ExodeS
Jul
1
to Sep 30

ExodeS

Saint-Raphaël s’apprête à accueillir un événement culturel majeur du 1er juillet au 30 septembre. L'un des plus grands parcours d'art contemporain d’Europe (85 artistes, 15 nationalités, 8 lieux) investira des lieux emblématiques de la Ville, autour du thème de l’exode, sous toutes ses formes

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Sleeping Beauties
Sep
1
to Oct 9

Sleeping Beauties

  • 90, Rue de la Folie Méricourt Paris, IDF, 75011 France (map)
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Second Personal exhibition at H Gallery. I present about ten recent pastels on the theme of transit.

Seconde exposition Personnelle chez H Gallery. J’y présente une dizaine de pastels récents sur le thème du transit.

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les apparences
Jun
20
to Sep 15

les apparences

  • àcentmètresducentredumonde (map)
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Sur une proposition de Thomas Lévy-Lasne

“Les apparences” 50 peintres contemporains de la scène française au Centre d’Art À Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde à Perpignan. Du 20 juin au 15 septembre 2021.

Avec Gilles Aillaud, Henni Alftan, Marion Bataillard, Julien Beneyton, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Romain Bernini, Mireille Blanc, François Boisrond, Katia Bourdarel, Jean-Baptiste Boyer, Guillaume Bresson, Benjamin Bruneau, Damien Cadio, Antoine Carbonne, Mathieu Cherkit, Claire Chesnier, Jean Claracq, Philippe Cognée, Eric Corne, Gaël Davrinche, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Grégory Derenne, Cyril Duret, Bruno Gadenne, Gérard Gasiorowski, Cécilia Granara, Cyrielle Gulacsy, Bilal Hamdad, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Youcef Korichi, Jürg Kreienbühl, Iris Legendre, Eugène Leroy, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Jérémy Liron, François Malingrëy, Maude Maris, Olivier Masmonteil, Audrey Nervi, Eva Nielsen, Simon Pasieka, Françoise Petrovitch, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Laurent Proux, Antoine Roegiers, Lou Ros, Vassilis Salpistis, Paul Vergier, Anthony Verot, Marine Wallon.

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« Le Silence des Rêves »
Mar
8
to Apr 8

« Le Silence des Rêves »

An exhibition of works by the French painter Paul Vergier opens at the SonoArt Gallery, Seoul, South Korea on 8th March, 2017. For “Le Silence des Rêves” (The silence of dreams), the artist is exhibiting 16 paintings, including oil on canvas and oil on wood. This first solo exhibition in Korea makes available to the public a dream for us all. Paul Vergier's paintings offer an intimate landscape, but also evoke the dream of opportunity that we all share. It ultimately reminds us of the inescapable reality of our shared humanity. “Paul Vergier shows peacefulness in uncertainty,” exhibition organizer and curator EunJu Park said. “We hope that this exhibition will provide an opportunity to reinterpret or study painting as a representation of our reality.”

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« 61e Salon de Montrouge »
May
4
to May 31

« 61e Salon de Montrouge »

Le Beffroi, MONTROUGE

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Emmanuelle Lequeux - Salon de Montrouge

“The shape of the sea is ever-changing, as we all know. But the land is also being reshaped, ravaged by the onset of the Anthropocene. In this new era, what perspective could there possibly be for a contemporary landscape painter? Paul Vergier, a former student at the Fine Arts Academies of Marseille and Paris, was confronted by this predicament at a very young age in his native Provence, and soon decided to tackle the problem head-on. The lone horizon to delineate his canvases is formed by greenhouses, selected from the legions that have overrun the Earth with the firm intention of feeding every last one of us. But the young painter imagines them in a more familial context, intentionally more romantic than the industrialized dimensions of their Spanish counterparts. This extremely singular solution enables him to “paint landscapes without a landscape,” as he explains. Old cans, tarpaulins, decrepit trellises, crates, climbing plants, piles of equipment: each detail enshrined in one of the transparent plastic shelters that he obsessively hunts down. Protected by these fabric chrysalides, the plant world is subsistent at best, and never invasive. It is above all a “technical fascination for veiled light forms” that engrosses the artist. Intrigued by the idea of exploring this “closed, stifling and veiled” universe, he makes wonders out of the slightest interstice in order to “create a surface in the surface.” An unsettling emotion is produced by Vergier’s painting due to the sophistication of his brushwork, which so stunningly depicts the myriad folds of the shelters, the paradoxical beauty of the play of sun, and the borderline transparency evoked by the liquid colors as they dilute and strain towards realism. But the emotion is also due to the silhouettes that sometimes appear in these interiors. A man reads a book, another stares off into space...the guardians of a temple where time stands still. Workers with no work, whose lethargy seems to be the only possible form of resistance to the outer world, looming dangerously just beyond the frame. Under their remote gaze, a whole world continues to elegantly unfold, free from the earth.”

Emmanuelle Lequeux, February 22, 2016, text from the catalogue of the 61st Montrouge Art Fair, page 118

translation: Jeffrey Probst

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