Laurent Dumas, founder and president of the Emerige real estate group and now chairman of the Board of Directors at Palais de Tokyo, has entrusted Communic'Art with the publication of the first volume of the catalogue of his collection.

For twenty years, Laurent Dumas has cultivated his passion for the visual arts through daily exchanges with artists, surrounded by hundreds of works. This first volume "Collection Laurent Dumas, morceaux choisis"(Collection Laurent Dumas, chosen pieces), (

both in French and English, presents 18 French artists and residents in France, from Jean-Michel Alberola to Ulla von Brandenburg, through their works, commented by international critics, academics and curators.

Roxana Azimi, journalist, author and art critic, was the editorial director. In addition to the critical texts relating to the artists presented, five authors provide their views on the Laurent Dumas collection and open up a dialogue:

Yannick Haenel, writer, co-founder of the literary magazine Ligne de risque. In 2017, he won the Prix Médicis with "Tiens ferme ta couronne".

Eric Mangion, director of the art centre La Villa Arson, Nice since 2005. He was previously director of the PACA Regional Fund for Contemporary Art from 1993 to 2005.

Didier Ottinger, Deputy Director of the Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris. He was curator of the exhibition "Surrealism and the Object" in 2013 at the Centre Pompidou.

Fabienne Grasser-Fulchéri, director of the Espace d'art concret de Mouans-Sartoux since 2010. In 2003, she was Deputy Commissioner for the Spring of September in Toulouse.

Gael Charbau, curator and independent art critic, who created with Laurent Dumas, in 2014, the Emerige Revelations Grant to support emerging artists working in France.

The artists presented in this first volume are:

Jean-Michel Alberola, Dove Allouche, Gilles Barbier, Martin Barré, Hélène Delprat, Damien Deroubaix, Fabrice Hyber, Guillaume Leblon, Laurent Le Deunff, Bruno Perramant, Abraham Poincheval, Edgar Sarin, Alexandre Singh, Georges Tony Stoll, Claire Tabouret, Agnes Thurnauer, Jean-Luc Verna and Ulla von Brandenburg.

Laurent Dumas therefore wishes to present and distribute his collection to a wider audience to share his pleasure in seeing the world differently.

This project will continue into 2022, when the works from his personal collection, and many others, will be exhibited in the Emerige Foundation building on Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt.