06 - 27 November 2024

Opera Gallery Dubai proudly presents Pierre Dunoyer’s 'Object of Thought: Tableaux 1986 – 2008,' a landmark exhibition showcasing the artist's work for the first time at the gallery.

Renowned for his intellectual and philosophical approach to abstraction, Dunoyer’s art delves into the essence of painting as an object of thought, using form and colour as tools for conceptual exploration. This exhibition offers a rare chance for audiences in Dubai to experience a distinct body of work that has left a significant mark on contemporary art.

Spanning more than two decades of artistic production, the exhibition highlights several key periods of Dunoyer’s career. It traces his evolving approach to abstraction, composition, and the materiality of paint, reflecting his ongoing enquiry into the role of painting in modern art. Throughout his career, Dunoyer has sought purity in form and explored the power of painting to convey thought without relying on representational imagery. The selected works reveal subtle yet significant transformations in his technique and conceptual focus over time.

Curated to capture these transitions, the exhibition features 19 paintings that represent pivotal moments in Dunoyer’s artistic journey. Visitors will witness the progression from his early, structured compositions with muted palettes to his later works, which embrace more liberated forms and vibrant colours. 'Object of Thought: Tableaux 1986 – 2008' offers a deep exploration of Dunoyer’s evolution, immersing viewers in the complex relationship between thought and visual expression that defines his work.

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15 October - 14 November 2024

Opera Gallery is pleased to present 'Transatlantic: Figurations of the 80s', a group exhibition curated by Pascale Le Thorel, running from 15 October to 14 November 2024. Offering a comprehensive exploration of 1980s figurative art on both sides of the Atlantic, this exhibition captures the dynamic and multifaceted spirit of this transformative period in art history. 

The 'Transatlantic: Figurations of the 80s' exhibition offers a panorama of the artistic creation on both sides of the pond. Though distinct in their origins and expressions, the various movements shared a common desire to break away from the elitist avant-gardes of the previous two decades, reintegrating popular imagery and exploring new forms of expression. Two essential components of the art of that period emerged: mass media culture as a source of inspiration—with comics, animated series, video games, magazines and advertising—and urban culture with artists' squats, fences, the subway and clubs. Those two cultures were common to that entire generation of artists

Hervé Di Rosa, Robert Combas and François Boisrond were France's leading figures of figuration libre. Characterised by a profusion of bright colours and deliberately naive brushstrokes, their work took a joyful and sometimes provocative approach to art. Alongside Roberto Cabot and Catherine Viollet at the same time as Luciano Castelli and Saint Clair Cemin they formed an underground, theory-free community. With his torn-up posters salvaged from the street, Jean Charles Blais considered the medium to be of particular importance. His work explored themes from everyday life and the absurd with poetry and emotion.

NEW-YORK 1941-1945: CAPITALE SURRÉALISTE
La Période Américaine d'André Masson

André Masson le surréalisme révolutionnaire Parcours Paris surréaliste

Exposition du 27 septembre au 21 decembre 2024

Fuyant l'Occupation, André Masson et André Breton arrivent à New-York en 1941. Bien qu'impressionné par la grande métropole, André Masson trouve, comme toujours, la nature bien plus attrayante que le rythme chaotique de la ville. Il s'installe en Nouvelle Angleterre, à côté du Lake Waramaug, où il reçoit les visites de Calder, Kay Sage et Yves Tanguy et Arshile Gorky, et commece à exposer aux États Unis, notamment chez Kurt Valentin et Pierre Matisse. En 1941, date de son arrivée, le Baltimore Museum lui consacre une exposition monographique de plus de trente oeuvres, qui marque l'entrée des premières oeuvres de Masson dans les collections publiques américaines.
L'arrivée de ces artistes et penseurs fuyant l'Occupation contribue à l'effervescence artistique et culturelle de New-York durant cette période. Le cercle des surréalistes en exil composé entre autres d'André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Marx Ernst, Jacqueline Lamba, André Masson, Roberto Matta et Yves Tanguy contribue à renforcer l'engouement de la scène new yorkaise pour la psychanalyse, l'automatisme et l'inconscient. Selon Claude Lévi-Strauss, « New York est le conservatoire, le carambolage des temps, le moderne et l'archaïque ».
Notamment, Jackson Pollock fait la connaissance de plusieurs membres du mouvement surréaliste et participe aux ateliers d'écriture automatique. Il est impossible de ne pas rappeler l'influence que la période américaine d'André Masson a pu avoir sur l'Expressionnisme abstrait lors de ses débuts, et surtout sur l'oeuvre de Jackson Pollock. Il est vraisemblable que Pollock a connu André Masson dans l'Atelier 17 de Stanley W. Hayter à New-York, où Masson travaille à l'estampe. Les deux artistes partagent notamment la même vision totémique des forces de la nature, et la fascination pour les mythes amérindiens. Jackson Pollock est marqué par cette présence des artistes surréalistes pendant la guerre: des oeuvres comme Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle, 1943, actuellement exposée au Musée Picasso, dans l'exposition "Jackson Pollock: Les Premières années" montrent une vision proche du surréalisme de Masson à la même époque.  

Image : André MASSON (1896 - 1987) Le Loup-Garou, 1943
Fusain et pastel sur papier.
Signée en bas à droite «André Masson» 61 x 45.5 cm.
Provenance: Atelier de l'artiste; Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris; Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris; Collection particulière, USA, acquise auprès de ce dernière en 2004. 

NEW YORK, October 23, 2024—Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of artist, photographer, and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell. Mitchell's work will be shown by Gagosian at Paris Photo in a curated presentation with photographs by Richard Avedon from November 6 to 10, 2024. New photographs by the artist will be featured in the catalogue accompanying Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His first exhibition with the gallery following representation will take place in New York in the spring of 2025.

