Intersecting geometries

Through a series of three exhibitions, we invite you to discover or rediscover the gallery's contemporary artists. We have supported 16 artists, many of whom have honored us with their friendship and loyalty for over 30 years. They champion with conviction and talent a trend that has become the gallery's DNA: "geometric abstraction." These exhibitions highlight the richness of geometric abstraction, its coherence, its diversity, and its continued relevance. Through these three group exhibitions, we felt it was important to examine works created at different times and to see how each artist's personal journey and perspective intersect and resonate with the others. There are mysteries and harmonious combinations within abstraction, geometry, and color. Our artists offer us some insights and open new avenues for our enjoyment.

This first installment brings together six artists, including Ode Bertrand, who works primarily with black and white. She says she doesn't like color, and yet, when she approaches it through an analysis of her tightly woven grids, color begins to vibrate and dance. The stroke, the line, the rhythm are the guiding threads of her explorations.

In Jean-François Dubreuil's work, the newspaper imposes its own structure. The artist randomly selects colors from a hat, colors chosen according to the mood of the moment; these colors, except for a few assigned to specific positions, are the result of a pleasurable creative process.

Claude Pasquer approaches color beneath the uniform layer of black, white, or another color. He speaks of vertical partitions, which rhythmically structure the space of the canvas through colored vertical or horizontal sequences; in fact, the colors are only revealed in thin bands, giving other tones to the overall monochrome unity.

Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz projects himself into space; the forms of his canvases are like cries. He spreads his monochrome pigments and hide glue like so many signs of freedom, a form that explodes a color that rests it.

Denis Pondruel speaks to us of his dreams, his concrete architectures are all vanities that distill his hidden poetry, glimpsed in the darkness of the room, or at the foot of the stairs, a few luminous words come to declaim, a verse, a song, a dance.

While Bauduin explores time, the Dwellings are linked to a work on memory; he also cultivates Wabi, which in Japanese signifies a subtle form of beauty, a quality of refinement masked by rusticity. The Dwellings are a concrete example of this: the object is evoked in its simplest, even archaic, expression by a granite block culminating in a double-pitched summit, its relief pattern echoing the wall.

A structured geometry, often marked by strong colors reminiscent of Auguste Herbin. Our exhibitions and fair booths were, from the very beginning, characterized and identifiable by these DNA (DNA - Defining Associations of Notability). Our contemporary artists, whom we thank for their unwavering support, are living proof of this.