Summer show: Le Pli
"It is possible that the question of painting is only the question of the fold," wrote Simon Hanta茂, whose work explored the potential of folding with a fertile radicality.
As a dense year draws to a close, Ceysson & B茅n茅ti猫re dedicates the summer exhibition of its Paris gallery to this notion鈥攁t once visual, conceptual, and poetic: the fold, and by extension, the drape. Ten artists of different generations have been brought together to reflect the extraordinary polysemy of this ancestral motif.
A portion of material folded back on itself, creating a ripple or a trace, the fabric fold appears as a visual trap that structures the composition of a work. At times a support, at times a material, it also becomes a pretext for formal exploration, allowing the artist to display virtuosity through the illusion of volume鈥攚hether pictorial or sculptural.
The artists gathered in this exhibition embody the manifold plastic potentialities of the fold and drape, both in their illusionistic dimension and their tangible, three-dimensional presence. In their works, the fold is first intimately linked to the representation of the body鈥攖hrough the mediums of drawing and photography鈥攂efore gradually detaching itself to become the central protagonist of the artwork. It bears, whether physically or metaphorically, the imprint of the creative gesture, reflecting a living dialogue between material, form, and the memory of the body rendered in negative.
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"It is possible that the question of painting is only the question of the fold," wrote Simon Hanta茂, whose work explored the potential of folding with a fertile radicality.
As a dense year draws to a close, Ceysson & B茅n茅ti猫re dedicates the summer exhibition of its Paris gallery to this notion鈥攁t once visual, conceptual, and poetic: the fold, and by extension, the drape. Ten artists of different generations have been brought together to reflect the extraordinary polysemy of this ancestral motif.
A portion of material folded back on itself, creating a ripple or a trace, the fabric fold appears as a visual trap that structures the composition of a work. At times a support, at times a material, it also becomes a pretext for formal exploration, allowing the artist to display virtuosity through the illusion of volume鈥攚hether pictorial or sculptural.
The artists gathered in this exhibition embody the manifold plastic potentialities of the fold and drape, both in their illusionistic dimension and their tangible, three-dimensional presence. In their works, the fold is first intimately linked to the representation of the body鈥攖hrough the mediums of drawing and photography鈥攂efore gradually detaching itself to become the central protagonist of the artwork. It bears, whether physically or metaphorically, the imprint of the creative gesture, reflecting a living dialogue between material, form, and the memory of the body rendered in negative.
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