Galerie Charron

Cedwin Parker (Cy) Twombly Jr. American painter, sculptor and photographer born in Lexington, Virginia was introduced to drawing and painting by the Spanish painter Pierre Daura. He moved to New York at the beginning of the 1950’s to study at the Art Students League where he met artist Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008), who encouraged him to join the Black Mountain College, at the peak of his influence. Inspired by the professors and other students of these two establishments, the first works of Twombly rely on a gestural abstraction, similar to the work of Franz Kline (American, 1910-1962), but he quickly developed a style similar to graffiti, full of literary references. In 1957, after having roamed Europe, carried out a transition in the army and lived briefly in New York, Twombly finally settled in Italy. He became known thanks to his big paintings of scribble graffiti, which blur the line between drawing and painting, even though he also created a number of sculptures often referencing to mythology. It is difficult for the honest man to analyze and comment on the work of this great artist, who seems to be attached neither to a school nor to a movement. It is made up of pictograms, marks, figures, words, colours, doodles, and, under the apparent impulsiveness, complex. The artist multiplies, sign of his great culture, mythological, symbolic and historical references. Richard Leeman gives keys to decipher the work in Cy Twombly. Painting, drawing, writing. Eric Mézin, the head of the Lambert collection, said that "he was at the level of Matisse. The Moderna Museet in Stockholm will be presenting an exhibition entitled "JMW Turner, Claude Monet and Cy Twombly" in collaboration with the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Tate Liverpool in autumn. It is stated in the introduction that "these are three of the greatest painters of these Last 150 years »

Mickael Doucet's paintings present the interiors of contemporary villas temporarily emptied of their inhabitants. Objects left behind here and there, somewhat enigmatic, lead the viewer into a story drawn from his own imagination. The juxtapositions of present-day images and fictional representations encourage the viewer to withdraw into the in-between. The viewer is thus plunged halfway between the past and the future, both narratively and pictorially. The pictorial harmony of each canvas reveals both contemporary phases with its design objects and ancient phases through its landscapes influenced by the Flemish painters. This strange perception accentuated by the work of perspective, fullness and emptiness magnified by his swimming pools against the background of David Hockney reinforces the feeling of alienation that we feel when facing his works. Mickael Doucet's works shake up the certainties of those who see them. The selection of Mickael Doucet's paintings presented by the Galerie Charron establishes bridges between eras, so as to interloquer the spectator and put him face to face with his responsibilities in the world of today and the construction of tomorrow's world. Mickael Doucet, French artist born in 1974, is represented in Germany by Galerie Charron.

Alexandre Bour, sculptor and visual artist, born in 1975 and graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d'architecture de Nancy, uses wire to create awesome aerial figures such as Frida Khalo, David, the girl with the pearl... or characters from his imagination. Transparent and yet inhabited, his silhouettes in volume are light, weightless and enhanced by the play of light and shadow, accentuating the delicacy of each unique piece, thus breathing life and soul into his sculptures. His artistic work is of great meticulousness, passing through the constraining and reciprocal influence of the technique and the design envisaged. Sculpture is thus conceived in terms of structure, while the production of his sketches is thought out in volume, so as to perfect the complex result of a flawless lighting projection. Each unique artwork thus projects several shadows according to the defined angle and gives the impression of having been drawn on the wall as if by magic!

Les Allégories de Lussou, French sculptor born in 1963 - If the soul had a face, perhaps it would be that of the artist's Allegories. The ascending line is Lussou's privileged language to express the impulses that carry us, to raise what is deepest in us, what is most secret. Lussou stretches curves and bodies, plays with still movement and invents a new balance. Her works captivate and capture those who look at them. The intention is deliberately focused on the expression of faces, both meditative and receptive. Hieratic, they are accessible to all peoples, all civilisations. Because of their diversity, the Allegories share a simply universal interiority. Through these characters, Lussou listens to History, like a novelist, she draws her inspiration from her experiences related to cinema, theatre and opera where she worked for many years. Each work is a novel character who tells her story, her legends...

After following courses at an arts and crafts school in Lyon and drawing courses at the Beaux Arts in Lyon in the 1970s Bruno Bossut founded the SIMILI company in 1983, which produced replicas of old Volkswagen Beetles from composite material. In 2005 he started working on artistic forms for contemporary artists such as Bertrand Lavier, Etienne Bossut, Sylvie Fleury,... This know-how, recognised by artists, institutions and collectors, has enabled him to continue to create works known among others for Bertand Lavier Production Walt Disney, the Venus of Amiens at the Palais de Tokyo, the Portal of the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation in Arles, the Fountain with 107 watering cans for the MOCO in Montpellier. But Bruno Bossut is bursting with ideas and energy and does not stop creating his own pieces through moulding, painting and sculpture. His common thread, the one that animates him every day, he calls it: "sculpting painting".

