- Magda Danysz Gallery
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view from the galleryMagda Danysz is a Paris based art dealer. Magda Danysz started in the art business in the early 90, when she opened her first art space in 1991 as she was still a student. She has studied at the ESSEC French business school and made student exchanges at the Osaka International University in 1995 and the Buenos Aires University in 1998. Then after graduating from in 1998, she followed and opened her gallery as it is now in July 1999, celebrating this year her gallery 10 years. Through the years she has shown artists from various horizons, from street art to digital art for instance. A few talents she has discovered can be named as Shepard Fairey (who did Barack Obama’s official portrait for the presidential campaign), JonOne, Seen, Miss Van, Erwin Olaf, Ultralab, etc. She has also participated to many art fairs around the world from Bologna in Italy to Brussels, New York, Miami, etc. In June 2009 she has been appointed to direct the iconic building's Bund 18 gallery in Shanghai, China and has published an extensive anthology about street art entitled " From style writing to art" published by DRAGO.
Conjunctly to the first years of her gallery she has pursued a consulting career with Arthur Andersen from 1997 to 2004 where she was consultant for the French retail group Carrefour and had various jobs in the cultural field as the Ministry of Culture, Christie’s, the Theatre Marigny, the Nantes Museum, the Louvre, etc.
Since 2001 Magda Danysz teaches cultural policies and economics at Sciences Po in Paris.
She is also on the board of the multimedia cultural art center Le Cube in Issy-les-Moulineaux appointed by the city mayor André Santini to promote digital art and research.
Magda Danysz is also one of the founder, in 2006 of the Paris based contemporary art fair ShowOff held every year at the same time as FIAC.
In 2007, she has been decorated by the French ministry of culture as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Since January 2009 she is also vice president of the Fashion Group International of Paris.
In 2010 she has contributed tovthe launch of the Ai Ling Foundation for the arts in Shanghai, China.
Contents
Shows (selected)
Christian Gonzenbach, courtesy Galerie Magda DanyszKarl Lagerfeld: Photographies From 21 January, 2011 to 8 March, 2011 Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion designer, the artist and the photographer is highly acclaimed for his eye and high class universe. Most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel. In addition to his career as fashion designer and perfume creator, he began working as a photographer in 1987.
Chase the dragon From 8 January, 2011 to 5 March, 2011 With : Kosta Kulundzic, Axel Pahlavi, Jérôme Zonder, Larry Clark, Dado and Peter Saul. Chase the dragon : Paint as some could not stop smoking their opium pipe back in the days. Do crack heads and painters have something in common ?
JonOne Solo Show From 27 November, 2010 to 24 December, 2010 JonOne started tagging on the subways of New York when he was seventeen years old. He is a founding member of the bronx born American taggers group 156 crew.
The Wrinkles of the City by JR From 23 October, 2010 to 11 December, 2010 The Wrinkles of the City / Les sillons de la ville / Los Surcos de a Ciudad /城市肌理, is a world scale project. For this project, JR starts by doing portraits of elderly people who represent the memory of the city he picks for its interesting past. Conjunctly JR interviews each person as they are the witnesses of all the changes the city went through.
Laurina Paperina Solo Show From 29 July, 2010 to 12 September, 2010 Laurina Paperina has demonstrated her sense of wit, and her unique and much needed sense of humour.
China's soul From 3 July, 2010 to 31 July, 2010 Maleonn, Zhang Dali and Yang Yongliang : 3 Artists from the chinese new rising generation, the three of them arerepresentative of the concerns China goes through these days.
Seen Solo Show From 29 May, 2010 to 26 June, 2010 As a pioneer of the "Street Art" movement, an emblematic figure of the graffiti movement, SEEN becomes famous in the 70s on the New York artistic scene ; he actively participates in the emergence of the movement. From a very young age, he is already seen as a prodigy.
Yang Yongliang: Artificial Wonderland From 29 April, 2010 to 8 June, 2010 For this show the artist prepared a special set of new amazing artworks and largeinstallation. From an amazing landscape that is ten meters long to a giant dragon coming in the gallery space from a window, Yang YongLiang has prepared one of his most impressive solo show ever.
Daniel & Geo Fuchs From 27 March, 2010 to 15 May, 2010 Daniel and Geo Fuchs, born in 1966 and 1969 live and work together in Germany for now more than 15 years. As Michael Buhrs, director Museum Villa Stuck in Munich writes it « As the point of departure for their photoseries TOYGIANT , the artists Daniel and Geo Fuchs use the, to a certain extent, highly political world of toy.
Zhang Dali Solo Show From 2 February, 2010 to 2 March, 2010 Zhang Dali’s gigantic, almost four meters high, painted portraits. Zhang Dali's work actively engages with the rapidly changing environment in China.
