Crossed Geometries II

We invite you to discover the second part of our trilogy, entitled "Crossed Geometries," featuring six other contemporary artists from the gallery. The selected works were created at different periods in their careers. They respond to one another, intersect, and play with geometry and color in their own unique ways. These two elements, characteristic of the gallery, are the result of these artists' research. This demonstrates that a great diversity continues to nourish and renew the "geometric abstraction" movement, which has already spanned more than a century. It is also a way to adopt a more serene perspective in our current world. Everything around us moves at a spectacularly rapid pace; here, by looking at these works, we are compelled to observe, to pause.
Henri Prosi (1936-2010) worked with the grid, using the three primary colors, black, and white. Prosi's approach is more akin to a Baroque sensibility, employing movement, imbalance, asymmetry, and fragmentation to express a centrifugal force.

Sigurd Rompza, born in 1945, insists that he encourages viewer participation in his work, much like a whole generation of 20th-century artists. At the heart of this participation lies the movement the eye makes to analyze what it sees in space.

Antoine Perrot, born in 1953, refers to a set of cultural strata, where the virtues of abstraction, the detachment of minimalism and the cynicism of pop collide with processes that belong to the sphere of bricolage or the false naivety of an art that would be raw.

Moon-Pil Shim, born in 1958, traces fine lines across the boxes; they are engraved with a cutter into the white or colored mass of painted plexiglass, almost invisible, the lines are clean. After the straight line appears the curve, the circle where the color is barely revealed.

Nicholas Bodde, born in 1962, is driven by his fascination with color, creating unexpected combinations. As he himself says, if it works, it's because the painting has gained its autonomy and can leave the confines of his studio. His painting is strident, akin to free jazz; his palette of vibrant, even garish, colors accentuates the vitality that emanates from it.

Isabelle de Gouyon Matignon, born in 1964, works mainly with metal, creating geometric structures, including her latest series in perforated sheet metal, a perfectly mastered welding technique accompanied by a moiré effect due to the material itself, presenting mysterious works.