Immortelle, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2025
1st edition
Edition of 500 copies
Hardcover, 22 x 28 cm, 80 pages
French edition
ISBN : 978-2-491901-94-3
The Immortelle catalog was published on the occasion of the “Immortelle, a look at figurative painting in France” tour, orchestrated by Amélie Adamo and Numa Hambursin, as part of the “Focus” exhibition at the Art Paris Fair, held from April 3 to 6, 2025 at the Grand Palais in Paris. The original texts were written for this exhibition.
This book has been published thanks to the patron and collector François Fauchon, a loyal supporter of the French painting scene, who graciously financed the work. Our warmest thanks to him.
The mission of the François Fauchon endowment fund for contemporary art, created in 2021, is to promote works by French artists or artists living in France. With a collection of some 900 pieces, of which around one hundred are part of the fund, it actively supports figurative artists, notably those featured in the “Immortelle” exhibition at Montpellier's MO.CO.
Ronan Barrot
Born in 1973 in Carpentras. Lives and works in Paris
Marion Bataillard
Born in 1983 in Nantes. Lives and works in Paris
Maty Biayenda
Born in 1998 in Namibia. Lives and works in Paris
Vincent Bioulès
Born in 1938 in Montpellier. Lives and works in Montpellier
Jean-Charles Blais
Born in 1956 in Nantes. Lives and works in Paris
Katia Bourdarel
Born in 1970 in Marseilles. Lives and works in Paris
Marcos Carrasquer
Born in 1959 in the Netherlands. Lives and works in Paris
Robert Combas
Born in 1957 in Lyon. Lives and works in the Paris region
Dado
(1933-2010)
Laura Garcia Karras
Born in 1988 in Les Lilas. Lives and works in Paris
Vincent Gicquel
Born in 1974 in Normandy. Lives and works in Berlin
Yayoï Gunji
Born in 1969 in Cluny. Lives and works in Nice
Dhewadi Hadjab
Born in 1992 in M'Sila in Algeria. Lives and works in Paris
Jean Hélion
(1904-1987)
Oda Jaune
Born in 1979 in Sofia. Lives and works in Londres
Youcef Korichi
Born in 1974 in Constantine. Lives and works in Paris
Eugène Leroy
(1910-2000)
Thomas Lévy-Lasne
Born in 1980 in Paris. Lives and works in Paris
Johanna Mirabel
Born in 1991 in Colombes. Lives and works in Paris
Marlène Mocquet
Born in 1979 in Maisons-Alfort. Lives and works in the Paris region
Sabine Monirys
(1936-2016)
Barbara Navi
Born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Lives and works in Paris
Françoise Pétrovitch
Born in 1964 in Chambéry. Lives and works in Cachan and in Verneuil-sur-Havre
Laurent Proux
Born in 1980 in Versailles. Lives and works in Paris
Karine Rougier
Born in 1982 in Malte. Lives and works in Marseille
Milène Sanchez
Born in 1997 in Montbéliard. Lives and works in Bruxelles
Gérard Schlosser
(1931-2022)
Agnès Thurnauer
Born in 1962 in Paris. Lives and works in Paris
Léa Toutain
Born in 2000 in Saint Germain-en-Laye. Lives and works in Paris
Gaétan Vaguelsy
Born in 1992 in Saint-Mandé. Lives and works in Sète
Amélie Adamo is an author, art critic and exhibition curator. Her thesis in History of Contemporary Art was the subject of the publication of Une Histoire de la peinture des années 1980 en France (Éditions Klincksieck) in 2010. In 2011, she published Métamorphoses du sacré : sur Vladimir Velickovic (Éditions Galilée). She is also a regular contributor to numerous exhibition catalogs and texts for specialized journals such as Le Journal des Arts, Verso Arts et Lettres, Art Absolument, Artension, and the magazine L'Œil, of which she is a permanent contributor. Attached to defending the work of emerging artists but also looking at the work of renowned artists, she orchestrates exhibitions, in galleries or in museum institutions, whose interest is essentially in figurative painting, questioning the issues of memory and transmission, of crossbreeding and hybridization. In parallel to her activity as an art critic, she has also taught History of Contemporary Art at the university and in art schools.
Born in Montpellier in 1979, Numa Hambursin is an author, art critic, curator and director of French institutions specializing in contemporary art. Artistic director of Carré Sainte-Anne in Montpellier from 2010 to 2017, a place dedicated to contemporary art exhibitions, and then head of contemporary and modern art in the city of Cannes, he has exhibited numerous artists including Carole Benzaken, Robert Combas, Marc Desgranchamps, Hervé Di Rosa, Gérard Garouste, Jonathan Meese, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Chiharu Shiota and Barthélémy Toguo. From 2013, he piloted the contemporary art program of the Société Hélénis, and then took over the direction of the Fondation GGL-Hélénis established in the Hôtel Richier de Belleval, the former town hall of the City of Montpellier. In 2021, he became general manager of Mo.Co, Montpellier Contemporary.