Erwin Olaf Hotel From 21 October, 2010 to 18 November, 2010 The Hotel series is a continuation of his previous series such as Rain (2004), Hope (2005) and Grief (2007) in which the world-famous Dutch artist was already exploring human loneliness. Inspired by his own journeys, in Hotel we discover nude models installed in provocative poses in Hotel rooms in Moscow, Paris and Milan.
Maleonn Solo Show From 11 March, 2010 to 22 April, 2010 Maleonn is one of the most talented Shanghai photographer who has gained a kind of cult because of his fable like photographs.
JonOne Solo Show From 4 July, 2009 to 31 July, 2009 JonOne, one of the first to bring graffiti to France in the 1980. Be it for his talent as a graffiti artist or an abstract painter, JonOne is undeniably praised for his work and paintings worldwide.
Dalek + Mike Giant From 25 April, 2009 to 23 May, 2009 Though they have very different styles they talk about the same culture, the same influences, the same world.
Ruud Van Empel From 14 March, 2009 to 18 April, 2009 Dutch visual artist Ruud van Empel (1958) hardly needs any introduction. He is a true creator of new atmospheres. His famous images of a hallucinatory world in which often children take a pose, are beyond the creation...
Ray Caesar From 7 February, 2009 to 4 March, 2009 Back in Europe, Ray Caesar is presenting a whole new body of work never seen in France. From surrealism to references to classical painting, Caesar takes us to an amazing imaginary world.
Shepard Fairey + D-face From 11 October, 2008 to 25 October, 2008 Apostles of the visual disobedience, Shepard Fairey (aka Obey) and D-face, are now amongst the most talented and famous artists in street art. As D-face claims “ I want to encourage people to not just to 'see', but to look at what surrounds them and their lives, re-thinking and reworking cultural figures and genres to comment on our ethos...
West - Anti Graff From 1 July, 2008 to 31 July, 2008 Recognized as one of the most prolific artists in the New York Graffiti scene throughout the 1980's and 90's, he began painting on the number 1 Broadway local subway line in 1984. Throughout the 1990's, West, along with his 'Fame City' crew, was recognized as a major influence in the NYC graffiti movement with large scale graffiti mural...
Erwin Olaf – Grief From 5 April, 2008 to 17 May, 2008 Worldwide famous photographer Erwin Olaf who is in the most prestigious collections around the world including Ludwig Museum, Groninger Museum, Art+Public and the Margulieshas exhibited in numerous museums as the Museum of modern art in Moscou, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Toronto MOCCA or the MEP in Paris.
Miss Van - Solo Show From 24 November, 2007 to 29 December, 2007 The Miss Van phenomenon returns for a solo show, the biggest she has ever prepared, in the new Magda Danysz gallery space. It would make sense that an opening for an exhibition of the sexy, sloe-eyed, pretty girls packing some serious action and otherwise known as Miss Van's poupées ("dolls"), would be…swelteringly, sizzling, hot.
Game over - Street art Show From 18 October, 2007 to 17 November, 2007 With David Ellis, Maya Hayuk, Jay, Jonone, Nimo Librizzi, Lokiss, Mark Newton, Nunca, José Parla, Psy, Skki, West, etc. How do we talk about the urban art of the present and its impact in today’s culture? As an activist of this movement, the gallery strongly reaffirms its support to these artists through a group show reuniting some...
Mike Giant - Solo Show From 28 April, 2007 to 26 May, 2007
Dalek From 21 October, 2006 to 25 November, 2006
Shepard Fairey - Obey From 3 June, 2006 to 29 July, 2006
Miss Van From 29 April, 2006 to 27 May, 2006
Dalek & Shepard Fairey From 4 June, 2005 to 30 July, 2005
Wonderland From 16 April, 2005 to 28 May, 2005 With Marion Peck, Mark Ryden, Eric White, Clayton Brothers
Miss Van From 19 June, 2004 to 24 July, 2004
Dalek From 15 May, 2004 to 12 June, 2004
Mambo From 31 January, 2004 to 28 February, 2004
Space Invader From 17 May, 2003 to 21 June, 2003
References & links (selected)
- New York TImes, A Creative Labyrinth By CLAUDIA BARBIERI Published: February 24, 2010
- Le Figaro Madame article in feb 2010
- Magda Danysz 10 years celebration
- Miller, JFK. SH Curators: Magda Danysz, that's Shanghai
- Art in Asia
List of artists shown (selected)
- JR
- P. Nicolas Ledoux
- Miss Van
- Obey (Shepard Fairey)
- Erwin Olaf
- Laurina Paperina
- Seen
- Ultralab
- Zhang Dali
Distinctions
- Compagnie National des Experts (CNE), appointed expert in Chinese contemporary art and street art(since 2010)
- French American Foundation (Young Leader) (since 2009)
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (promotion 14 July 2006)
- Friends of the Palais de Tokyo (since 2005)
- Member of the French National Art Galleries Committee (since 2002)
- ESSEC Alumni (since 1998)
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