THE METRONOME EYE
Ode Bertrand, Nicholas Bodde, Andreas Brandt, Sophie Coroller, Jean-François Dubreuil, Jean-Michel Gasquet, Hans Jörg Glattfelder, Gottfried Honegger, Claude Pasquer and Henri Prosi
From September 10 to October 10, 2026
For this back-to-school exhibition, we have brought together artists whose works, with compositions that are rhythmic, dynamic, rigorous and structuring, reveal themselves as visual scores awaiting the viewer's gaze to be played.
Intervals, grids, and lines, through the movement they suggest, function like silences or breaths in a melody. They create rhythm, punctuating the surface with repetitions, syncopations, or sudden accelerations. A vertical line can embody a strong beat, while a change of color acts as a modulation, guiding the eye from one tone to another with the precision of a perfect chord.
This approach reveals a profound kinship between the eye and the ear: geometry is no longer simply a matter of proportion, but of rhythm. The painter, like a composer, orchestrates tensions, transforming potential chaos into a visual harmony where each element finds its place in the symphony of space.