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Artist Statement:
Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams
create architectural
watercolors of historic
American and European
buildings and garden ornament.
Their work is prized for its
realist technique, employed to
bring destroyed structures
back to life, if only on
paper, and is found in the
foremost international public
and private collections.
Trained ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibition, 21 July to October
2005
L’ARCHITECTURE AU CŒUR DES
JARDINS. Château de Villandry
European garden structures.
Garden Exhibition, 3 to 6 June
2005
JARDINS JARDIN. The Tuileries
Gardens, Paris
Architectural designers for
the first garden fair held in
the Tuileries Gardens, under
the auspices of the ...
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Artist Galleries:
Our U.S. gallery, Didier
Aaron, Inc. holds a number of
our watercolors on permanent
exhibition.
Please contact:
Didier Aaron, Inc.
32 East 67th Street
New York, NY 10021
tel. (212) 988-5248
fax: (212) 737-3513
www.didieraaron.com (hotlink
below in "Galleries")
contact@didieraaron.com...
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Collections:
MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC
INSTITUTIONS
The Cooper-Hewitt Design
Museum of the Smithsonian
Institution (three works)
The Musee des Arts-Decoratifs,
Paris (six works)
The New-York Historical
Society
The Société des Amis de
Versailles (commission)
Le Musée de l’Ile-de-France,
Sceaux
Princeton University
(commission and purchase)
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Commissions:
We have executed commissions
for public institutions and
commercial firms such as
Princeton University, The New
York Times Magazine, the
Société des Amis de
Versailles, Polo/Ralph Lauren
(public and private), Gucci,
Studio Sofield/Aero Studios,
J. Kugel Antiquaires,
François-Joseph
Graf/Ariodante, Vinci
Construction, The Office of
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Hubert de Givenchy, from his preface to Chinoiseries:
"Since their first exhibitions in Paris, I have followed the path of Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams, and during certain of these exhibitions I was able to acquire several very beautiful drawings that they created. Each time…it is a joy to be able to admire afresh the conception of their work and its particular elegance.
These precious documents retrace an époque when taste, extravagance and a sense of fantasy were an essential part of the way in which parks and gardens were embellished, by perfectly inscribing them in nature, then furnishing them with dreams. The continuing research of these two great artists enchants me as much as the perfection of their precious drawings."
Book Publication, December 2005
CHINOISERIES. Connaissance et Mémoires, Paris
Signed and numbered artist's book limited to 300 copies, prefaced by Hubert de Givenchy. Fifty plates of Chinoiserie pavilions.
Book Publication, December 2002
PALACES OF THE SUN KING. Rizzoli & Classical America
A major reappraisal of the role of architecture during the reign of Louis XIV. Oversize hardcover, 208 pp., illustrated with 70 watercolors. Review: The Art Newspaper (March 2003): “exquisite watercolor interpretations...Accessible for the amateur, revelatory for the expert, Palaces of the Sun King is a dazzling delight.”
Book Publication, October 2000
GARDEN VASES/VASES DE JARDIN. Alain de Gourcuff Éd., Paris
Preface: Gerard Mabille, Curator, the Louvre. Hardcover, 120 pp., illustrated with 52 watercolors. Review: NY Times, 23 February 2001 (illus.).
Publication, 4 June 2000
“THE ARTFUL LODGERS.” NY Times Magazine
4-page article illustrated with 3 commissioned watercolors of the artists’ Paris residence.
Publication, Spring 1999
LA MÉNAGERIE DE VERSAILLES ET LA TRIANON DE PORCELAINE. Versalia
Presenting research into two destroyed compounds for the review of the Société des Amis de Versailles. 8-page article, 5 watercolor illustrations.
Book Publication, October 1995
PLEASURE PAVILIONS AND FOLLIES/LA FOLIE DE BÂTIR. Flammarion, Paris
Hardcover, 176 pp., 50 watercolor illustrations. Preface by Charles Ryskamp, Director, The Frick Collection. “Magnificently illustrated”: The Times Literary Supplement (London).
Magazine Publication, December 1993
“FRENCH FOLLIES.” ELLE Decor
8-page article written by the artists, reproducing 9 watercolors.
The artists and their work have been featured in numerous periodicals, including numerous articles and reviews in The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, as well as features in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest (USA, France and Germany), Le Figaro, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Versalia, Connaissance des Arts, World of Interiors, Elle Décor, Elle Décoration and Elle Italia, Vogue and Vogue France, HG, Town & Country, as well as the major architectural journals.
They have jointly lectured upon French architecture and gardens for the Smithsonian Institution in a two-day symposium; The Bard Graduate Center, Manhattan; the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; the New York School of Interior Design; the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; the Beaux-Arts Alliance, Manhattan; the Société des Amis de Versailles; Christie's London; Sotheby’s France; Syracuse University; the University of Dortmund, Germany; and the 1999 Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville.
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