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24.05.2024 - 08:59 / cntraveler.com
Finally, temperatures are rising, making it enjoyable to stroll through the sunny streets of Paris while visiting some galleries. At least, that’s what Vogue France suggests this May. From the first solo exhibition in France of American artist Gwen O'Neil to the unforgettable works of painter Marc Chagall, the editors of Vogue France have selected these as the must-see exhibitions in Paris (and elsewhere in France), presented in chronological order of their closing dates.
A version of this article originally appeared in Vogue France. Translated from the French by Natasha Hersman.
Dates: Now until June 14
Gwen O’Neil, an abstract painter born in 1992 in New York and based in Los Angeles, has made nature the nerve center of her canvases. A living heart, so much so that her brushstrokes impose themselves like powerful movements, as strong as the most violent winds and the most intense tides. To achieve this, she stamps her canvases with a precise method, aiming to create her recognizable swirls at a single glance. It's a way for the artist to bring cosmic and everyday elements into dialogue, as she admires the colorful twilight of Los Angeles every evening, the spiraling shells that populate her beaches, and the hypnotic shapes of migrating starlings.
The Almine Rech Gallery, which has been based in Paris since 1997, is hosting the American artist's first French exhibition. “Gwen O'Neil's work immediately captivated me when I first saw one of her paintings,” says the gallery owner in a press release. “Her work is unique in that she paints what you might call abstract pictures, but it is a vision of space, of the spectrum of colors in the sky where choreographies of murmuration, wavelengths of light, and color occur.” Entitled Over the Ridges and Through the Passes, the exhibition focuses on the meteorological phenomena that fascinate the artist, and that rock her daily life in Southern California.
Dates: Now until June 1
Originally from Miami, Florida, Hernan Bas is an intriguing portraitist whose solitary male figures populate canvases that are peaceful and slightly disturbing. As always, his figures are shrouded in doubt, at the heart of profound introspection. It's as if the painter had captured them in that exact moment, unaware, for a brief moment of rare intimacy. A suspended moment. When asked about these men, trapped in their solitude, Bas likes to say that they are artists who never existed, as if to give them an unsuspected quality, a hint of mystery. At least, that's the idea behind his most famous series, titled The Conceptualists. However, at Gallery Perrotin, the artist has chosen to present another of his favorite subjects.
Graduate of the New World School of the Arts in Miami in 1996,
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