Guy Leclercq: Epures et couleurs
> DUTKO / Quai Voltaire
La Galerie Dutko présente du 7 décembre 2023 au 13 janvier 2024 les œuvres récentes de l’artiste belge Guy Leclercq. Ce deuxième solo-show réunit autour de la notion d’apparition une vingtaine de toiles créées entre 2022 et 2023.
Surprise en cet automne 2023, Guy Leclercq a ajouté la couleur à ses épures. Des couleurs vivantes mais attendries, lumineuses par leur portée chromatique et transparentes par leur douceur. Amoureux du pigment de lapis-lazzuli, qui lui donne du bleu souverain, Leclercq ne rechigne pourtant ni au vert, ni au gris, au noir, au rouge, au beige. Il nous offre, sur un plateau choisi, une gamme de couleurs bienvenues. Discrètes dans leur profondeur sans emphase, mais bien présentes.
For over five decades, Christian Jaccard has been developing a body of work exploring two key operations: knotting and burning. These paradigmatic "tools" serve him to express a way of conceiving things and, more broadly, his worldview. Philosophy, phenomenology, anthropology, and sciences are at the heart of the artist's aesthetic research. They permeate the various series of works with profound reflections on the principles of creation/deconstruction, notions of time and memory, and the origins and fundamental principles of art.
The exhibition presented by Galerie Dutko is structured around a series of works created in the early 2000s titled "Burning Peaks," in which Christian Jaccard establishes an analogy between the combustion traces left by flammable gel arranged on canvas and the graphical fluctuations of stock market peaks. A monumental work, following the development principles of "Burning Peaks," will be created in situ on the gallery's large wall. An ephemeral work (which will disappear at the end of the exhibition), its creation will be the subject of filming and documented by a photographic report.
This exhibition resonates with the solo exhibition dedicated to Christian Jaccard, organized from December 16, 2023, to April 21, 2024, by the Fabre Museum in Montpellier. It is worth noting the release in January 2024 of "The Whims of Thought," the artist's studio notes, published by the ENSBA editions (Artist's Writings collection).
