Past
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Paul Pouvreau
6 Nov - 18 Dec 2004 Paul Pouvreau's work develops images made by means of photographic language using recurring components. Since the beginning of the eighties, he has been using so-called 'banal' objects-elements such as dust, household utensils, cardboard and more recently plastic bags. On top of these elements, a human figure appeared in his work... Read more -
Fémina
14 - 30 Oct 2004 17 rue des Filles du Calvaire 75003 Paris This exhibition is a look at the notion of the feminine, through the works of fifteen international artists. This proposal does not focus on the narrower subject of feminism and, even less, on a problematic centered on the body. Rather, it attempts to evoke the different ways in which women... Read more -
Hans Op de Beeck - Loss
4 - 30 Sep 2004 The gallery welcomes the first solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck in France. This young and talented artist, already recognized in Belgium, has recently seen his work crowned by many exhibitions. In 2003, he won the Prix Jeune Peinture, which recognizes young Belgian artists, and his... Read more -
Edouard Prulhière
26 May - 17 Jul 2004 New York-based French painter Edouard Prulhière has been exhibiting canvases for the past few years that feature a colorful multitude of splashes, drips and splatters, not as flat objects that hang on the wall, but on parts of 'funky' wall assemblages and actual sculptures. In works such as It's Not... Read more
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James Hyde | Pandora
26 Mar - 15 May 2004 17 rue des Filles du Calvaire 75003 Paris Indeed, Hyde’s work, as it has developed during the nineties, involves a deliberately do-it-yourself kind of experimentation, free of any aesthetic constraint, with painting’s different ways of signifying; it involves issuing various signs of painting in various objectal contexts. In this, although in a category all his own, he is... Read more -
Parodie
13 - 20 Mar 2004 17 rue des Filles du Calvaire 75003 Paris The exhibition is structured around nine videos by international contemporary artists who illustrate the theme of parody. Common tendencies respond around the same sense of derision. Thus, through burlesque imitation, whimsical parody or social satire, these videos emphasize the misappropriation of academic works or the outrageous counterfeiting of the entertainment... Read more -
Dominique Gauthier - L’agudeza et la figure
Comme s’il pleuvait du visage, déposé autrement : Les Réponses, peintures 2003 10 Jan - 28 Feb 2004 Gallery Les Filles du Calvaire shows a new set of paintings by Dominique Gauthier, Les Réponses, begun at the end of 2002 and positioned alongside several other fronts developed simultaneously since the Contre-Raisons I, the Contre-Raisons II, the Orphiques and the Abréviations. 'The constitutive principle of the Responses produces a... Read more