Jean-Gabriel Coignet & Antoine Perrot

Antoine Perrot and Jean-Gabriel Coignet know and appreciate each other. This collaborative exhibition highlights the work of painter Antoine Perrot, who relentlessly poses the question: how to paint today?
It also showcases the work of sculptor Jean-Gabriel Coignet, who, through mastery of technique, moves towards a form of sculptural purity.
Each, in their own way, approaches a quest firmly rooted in everyday life and reality.
Attentive to the colors of industrial and everyday materials and objects, Antoine Perrot incorporates them into his compositions and emphasizes that he transforms them into paintings. By including these ready-made colors in his paintings—a process he calls "ready-made-color"—he considers his works as bearers of collective values. Following this logic, he has used colors from printed fabrics to create a new series, "To the People of Paris," which celebrates the diversity of Paris's various neighborhoods: cultural diversity, diversity of ideas, skills, and imaginations.
Jean-Gabriel Coignet confronts technical constraints, which he embraces as a challenge. All his sculptures are inherently statuary; there is nothing to prove. The freedom and confidence with which he maintains the harmony and proportions of his works are the result of extensive study and research. This began with the study of the impact of light in his series of opaque sculptures, followed by an exploration of the dynamics of volume in space with the Ana series, and finally, the effect of polychromy on construction in the Katarzyna series. The work possesses a tangible presence; it inhabits time and space.