For this new participation in the Drawing Now fair, Galerie Eva Vautier presents drawings by Ben Vautier, Gregory Forstner, Natacha Lesueur, Gérald Panighi,…
For this new participation in the Drawing Now fair, Galerie Eva Vautier presents drawings by Ben Vautier, Gregory Forstner, Natacha Lesueur, Gérald Panighi, François Paris and guest artist Julien Beneyton. The focus of the stand is on Ben Vautier, with a selection of rare and historical drawings alongside recent ones, forming a body of writings and aphorisms on paper. Since 1958, Ben has woven bridges between art and life through writing, painted or drawn. The supports he uses, initially signboards and posters, then black canvases and papers, affirm the painterly character of his current drawings: handwritten texts in white correction fluid on a black background. In a proclamatory and provocative tone, his drawings unfold the thread of his thinking, staging his « moi », his ego, his self-criticism, questions and assertions about life. Gregory Forstner shows a series of charcoal drawings, distinguished by his lively and expressive painterly gesture. Gentlemen with the heads of a skull, a pig or a dog, recurring figures of the artist’s iconographic repertoire, compose a strange universe full of allegories. The hyper-realistic drawings by Natacha Lesueur, meticulous renditions in graphite pencil inspired by her photographic practice, are unseen and made specifically for this Drawing Now 2019 edition. Gérald Panighi, who was revealed last year through his « nuage », presents a composition of new drawings, still moving between carefully neglected imagery and short everyday sentences which, once assembled, provoke a grating humour. François Paris’s drawings often evoke the body or machinery; faces are absent, and the gazes refuse the blinding light of the world. Their language, borrowed from photography and cinema, creates an elliptical narrative. Finally, for this Drawing Now 2019 edition, Galerie Eva Vautier invites the artist Julien Beneyton, who presents two drawings, meticulous renditions of an immediate, everyday environment: working-class neighbourhoods and markets, the inhabitants and their moods, like the « témoignage d’une époque ». 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…
