Crossed Geometries III

We invite you to discover the final installment of our trilogy, entitled "Crossed Geometries," featuring six more contemporary artists, painters and sculptors. The selected works were created at different periods in their careers. Despite all these years, the experiments, research, and questions, these artists' paths reveal a remarkable coherence and a fidelity to geometric abstraction that commands respect. Each artist's work, their perspectives on geometry and color, intersect and continue to resonate with one another, to our great delight. They offer us a fascinating glimpse into the history of geometric and constructed abstraction over the last 30 years.

We revisit, through a selection of works, several periods in Charles Bézie's pictorial production, such as the quadrilles—these enlarged intersections—including a masterful piece, a cut-out, which embodies the construction of the quadrille's structure. Also on display will be a work from the Gradations series, as well as one of the Ortholudes suites, which marks the return of primary colors to his oeuvre.

Jean-Gabriel Coignet presents two sculptures from a brand new series he has named 'Focales'. Here is what he tells us about them: “A colored plane on the right, which the gaze rests upon, then an opening onto the horizon where the gaze is lost; finally, on the left, two contiguous planes that create an interstice. The gaze hesitates. Near, far, uncertain. These sculptures reveal, plane by plane, the constructive elements that constitute them.” A work from the Ana series completes the presentation.

At Jean-Michel Gasquet's we will return to a series produced in the years 1994-95, entitled "The straights", then the "Bevels" which he loves so much, a work from the series which was inspired by his sculptor friend Patrice Rozand, then a very last work on colour, which echoes a search already carried out in the past, but much more refined with improbable hues.

In just a few works, we take a brief tour of the unique world of Hans-Jörg Glattfelder. His research into non-Euclidean planes since the 1970s has led him to produce works whose visual impact makes us question our ability to see. He unsettles us with angular forms that are neither quite rhombuses nor quite rectangles, playing with our perception through vanishing angles on the plane.

We invite you to revisit some of Yves Popet's earlier paintings, where, with simple squares, he re-establishes the conditions of space, of an emptiness filling the silence.
You will also discover his latest pastels, a technique in which he excels. Few artists achieve such a level of finish using this medium. A path of colorful pastels welcomes you at the entrance to the exhibition.

With André Stempfel, boredom is never an issue; he's concocted some new works on paper, not far removed from his signature Senegal yellow, much to our delight. A quick detour to see his 'Accord des ons' pedestal painting is a welcome respite from the surrounding cacophony, a chance to indulge ourselves and keep smiling even behind our masks as we leave the exhibition!

Enjoy your visit everyone!