PANAME RENDEZ-VOUS
13 BIS x MR. DJUB
For its latest exhibition, and as it has every summer since its creation, Galerie Roger-Viollet invites visitors to rediscover Paris in a different light.
This year, two collage virtuosos, 13 bis and Mr. Djub, kids of Paname have joined forces to act as guides in this unusual, funny and surreal exploration of the French Capital.
Each artist presents 14 original works in dialogue with 45 photographs from the Roger-Viollet collection.
This collaboration, at the invitation of the gallery, stems from the mutual esteem in which the two artists have long held each other's work.
They differ by their singular aesthetics, albeit familiar, like distant cousins, but also by their respective techniques. 13 bis is mainly a digital collage artist, using any type of images that might fuel his creativity, regardless of its original medium, while Mr. Djub, more traditional in his approach, wields scissors, glue and old newspapers, making a point in hiding the gestures that gave rise to his works.
13 bis and Mr. Djub have each created 14 original works for the occasion, little playlets in the form of visual anagrams, reverse tales mixing fragments of photography, engravings, paintings or illustrated newspapers, where they can let their irony and biting humor express itself.
Photo: Anonymous
The severed head Show at the Robert Houdin theater, directed by Georges Méliès, circa 1889.
13x18 cm print.
Displayed among a selection of photographs from the Roger-Viollet archives, this telescoping of images is like an exquisite corpse, a kind of stereoscopic vision that allows a new look on these photographs, evidences of a reality that becomes augmented, almost hallucinatory.
Visitors, in their turn, can compose their own narratives, combining the various motifs ad infinitum.
As you enter the exhibition, abandon all rationality. Your eyes are windows to the imaginary, your body waves from collages to photographs and now... dream on!
Au cul du cirque
Mr. Djub, 2025
37x26,5 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Léon & Lévy
Fortune teller. France circa 1900.
24x30 cm print.
Goûter rue de l’Eau-Delà
Mr. Djub, 2025
31x26,5 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Le Lapin du Coin
13 bis, 2026
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Albert Harlingue
The painter Foujita in his studio with his companion and model Youki. Paris, circa 1927.
30x40 cm print.
Photo: Anonymous
The hands of fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin. Paris, 1939.
13x18 cm print.
Au bal de la rue de l’Arctique
Mr. Djub, 2025
25,5x46 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Paname Rendez-Vous
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Maurice-Louis Branger
Bastille Day ball Rue Soufflot, the Panthéon in background. Paris, 1912.
30x40 cm print.
A painter by training and profession, suddenly without a studio after several years of practicing his art, 13 bis reinvented or rediscovered himself as a street artist from 2009, choosing collage as his mode of expression. Walls, mainly those in eastern Paris, become the preferred sites for displaying his creativity, turning them into giant frescoes in which mythological figures, chimerical beings or art history icons evolve in phantasmagorical, strange and dreamlike worlds.
Diving into the eponymous agency's photo archives, this is the third time 13 bis has been invited to exhibit his work at the Roger-Viollet gallery.
La révolte des zoziaux
Mr. Djub, 2025
24,5x29 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Mr. Djub has been practicing the art of collage since the 1980s, discreetly at first, also creating illustrations for posters, books and sets. His work evolved in the 2010s, finding its current form and aesthetic in the exclusive use of illustrated periodicals from the second half of the 19th century. Mr. Djub also contributed to the founding of the art magazine HEY! modern art & pop culture, and listeners of France Inter radio know him as a music programmer under the moniker Djubaka.
Photo: Léon & Lévy
Balloon taking off from Place du Carrousel. Paris, 1878. Detail of a stereoscopic view.
30x30 cm print.
L’Allumeur de Poisson Rouge
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Gaston Paris
The Basilique du Sacré-Cœur in the district of Montmartre. Paris, circa 1940.
30x30 cm print.
Photo: Charles Lansiaux
Front of L'Enfer cabaret, 53 Boulevard de Clichy. Paris, 23 January 1920.
40x50 cm print.
Photo: Maurice-Louis Branger
Human billboard advertising Gaston Leroux's “The Man Who Saw the Devil” at the Théâtre du Grand Guignol. Paris, 1912.
