Slick proposes more and more special events and services for the general public:

Slick and You

The fair is offering new services to further enhance your Slick visit:

- Need a presentation of the spaces or visits scheduled every half hour?
Our facilitators are available to introduce you to the fair – free of charge, with no need to sign up. Contact and information: at the welcome desk and ticketing office, a facilitators will propose a visit to each new arrival and will confirm the time of departure for each visit.

- Are you interested I starting a collection, meeting other collectors or simply exchanging experiences? At 3:00 pm on Friday the 23rd, Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th and with a reservation, art consultant Christophe Delavault will guide you through the fair.
Contact and reservations: s.bisognin@slick-paris.com

Slick Debates in partnership with CENTQUATRE and France Culture.

Interested in meeting and engaging with the intellectuals who are shaping today’s world?  Welcome to Slick Debates, open to the public every afternoon and with no need for reservations (Room 200 at the CENTQUATRE).

Friday October 13 at 2:00 pm
Contemporary art supporting sustainable development, or sustainable development supporting contemporary art?
This debate, moderated by lawyer and Associate Professor, Christèle Eyraud, specializing most notably in land settlement collective rights, and Sébastien Talon, a consultant in the art market, art patronage and cultural events, will approach the question of art as an identity-forming factor for local collective groups and enterprises.

First part:
Contemporary art supporting sustainable development, or sustainable development supporting contemporary art?
with Maud Lelièvre and the Ecomaires association
Dematerialization and new artistic mediums
with David Corman, Regional Counselor for Lower Normandy
Art and recycling:
with Nadège Pagès, Artist
Art and patrimony: making living memories
with Serge Rodrigues, Director of the Mouans-Sartoux Mayor’s Cabinet
Sensitize to convince
with Daniel Cattelain, Mayor of Caligny and film-maker
Contemporary art as an identity-forming factor in the commune
with Jean-Marie Audoli, Mayor of Bonson and Jacquy Denieul, project manager for "créativité et territoires" or creativity and territories at the IAAT

Second part:
Contemporary art and identity in a region: Art in the Auvergne region.
Transmitting art in the business world
with Andrés Atenza, ESC Clermont-Ferrand Director
Transmitting contemporary art throughout time
with Philippe Jalenques, Auctionneer and President of the surveillance council for Interenchères.com
Transmitting art through public authorities with the FRAC Auvergne,
with Jean-Charles Vergne, Director of Regional Funds for Contemporary Art (FRAC), Auvergne
Another path with the example of the Museum of Europe,
with Benoît Remiche, General Director of TEMPORA, creator of the Museum of Europe (Brussels) and Elie Barnavi, writer and philosopher, member of the Scientific Counsel for the Museum of Europe



Saturday October 24 at 2:00 pm
The Taste of Art: Slick Dessert
Debate moderated by Frédéric Adida, art + food consultant
Art and gastronomy, a passionate marriage.
In the great aesthetic debate, what does contemporary art taste like?  What is beautiful and yummy?  Can cooking be an artistic performance?
Participants include:
Philippe Mayaux, In his series, “Savoureux de toi” or “Savoring You”, this artist invents anthropophagous art or rather cannibal pastries, somewhere between a gourmand Echos and Bacchus.  An adept of the grotesque and even of bad taste, he sees flesh as the ideal reflexive material and as an abstraction. Philippe Mayaux received the Marcel Duchamp prize, has exhibited at the Centre George Pompidou, and has designed dinner-events, most notably with chef Pierre Gagnaire.
Jean-Marie Hiblot, of the Plaza Athénée, presides over a squadron of twenty-five pastry chefs who are directed by the master-hand Christophe Michalak, one the head pastry chefs.
Marc Brétillot, culinary designer, teaches at l’Ecole supérieure d’art et de design de Reims or the School for Art and Design in Reims, where he has conceived workshops dedicated to research on culinary design.  He works with the agro-food industry and also creates performances.
Hélène Samuel,creator of restaurants and other gourmand universes, is notably a founder of the delicabar and the Café Salle Pleyel with its invited chefs.
Fabrice Lextrait, restaurant owner.

7: 00 pm
Video projection of “The Last Supper”,created in 1972 by Ultra Violet, and followed by an interview with Isabelle of the Maison Rouge, art critic and art historian, with the presence of the artist.  Living in New York City since the 1960s, Ultra Violet was a former Andy Warhol muse and develops protean artworks. In collaboration with Deborah Colton Gallery
Ultra Violet is represented by the Heartgalerie in Paris

Sunday October 24
2:00 pm
Art, People, or the Actors in a Diabolic Ball
Debate proposed by Drouot Formation under the leadership of Frédéric Elkaïm.  The question of the relationship between art and money, often considered incestuous, is constantly being raised in debates and articles dedicated to artistic creation.  Why does this debate raise so much fervor?  What lessons from the past and what perspectives can be drawn from a relationship that hasn’t stopped transforming the very object and representations of art? Is the price of an artwork linked to its symbolic value?  Its capacity to reflect on the times?  The quality of the artist’s work? The weight of the networks that it was able to put in place? Actors in the art market will address these questions.
With
Guy Boyer, Chief Editor at Connaissance des Arts David Nordmann, auctioneer
Laurent Noël, economist and antique dealer
Fabrice Hyber, artist Harry Bellet, Le Monde journalist
Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, art critic, broker and expert-consultant

6:00 pm
The Immaterial: From Territory to Ideal
Debate proposed by Nimérix and moderated by ferdinand(corte)™, an artist who uses botanical models such as the rhizome and pollination, or mathematical theory such as vector fields to bring together different actors in our society, and invent new forms of sharing and exchange.

Our society is becoming more dematerialized.  New artistic practices have emerged in the face of the Internet and new-technology developments.  Are we headed towards a society that gives more weight to the spirit, or on the contrary are we in the process of losing values and humanism?  Nîmérix, dedicated to Immaterial (Art) research and production, will attempt to address these questions.  Proposing a context where the art object prevails, the roundtable by ferdinand(corte)™ at Slick 09 will provide an opportunity for reflection between the first and second Nîmérix editions.

Participants include most notably:
Fred Forest, multimedia and network artist, and co-founder of Art and Sociology in 1974 and the Aesthetic of Communication in 1983.  Forest has been committed to developing a practice based on the notion of Territory since the 1970s, as a form of resistance to power and its abuses.
Michel Engel, beekeeper and editor of some of the first books-as-objects with publishers Soleil Noir, most notably on Dali, Fromanger, Segui and Velicovick.  He is works on a series of art collages that relate to his meetings and friendships.
Etienne Armand Amato, PhD in Information Sciences and Communication, specialist of virtual environments and video games, teacher, and co-founder in 2004 of the OMNSH (Observatoire des Mondes Numériques en Sciences Humaines or The World-wide Observatory for Digital Worlds and Human Sciences).  Amato recently became Director of the Institute for Digital Creation and Animation at the Ecole Supérieure de Génie Informatique or School of Information Technology in Paris.

www.nimerix.org
www.ferdinandcorte.com

Slick Video Art 

Slick’s video art presentations (in room 200)

Every morning starting at 11am, the Slick video program begins.