In his paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed-media works, Felix Delandre has produced a visual language that oscillates freely between personal and art historical references.
Constantly experimenting, he cycles through some of the most iconic modes of abstraction, investigating minimalist questions of color and shape, tapping into the spontaneous gesture of Abstract Expressionism, and creating cryptic signs and symbols in imaginative drawings and paintings. In an eclectic studio practice, he explores notions of taste and skill through works often painted on loose paper, carboard scraps and canvases, fluctuating between word riddles, Twombly-esque scribbles, church iconography, and hard-edge geometric abstraction.
One aspect of his practice that remains constant is his emphasis on process : the intuitive motions of the artist’s hand, as well as the effects of material, memory, and environment. His approach is both playful and irreverent, wherein he mostly paints flat on the floor, and welcomes accidental marks and the picking up of paint, dirt, and various other elements in the work.
While artistic precedents appear to be among his works’ influences and inspirations, they never settle into certainty. Though vaguely familiar, the images are clear, sometimes devoid of specific meaning and presenting lighthearted subject matter with a direct, gestual confidence. Though much remains ambiguous as they possess something deep & troubling beneath their simplicity exploring the very implications of the creative act.
Born in Paris in 1987, he went on to receive his Licence in Art Plastiques from the Sorbonne University in 2010 and then his Master of Fine Art at the Central Saint Martins in 2011.
My artistic work revolves around two distinct axes : sculpture and photography of these sculptures as testimonies of these ephemeral actions. I’m looking for a minimalist gesture, a spectacular action using pieces of wood that I have and that I make interact with the light in order to try to complete my proposal by finding a balance between the physical side of the object and the cast shadows. I also like to work on assemblies of objects that I also have there without constraining their own nature too much. The ephemeral is at the heart of my concerns as an artist, the street art nomadism concept too. Be somewhere, do something, taking it off as it never existed and restart. I’m a shadow, my work is a shadow, without lights noting happen. – Y.L.
Moritz Moll (1991) has been studying fine art from 2015 to 2021 with a focus on figurative painting in the class of Anke Doberauer at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Moll combines figure and space with the means of color to create idiosyncratic compositions that grip the viewer in an immediate way. He tries to open up the conventional conception of the figure as a firmly delineated outer form in order to bring out its mobile, mutable and modelable character. The source material, which ranges from personal photographs, film stills and archive images to art history, increasingly becomes the pure occasion for a painting that lives entirely from the tension-filled interplay of two and three-dimensionality.
» My art is an acknowledgement of the past, understood as a string of patterns, structures and processes that manifest themselves in us. In my work I process memories and visions of people close to me. My paintings are characterized by an ambiguity regarding the readability of emotion and situation. No work stands alone, each connects with the next and thus creates a constantly changing narrative. «
In his latest series of paintings, « Sleepers, » consisting of several large-format, color-intensive portraits, Moll discusses the motive of the resting person in a variety of ways. The works oscillate between relaxation and restlessness and inevitably pose the question of the quality of sleep. In a process of search and discovery, the boundaries between relaxed dozing and insomnia are explored. The ambivalence of the works becomes formally clear. The bright colors accompany the subjects in their search for rest and sabotage the endeavor in equal measure.
Exhibition from March 2nd till April 23rd, 2021 Openings (Quartier des Bains) : 18, 19, and 20 of March, 2021, from 12:00 to 18:00
Guillaume Dénervaud’s artistic practice combines drawing, print, sculpture and installation with an interest in forms stemming from comics, science fiction, film and literature. He also draws inspiration from the real world, mixing references to decorative or utilitarian objects and bringing to light techniques, materials and forms often derived from crafts, design or more simply from popular culture and daily life. He associates contemporary and more vintage production methods with forgotten or rediscovered traditional skills. With a strong interest in printing techniques, he revisits processes such as airbrushing, graphite powder, lithography, screen printing and analogue and digital printing. This freedom in his choice of mediums generates untraceable and not easily recognisable printing methods, often superimposed and intermingled, producing highly pictorial, atmospheric and psychedelic effects of colour, light and transparency, as though in motion and deeply sensual. This richness and creative freedom gives Dénervaud’s work the impression of an aesthetic shift, with techniques and forms that appear to belong to the early 20th century, but characterised by perfectly contemporary presentation methods and precision.
View from the exhibition at CEC
Edited by the CEC (Center d’Edition Contemporaine), the images contained in this publication are cutouts from drawings made in graphite by the artist in a paper format of 46 by 61 cm and part of the Fumées Sombres series (2020).
Guillaume Dénervaud, Fumées Sombres, Before publication 4, brochure, 20 pages, published in the Before publication collection, which gathers the pre-publications – single booklets, 17.2 × 23.5 cm, stapled binding, 250 copies – of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before their final publication in L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). With a text by Dean Kissick. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne.
Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine – Geneva, 2021. ISBN 978-2-9701369-1-0
Guillaume Dénervaud studied illustration at the École des arts appliqués in Geneva as well as the Work.master programme at HEAD, also in Geneva. He now works in Switzerland and abroad, such as at Red Gate in Vancouver, the Open Studios of the Cité Internationale in Paris, the ODD artspace in Bucharest, the Nicolas Krupp gallery and the Villa Renata at the invitation of Salts in Basel, the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts and Circuit in Lausanne, Hard Hat in Geneva and Fri Art in Fribourg. He has benefited from a residency offered by the Hermès company at the Cristallerie Saint-Louis and soon at the Swiss Institute, New York.
Founded in Paris in 1974, FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) brings together many of the most influential galleries worldwide in the fields of modern art, contemporary art and design. It presents the finest examples of artistic creation since the turn of the twentieth century; from modern masters through to the latest trends.
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Recognised as one of the best twentieth century design and architecture experts, Clément Cividino is said to embody the profession’s new generation. A collector for the past twelve years, he maintains a constant awareness for varied productions and emerging talents.
His acute eye led him to bring to light the work of several artists and designers such as the architect Georges Candilis, Jean Paul Barray and the sculptors Simonnet. Over the years he has assembled a varied collection which he exhibits in both structured and innovative ways by staging carefully curated displays where works and spaces resonate with one another.
For some he is an antic dealer, for others a design hunter or even a designer himself. Akin to the new wave movement, he would rather defend his status of curator, a profession considered to be the newest in the world yet still very little known.
This is why he has strategically decided to promote his work via the press and social media which in turn enabled him to showcase the diversity of his profession, background, interests and sources of inspiration. His approach improves the quality of the communication with artists, collectors and other market players by highlighting their drive and energy, the history behind the hunt for rare or popular objects, using inspiring spaces and breathing new life into the market where he evolves.
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