Femme, je vous aime
Contemporary urban art
June 5th to August 31st, 2019
Contemporary urban art
June 5th to August 31st, 2019
What representations for the woman of today?
In a world of continual evolution where morals, the notion of gender, roles and fantasies are changing, only certain classics seem frozen and among them the interest in women. Between object of desire, source of inspiration, pillar of the family or subject of controversy and debates as well political, societal, sociological, religious, the look on the woman has also adapted to his time.
The creations of male and female artists offer us a glimpse of the plurality of responses and looks that each genre brings to it. From the perfectly sensual curve evoking a certain immutable purity and a carnal obsession of Florent Boisard, with naughty poses and joyful of a happy woman in a moment of letting go at Zalez, passing by the icon adulated almost forgotten at Joachim Romain, it is in the contrast of emotions that it appears in JM Robert.
As for the female element of the exhibition, the sculptor Soria Jordi, fits her, in a vision anchored in the history of our cultures, recalling the unifying role of the woman, always in search of a balance. Passionately sentimental Soria Jordi gives us the testimony of the universal and plural woman # 2 – JM ROBERT / JOACHIM ROMAIN / ZALEZ “Beautiful perhaps”
June 13 to August 31
JOACHIM ROMAIN is immersed in art from the earliest childhood, growing up in a house where the walls were filled with classic or contemporary paintings. He discovered other artistic forms such as photography when he was offered his first camera at the age of fifteen and different universes like that of graffiti when he arrived in Paris at the age of eighteen. The direct environment in which he lives in his hometown fascinates him and his first series will be strongly inspired by themes of wear and urban typography (urban typo). After passing through the printing press, his work is strongly influenced by the advertising world through the basics of typography and models, and he may have developed a certain penchant for the use of paper. He creates portraits through advertising posters, thus questioning the life cycle of the latter. He works on the basis of photographs that he tears, cuts or burns, transforming them into unique works that sometimes take the form of sculpture. He combines his fascination with photographic portraiture and his attraction for urban clichés to create portraits of men, artistic, political or advertising icons that have been put to the test of time and urban life. For the event Femme I love you, he gives us portraits of feminine icons, fragmented and reborn as a souvenir asking the question of beauty and time.
JM ROBERT starts painting at a very young age, imitating the effects of patina, dirt and degradation he observes on the facades of buildings .. After completing studies in the Arts Métiers he is gradually inspired by Pop Art, Street Art, he found his style 4 years ago. He draws subtle and sophisticated female faces in a stencil on abstract backgrounds that take on the effects of urban walls. His very flashy color palette contrasts with the blackness of the graphic design, in which he captures this particular expression of the feminine faces he draws on his collages and canvases. Fascinated by the deteriorated walls of the house, he wishes to give his painting a contemporary language such as that which expresses itself on the walls of our cities and captures the strong, brief and striking presence of a female look or face that bears witness of an era. “What I am trying to produce is an” effect of reality “, the reality of a presence, necessarily random. My canvases are all portraits and portraits of women, except that for me it seems possible to reproduce a face in all its aspects, in the variety of its forms, I only mention it “. The anonymous female portraits then crystallize unique emotions revealing the figure of a contrasted being that fades and disappears sometimes in the matter.
ZALEZ Street graffiti artist and stencil originated in Toulouse, he gravitates during his studies around design, architecture and fine arts. Primarily working in the art of color drawing, the artist also experimented with stencil, ink, acrylic paint and sculpture. In the perpetual search for feminine identity, he creates works that are both provocative and sensitive. It conveys through the positions and nudity of the subject, a contemporary vision of the body of the woman. This intimate vision of the woman’s body is interpreted as personal and societal taboos. Posing his work
