Artists discovered during Paris Gallery Weekend 2024
During Paris Gallery Weekend we followed the routes through one gallery to another, to discover modern and contemporary art and artists.
Zadie Xa at T.Ropac
Zadie Xa has developed an expansive practice that addresses the nature of diasporic identities, global histories, familial legacies and interspecies communication. She explores these themes through immersive installations that appeal to the sensory experience of the viewer, often incorporating painting, sculpture, textile, sound and performance elements.
Justin Liam O'Brien at Semiose
Justin Liam O’Brien (New York) is a narrative painter. His works portray characters, mainly male, within spaces inspired by the artist’s everyday life as well as historical painting. The artist delights in depicting the ambivalence of intimate emotions, often at bursting point or in the second after the explosion. He explores the psychological dimension of the relationship between bodies and architecture, where an individual is depicted in the solitude of an apartment or perhaps multiplied in the setting of a crowd.
Katinka Lampe and
Janine van Oene at Galerie
Les Filles du Calvaire
Katinka Lampe, Dutch artist, makes figurative, expressionist paintings that are the result of an research into subjects such as identity, social relations, gender and color. Even though we clearly recognize the image of a person, it is not the main subject of the painting. The portrait is the visual concept.
Janine van Oene’s paintings navigate between abstraction and figuration. Seemingly recognizable forms reveal themselves to be fragmented, more complex or more vague when observed with attention. Strange shapes are suddenly transformed into irreversibly recognizable images.
Jan Melka and Paul Rousteau at Romero Paprocki
Jan Malka is a French-American visual artist, lives and works in Paris, France. Since September 2015, she has devoted herself to artistic research, on the edge of Abstract Expressionism, by creating her own fitions with reconstructed figures.
Born in France in 1985, Paul Rousteau explores the limits of photography and our perceptions. His art, made of optical illusions, navigates between digital art and pictorial materials. At the borders of abstraction and sacred art, his images in joyful colors reveal the deep quest of the artist “to sublimate the visible and show the invisible”. From portrait to landscape, his hallucinatory and contemplative visuals are requested by the biggest magazines, brands and museums.
Michael Ray Charles at Galerie Templon
Since the 1990s, Michael Ray Charles has become a widely recognised artist with a pioneering approach to investigating African-American questions. He draws on his inexhaustible fund of energy and capacity to transcend linguistic, cultural and geographic boundaries to create visual archives that stand as a personal chronicle of an African-American history rooted in both terror and light, freedom and slavery, racism and humanity, guilt and responsibility.
