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30 My little white screen Frédéric Nicolay should really be crowned the unofficial mayor of Brussels. A self-effacing, self-starting oddball, he’s done more than anyone to give the city its distinctive edge: he’s reinvigorated entire neighbourhoods through his bars (Flagey with Belga, Albert with Bar du Matin and Porte de Hal/Halpoort with Potemkine), has launched what is probably its most aspirational beer (Vedett) and, more recently, has even taken to urban planning in the shape of his relooking of a public square. “I grew tired of seeing this dilapidated and derelict square in front of my offices,” he says when we meet one windy afternoon in the backstreets of the Dansaert/Dansaart area, “So approached the city, asking them for permission to spruce it up a little.” Taking matters in his own hand, the genial character planted 40 apple trees, installed reclaimed tree trunks (recuperated from an installation on Monts des Arts / De Kunstberg as public benches, nailed freight pallets to decrepit walls flanking the square’s front façade (a technique he first developed Paper perfect Stepping into Papers feels a little like delving into history: shelves crowded with ancient books, walls covered in vintage drawings and antiquated objects inhabit the attentively decorated space, located in a timeworn 18th century townhouse in Brussels’ Dansaert district. Imbued of an undeniable museum-like composure, a quick, first glance around the boutique, inaugurated in October 2009 with an exhibition by French illustrator Pierre Le-Tan, makes it instantly obvious that a true paper passionate is at work here. “Paper is more than just a commodity,” owner Jean-Philippe Arnould says to explain his fascination: “By being used as a device for creating art and diffusing ideas it preserves the ensemble of European artistic works of the last 500 years.” Having worked for the Louvre, Stockholm’s French embassy or the Institut Français in Munich, Parisian Arnould is a veritable culture vulture and no novice to the art world (he has a special interest in early fashion drawings, with an impressive selection of works by influential fashion illustrators such as Georges Lepape). That being said, Papers is more than just a place favoured by art collectors. Indeed, illustrators and painters value it for its handmade sheets of paper imported from The papers for Galerie Catherine Bastide, whose space is housed in Nicolay’s downtown office complex) and, most endearing of all, painted a white rectangle on the graffiti-riddled garage door in the hope of one day screening movies on it. The whole project took a couple of days – at most. “The entire works cost in between 7,000 and 8,000 euros,” he continues, rather astonishingly. Testament to a new generation French and Indian manufacturers who still practise the ancient craft of papermaking: every sheet is a one-of-a-kind piece characterised by its rich texture and unique streaks, shades and structures that an industrially-produced piece of paper lacks. What is more, Arnould also puts his passion into practice, creating small editions of lovely little notebooks bound and decorated by hand as well as publishing onepagers on single sheets of paper (usually, of the of self-empowered community leaders with an entrepreneurial streak, Nicolay is quick to downplay his achievement: “I wouldn’t make a big deal out of it. Anyone could do this. It’s a visual nod to the neighbourhood, but it doesn’t make any fundamental changes to it.” (NL) Frédéric Nicolay is currently working on his latest project, Flammingo, a bar space opposite the KVS theatre in Brussels. wafer-thin Leman variety) which the buyer is free to fold and bind himself. A gallery, artist supply shop, artisan production facility, independent publishing imprint and antiquarian bookstore then. (SS) Papers Rue de Flandre 19 Vlaamsesteenweg 1000 Brussels papers-gallery.com © Sarah Eechaut © Pauline Miko
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