History
History

In 1955, Lara Vincy opened her gallery at 47 rue de Seine in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area where its still located. From 1955 to 1970, Lara Vincy’s choices were the following artists: René Allio, Kito, Raza, Wostan but also Munford, Peter Clough, Seundja Rhee…, witnesses of the 60’s abstraction.
Her daughter, Liliane Vincy took the lead of the gallery in 1970 and explored new ways until her death in June 2015. She has developed since 1970, an individual way, out of fashion and mainstreams. Live art as an always renewed creative adventure has been the director’s guideline. Earlier, she was about to explore art’s new experimentation fields: installations, videos, sound environments, sociological actions…
Today, Youri Vincy, Liliane’s son, leads the gallery and manages it.
 
Many installations and exhibitions, among them:
- Le massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy from B. B. Lavier in 1973.
- Presentation of the video film Travel from Fabrizio Plessi in 1974.
- Hommage à Walt Whitman from K. Karahalios in 1975: 4 oxcart’s wheels on a “parterre” of green grass.
- Stickers from SarmientoArgent” in 1980, pasted inside and outside the gallery.
- Points d’interrogationfrom from Jonier Marin in 1980.
- La voie lactée from Joël Hubaut in 1982: a pyramid in the sand and a  giant “camembert” cheese on the roof.
- Ben entirely covered the front of the Lara Vincy gallery with multi-colored graffitis-writings in 1983 during his exhibition Boîtes et idées.
- Le paradis des jouets from the Dix 10 group in 1984: painted toys on plexiglass sold at the price of the painted item.
- Drapeaux (Flags) from Remo Bianco in 1987.
- Cubomanies from Ghérasim Luca in 1988.
- Série SPA from Aurèle in 1989: Bob the lost dog walks among contemporary art.
- Chess set from Takako Saito in 1989.
 
Sound environments:
- Tableaux parlants from Remo Bianco in 1976.
- Hasards from Freddy Fabian in 1976: 36 musical and mobile slabs on the floor, connected to a synthesizer and to 36 recorders, music varying with the visitors pass.
- Terremoto from Piero Gilardi in 1990: a kinetic and sonic installation; a simulated earthquake with polyurethane rocks.
 
Sociological actions:
- In collaboration with Pierre Restany and Alex Mlynarcik: Inter Etrennes in 1972, Argilia in 1977 and Le temps de l’ailleurs in 1994.
- An important exhibition of Mail art in 1979 with Julien Blaine and Pierre Restany.
 
There also have been many exhibitions dealing with language and writing problems:
- Particularly in 1976, L’art à Vinci from Raymond Hains, imagining a “Pont Pidoux” (owner’s name of “La Palette” at this time), famous café located at the confluence of the “rue de Seine” and the “rue Jacques Callot), the Lara Vincy gallery becoming the “Beaubourg” of the left bank of Paris. From a torn poster representing Mona Lisa, he does a linguistic drift on the placeholders (referring to gallery’s location, between “La Palette” and “L’Aquarelle”, missing today) and on the effect of names (Vincy/Vinci, etc…).
- S’en séparerfrom Gil J Wolman in 1980: thinking on the signature’s value on an artwork.
- Cent pour centfrom Michèle Métail & Louis Roquin in 1996: original text from M. Métail, orchestrated by L. Roquin.
 
Salon de musique:
In 1993 and 1994, under the title of Salon de musique, the gallery gathered, in 5 exhibitions, an exploration’s panorama of the “Nouvelle poésie” and the “Nouvelle musique”, since the 60's until the computing experimentations.
 
Since the beginning of the 90’s, a selection of personal exhibitions from the artists represented by the gallery:
 
Ben:
- "J'ai trop d'idées je ne sais pas quoi faire", 1996
- "L'air de rien", 1998
- "La pagaille gagne du terrain", 2000
- "La chambre du philosophe", 2002
- "Qu'est-ce que l'art ?", 2007
- "L'art contemporain me fait rire", 2010
- "Je ne suis pas fou", 2012
- "C'est quoi la culture ?", 2013

Esther Ferrer:
- "Le poème des nombres premiers", 2002
- "Dans le cadre de l'art" (3), 2009
- "Structures et projets spatiaux", 2014
 
Jean-Luc Parant :
- "Boules ?", 2004
- "Bibliothèque idéale", 2006
- "(L)ivre de nuit", 2008
- "Parantosaures", 2010
- "Mots et Merveilles", 2012
- "Les seules frontières sont les frontières animales", 2014
 
Miller Levy:
- "Artiste de variétés", 1995
- "Les nouveautés du Moi", 1996
- "Les enquêtes du commissaire Dekspo", 1998
- "La philosophie floue", 1999
- "Self mad man", 2001
- "La dynamique des couleurs", 2004
- "La place du sujet est devant le verbe ou derriére l'objectif", 2004
- "Minimalismes", 2008
- "comment vivre au dessus de ses moyens", 2014
 
Jean-Luc André:
- "Speed color velocity", 1990
- "Fracas fossilisé d'un chaos lointain", 1992
- "Dessins et Incidents de la Banque Aléatoire DE Récit", 2001
- "La Brigade du Bonheur", 2003
- "DONG! DONG! (traçabilité du XXIe siècle) Peintures transgéniques, dessins au carbone et induction de trains d’ondes, 2007
- "Agence National De Récit Évasif", 2011
- "Actualité du Monde Vague", 2015
 
Pascal Le Coq:
- "Transmutations", 2004
- "Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius", 2007
- "Transgender Icons", 2010
- "Hyperobjets d'art", 2013
 
Charles Dreyfus:
- "Tout le monde descend", 1992
- "Emprise directe", 1997
- "Le jour où la nuit vit le jour", 2000
- "Du présent à l'immédiateté", 2007

Takako Saito:
- "Takako's", 2003
- "Les jeux de 1988 - 1994” + x, 2009
- "Les jeux de 2004- 2009” + You and Me, 2010
 
Serge Pey:
- "La parole des bâtons", 2004
- "100 poèmes néolithiques", 2008
 
Jonier Marin:
- "veryveryinteresting.com", le nom de domaine comme oeuvre d'art, 2000
 
And also, many exhibitions from artists working with sound:
 
Peter Vogel:
- "Sculptures sonores et lumineuses", 1998
- "Sculptures interactives", 2003
- "Son, lumière et mouvement", 2009
 
Charlemagne Palestine:
- "pingmingding", 2002
 
Julius:
- "Small music", 1997
- "Black listens to red", 1999
- "Wet music", 2005

Joachim Montessuis:
- "La Mer dangereuse", 2005
 
Terry Fox:
- "A défaut de silence", 2000
 
Monika von Wedel:
- "Sculptures sonores", 2000