Exhibition on display:
Sweet Epiphanies: Paper Cut-Outs and Patisseries Celebrating Kingly Crowns
and Other Royal Delights at Colson Patisserie
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Exhibition: Jan 1st - Feb 10th, 2010
Hours: 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Address: 374 9th Street (at 6th Avenue) Park Slope. Brooklyn / By Subway - take the R/ F/ M train to 4th Ave/9th Street or the F train to the 7th Avenue Tel: 718.965.6400
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Press Release -
Now that the last bûche de Noël have been savored it’s time to indulge in the next celebratory French pastry, the Galette des Rois/ the Cake of the Kings. To complement this seasonal delicacy, Colson Patisserie - named one of Time Out New York’s 100 Best Food and Drink of ’09 - is blending two art forms - culinary and visual – by hosting Sweet Epiphanies, a site responsive exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Anat Litwin, who is currently working in the medium of paper cut-outs, drawings, and public art installations.
It is a long standing tradition for French families to share a Gallete des Rois in celebration of the Epiphany. This special galette, an almond and pastry-cream filling in between two rounds of all-butter puff pastry dough cake contains a hidden lucky charm and involves a game – the one who finds the lucky charm in their slice of cake is given a paper golden crown and becomes a king or queen for the day.
Inspired by the game, the notion of epiphany, and by the artistry that goes into making Colson's French pastries, Litwin created Sweet Epiphanies, a mythical adventure of what it’s like being queen for a day. In this exhibition, the artist’s playful imagination and love of storytelling is demonstrated in a series of paper cut-outs that depict a royal path to enlightenment.
Paper Cut-Outs and Galette des Rois are available for purchase at Colson from January 1 – February 10th.
About Anat Litwin: Brooklyn-based Israeli /American artist and curator Anat Litwin works in the medium of paper cut-outs, drawings, public art and installation. She received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel in 2001, and her MFA in 2005 from Hunter College in New York, Department of Combined Media. She received the Keren Sharet award for outstanding artists in 2001, and has exhibited her work in Europe, Israel and New York. Litwin is the founder and artistic director of the HomeBase Project (HomeBase Project ), and a senior fellow at LABA at the 14th Street Y. She is currently working on a book of paper cut-out's titled "ANATOMY." For more information visit anatlitwin.com and anatlitwin.blogspot.com
About Hubert Colson: Paris-based Hubert Colson is the creative spirit behind of Colson Patisserie. He is a pastry chef, psychotherapist and is the author of four cookbooks, a novel, and currently writing a children’s book. He has continued his family’s over 200-year tradition of owning patisseries. For 20 years he owned one of Belgium’s most beloved patisseries in the city of Mons.
About Yonatan Israel: Born and raised in Paris, Yonatan Israel moved to New York in 1998 to study film. He is the producer of the feature documentary “Watermarks.” In 2005 he decided to bring Hubert Colson’s recipes to New York and the patisserie opened in 2006 . In addition to working on the development of the Colson brand, he continues to pursue cinematic projects.
About Colson: Established in 2006, Patisserie Colson is the New York branch of Hubert Colson’s beloved establishment of the same name in Mons, Belgium. Pastry chef Yonatan Israel transformed a run-down street corner deli, next to Barbès, a bar and performance space, in Park Slope, into one of New York’s leading patisseries, featuring a variety of pastries. Hubert Colson spends one week of every month with Yonatan and the staff in the kitchen of in Colson Patisserie in Brooklyn. For more information, visit www.colsonpastries.com
Contact:
Linda G. Miller
Communications + Marketing
212/725-7656 lindagmiller@earthlink.net
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Sweet Epiphanies: Paper Cut-Outs and Patisseries Celebrating Kingly Crowns
and Other Royal Delights at Colson Patisserie
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Exhibition: Jan 1st - Feb 10th, 2010
Hours: 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Address: 374 9th Street (at 6th Avenue) Park Slope. Brooklyn / By Subway - take the R/ F/ M train to 4th Ave/9th Street or the F train to the 7th Avenue Tel: 718.965.6400
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Press Release -
Now that the last bûche de Noël have been savored it’s time to indulge in the next celebratory French pastry, the Galette des Rois/ the Cake of the Kings. To complement this seasonal delicacy, Colson Patisserie - named one of Time Out New York’s 100 Best Food and Drink of ’09 - is blending two art forms - culinary and visual – by hosting Sweet Epiphanies, a site responsive exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Anat Litwin, who is currently working in the medium of paper cut-outs, drawings, and public art installations.
It is a long standing tradition for French families to share a Gallete des Rois in celebration of the Epiphany. This special galette, an almond and pastry-cream filling in between two rounds of all-butter puff pastry dough cake contains a hidden lucky charm and involves a game – the one who finds the lucky charm in their slice of cake is given a paper golden crown and becomes a king or queen for the day.
Inspired by the game, the notion of epiphany, and by the artistry that goes into making Colson's French pastries, Litwin created Sweet Epiphanies, a mythical adventure of what it’s like being queen for a day. In this exhibition, the artist’s playful imagination and love of storytelling is demonstrated in a series of paper cut-outs that depict a royal path to enlightenment.
Paper Cut-Outs and Galette des Rois are available for purchase at Colson from January 1 – February 10th.
About Anat Litwin: Brooklyn-based Israeli /American artist and curator Anat Litwin works in the medium of paper cut-outs, drawings, public art and installation. She received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel in 2001, and her MFA in 2005 from Hunter College in New York, Department of Combined Media. She received the Keren Sharet award for outstanding artists in 2001, and has exhibited her work in Europe, Israel and New York. Litwin is the founder and artistic director of the HomeBase Project (HomeBase Project ), and a senior fellow at LABA at the 14th Street Y. She is currently working on a book of paper cut-out's titled "ANATOMY." For more information visit anatlitwin.com and anatlitwin.blogspot.com
About Hubert Colson: Paris-based Hubert Colson is the creative spirit behind of Colson Patisserie. He is a pastry chef, psychotherapist and is the author of four cookbooks, a novel, and currently writing a children’s book. He has continued his family’s over 200-year tradition of owning patisseries. For 20 years he owned one of Belgium’s most beloved patisseries in the city of Mons.
About Yonatan Israel: Born and raised in Paris, Yonatan Israel moved to New York in 1998 to study film. He is the producer of the feature documentary “Watermarks.” In 2005 he decided to bring Hubert Colson’s recipes to New York and the patisserie opened in 2006 . In addition to working on the development of the Colson brand, he continues to pursue cinematic projects.
About Colson: Established in 2006, Patisserie Colson is the New York branch of Hubert Colson’s beloved establishment of the same name in Mons, Belgium. Pastry chef Yonatan Israel transformed a run-down street corner deli, next to Barbès, a bar and performance space, in Park Slope, into one of New York’s leading patisseries, featuring a variety of pastries. Hubert Colson spends one week of every month with Yonatan and the staff in the kitchen of in Colson Patisserie in Brooklyn. For more information, visit www.colsonpastries.com
Contact:
Linda G. Miller
Communications + Marketing
212/725-7656 lindagmiller@earthlink.net
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