18x24 cm print.
Le Petit Bastringue
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Boris Lipnitzki
The dancer Anatole Obukhov. Paris, circa 1930
18x24 cm print.
Au Boucher maladroit
Mr. Djub, 2025
26,5x31 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Journal Excelsior
Lioness hanging from a poultry shop in Rue Montorgueil. Injured in her cage, she had to be killed by her trainer. Paris, 23 March 1920.
24x30 cm print.
Assemblée Nationale de la part du Gâteau
Mr. Djub, 2025
26,5x31,5 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Albert Harlingue
The trading floor of the Paris stock exchange, circa 1930.
24x30 cm print.
Photo: Léon & Lévy
Polar bears at the Jardin des Plantes. Paris, circa 1895-1900. Detail from a colorized stereoscopic view.
30x30 cm print.
Le Casse Tripot
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Both artists have chosen to explore the late 19th and early 20th centuries of Paris through its Paname, or shall we say “canaille”, side. A legitimate choice considering the photographic inventions and techniques of the period: photographic recreations, highly prized by the first amateur experimenters, fairground photography (photographic shooting, stereoscopy), fraudulent spiritualist photography (crude montages or sensitive plates applied directly to people's foreheads in an attempt to capture a psychic image, a dream), fanciful postcards, the cinematograph in the style of Georges Méliès, right up to the Dadaist and Surrealist avant-gardes.
Amusette rue Kugluktuk
Mr. Djub, 2025
26,5x36,5 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Maurice-Louis Branger
Speech of Jean Jaurès during the demonstration against the Three-Year Service Law. Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, May 1913.
30x40 cm print.
Photo: Maurice-Louis Branger
Midinettes strike, Rue de la Paix. Paris, 18 May 1917.
24x30 cm print.
Le temps des barreaux
Mr. Djub, 2024
25x36 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Jacques Boyer
Soap bubbles on a Japanese jasmine stem. 1938.
18x24 cm print.
The choice to confront photography with collage is also motivated by the analogies that can be found between these mediums.
The photographer, using his camera, his darkroom, cuts out an image from reality, and composes a picture from existing elements, thus revealing his subjectivity.
The collagist's darkroom is his imagination and his frame, a stylus or a blade. He cuts out motifs from pre-existing works and from them creates another image, another vision.
La Magicienne
Mr. Djub, 2024
26x30 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Nadar
Sarah Bernhardt at home. Paris, circa 1890.
30x40 cm print.
La Sybille du Cirque d’Hiver
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
La Carte Postale
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Anonymous
Transportation of paintings in front of the Grand Palais. Paris, circa 1940.
18x24 cm print.
Photo: Léon & Lévy
A bull by Isidore-Jules Bonheur and the bust of Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty on the Champ-de-Mars. 1878 Paris World's Fair. Detail of a stereoscopic view.
50x50 cm print.
Bienvenue à Montparnasse
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Neurdein
The railway accident at Gare Montparnasse. Paris, 22 October 1895.
30x40 cm print.
Feu d’artifice ferroviaire
Mr. Djub, 2025
26x37 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Maurice-Louis Branger
The bombed church clock. Barcy, 1914.
13x18 cm print.
Photo: Charles Lansiaux
The Pont de l'Alma during a flood of the Seine. Paris, 1920
24x30 cm print.
La Déchaînée du Pont de Bir-Hakeim
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
L’éléphant trompe toujours deux fois
Mr. Djub, 2025
25,5x36 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Anonymous
Giant elephant in the terrace garden of the Moulin-Rouge. Paris, circa 1900.
30x40 cm print.
Le Serpent des Capucines
Mr. Djub, 2025
26,5x36 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Albert Harlingue
The “Madeleine-Bastille” horse-drawn omnibus, Place de la Madeleine. Paris, circa 1900.
18x24 cm print.
Photo: Albert Harlingue
Florist. Paris, circa 1910.
18x24 cm print.
Photo: Albert Harlingue
Medical School, 15 Rue de l'Ecole-de-Médecine. Paris, circa 1920.
40x50 cm print.
