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Carlos Tardez - Juguete, 2020 - h 81 x 60 cm, Oil on canvas - Luchador, H 17 x 6 x 11 cm, Polychrome resin
Absence and emptiness are revealing in Carlos Tardez's painting. The Rhinoceros, isolated on the canvas, lost in this childish yellow, seems to be unaware of the risks that weigh on its species. Whether it is the artist grimly dressed as a fighter, or the assailant whose sight is blocked by a euro, Carlos Tardez's sculptures call out by their irony and derision.
Fernando Suarez Reguera - Dentro Fuera , 2020 - h 34 x 30 x 27 cm Bronze
Fernando Suarez Reguera sculpts and forges iron and bronze, creating works that place man in his environment.
He is a muscular man, in combat, who is confronted with climate change, species in the process of disappearing... Fernando's work is full of optimism, an awakening of consciousness that can be found in this neighborhood of suspended houses borrowed from faraway Asia.
Yosman Botero - Mine 47 (détail) , 2020 - h 28 x 28 x 23 cm Wood, polystyrene, acrylic, leds, black plexiglass
A Colombian emigrant to Spain, Yosman Botero's work is considered political art. The artist uses subterfuge with finesse to unveil colonised nature. It is through a play of mirrors that the rails of the wagons flee indefinitely, revealing the cavity of a mining operation. This vanishing point underlines the incessant exploitation of the strongest and the seizure of power over natural resources.
Boris Jean - Drone III , 2020 - h 97 x 162 cm Miniatures, and spray painting on canvas
Samuel di Blasi - Ovum (scale model) , 2020 - h 13 x14 x 14 cm Bronze, ciment
Like Haruki Murakami (1Q84), Boris Jean imagines two moons in the sky. Could they be two worlds superimposed? The reality that takes the form of small architectures, made of recycled materials, and the reality of his vision in warm and comforting hues. The two worlds seem to cohabit. If the use of LP vinyls appeals to the nostalgic, it also refers to this consumerist period.
Samuel di Blasi's works elaborate an architecture of harmony between man and nature. What is invisible, absent, is transcended by the work of light. Emptiness is no longer a source of anxiety, it creates a space for contemplation, for dreaming, where natural material is erected like an open cocoon.
Mireille Robbe - Agitation alignée, 2020 - h 30x22 cm Ink, beewax, gold powder on paper - Anthracologie 8, Charcoal and pencil on paper H 30 x 23 cm
Views of "For a better world, collective exhibition"
F O R  A  B E T T E R  W O R L D
C O L L E C T I V E  S H O W

September 30th 2020 - January 30th 2021

 

54, RUE JACOB

75006 - PARIS

The exhibition "For a better world" at the Galerie Géraldine Banier highlights the artist's relationship with the universe around him. Sensitive to the evolution of our world, to the natural, geopolitical and psychological consequences of this evolution, six artists - Samuel di Blasi (Italy), Yosman Botero (Colombia-Spain), Boris Jean (France), Mireille Robbe (Belgium), Fernando Suarez Reguera (Spain) and Carlos Tardez (Spain) - transmit their perception through matter. Here, the artist is no longer isolated in his studio.
 
Utopian, dystopian or real visions. The works of these six artists from different backgrounds and cultures all have one thing in common: nature.
 
Like an alchemist, Mireille Robbe, creates a relationship between the modifications undergone by nature and those of man in the quest for an aligned consciousness. The titles of the works are as many clues to immerse oneself in these delicate works where Mireille microscopically has extracted the DNA of a philosophy of nature.