The 61^st edition of the Salon de Montrouge is the bet of a new artistic direction. The City of Montrouge has, through its Salon de la jeune création, positioned itself early and forged a place of choice in the cartography of emergence. Its primacy and its know-how, developed over the years by different actors, assure it a certain notoriety that we have been essential to perpetuate. It was therefore essential for us to establish the values defended by the Salon de Montrouge since its creation, without revolutionizing what was put in place by our predecessors. While renewing the form, to better grasp and always advance the issue of excellence.

For this new edition, a selection committee, made up of professionals from the art world, has expressed rigorous and rigorous biases, guided both by the quality of the work and its relevance to the history of art. present. 60 artists, so many talented personalities will be to discover this year, from France but also from Belgium, Brazil, China, Spain, Italy, India, Iran or Lebanon.

An exceptional jury, chaired by Alfred Pacquement, will award the three prizes that will crown the winners of the 2016 edition. The exhibition principle, for its part, has been redesigned to highlight the common denominators between the artists, the thematic acquaintances, art trends in full swing. And this, with the curatorial will to better read the words and approaches that are emerging, to dialogue with artists and their productions to weave a map of the emerging scene. In the company of two designers of the new generation, Ramy Fischler and Vincent Le Bourdon, we wanted to focus on a thematic course, an immersion in the diversity of artistic proposals. Their discrete but decisive scenography creates an environment where works are privileged and highlighted. The modular partitioning disappears in favour of a setting in space respecting the intrinsic constraints of each project. Through five thematic chapters - At home, at home, at others; Tell me about the planet; Ironic of the story; The Eve of forms; I love you either (to madness, not at all) - we wanted to highlight the emulations at work as well as the aesthetic and conceptual obsessions in this new line of artists.

We also bet on renewing the Salon's visual identity by inviting a young and inspired graphic designer, Camille Baudelaire, to visually rethink and reaffirm the stakes and contours of the latter.

Finally, because it is about event, we decided to celebrate, this year, the 100 years of Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and the birth of the Dada movement. Rather than invite a confirmed artist, we favoured an echo of a different nature. Thus, through the reminder of this key moment, we wanted to link a past, a moment of rocking to a story in progress, and witness the constant links of each generation with the spirit dada. Spirit that has changed the practices and the imaginations and does not cease to act on the current creation. A year of change, therefore, without revolution but with the desire to renew the significant approach of the Salon de Montrouge.

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