Garry Fabian-Miller: Rayons de Couleurs
29 October – 6 December 2011
“The rigors of this geometry tell us more than all the artistic blurs.”
Michel Tournier (Prix Goncourt) about Garry Fabian-Miller.
Artist exhibited :
Garry Fabian-Miller.
Geert van Fastenhout & Hans Steinbrenner: rencontre
22 September – 27 October 2011
Four years after “samenklank”, their joint exhibition at the Mondriaanhuis museum in Amersfoort in 2007, we are presenting these two artists because of their affinities and mutual esteem, and as a tribute to Hans Steinbrenner, who died shortly after the solo exhibition we dedicated to him in 2008. You will discover in particular sculptures made during his residency in Paris in 1967, in dialogue with paintings by Geert van Fastenhout, very popular with Japanese collectors.
Artists exhibited :
Geert van Fastenhout, Hans Steinbrenner.
appartement d’un collectionneur II
28 July – 27 August 2011
The gallery presents works by Marcelle Cahn, Mariano Carrera, Ivan Contreras-Brunet, Robert Currie, madé, Emiel Gilioli, Eve Gramatzki, José Heerkens, André Heurtaux, Antoine de Margerie, Fransesco Marino di Teana, Yvon Mutrel, Joan Palà, , Christian Parquet, Lars Strandh, Marie-Thérèse Vacossin, Victor Vasarely,
as well as a rug by Hans Hartung, and furniture by Gae Aulenti, Harry Bertoia, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Pierre Folie, Arne Jacobsen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Pierre Paulin.
carte blanche à Philip Hughes
18 June – 26 July 2011
Like Nicolas de Staël a year before with his purchase of Le Castelet, my family acquired the old rectory in Ménerbes in 1954, known as “La porte Saint-Sauveur”. My parents and uncles were art dealers – like their father, René Gimpel, whose new edition of Journal d’un Collectionneur is currently being published by Hermann. It was therefore natural to exhibit Staël in London, where the Gimpel fils gallery had opened its doors in 1946.
In the 1950s, the village and its surroundings were an exceptional place for our childhood games. With my brother, my cousins, Nicolas de Staël’s children and the young people of the village, we would meet up during the school holidays. Throughout the summer, the ruins, streets, alleys and caves overlooking the Chemin des Cloches which leads from Le Castelet to the village – passing under the arch of the Porte Saint Sauveur – belonged to us, offering our childhood imaginations infinite resources.
René Gimpel
Artists exhibited :
Chris Dury, Philip Hughes, Nicolas de Staël.
Marie-Thérèse Vacossin: blanc à l’horizontale
19 May – 16 June 2011
blanc d’espace
blanc de lumière
blanc infini
Artist exhibited :
Marie-Thérèse Vacossin.
Norman Dilworth: progression
7 April – 17 May 2011
At the time of Plato, geometry and arithmetic were major disciplines of a classical education. The purpose of this education was to allow Man to contemplate through geometry the mysteries of creation. The circle represented pure and unknown space: infinity. The square symbolized the comprehensible and manifest world, known reality, the finite.
Artist exhibited :
Norman Dilworth.
Knut Navrot : bleu (limites)
3 March – 5 April 2011
Knut Navrot says he wants to take painting back to its origins and practice an art without reference. To achieve this, he seeks to identify the elements specific to painting that would only refer to themselves. He implements them according to clear principles, the different possibilities of which he experiments with, the system interesting him at least as much as its result. As singular as it claims to be, Knut Navrot’s approach is not isolated: it is perfectly in line with the 1930 manifesto of concrete art and the ideas of Theo van Doesburg, as well as the statements of Ad Reinhardt.”
Serge Lemoine, excerpt from the introduction to the monograph published for the exhibition, Paris, 2008
Artist exhibited :
Knut Navrot.
Guy de Lussigny : parcours italien
20 November 2010 – 8 January 2011
“A mystery reigns around Guy de Lussigny’s paintings. Like the whispered testimony of an inner adventure, almost a mystical experience. He only needs to decline the simplest geometric form – the square – and play on the most imperceptible chromatic oppositions, to expand his pictorial works, to raise them to the rank of a true universe, where it is less a question of picking, of seeking happiness elsewhere, than of meditating, of finding oneself”.
Frédéric Vitoux, of the Académie Française, who was a great friend of Guy de Lussigny, wrote this text on the occasion of our 2007 exhibition.
Guy de Lussigny’s painting, sober and precise, is of great poetry. In 1996, the Institut de France, Académie des Beaux-Arts awarded him the Dumas-Millier Prize.
His works are present in the public collections of many museums: Valenciennes, Montbelliard, Mâcon, the Calderara Foundation, the Fnac, the Frac Ile de France, the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort (NL), the Tavet Museum in Pontoise, the Matisse Museum in Câteau-Cambrésis, and especially at the Cambrai Museum with 119 works from the donation of André Le Bozec, a great collector and patron. Parcours italien presents paintings on wood as well as gouaches and watercolors on paper made between 1975 and 1985, years during which Lussigny made many trips to Italy and became friends with Antonio Calderara. Our exhibition takes place in parallel with the major retrospective that the Cambrai Museum is showing him with its exhibition ‘Color through time’ Retrospective 1952-2001 from October 23, 2010 to February 6, 2011.
Artist exhibited :
Guy de Lussigny.
