DRAWING NOW ART FAIR
Salon du dessin contemporain
Ben Vautier artiste en focus
Gregory Forstner, Natacha Lesueur, Gérald Panighi, François Paris et Julien Beneyton artiste invité
Du 28 au 31 mars 2019
Le Carreau du temple ,Paris
DRAWING NOW ART FAIR
Ben Vautier artist in focus
Gregory Forstner, Natacha Lesueur, Gérald Panighi, François Paris and Julien Beneyton guest artist
Eva Vautier Gallery, STAND C13, Drawing Now Art Fair, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
For this new participation in the Drawing Now fair, the Eva Vautier Gallery presents the drawings of Ben Vautier, Gregory Forstner, Natacha Lesueur, Gérald Panighi, François Paris and Julien Beneyton guest artist.
The focus of the stand is dedicated to Ben Vautier, with a selection of rare and historical drawings, others recent, constituting a set of writings and aphorisms on paper. Since 1958, Ben has been weaving bridges between art and life through his writing, painting and drawing. The supports he uses, at first signs and posters, then canvases and black papers, affirm the pictorial character of his current drawings: handwritten writings with white correction pen on a black background. With a proclamatory and provocative tone, his drawings unroll the thread of his thought, putting in scene his “me”, his ego, his self-criticisms, questionings and affirmations on the life.
Gregory Forstner exhibits a series of charcoal drawings, distinguished by his vivid and expressive pictorial gesture. Gentlemen with skulls, pigs or dogs, recurring figures in the iconographic repertoire of the artist, compose a strange universe full of allegories.
Natacha Lesueur’s hyper-realistic, meticulous graphite drawings inspired by her photographic practice are new and made specifically for this edition of Drawing Now 2019.
Gérald Panighi, revealed last year by his “cloud”, proposes a composition of new drawings, always navigating between a carefully neglected imagery and small sentences of the everyday life, which by their assembly, provoke a grating humor.
François Paris’s drawings often evoke the body or the mechanics, the faces are absent, the glances refuse the blinding light of the world. Their language, borrowed from photography and cinema, constitutes an elliptical narrative.
Finally, on the occasion of this Drawing Now 2019 edition, the Eva Vautier Gallery invites the artist Julien Beneyton, who presents two drawings, meticulous restitutions of an immediate and daily environment: working-class neighborhoods and markets, inhabitants and their moods, as the “testimony of an era.”
For this new participation to the Drawing Now fair, Galerie Eva Vautier presents drawings by Ben Vautier, Gregory Forstner, Natacha Lesueur, Gérald Panighi, François Paris and Julien Beneyton as a guest artist. The focus of the stand is dedicated to Ben Vautier, with a selection of rare and historical drawings, others are recent, creating a collection of writings and aphorisms on paper. Since 1958, Ben has been spinning, through handwriting, painted or drawn, bridges between art and life. The basis he has been using, some boards and posters at the beginning, then black canvases and papers, affirm the pictorial characteristic of his current drawings: handwritten with a white out pen over a black background. In a declaratory and provoking tone, his drawings open the flow of his stream of thoughts, staging his “Me”, his ego, his self-criticism, questionings and assertions on life. Gregory Forstner shows a series of charcoal drawings, distinguished by his sharp and expressive pictorial gesture. Gentlemen with their heads as a skull, that of a pig or a dog, recurring figures of the artist’s iconographic repertoire, compose a strange universe marked with allegories.
The drawings of Natacha Lesueur, are hyper realistic, meticulous renditions in graphite, inspired by her photographic practice, they are new and especially made for Drawing Now 2019.
Gérald Panighi, revealed last year with his “cloud”, proposes a composition of new drawings, still navigating between a carefully neglected imaging and some short daily life sentences, which, put together, trigger biting humor.
The drawings of François Paris often evoke the body or mechanics, the faces are missing, the gazes reject the blinding light of the world. Their language, a borrowing from photography and cinema, creates an elliptic tale.
Finally, for this edition of Drawing Now 2019, the Galerie Eva Vautier invites the artist Julien Beneyton, who presents two drawings, meticulous renditions of an immediate and daily environment: working-class areas and markets, the inhabitants and their moods, like the “account of a time.”
Ben Vautier, Sometimes art makes me cry, 2019
Pastels on paper, 65 x 50 cm
Ben Vautier, Time stronger than art, 2019
White correction pen on paper, 21 x 30 cm
Gerald Panighi, He sleeps at his parents’ house during the week, 2018
Mixed media on paper, 70.5 x 50 cm
Gerald Panighi, I’m scared when the phone rings, 2018
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, 49 x 35.5 cm
Gregory Forstner, Untitled, 2019
Charcoal on paper, 180 x 150 cm
Natacha Lesueur, A Room of Your Own 1, 2019
Graphite pencil on photographic print, 53 x 37 cm
Francois Paris, Of the ancient absent gaze, 2019
Graphite drawing on Arches paper, 36 x 26 cm
Julien Beneyton, BEAU RIVAGE, BANDOL, 2015
Acrylic on paper, 55 x 55 cm
Courtesy & Copyright Julien Beneyton