On the occasion of the 2022 Haute Couture Fashion Week taking place in Paris this January, Hatchikian Gallery is highlighting the work of Marc-Antoine Coulon, an artist who enchants the world of fashion with his stylized sketches.
Marc-Antoine Coulon and the world of fashion
Marc-Antoine Coulon’s drawings convey the unique and evanescent features of the glamour icons captured in their expressive, seductive or sometimes irreverent or provocative attitudes. The self and the play of femininity are revealed in all their breadth through the prism of vibrant sketches of a joyful lightness that is only the appearance of depth. The moving silhouettes are animated with a presence, a typicality that the artist knows how to capture in his games of shadows and lights, lines and curves. His portraits reveal the intensity of a gaze that captivates us. Women are sublimated by the elegance of the line and many stars have been captivated by the sensitivity emanating from Marc-Antoine Coulon’s creations, who regularly collaborates with the most prestigious magazines in the international press (Madame Figaro, Vanity Fair, L’Officiel, Transfuge, Harper’s Bazaar…) and with luxury houses (major couturiers, perfumers, jewelers). Marc-Antoine Coulon looks with benevolent and admiring eyes at women and his work, imbued with modesty and humility, inscribes every encounter in an obvious complicity. He has become an indispensable figure in the world of fashion and his work has been exhibited in various museums dedicated to the creators who have marked the history of style.
GIAMBATTISTA VALLI, 2019
for Madame Figaro
Ink on paper
Unique work, signed and framed
H29.7 x L21 cm (without frame)
H55 x L45 (with frame)
1 850€
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER, 2020
for Madame Figaro
Ink on paper
Unique work, signed and framed
H29.7 x L21 cm (without frame)
H41 x L31 (with frame)
1 850€
Drawing as a mode of expression that blends delicacy and imagination
For Marc-Antoine Coulon, drawing is an opening to the other, a way of approaching it, of accessing the mystery of its interiority. A sensitive mode of encounter that creates immediate trust. It was as a very young child that the artist discovered this mode of expression, both delicate, precise and dreamlike, which opened the doors to the creative worlds that fascinate him. One can feel in his sketches all the empathy he can have with the models he strives to sublimate, not without malice, in a burst of grace.
Exhibition of works by Marc-Antoine Coulon at MamaSens, the new restaurant of the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann
It is at MamaSens, the new restaurant of the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, that the works of Marc-Antoine Coulon are on display from January 20 to 27. Inks, gouaches and collages inspired by the fashion shows and the designers: models, actresses, muses and effigies of beauty and style are gathered as a tribute to Parisian chic. Anna Wintour appears in a pared-down collage, while we discover Carla, Kate, Linda, Naomi and their penetrating gazes, or Saint-Laurent, Dior, Armani, Chanel, Muggler, Giambattista Valli, Guerlain, Valentino, as well as many other designers who have managed to instill an assertive, daring and resolutely avant-garde femininity.
Book signing sessions for Marc-Antoine Coulon’s Paris, published by Flammarion
During this exhibition week, Marc-Antoine Coulon will sign his book Paris Published by Flammarion in the style and design collection directed by Suzanne Isoré. A beautiful book in which the artist celebrates glamorous and creative Paris, the Paris of fashion shows and emblematic places, the Paris of style icons. The signing sessions will take place on January 20, 22 and 27 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. A rare opportunity to meet the artist whose features are familiar to all readers of the major fashion magazines.
Art and gastronomy at MamaSens by the Pourcel brothers
The MamaSens, which hosts this exhibition, is the brand new restaurant of the Galeries Lafayette, orchestrated by the Pourcel brothers, which opened its doors last November. The link between gastronomy, fashion and culture is obvious for Jacques and Laurent Pourcel, three-starred chefs at Jardin des Sens in Montpellier (now reopened in the Richer de Belleval mansion), who had also designed the menu of Insensé at the Fabre Museum, or at Maison Blanche in Paris. The inseparable brothers are also renowned for their restaurants in Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok, London, Beirut and now Colombo, or Ho Chi Minh. The MamaSens Paris at the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann is an ode to travel across the Mediterranean; it offers a cuisine of flavors that blends Italian, Greek, Andalusian and Moroccan influences in a vegetal decor evocative of a warm and welcoming exoticism. Tapas, pizzas, tajines, risottos, fish – all delight the taste buds and stir the senses. A lunch, dinner or snack at any time (the restaurant is open every day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.), are all opportunities to discover Marc-Antoine Coulon’s work while enjoying a meal with friends. Guests can choose from the special menu created by the Pourcel brothers in honor of the artist: Sétienne Bouille sorbet tomato, confit salmon, Corsican lemon, kaki seasoning, creamed polenta, Manchego cheese, mushrooms from Paris, hazelnut butter, Fermier pintade, potimarron, truffle infusion or Winter vegetables and truffle fritters, The citrus fruit in all its forms. The exhibition is of course accessible without food service for artistic pleasure only.
Hatchikian Gallery, partner of the Marc-Antoine Coulon exhibition at MamaSens
Audrey Hatchikian has been collaborating with Marc-Antoine Coulon for several years, who is one of the gallery’s permanent artists. It is with immense pleasure that she presents this exhibition in which she is a partner. Discover the available works and the biography of Marc-Antoine Coulon on the dedicated page of the Hatchikian Gallery website. We hope to see you at this exhibition and to share our emotions with you. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need more information.
Marc Antoine Coulon makes us think, through the vibration of his creations, that frivolity is never devoid of depth and that an icon is not just an image but a personality that plays with ways of being, half charming and half defiant. The entire team of partners: Audrey Hatchikian, his gallerist, Arnaud Gachy, his agent, Walter Paris, event agency and luxury concierge service, Héloïse Chauveheid, head of communication for the restaurant, invites you to MamaSens Lafayette Haussmann for a moment of grace as you meet the artist Marc-Antoine Coulon and his work, the mischievous iconography of a style that brings to light this artifice that profoundly humanizes us.
