Fanal: regard sur 35 ans d’éditions
6 December 2012 – 8 January 2013
Since their creation in 1978, fanal editions have put their internationally recognized know-how at the service of constructed/concrete art – a rigorous expression constantly renewed that makes the search for pure and universal forms its credo.
Located in a former paper mill in Basel, fanal has allowed many artists – 77 to date – to work in close collaboration with screen printers or engravers in a calm and warm atmosphere and thus explore the possibilities offered by the medium.
You will discover a selection of selected works.
Jacques et Adrien Dirand: kund “les temples de l’eau”
8 November – 4 December 2012
Descend the stepwells into a profound world of myth, philosophy, belief and beauty.
Walk down in the sweet shade to the clear, dark water it provides, and emerge – refreshed.
Artists exhibited :
Jacques and Adrien Dirand.
Alan Reynolds: reliefs, dessins & bois gravés
29 September – 6 November 2012
Artist exhibited :
Alan Reynolds.
noirs et blancs
7 June – 17 July 2012
Artists exhibited :
Emanuelle Amsellem, Robert Currie, Norman Dilworth, Eve Gamatzki, René Guiffrey, Krochka, Antoine de Margerie, Denise Lioté, Pietro Lista, Guy de Lussigny, Knut Navrot, Go Segawa, Friedhelm Tschentscher, Marie-Thérèse Vacossin, Victor Vasarely, Vera Röhm, Irène Zack.
Béatrice Casadesus: ocellures
3 May – 5 June 2012
Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink and look at it. What you see was not there at the beginning, and what was there is no more. Who renews it if the one who made it continually dies
This quote from Leonardo da Vinci illustrates the relationship that from the beginning, my work has had with light and its transience. The sun that filters through the stained glass windows of a church spreads a multitude of spots in space. Colorful and moving, like the eyespots that adorn the wings of butterflies, the spots disappear or appear according to the changing light
The reverie on this subtle play is at the heart of my work, like a distant echo of the pointillist color of Georges Seurat
I strive through the point, the spot, to transcribe the evanescence of the colored vibration that light transforms by sliding over everything. The transparent or opaque support – painting, spatial device, sculpture, poem – captures the colored imprint to refer to space, its infinite metamorphosis.
Béatrice Casadesus
Artist exhibited :
Béatrice Casadesus.
Eve Gramatzki (1935-2003): dessins
22 March – 1 May 2012
The spirit breathed into inert matter, this is what Eve Gramatzki sought to achieve with her chalks, her watercolors and her hard graphite pencils. When she patiently traces her lines, she incises, makes them color, she involves the grain of the paper, she associates herself with the tiny tremors of light. She left the regime of colors and shapes for that of texture and gesture. The undercoats of colors that fix random punctuations on the surfaces, the colored pencils that come to terms with the delicate tonality of a gouache surface, the irregular rubbing of a white chalk to dissolve the tones in a pictorial alchemy create harmonic reciprocities on which the fullness of the work depends.
Anne Tronche, extract from the source of the echo in retrospective cat. ‘Eve Gramatzki’, Musée Fabre – Montpellier, 2009
Artist exhibited :
Eve Gramatzki.
madé: blanc, rouge et noir
16 February – 20 March 2012
It is the approach mode, the gaze and gestures of the visitor that suddenly reveal a certain way of being of the work. Which will probably not be reproduced in the extreme identical.
The perspective games are an integral part of the work here. They reach and directly begin the existence of these colored modules that evolve in the manner of a musical piece.
Colors in perspective. Sawtooth. In promontories.
Making folds or closing in on each other. Adding. Superimposing. Black. Pure white.
Colors eaten, animated by shadows.
Crossings of lights. Color and geometry are the two key words of madé’s work.
Florence de Mèredieu, excerpt from: madé – la couleur en perspective, 2011
Artist exhibited :
madé.
José Heerkens : de retour de chez Albers
12 January – 14 February 2012
We present to you a selection of paintings by the Dutch José Heerkens painted during his residency at the Josef and Annie Albers Foundation in Bethany, USA.
Artist exhibited :
José Heerkens.
artistes de la galerie: œuvres sur papier et multiples
10 December 2011 – 10 January 2012
The gallery presents works by Norman Dilworth, Günter Fruhtrunk, Eve Gramatzki, René Guiffrey, Hans Hartung, José Heerkens, André Heurtaux, Krochka, Denise Lioté, Guy de Lussigny, Jacques Mandelbrojt, Antoine de Margerie, Knut Navrot, Jacques Pourcher, Karin Radoy, Alan Reynolds, Daniel de Spirt, Nicolas de Staël, Klaus Staudt, Marie-Thérèse Vacossin, Victor Vasarely, Léon Zack
as well as a rug by Hans Hartung, a pair of swan chairs by Arne Jacobsen, a bar table by Rastad Og Relling, BRNO armchairs by Mies van der Rohe, coffee tables by Charles Ramos and lighting by Gae Aulenti.
