Page 12 – Arches Papers

12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine at Trois-Rivières

The 12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine opened on Sunday 12 June at Trois-Rivières in Québec. Éric Fourmestraux, the French engraver, has been awarded the Desjardins prize for his installation “In Memoriam” [to the 48 Jewish children deported from the Vicq d’Azir school in the 10th arrondissement of Paris].

Exhibition Painting Grounds – Painting with ochre!

This exhibition at the Boléro Gallery in Versoix, in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland, highlights artists from radically different cultural backgrounds including Australia, Italy, Switzerland, China and France. It reveals the great artistic diversity produced by the artist’s hand, ochre and paper. The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Dialogue Céramique association and ARCHES®.

YOU ARCHES®, the women and men behind our wonderful papers!

ARCHES® has decided to showcase its employees and their expertise through its new video programme YOU ARCHES®. Each quarterly episode will introduce you to an individual and allow you to get to know their job at the Arches Paper Mill, their career path, and their

ARCHES® Digital Printmaking Starter Kit

You are looking to reproduce your most beautiful artworks on ARCHES® digital papers, then try your luck! As part of the new digital fine art paper range, ARCHES® is teaming up with Canon to offer one lucky artist a ARCHES digital printmaking starter kit complete

Digital Printmaking Tutorials by Robert Rodriguez Jr.

Working alongside Canon, and renowned photographer and landscape artist, Robert Rodriguez Jr., the team at ARCHES® have created a step-by-step guide for artists looking to create their own limited edition prints .

ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES®

For all those who want to talk about their artistic technique with a new showcase, we’ve named this new feature ARTI’VIEW by ARCHES®!

Velin BFK Rives® paper

What does the acronym BFK (Rives) stand for? A small family concern created in 1787 in Rives, in the French Department of Isère, the Blanchet de Rives paper mill became Blanchet Frères & Kléber in 1820 when brothers Augustin and Victor Blanchet joined forces with Jean-Antoine Didier Kléber.

ARCHES® is partnering with Canon!

For the launch of its new range of digital fine art papers, ARCHES® is partnering with Canon, one of the leading brands in the digital imaging market.

28th Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer

Gérardmer 2021, a fantastic virtual festival! This year, the Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer, which took place from 27 to 31 January 2021, was on line. The organizers did not want to cancel the feature festival despite the pandemic.

ARCHES® special papers for photography – a long history!

Today, ARCHES® is very proud to present to photographers & printmakers its new range of papers for high-end fine art digital printing. These papers have an innovative surface coating specially developed by its research centres. These are the whitest papers on the market made on a cylinder mould without optical brighteners!

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