Crèvecœur is pleased to present a summer exhibition in the central café of Montesquiou, a charming village perched on a hill in the southwest of France, facing the Pyrenees. ‘Café Crèvecœur’ is set in a specific venue, echoing the significance of the “café” or “bistro” in the history of art and the collective imagination of the artists.
Opening on July 5th
With works by Martine Bedin, Anne Bourse, Sol Calero,
Julien Carreyn, Luigi Ghirri, Alain Guiraudie,
Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Nino Kapanadze, Tomasz Kowalski, Wolfgang Matuschek, Fuyumi Murata, Ron Nagle, Yu Nishimura, Jessi Reaves, Louise Sartor, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Barbara Wesołowska
Shana Moulton, Meta/Physical Therapy, 2023
Video, 14’54’’ (excerpt), Edition of 5 + 2AP
Courtesy of the artiste and Crèvecœur, Paris.
Through performance, video, and sculpture, Moulton chronicles the experiences of her semi-autobiographical alter-ego, Cynthia, as she navigates personal choices and physical limitations. The video employs the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery, medical technology, popular culture, and references to high art and dollar-store kitsch. An extension of Moulton’s Whispering Pines series, which began in 2002, the project continues the artist’s incisive examination of the aesthetics of pain and healing and the mass marketing of wellness, and explores the maladies of middle age.
The depiction of time, as it passes, as it wounds, as it changes the course of an existence, as it marks an era or else as it stretches out unendingly, has never been easy in art. Generally, too fleeting, the many attempts to represent it by painters like Claude Monet remain approximate and, today, only time-based media seem suited to accompanying artists in this quest. Yet, in the early 2020s, it was by using figurative painting that Jonny Negron gave form to what he calls “temporal sequences”. And his way of painting figures could not be clearer, more accessible and thus generous. Principally, this artist sets human figures in contemporary atmospheres, handling or holding everyday objects, cultivating a certain obsession with materialism. They obey an archetypal vision of humanity, which is seemingly simple and close to standard. There are also young, tall athletic men who all look alike, voluptuous women with large eyes and artfully, though rather excessively, painted nails. The generosity and precision of the lines, the simplicity of the contours and an ease of appreciation characterise his pictorial work. While not attempting to depict complex personalities or moods, he employs a figuration which is seemingly naive to convey cryptic messages, which transcend an initially simplistic impression.
📸 Jonny Negron, La Vision del Pan, exhibition views, Crèvecœur, Paris.
Courtesy of Crèvecœur, Paris and Châtteau Shatto, Los Angeles.
Photo: Martin Argyroglo.
For Crèvecœur’s debut in the Art Basel galleries sector, Sol Calero presents a site-specific installation of ceramic mosaics embedded with vibrant paintings, resonating with her Venetian pavilion and exploring abstract tropicalism.
📸 Sol Calero, La ventana del pabellón, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 150 × 120 × 4,5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecœur, Paris.
Ongoing fresco painting by Nino Kapanadze at @societadelleapi 🩵 — The fresco painting is depicting late springtime woods where two trees, not at the exactly central part of the composition, cross and represent a sign X only through certain viewing point, without ever actually touching each other. This image is materialising an instant of this viewing point which otherwise lacks to be drawn at the three dimensional coordinate system. Making the illusion real. —
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Nino Kapanadze, X, 2024
Fresco (Buon Fresco), 555 x 367 cm
at Le Moulin des Ribes, Grasse, France
Technical assistant: Marius Allier
Photo: Nino Kapanadze
We are pleased to announce our participation in Art Basel Basel with new works by Martine Bedin, Sol Calero, Shana Moulton, Yu Nishimura & Louise Sartor.
June 11-16, 2024
Booth R26
📸 Louise Sartor, 13€, 10 £, 42.50 HK$, 5000 ₩, 3,50$ and 100¥ + cards, 2024
Oil on cardboard, 16 x 39,5 cm (unfolded)
Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecœur, Paris.
Jonny Negron
La Vision del Pan
Opening on June 5
6-9pm
9 rue des Cascades, 75020
💜 Jonny Negron, Mother and Child, 2024, acrylic on linen, 162.6 × 142.2 cm (detail).
Courtesy of the artist, Crèvecœur, Paris and Château Shatto. Photo: Ed Mumford.
Yu Nishimura
Sleep Walk
Opening on Wednesday, May 29
at @arch.athens
Yu Nishimura, Spring far behind, 2024
Oil on canvas, 227.3 x 162 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecoeur, Paris.