Originating from Thessaloniki, Greece, born in 1983, Komili is a graduate of the École Supérieure de l'Image (DNAP) and has a Master's degree in Museology (with honours) from the Université Jean Moulin 3 in Lyon.. « Landscapes with absent figures » : these are the words of Jaccottet that resonate when one poses his eyes on a painting by Komili, and finds thus himself absorbed by the silent music of her places, that appear familiar, though strange. These urban landscapes, on the fringe between mineral and vegetal, almost always empty of all human trace, are neither « still lives » nor « still alives », not even something in between -or they would be dying. On the contrary, they vibrate from hidden presences, momentaneous absences, spaces that emerge from the stillness, finally freed of any noisy presence, amusing themselves with the secrets that the shadows form in the corners of the colours. Landscapes with absent figures, to which nothing is missing because they are simultaneously full and empty : full of their blasts of light, their forms, matters and own structures, empty of what is maybe hidden round the corner of their horizons, empty of their partly unveiled perspectives. Komili's paintings are open windows to places that seem caught by surprise in an unvoluntary photography, and thus showing more than what they still conceal. -- Blondine Desbiolles -P.H.D. In Philosophy, passage from a text on the painter Komili, 2018

Helder Batista is a self-taught artist who works in both sculpture and painting. He was born in 1964 in Paris where he attended evening classes at the Beaux Arts. Multidisciplinary artist, he apprehends different materials and different supports such as resin, inclusions, concrete, wood, neon, oil painting. His artistic work is often ambiguous and symbolic, he starts from the premise that "Art is a freedom of expression of which only the Artist limits the boundaries". To this day, he is always challenged by painting, that allows him to revitalize himself in its simplicity. His paintings are based on abstract impressionism. He tries to represent things as simply as possible without frills or excesses, in order to allow people to project their own ideas and their own vision through his work.

László Lakner, born in 1936 in Budapest, Hungary, is a multidisciplinary artist who experiments, among other things, with writing and photography as a medium for self-expression and critical examination of social conflicts. A fundamentally multidisciplinary character, painter, photographer but also conceptual artist, László Lakner was born in Budapest in 1936. Trained in Hungary, he obtained a scholarship from the Folkwang Museum to study in Germany. In 1974, he obtained the definitive right to emigrate to West Berlin. The social conflicts in Eastern Europe and the multiplication of artistic mediums gradually lead him towards realism. From this, he will derive his pictorial virtuosity, referring to figures from the history of art, and at the same time develop his critical stance. Writing and literature are among his favourite themes: he interprets and transcribes the writer's gesture in his painting, drawing his inspiration from written historical documents, such as letters, wills or telegrams. For László Lakner, the written word thus becomes an expression of his own personality. In 1974 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he became famous as an artist and art teacher. The loss of his friend Paul Celan was a personal drama and he discovered graffiti. These factors influence his art, his paintings are in increasingly daring formats, on which he inscribes what appear to be watchwords. He also produces many posters, a field in which he is still active today. In the 1980s, he turned again to sculpture and photography. Recognized throughout the world, he participated three times in the Venice Biennale (1972 - 1976 - 1990) and was invited to the Documenta in Kassel in 1977. In 1998, the Hungarian government awarded him the Kossuth Prize, the country's final prize. - Collection in museums : Germany: Museum Ludwig, Aachen / Nationalgalerie, Berlin / Berlinische Galerie, Berlin / Paula Modersohn-Becker Stiftung, Bremen / Museum Folkwang, Essen / Sammlung der Universität Freiburg im Breisgau / Museum Ludwig, Köln / Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal / Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, ab 2010 Kunsthalle, Bremen - Netherlands : Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam / Poland : Museum der modernen Kunst, Łódź / Hungary : Ungarische Nationalgalerie, Budapest / Museum der Schönen Künste, Budapest / Ludwig-Museum, Budapest / Petöfi-Literatur-Museum, Budapest / Kiscelli-Museum, Budapest / Xántus János Museum, Győr Városi Müvészeti Museum, Győr Hatvany Lajos Museum, Hatvan Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs / Vasarely Museum, Pécs / Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár / Szombathelyi Képtar, Szombathely England : Victoria and Albert Museum, London / Italy : Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizien), Florenz / Japan : Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.