Stand J2

With the artists :
Gregory Forstner
Tom Barbagli
Anne-Laure Wuillai
Florian Pugnaire

For the 2024 edition of Art Paris, Eva Vautier presents a selection of four French artists with a clear focus on volumes, while continuing her work tracking an artist who is essential to contemporary painting. Gregory Forstner and his dog-like figures drawn from a giant, imaginary tarot deck, showcase his delirious, virtuoso take on the masters of ancient painting in a monumental format. The mysteries of this game where human and animal meet are an introduction to the forms present in this space, both reassuring and disquieting:

At the heart ofAnne-Laure WuillaiUsing seawater samples, grains of sand, stones, seaweed and a host of other organic elements, she recomposes biotopes to create a boxed nature that echoes the elements of our natural environment. Tom Barbagliwho develops micro-universes where the mechanics of forces and the search for movement operate in works that are surprisingly lapidary and imposing. This impression of contemporary totems in tension, where pagan and sacred meet, is also present in Florian Pugnaire's work. Made of strapped sheet metal and crumpled metal, his pieces play on the codes of sculpture, responding to a hybridization in which natural light rests on synthetic materials.

Works that are visual and conceptual games, and the culmination of a commentary on our world and the ambiguous relationship we have with a certain blurring of boundaries and reference points: where nature becomes synthetic and the synthetic becomes natural.

Camille Frasca, art historian