Art Paris

Dear friends of the gallery,
We asked a collector friend to be the curator of our booth this year, and here is the theme he chose:

The art of the everyday, or how some artists repurpose everyday objects to create their works.

Marcel Duchamp elevated the everyday to the status of art by designating manufactured objects as such. One might criticize him for a lack of poetry, or even affirm his "right to laziness," but he situates the artist and the viewer within a different perspective: that of the "ready-made." The everyday is no longer simply represented or interpreted; it is a physical and mental constituent of the artwork. Marcelle Cahn, Jean-François Dubreuil, and Antoine Perrot use everyday consumer objects, giving them a new dimension. From 1957 onward, Marcelle Cahn (1895-1981) imbued her collages and cut-outs with poetry, using envelopes, labels, postcards, photographs, and stickers. Her intimate and personal works, where erasure and presence intertwine, appear fragile yet are a powerful hymn to the richness of life. Jean-François Dubreuil (1946), following an unchanging protocol, creates paintings whose starting points are printed information materials, primarily newspapers. Information is transformed, through established rules and chance, into areas of color. What matters here is not the meaning, but the space occupied by the information (advertisement, photograph, blank space, articles, etc.) on the front page or other pages. The variety of combinations obtained through this single principle testifies to the mass of information to which we have access, but also to its fragility in a world of media channel surfing. Antoine Perrot (1953) combines ready-made objects and ready-made colors. Sponges, brooms, straws, threads, strings, stickers, and other manufactured products are arranged in vividly colored works. Freed from their purely utilitarian function, they create a strongly polychromatic vision of consumer society. These three artists geometrize everyday life each in their own way and, drawing from the same writing theme, nevertheless create highly individualized works.

Jean-François Keller,
Curator at the Museum of Printed Textiles, Mulhouse

On another part of the stand we will echo the current exhibition at the gallery with two German artists, a painter and a sculptor: Nicholas Bodde and Siegfried Kreitner , as well as a reminder of the previous exhibition Denis Pondruel, Yves Popet (sculptures and pastels).

Anne Lahumière and the entire gallery team