Andriu Deplazes: Plaines en jach猫re
Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Andriu Deplazes (*1993 in Zurich; lives and works in Marseille since 2018) in Paris. This is his third exhibition with the gallery. It comprises around thirty works and is an opportunity for Deplazes to expand his formal and conceptual approach to painting. By dealing with various media with which he is familiar, such as painting, drawing, and monotype, he demonstrates great maturity for his age and a clear sense and awareness of the application of style. Established mannerisms from the parallelism and symbolism of Ferdinand Hodler to the rebellious aesthetics of Pierre Bonnard, K盲the Kollwitz, and, more recently, Willem de Kooning and Nancy Spero; are translated into a contemporary visual language that prioritizes the fluorescent colors often used by the artist.
The exhibition Plaines en jach猫re puts a spotlight on complex themes such as death, war, excessive agriculture, intra-family interactions, life 鈥� which, in the artist's view continues even when resources are lacking - nature that we must preserve, that gives us life but can also take it away from us.
Deplazes' works are about the energy of confrontation: we show what repels us by repeatedly challenging the viewer with a warning look. In fact, social realities are reconstructed using purely visual means: his animated bodies unfold more than characters. Deplazes maintains a performative relationship with the canvas in which expressionism highlights the fragility of all things and in which, paradoxically, delicate lines serve to represent the violence of a situation. The focus of the work is the flow that connects the different image typologies (portrait, landscape, genre scene). This irregular flow sometimes condenses at strategic points, producing bursts of vitality that manifest themselves in the form of dynamic outcroppings: magmatic clumps at the joints of bodies or between the steep folds of barren plains.
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Andriu Deplazes (*1993 in Zurich; lives and works in Marseille since 2018) in Paris. This is his third exhibition with the gallery. It comprises around thirty works and is an opportunity for Deplazes to expand his formal and conceptual approach to painting. By dealing with various media with which he is familiar, such as painting, drawing, and monotype, he demonstrates great maturity for his age and a clear sense and awareness of the application of style. Established mannerisms from the parallelism and symbolism of Ferdinand Hodler to the rebellious aesthetics of Pierre Bonnard, K盲the Kollwitz, and, more recently, Willem de Kooning and Nancy Spero; are translated into a contemporary visual language that prioritizes the fluorescent colors often used by the artist.
The exhibition Plaines en jach猫re puts a spotlight on complex themes such as death, war, excessive agriculture, intra-family interactions, life 鈥� which, in the artist's view continues even when resources are lacking - nature that we must preserve, that gives us life but can also take it away from us.
Deplazes' works are about the energy of confrontation: we show what repels us by repeatedly challenging the viewer with a warning look. In fact, social realities are reconstructed using purely visual means: his animated bodies unfold more than characters. Deplazes maintains a performative relationship with the canvas in which expressionism highlights the fragility of all things and in which, paradoxically, delicate lines serve to represent the violence of a situation. The focus of the work is the flow that connects the different image typologies (portrait, landscape, genre scene). This irregular flow sometimes condenses at strategic points, producing bursts of vitality that manifest themselves in the form of dynamic outcroppings: magmatic clumps at the joints of bodies or between the steep folds of barren plains.
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