Vernissage le 8 juin (18h - 20h30)
Avec Jérémie Cosimi, Léo Fourdrinier et Karine Rougier
Les filles du calvaire sont heureuses de vous présenter l’exposition Marseille bébé, ode à la Cité Phocéenne et ses artistes.
For its summer program, Les filles du calvaire are delighted to present the Marseille bébé exhibition, an ode to the Cité Phocéenne and its artists. For the duration of an exhibition, the gallery walls become an extension of Marseilles - C'est pas la capitale, c'est Marseille bébé - and offer a new and very personal vision of the city's well-known icons.
To realize this project, we wanted warmth and, above all, connection. We invited Jérémie Cosimi, a painter recently represented by the gallery and based in Marseille, Léo Fourdrinier, his artist friend whose studio overlooks the sea, and Karine Rougier, his studio neighbor.
Jérémie Cosimi presents recent canvases from his Odyssée series, imbued as always with the mark of his Mediterranean culture. The men and women in his paintings have straight eyes, sculptural poses and impeccable white jogging suits. If the jogging suit evokes the white marble of ancient sculptures, it also points directly to the iconic tracksuit worn as a city costume. To complete this ensemble, the artist offers a set of new miniatures. No portraits this time, but the sea, a motif that runs through his work.
Léo Fourdrinier installs a set of recent sculptures, the most spectacular of which, Mind and Senses Purified - seen at the Lyon Biennale - unfolds in a movement of light, upturned motorcycles and fallen angels. The narrative quickly takes shape, with a sense of speed, storm and light accompanying the inexorable fall of the motorcycle. The artist speaks to us of the cult of speed, of Icarus ascending too fast, too high. Each element is a direct reference to history, mythology and popular culture.
Finally, Karine Rougier unveils a series of drawings and miniatures on wood, all featuring the sea as a backdrop. While Karine Rougier's dreamlike work includes numerous references to the remains of vanished civilizations, her trips to the Mediterranean Sea are also a major source of inspiration. The original pieces presented at the gallery are a vibrant testimony to this: during swimming and diving sessions, for example, the artist collected scraps and pieces of resin from boat hulls, on which she paints in tempera. Here, the vestige is contemporary.
The exhibition is a Marseille enclave in Paris and a hymn to the beauty of its artists, an odyssey to discover the beautiful remains of invented vestiges and a declaration of love to Mediterranean culture.
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