Léon Zack, peintures et Irène Zack, sculptures
26 November 2009 – 12 January 2010
Léon Zack is the painter of duality. Russian who became French, Jewish who became Catholic – I am thus an accomplished Jew, he liked to say – figurative who became abstract, Zack devoted his life to the search for a spirituality, a balance and a peace that he only achieved at the very end of his existence. All matter, all thickness had then disappeared from his paintings, leaving room for a diluted, refined, limpid painting, with vibrant, transparent colors, illuminated by a light from elsewhere. Zack externalized this clash of origins in his paintings with multiple knots. Knots that often evoke the Christian cross. The visible and the invisible coexist, just like gentleness and violence, light and darkness. These oppositions allow us to approach the universe of his research, of his faith. A Journey rich in emotions and discoveries.
galerie gimpel & müller
(…) At the intersection of cultures and plural aesthetic movements, Irène Zack’s sculpture has taken its place, with humility, but firmness. Her fascination for life, one and multiple, but always unpredictable, buried in matter awakened by loving hands, has led her work in a path whose authenticity cannot be denied. A commitment that simultaneously summons naturalism and symbolism, geometry and metaphor, for a timeless symbiosis with nature in communion with men.
Lydia Harambourg, monograph dedicated to Irène Zack, Ereme editions, 2008
Artists exhibited :
Irène Zack, Léon Zack.
Bergerol : peintures
21 October – 24 November 2009
“His paintings read like historical pages” wrote Pierre Cabanne.
And they sing.
Bergerol’s user guide: Just my stepladder.
For this artist, a conviction, the universal arts in direct access, music and painting, are linked. He thinks of images when he listens to Bach or Boulez. He dares to say: “the photos, the scores of Varèse, Boulez, Ligetti are the most striking demonstration that there is no border between music and painting.”
In fact, the same words are imposed in front of musical or pictorial works: scales, tones, colors, chords, movements, rhythms, constructions…
“I like,” Bergerol also says, “when you can guess the next sound, and when it arrives, that it is obvious, that it cannot be replaced by another. In painting, a touch moved, balance, grace fall.” God keep him, this stubborn man.
Figurative, abstract, lyrical?
Forget labels, useless today. In the imperious vigor of the flat tints, the mattes, the brights of a Bergerol canvas, worked with a knife and fine brushes, you will quickly discover ten other paintings and musical phrases.
Now, of course, throw away the stepladder!
Olivier Todd, October 2009
Artist exhibited :
Bergerol.
madé, peintures en volume et Friedhelm Tschentscher, sculptures
17 September – 20 October 2009
madé painted for a while what she saw and then what we could no longer see in what she saw and then she is in it. She no longer has to designate, she crosses.
Daniel Van de Velde, extract from the catalogue “madé/tessiture/teinte/texture”, centre d’art de l’Yonne, 2006
Artists exhibited :
madé, Friedhelm Tschentscher.
un été pluriel
11 – 30 June 2009
Artists exhibited :
Ivan Contreras-Brunet, René Guiffrey, Pascal Levrague, Yvon Mutrel, Christian Parquet, Christian Roeckenschuss, and Emile Gilioli,
Francesco Marino di Teana, Victor Vasarely.
2 – 28 Juillet 2009
Artists exhibited :
Henri-Georges Adam, Marie-Agnès Bourguignon, Jacques Germain, krochka, Denise Lioté, Antoine de Margerie, and Emile Gilioli,
Pierre-César Lagage, Francesco Marino di Teana, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Léon Zack.
closing on Tuesday July 28 from 6:00 p.m.
Albert Irvin : peintures récentes
25 April – 2 June 2009
Albert Irvin is one of those who have contributed to developing a whole range of thinking in the field of abstraction. His art, which stems from the desire to assert the primacy of colour over form, loudly proclaims his attachment to the strong pictorial tradition established at the beginning of the 19th century by Constable, then affirmed by Turner. In 1968, invited to stay in the United States, Albert Irvin found all sorts of complicity among abstract-expressionist painters such as Jack Tworkov, Sam Gillian, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, but it was above all an opportunity for him to verify his admiration for De Kooning. For Irvin, painting itself is the subject of the paintings; drawing, colour, light and form are closely intertwined. If their titles nevertheless refer to a precise reference, it is because painting cannot do without an anchoring in reality. This exhibition is an opportunity to discover the work of an artist whose vision is broad and luminous.
Philippe Piguet – L’Œil (n°498)
Artist exhibited :
Albert Irvin.
Alan Reynolds : dessins et reliefs
19 March – 21 April 2009
We discovered Alan Reynolds’ reliefs in the early 1970s and organised the first exhibition of reliefs, drawings and prints in 1978. We have known Alan for over thirty years and this is his seventh exhibition with us. His work today is stronger, clearer and the fact that we consider this exhibition, opening on his 80th birthday, to be his best, is proof that he is, in our eyes, a great artist.
Annely and David Juda, 2006 (Annely Juda Fine Art)
Artist exhibited :
Alan Reynolds.
Gudrun Piper, peintures et reliefs et Norman Dilworth, sculptures
13 January – 10 February 2009
Balance is the center of centrifugal energy where the elements develop in levitation, against all gravity in free space. […] The infinity of possibilities that Norman Dilworth draws, disrupts the logic of a form that is both expanding and closed on itself, a simple line that evolves in an entirely open and closed space.”
Dominique Szymusiak, 2007 chief curator of the Matisse Museum (Le Cateau-Cambrésis) excerpt from the exhibition catalog Norman Ddilworth, a natural evolution
The square as a pictorial element constitutes the most homogeneous and stable geometric form. It has no direction and its five axes of symmetry always point on itself, on its center. […] It does not have the mystery of the circle or the cross, nor the dynamics of the spiral. But in its balance – according to Plato – it is with the circle a form of absolute beauty.”
Klaus Staudt, 1990 from the catalog construction and program Richard-Heizmann-Stiftung, Niebüll (d)
Artists exhibited :
Norman Dilworth, Gudrun Piper.
John Levee : exposition envolée d’un aviateur américain
27 November 2008 – 10 January 2009
The most French of American artists in Paris, where he has lived and worked since 1949. A painter of synthesis, he is one of the most significant representatives of the New School of Paris. Defining himself as “a vertical landscaper”, he pursues with lucidity and rigor a path initiated in lyrical abstraction to evolve towards a subtle synthesis between matter and drawing, rhythm of forms, color and light in structured compositions, where softness and violence alternate, those of a nature at the heart of his painting.
Lydia Harambourg, 2008
Artist exhibited :
John Levee.