2023 | Millenn’Art exhibition

Millenn’Art exhibition curated by Annabelle Cohen-Boulakia

NEW CONTEMPORARY SCENE: AN INNOVATIVE CONCEPT
Created in June 2021 by Annabelle Cohen-Boulakia, Millenn’Art is committed to promoting young French and international artists. A new concept: Millenn’Art is both a gallery and a club aimed at a young audience keen to discover contemporary art. The Millenn’Art Club offers its members a wide range of approaches to art through a regular and diversified programme of events: visits to artists’ studios, exhibitions in museums and foundations, art fairs guided by art market experts, and invitations to special events.

For the 2023 edition of Moderne Art Fair, Millenn’Art is highlighting 5 contemporary artists: Daniela Busarello, Sacha Floch Poliakoff, Léo Nataf, Elisabeth Raphaël and Victor de Rossi.

Daniela Busarello

Painting | Sculpture | Drawing

HER WORK
Daniela Busarello is Italian-Brazilian and lives and works in Paris. Born into a family of architects, she studied at the École du Louvre and the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Daniela Busarello collects what she considers to be ‘expressions of life’: materials that reveal the spirit of an urban or natural place (genius loci). From these relics, she creates her pigments. Her pictorial expression thus becomes a philosophical language, emphasising the inseparable unity of nature, the cosmos and the human being. By inviting us to re-establish the harmony of our ecosystems, the artist advocates respect for all forms of life. For her, being an artist means taking an interest in Our Time by observing humanity on sociological, philosophical and biological levels.
As an artist concerned with re-establishing harmony between culture and ecosystem, she brings a feminine point of view that is peaceful, unifying and syncretic, driven by a cyclical vision of time, movement and life. Her metaphysical research is marked by attention to materials and precision of scale. His palettes are also made up of music and neuroscience.
As a painter, faithful to the Latin concept of genius loci, the spirit of the place, she immerses herself in the territory and gathers relics: water, minerals, plants, witnesses of an ecosystem, of a time that will be used to make her own pigments, samples of culture. Using a medieval method, she extracts pigments from plants in the Atlantic forest, gathered in a city of 3 million inhabitants.
Observing and talking about our times with her own material.

ABOUT
Annabelle meets Daniela in January 2023. Annabelle collaborates for the first time with this artist for the 2023 edition of the Moderne Art Fair.

 Daniela Busarello
Porquerolles, 2023

Sacha Floch Poliakoff

Drawing | Painting

HER WORK
Sacha Floch Poliakoff was born in Paris in 1996. The great-granddaughter of Serge Poliakoff, Sacha is marked by her origins and her family heritage. Influenced by the Renaissance and Pop Art, Sacha’s universe, a mixture of paintings and illustrations, is inspired by Russian and English archetypes (the imagery of the horse, the legend of Saint George, or the Tartan). She has a particular affection for objects, which for her are precious witnesses to what moves and surrounds her. She collects them and makes them sacred. These obsessions and fascinations are revealed through collages, drawings, scarves, paintings and watercolours.
Through it all, we find a world driven by colour and more or less figurative forms, using a variety of techniques. Sacha is also fond of hijacking and repurposing art-historical classics so that they can live on. Each of the images she represents has a story, an evocative power. It’s a virtual memorial where past and present meet.

ABOUT
Annabelle and Sacha have been friends since early childhood. This friendship has created a real bond of trust between the artist and the gallery owner. At her first exhibition in 2018, Annabelle presented Sacha’s work. In 2023, in collaboration with Clavé Fine Art, Annabelle is organising Sacha’s first solo exhibition.

Léo Nataf

Sculpture

HIS WORK
Léo Nataf was born in Paris in 1994. His work tells a story that is both collective and personal. In the manner of an elusive yet real and palpable presence, his works explore the link to identity, to the past that he has inherited and that he is keen to bring to life. His aim is to combine the robustness of the materials he chooses with the sensitivity of the historical subjects he carries within him in an original way. His approach is rooted in a fundamental relationship with materials, their density and resistance. He works directly with the substance, while giving the material free rein, beyond the control of his hand. The artist observes the shape and plasticity of the material as it is transformed by the vagaries of nature. He incorporates a variety of media into his work, including wood, enamel and bone, as well as drawing and, more recently, weaving.
Alongside his work as a visual artist, Léo Nataf is passionate about anthropology. His approach is therefore punctuated by back and forth between his own culture and those of others, to his own history and to History. His artistic work is fuelled by encounters and trips to communities in places such as Papua New Guinea, Mexico and, more recently, Amazonia.

 ABOUT
Leo Nataf has been working with Millenn’Art since 2020. He took part in the first group exhibition ‘Premiers regards’. In November 2021, Annabelle organised Leo’s first solo exhibition in collaboration with Clavé Fine Art, and in October 2022, Annabelle presented Leo’s work at the Boulakia Gallery in London.

Elisabeth Raphaël

Painting | Sculpture

HER WORK 
A graduate of the Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, she defended her thesis on China’s defence policy at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. A historian of China, where she travelled extensively, and an analyst of the strategic policy of the People’s Republic of China for many years, she taught Chinese civilisation until 2021, in parallel with her artistic activity. Her work is inspired by her reading of the philosophers, poets and thinkers of the Jewish tradition. Elisabeth Raphaël learns from the writings of artists such as Mel Alexenberg, Constantin Brancusi, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Klee, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. For Elisabeth Raphaël, the questions, emotions and wonder of art can enable us to reconnect with human nature, which has been led astray by the perversity of ideological, dogmatic and rationalist thinking, and deeply wounded by the Shoah.
Elisabeth Raphaël has exhibited in London, New York, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Beijing and Fuping (China), and Ube (Japan). She is represented in public collections in France and Israel.‘My sculptures are most often born of the dazzling reading of books and an artistic commitment nourished by the thought of my masters: Emmanuel Lévinas, Edmond Jabès and Marc-Alain Ouaknin. The sculptor, like the painter or the poet, strives to push back the limits of language, to say what cannot be said, to give form to the original word.

 ABOUT
Annabelle met Elisabeth Raphaël in January 2023, and they have been working together ever since.

Victor de Rossi

Designer | Cabinetmaker

HIS WORK
Victor de Rossi grew up in an artistic family, his father being a sculptor and furniture designer. From the age of 16, Victor chose to make his mark through cooking. He joined a number of prestigious Parisian gastronomic establishments. There he learned the discipline and rigour that he continues to apply to his work. Since 2016, Victor has been working in his studio in La goutte d’or in Paris. He is convinced that the search for new forms in art furniture involves making works by hand. It is from this impulse, combined with working directly with the material, that his creations are born and become more organic. This intuitive approach gives each piece its unique character. Victor will be taking part in the PAD in 2022 alongside the Galerie Dumonteil. 

 ABOUT
Annabelle met Victor de Rossi in 2018. Since then, she has continued to present and promote his work. They have worked together on numerous occasions, for exhibitions or private commissions.