The city of Senigallia will send a delegation of eight photographers, the modern-day Argonauts, to meet the public and fellow artists. They will showcase the very best of their work in an exclusive presentation. Don’t miss this unique opportunity …

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09.11.2024

CERCLE WAGRAM

The date of the Paris Classic photography fair in November must be confirmed in red in your personal and professional diary Saturday, November 9, especially in the morning.

You’re about to meet Barnabé Moinard, the most elegant of the young French gallery owners specializing in photography.

You’ll meet around fifty passionate amateurs and collectors, offering duplicates or recent finds. You’ll meet curators from international museums, and all the serious people who have risen early to come incognito in search of bargains.

You’ll also come across a delegation of enthusiastic photographers, specially from Senigallia, the small Gallic village that holds out on the Adriatic Sea.

Loriano Brunetti

Enzo Carli

Maurizio Tomassini

Eight passionate photographers will be making the trip to meet you and present their favorite creations, their earliest or latest ideas, their ultimate inner necessities.

They are all founding members of a newly-formed group entitled “Visioni di frontiera”.

Massimo Renzi

Sofio Valenti

Roberto Zappacosta

They meet once a week in Senigallia’s “La Fenice” recreation circle, and the last few sessions have been quite hectic and feverish in preparation for the big trip to the other side of the Alps.

And now they’re going to find themselves in another circle!

Enzo Carli presents a work by Giorgio Cutini

If you’ve never been to this special place in Paris, the Antique Photography Fair is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to visit the former Cercle Wagram, now “Pavillon Wagram”, 47 avenue de Wagram, Metro Wagram.

At its peak, the Casino – Cercle Wagram counted over 21,000 members.

Operated under an outdated associative status, with ample opportunity to take advantage of legal and tax loopholes, the Cercle Wagram had been allocated to families reputed to belong to the criminal world as a reward for services rendered during the Second World War.

In the 2000s, the Cercle Wagram found itself at the heart of a legal affair involving a group of eccentric individuals, including a psychic working for the Balkany couple and the Levallois-Perret mayor’s office, former police officers, an actor from the Mafiosa series, a Corsican mayor and members of the Brise de mer gang, all accused of turning it into a place of banditry and diverting casino money to Corsican trafficking.

Police closed the establishment inearly June 2011 following a series of murders between rival gangs seeking to gain control of the casino.

Now, the Pavillon Wagram will host one of Europe’s finest photography fairs. Certainly the one where you’ll find the widest choice of collectible and vintage photographs, but also the greatest variety of modern and contemporary photography.

After all, Paris Photo specializes in the very high-end and in perfection. We can quote a photographer from Senigallia, Mario Giacomelli, who sometimes liked to teach that ” there is nothing more boring than perfection”.

An information point on the Senigallia Biennial will be set up in Paris during Paris Photo, at the Cercle Wagram.

Un punto informativo sulla Biennale di Senigallia sarà allestito a Parigi durante Paris Photo, presso il Cercle Wagram.

La Fotografia è la più bella delle collezioni …

Senigallia, città della fotografia, ospita un nuovo spazio dedicato alla collezione di fotografie. Atelier 41, si trova 41 via fratelli Bandiera. In preparazione la IV Biennale di Senigallia, estate 2025, conferenza, fiera 19-20-21 giugno 2025.

Senigallia diventerà la Città delle collezioni.