Photo: Gaston Paris
At the Eiffel Tower. Paris, circa 1945.
18x24 cm print.
Photo: Laure Albin Guillot
Microphotograph. Circa 1930.
24x30 cm print.
Photo: Jacques Boyer
First World War. Prosthesis to replace the eye and eyelids. France, January 1916.
13x18 cm print.
Série Noire
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Léon & Lévy
Women looking at stereoscopic views. Detail of a stereoscopic view. Paris, circa 1865.
30x30 cm print.
Vénus Beauté
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Laure Albin Guillot
Nude study. Paris, circa 1940.
15x38 cm print.
La boîte à zouaves
Mr. Djub, 2025
26,5x38 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Gaston Paris
Children playing in the rocks. Buttes-Chaumont Park. Paris, circa 1960.
40x40 cm print.
Photo: Albert Harlingue
Advertising posters for “Bébé Cadum” soap. Paris, circa 1925.
30x40 cm print.
Photo: Charles Marville
The upper part of Rue Champlain, in the district of Père-Lachaise. Paris, 1877.
30x40 cm print.
Photo: Léopold Mercier
Electrical effluents. No date.
24x30 cm print.
LOVNI
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Léopold Mercier
Study of clouds. Paris, circa 1889.
24x30 cm print.
Photo: Neurdein
Panorama of the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
15x33 cm print.
Sortie de nuit pour Rosa et Josepha
Mr. Djub, 2025
26,5x36 cm collage, floater frame 40x50 cm.
Photo: Maurice-Louis Branger
Siamese sisters Josepha and Rosa Blažek, the husband and Rosa's son Franz. Paris, 1910.
13x18 cm print.
Photo: Anonymous
Painted lady butterfly. Unknown date.
13x18 cm print.
Rosa-Josepha
13 bis, 2025
40x50 cm digital collage
Photo: Léon & Lévy
Gingerbread Fair, Place de la Nation and Cours de Vincennes. Paris, circa 1900.
40x50 cm print.
Photo: Neurdein
The Ferris wheel at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
40x50 cm print.
Photo: Albert Harlingue
D'jelmako (1857-1933), tightrope walker, in the district of Montmartre. Paris, circa 1930.
40x60 cm print.
Photo: Maurice-Louis Branger
Lamplighter, Rue de Mondovi. Paris, 1905.
40x60 cm print.
Photo: Léon & Lévy
The moving sidewalk and the electric railway at the 1900 Paris World's Fair.
40x50 cm print.
Photo: Neurdein
The Eiffel Tower, the Worthington – Water Department pavilion and the Celestial Globe at the 1900 Paris World's Fair.
40x50 cm print.
Photo: Neurdein
The Eiffel Tower, the Worthington – Water Department pavilion and the Celestial Globe at the 1900 Paris World's Fair.
40x50 cm print.
To create his collages, 13 bis used elements of photographs or reproductions of works of art by the following authors in the Roger-Viollet collection:
Laure Albin Guillot, Gérard Audran, Jan Auvigne, Barklay, George Bartisch von Koenigsbrück, Thérèse Bonney, Jacques Boyer, Maurice-Louis Branger, Gustave Brion, Horace Castelli, François Chauveau, François-Nicolas Chifflart, Gustave Courbet, Louis Deschamps, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Charles Gilbert-Martin, Claude Gillot, Albert Harlingue, Jean-Baptiste Huet, Charles Hurault, François Joullain, Studio Lipnitzki, Charles Lansiaux, Emile Lévy, Charles Lévy, Frédéric Theodore Lix, Désiré Alfred Magne, Fortuné Louis Méaulle, Léopold Mercier, Mesnel, Joseph Minot, Atelier Nadar, François Pannemaker, Gaston Paris, Louis Poyet, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, Frederik Ruysch, Henry Scheffer, Isaac Soreau, Gustave Staal, Studio Léon & Lévy, Studio Jies, Studio Neurdein Frères, Jan Van Kessel, Stutzmann, James Upton, Frédéric Vintraut, Charles Yriarte.
Catalog of the exhibition "Paname rendez-vous 13 bis x Mr. Djub".
102 pages. 15 €