Comme Ca Art at The Museum of Museums

This summer we are delighted to announce our inclusion in the Museum of Museums – A new cultural heritage centre opening at The Trafford Centre.

The MoM aims to establish a destination that gives all genres of collections the opportunity to exhibit to the general public. The Peel Group is launching the venue at the end of May.

As part of the Arts & Culture section of the Museum of Museums, Comme Ca Art will be hosting a specially designed three-room gallery, launching with solo exhibitions from three different artists.

In the central atrium Vincent James will be installing a number of his much loved sculptures. These 3-D pieces bring together objects from different cartoon worlds and create extraordinary and surreal assemblages. Objects originally glimpsed fleetingly in a few frames of a cartoon become frozen in time, locked in three-dimensional space to create absurd and whimsical sculptures.

And in Space 2 Susan Aggarwal will be showing works from her ‘Dance With Life’ series. The works explore expressive abstract painting and the collection is a very personal representation of the artist’s very own experience of nature and beauty, and her artistic response to it. The colours within the work represent a varied range: from stormy dark brown and blue palettes that are reminiscent of seascapes to bright yellow and reds that evoke an exotic jungle setting.

Matt Davies will complete the inaugural shows by presenting a mix of works both old and new. Davies’ describes his painting as selfish, with a strong personal preferences and influences, and this is exactly what guides the stories in his works and what makes them so interesting to spend some time with.

Artist Biographies

Vincent James graduated from the Goldsmiths College MA course in 1999. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally at shows in New York, London, Los Angeles and Sao Paulo. His work has been included in 'Art in the Triangle' (The Triangle, Manchester) and in 'The Ace Invitational' (Ace Gallery, New York). His work is also part of the Frederick R Weisman Collection in California.

Susan Aggarwal has 10 years worth of professional experience in the world of contemporary Art.  Her work has sold throughout the U.K and has been published by national fine-art publishers Camelot and Lilac publishing. She has held a number of private exhibitions across the North-West and in November 2009 Susan’s painting ‘Way of the Water’ raised £2,000 for the Red Cross in their Charity Gala Auction at the Midland Hotel, Manchester.

Born in Manchester in 1979, Matt Davies graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2002 with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree. His recent exhibitions include ‘John Moore’s 24’, ‘Art Gene’, Cumbria and Sale Waterside ‘Splinter’ group show. The artist has also worked with the music group, ‘Nine Black Alps’, producing their debut album artwork, along with single covers.

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Comme Ca Art: Professional Artists Workshop

Following a number of requests for our artists to deliver educational workshops Comme Ca Art has created a database of art professionals with experience of presenting workshops in an educational environment.  Focusing on our extensive data base of over 1000 artists and over 15 years experience of working in the arts, we are able to offer a comprehensive and varied programme of workshops in response the growing number of schools who outsource professional artists..

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ArtMap - Manchester

Comme Ca Art to Showcase Local Artists Citywide, Summer 2008

Comme Ca is proud to introduce the Manchester ArtMap.  Throughout the Summer of 2008 Comme Ca Art will be installing artworks in various locations.  An ArtMap will be created so visitors and people of the city can take a tour of local art all over Manchester.  

Visitors will be free to navigate the city as they wish, using the map as a reference point to visiting whatever they are near, whenever it suits their pace.  Featuring locations with unfettered visual access-such as coffee shops, store windows and office spaces-the artworks can be viewed conveniently by everyone at almost anytime.  

ArtMap will be printed and will be featured on line on our web site so if you are anywhere with an internet connection you can access it.  Not only will you be able to access where the artworks are located but also more information about individual artists and the art scene in Manchester.  Any updates and new installations of artworks will be included so the online ArtMap will be your guide to the Art of Manchester.

Comme Ca is concerned with supporting the work of local artists and encouraging people to look at art as part of their everyday lives, showing that there is something that everyone can enjoy.

We aim to match all works of art appropriately to the place they are situated within so that the benefits of the artwork enhance their visual environment. We want to show that there really is a piece of art to suit every business and company environment. 

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR NEWS ABOUT ARTMAP.

If you would like to be involved in ArtMap Manchester and would like a piece of contemporary art to be displayed at your location please contact Comme Ca Art or vist HERE for more information.

Tel: 0161 839 7187

Email: Info. info@commecaart.com

Comme Ca art to Exhibit at the 'Buy Art Fair'

Buy Art Fair is the new art buying event opening in Manchester on 9-12 October 2008 at Urbis.

Buy Art Fair’s aim is stimulate the collecting and buying of original art in the North. This means not only offering those who in the region who already collect art the chance to do it here in the city without having to go London but also only opening the idea of owning original art to more people.

Buy Art Fair will bring together private galleries, up and coming gallery spaces and public organisations and combine them with a feature programme of curated exhibitions and talks to provide a place to learn about, enjoy and buy original art.

• Curated Exhibition by International 3 and the students from Manchester Metropolitan University’s Contemporary Curating Course.

• A programme of talks covering topics including buying & investing in art; artist talks linking with the programmes of our cultural partners

• Inspirational roomsets created by Comme Ca Art showing how original art can your enhance your home

• Student Art Work – displaying the finalists of our competition open to students studying in northern colleges

• 40-50 galleries from around the UK displaying the work of artists covering a number of different styles and mediums.
  

Tickets are now on sale for Buy Art Fair at www.buyartfair.co.uk/commeca or on 0844 815 4868.

“My ambition for Comme Ca Art is to bring original artworks into every home in the UK. It’s a huge ambition to achieve but artwork should truly be available for everybody to enjoy on a daily basis.”
Claire Turner, Director
Comme Ca Art

Having received a large number of enquiries from aspiring collectors about releasing Limited Edition artworks, Comme Ca Art has invited a number of artists to become part of the Comme Ca Art Limited Edition Print Collection.

The Collection will open with artworks by 10 artists, some artists are new to Comme Ca and some have an established working relationship with Comme Ca. The works include Limited Edition Etchings by Andrew George Magee and John Hamilton, Computer Generated Drawings by Wendy Jones and Gareth Morgan, Digital Photographic works by the Little Artists and Mark Winkley and Limited Edition Lambda prints from a direct scan of original paintings by Martin Nash and Simon Taylor.

The Collection aims to reveal a number of ways in which artworks can be processed through hand made or high tech mediums, ensuring quality and originality throughout. Comme Ca has endeavoured to show the images in a true light. This of course will depend on the computer screen you are viewing the images from and in some cases, the colour, tone or vibrancy of the Limited Editions may look different in real life from the web site shop images.

The Limited Editions are already proving to be a worthwhile investment, The Little Artists prints have gone up in value from £75 to £125 per print in the last few weeks! Go on treat yourself!

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