique label by exploring the happenings of life.
Many international institutions, public or private, acquired monumental sculptures in order to display them in cultural urban spaces. On the other hand, his work is also shown in numerous museums, renowned art fairs and contemporary art galleries. Through his caring look, he is able to recover very precise moments of our lives: memories and events are blended in comical depictions full of fantasy. David Gerstein shines by his innovative skills that remind us of our most intimate memories.

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LAURENCE JENKELL

Laurence Jenkell was born in 1965 in Bourges. She currently lives and works in Mougins. Seduced by the alchemy of sugar and the many combinations of candy, in their form as well as in their transformation, Laurence Jenkell used to the metamorphosis of the substance to keep only the melting sugar on a canvas for exquisite visual pleasure. Her research is part of a variation of designs with bright colors, textures and deliciously flavored sweets. Her desire is to awaken and mix, at first sight,all the senses. She tries to revive the memory and the part of childhood that we all carry within us.
The work of Laurence JENKELL is a crystallization phenomenon, a slow ascent to the final stage : the desire embodied in the object. The candy is involved in that subtle moment where the object is transformed into pleasure. Gluttony becomes sublimated either by a sand-cast aluminum, or by a packaging perspex which shows all the dynamics at work. The artist creates a new process, "JENKELL's Wrapping" that magnifies the object by using a technique of draping and twisting of the perspex in the true spirit of candy wrappers.

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JULIEN MARINETTI

During his youth spent in Paris, Julien Marinetti, born in 1967, discovered his first artistic feelings and bohemia. Running away from school, which he considered boring, he spends joyful days wandering in museums, learning about the treasuries they enclose. And there is a lot to learn.
As he grew up, he naturally decided to attend the Grande Chaumiere workshop, specializing in nude art. Later on, he joined the more famous Beaux-Arts in Paris. His stay at the recognized institution will however last only 48 hours, as he feels like a stranger there, the same way Pierre Soulages did a few decades ago.
A combination of his passion for encounters, but also pure luck leads him on the way of famous painter Jean Dewasne, who teaches him modern tonalities and painted metallic "antisculptures". Julien perceives the modern world as a complex aggregate that still needs to be properly depicted. This particular vision leads him to ally styles and techniques that first seem incompatible in order to create a universal, ideal language. His shining dog sculptures in unexpected colors, varnished or enameled, become alive. This newly created animal becomes a discrete but privileged witness of our daily lives. Doggy John, as he was named in allusion to John Galliano's timeless genius, is man's best friend and a spectator of our time.
What first appears as a rather fun but futile object soon brings us back to our childhood, where simple things were given a unique emotional dimension. Whether golden or silver-colored, Doggy John explores our virgin imagination. He sits in his very own world, stares at us, and aims to mirror our personalities. Witness of a constantly changing world, John is the symbol of an animal who dreams to become human. He is both a confidant and a protector who feeds our imagination and drives our desire for wonders.

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