Variations

About

This exhibition is the result of a contingency: with the health crisis declared, we had to postpone the solo shows of Hannah Waldron, Lisa Mouchet and Sabine Finkenauer. How can we invent an answer in such a short time? How do you take the risk of another cancellation? To carry on our desire and our mission defending the work of artists, quite badly hit and hardly helped in the current times.

We have decided to invite artists to lend us some of their works. Either hand delivered, for those who live in the region, or by sending them over if they were unable to get to us in person. So that’s for the backstage of this exhibition, but if these circumstances’ restrictions have governed the modus operandi, they don’t say much about what we are given to see: paintings and drawings. Playful works, which have the simple gesture’s obviousness and requirements, and that present themselves to us with lightness, in these burdensome times.

Thus, these Variations are the sign of a shift, but above all they are pictorial: like musicians who make variations a process that allows them to revolve around a melody, a theme, to explore it and transform it by successive hits, the six invited artists offer us here fragments of series, or entire series. What they have in common is a taste for the repetition of a gesture, a figure, an image. The result is a series of diptychs, triptychs, and sets of ten or twenty drawings that stretch out a movement and together form a story made of lines and color.