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The French dealer Daniel Templon (*1945) opened his gallery in 1966, at the age of 21, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés before moving to his present space in Rue Beaubourg in 1972. This fall, Mr. Templon, now 68, is expanding his gallery to Brussels with an inaugural exhibition by the young Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (*1972, lives and works in Berlin).
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Nathalie Obadia first opened her gallery in Paris in 1993 after gaining five years of working experience with Daniel Templon. Two years later, she moved her gallery to the previous location of Yvon Lambert Gallery in Rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare in the Marais. While celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the gallery in 2003, Nathalie Obadia…
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Objects are at the core of the art of Mathieu Mercier (*1970, France). Fascinated by the utopian modernist project of Total Art which seeks to integrate art to our everyday life, and the opposite Duchampian gesture of Ready-Made which aims at transposing a common object into art, Mathieu Mercier redefines the position of the objects (often common household and…
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In art, it’s important to have two things: Curiosity and Ambition.Loris Gréaud (*1979) has both, and he lives them up splendidly. His child-like obsession with objects and knowledge leads him to a desire to fuse different disciplines and practices in a manner that is characterized as “both futuristic and utopian”. A candy without taste, a…
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Taking sculpture as the focus of her artistic research, French Artist Delphine Coindet engages herself in a non-ceasing reinvention of contemporary sculpture. In the interview, Delphine Coindet shared with us the notions of reality and representation in contemporary sculpture and her interests in natural primary elements as a counterpart of the humankind in the hierarchy of classification of things.
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Peintre et sculpteur, l’un des caractères de l’œuvre de Damien Cabanes tient au fait que l’artiste intègre dans une même démarche le geste du peintre et celui du sculpteur, renvoyant les deux techniques face à face.
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French artist Guillaume Leblon (*1971) creates site-specific installations, sculptures, videos and works on paper which transform our perception of the space and its function. Through a sort of staged presentation of his work, he charges his objects with metaphorical meanings, introducing a certain uneasiness that affects and stimulates our perception.
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One of the most important young artists emerged in the international art scene since the last decade, Mircea Cantor (*1977, Romania) is best known for his use of video and mixed media installations to address the notions of displacement, uncertainty, fragility of convictions and uneasy confrontation of ideologies.
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French artistSamuel Rousseau produces art works full of poetry that hijack objects of everyday life and inject them with a healthy dose of aesthetics. Comparing artists to an urban shaman, everything he touches is transformed into the most extraordinary thing in the most ordinary places.
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The young French artist Aurélien Froment (*1976, Angers) is an explorer of the semantic power of images. The question for him is “how do we look at an image?” Interpretation is subjective, meaning is never fixed, what one sees is not what the others see. Thus, in his work, images and gestures and objects are…
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