Art Paris

The theme we will be exploring at our Art Paris booth this year is stories of black and white. The selection of artworks will be based on this theme and the gallery's current offerings.
An age-old principle of physics tells us that white is considered an entity encompassing all the colors of the light spectrum, and black is the absence of color, and therefore shadow. As a reminder of our exhibition 'Vibrate, Express, Build,' which featured several works by Félix del Marle (1889-1952), co-founder of the Espace group, we wanted to present a historically significant piece because it showcases the moiré effect of kinetic art, which began to appear in pictorial research as early as 1910. It is a gouache from 1929 entitled Kinetic. What could be more remarkable when one considers that Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) developed kinetic works in black and white 20 years later? Aurélie Nemours (1910-2005), a master of black and white, whose striking diptych, 'Inverse Proposition', we will be presenting, offers us a masterclass in oil painting.
Black is the primary element for some artists, and Charles Bézie is one of them. In his work, there isn't just one black, but a multitude of blacks, which he explores with a mathematician's skill in constructions where thickness borders on the very texture of the canvas. Who better than Claude Pasquer understands the true value of black and white as colors? His works begin as musical scores, which are gradually covered in white or black, revealing the background only in thin bands on the surface. In a different musical vein, Ode Bertrand offers a nuanced interpretation of a Scherzo. The choice of work by Jean-François Dubreuil, winner of the Aurélie Nemours Prize, focused on an analysis of daily life presented solely through photographs (which, in his work, are black).
We will also be presenting several works by Timo Nasseri, an Iranian-born artist living and working in Berlin, with whom we have had the opportunity to collaborate on several group exhibitions. He is best known for his sculptures and shimmering pieces. Jean-Michel Gasquet, who has grappled with color, has returned to black and white; his entire latest series is dedicated to the diaphanous form emerging from white. Let's rediscover Henri Prosi's work on unstretched canvas, a deconstruction and reconstruction piece featuring a large work cut and mounted on unstretched canvas dating from the 1980s.
We will also be sure to mention the exhibition 'Necessary Reality,' which brought together Jean-Gabriel Coignet and Antoine Perrot, who, each in their own way, explored a research grounded concretely in everyday life and reality.
We look forward to seeing you again,
Anne Lahumière and her entire team