A leading artist of his generation, Mitchell is renowned for his vibrant, playfully theatrical compositions that foreground the style and beauty of Black subjects, often within pastoral landscapes and familiar domestic settings. His photographs and videos offer utopian visions of empowerment, self-determination, tenderness, and camaraderie.

Mitchell draws from the traditions of portraiture, fine-art photography, fashion, and filmmaking to create images of individuals whom he seeks to visualize as "free, expressive, effortless, and sensitive." Works such as Untitled (Kite) (2019) and Riverside Scene (2021) envision scenes of leisure in idyllic summertime landscapes. Such personal expressions seamlessly blend with editorial projects in his wide-ranging practice; in commissioned works like Untitled (Twins I) (2018) and Untitled (Communion in a Landscape) (2023), Mitchell uses brilliant color and dramatic silhouettes to present images of alluring individuals. He often prints his photographs on unorthodox substrates, including mirrors and fabric hung from clotheslines or draped over frames, as in A Gradual Shining Light (2023). He also embeds them into mixed-media Altar sculptures that reference domesticity and vernacular photography, integrating his visions into physical reality.

Mitchell achieved global prominence when he photographed Beyoncé for the September 2018 issue of American Vogue, becoming the first Black photographer to shoot the magazine's cover in its then 126-year history. The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery acquired an image from the series the following year. Untitled (Hijab Couture) (2019), from another Vogue feature, pictures Somali-born model Ugbad Abdi wearing a headdress of glossy pink flowers. His photographs of the newly inaugurated Vice President Kamala Harris were commissioned for the cover of Vogue's February 2021 issue. Mitchell has also collaborated with brands including Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Ferragamo, JW Anderson, Wales Bonner, and Marc Jacobs.

Dans une société machiste elles se sont éclipsées sous le rayonnement d'un mentor, d'un père, d'un mari ou même d'un fils. De par la nature même de leur genre, elles n'ont pu accéder à la reconnaissance escomptée alors que leur talent et leur créativité ont marqué l'histoire de l'art du XXe siècle.

Quatre générations de femmes artistes seront présentées.

Suzanne Valadon, Nina Alexandrowicz, Marie Vassiliev, Chana Orloff, Sonia Delaunay, Marie Laurencin, Léonor Fini, Olga Sacharoff, Helena Vieira da Silva, Vera Molnár, Sophie Destre ou Anne Ferrer sont toutes des femmes visionnaires, dont la contribution à l'histoire de l'art moderne et contemporaine ouvre la voie aux générations futures.

Vieira da Silva (1908-1992)

On the occasion of the "Femmes artistes" event at Quartier Art Drouot, Galerie AB - Agnès Aittouares invites you to discover a selection of works by women artists from 1913 to the present day, whose work and renown are now in the spotlight.

GALERIE L'AMOUR DE L'ART

Marie Borel

67 Rue de Seine - 75006 PARIS

TEL : 33 (1) 46 33 07 77

www.lamourdelart.com  email : lamourdelart(at)sfr.fr

 Marc Clauzade est né à Paris le 30 Mai 1957 dans le quartier Montparnasse où il a grandi et esquissé ses premiers croquis avant d'entrer aux Beaux-Arts de Toulouse.

La femme belle et sûre d'elle est un inépuisable sujet d'inspiration pour l'artiste qui la peint, l'habille et la  déshabille  au gré de ses envies. Car son grand sujet, c'est la mode, en ce qu'elle a de plus féminin et de plus élégant  : la Haute-Couture de  Paris !  Clauzade met en scène ces sublimes créatures   habillées par Dior,  Chanel ou Saint-Laurent , dans des ambiances très parisiennes Chic et festives où loin des podiums , elles se retrouvent autour d'un verre , dans les bars , les restaus , les boutiques,  les musées, les théâtres, les cabarets , les jardins publics, les champs de course et  même  parfois sur les plages de Deauville .

Les hommes  ne sont pas en reste dans cet univers de  mode et de  féminité. Ils sont l'oeil  du  peintre : Toujours admiratif, énamouré, timide devant tant de beauté .  Ils sont un peu les faire-valoir de ces dames, des figurants comiques et gentiment moqués  et  Clauzade s'amuse, en poussant  la caricature, à les  peindre dans des   petites scénettes  galantes  et malicieuses

Image : MARC CLAUZADE LE DANDY 30 F. GALERIE L'AMOUR DE L'ART

Gagosian to Present Paintings by Mark Grotjahn in New York

Out of Country Opens at 980 Madison Avenue on September 10, 2024

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Backcountry 55.89), 2023, oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 74 3/8 × 94 inches (188.9 × 238.8 cm)

© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

NEW YORK, August 26, 2024—Gagosian is pleased to announce Out of Country, an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Mark Grotjahn at the gallery’s 980 Madison Avenue location in New York. Opening on September 10, Out of Country represents the culmination of the Backcountry series that has occupied the artist since 2021, and features never before exhibited paintings on white grounds, as well as two black-ground paintings. A press preview and tour with the artist will take place at 10:30am on Monday, September 9.

In his paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, Grotjahn investigates color, perspective, seriality, and the sublime. The concluding entries in the Backcountry series featured in this exhibition see him again draw inspiration from the experience of rural American landscapes, specifically those from his ski and fly-fishing tours in the remote backcountry of western Colorado. While the works contain an Gagosian to Present Paintings by Mark Grotjahn in New York Out of Country Opens at 980 Madison Avenue on September 10, 2024 Press Preview and Artist Tour on September 9 at 10:30am Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Backcountry 55.89), 2023, oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 74 3/8 × 94 inches (188.9 × 238.8 cm) © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio Download Press Images element of pictorial representation, hinting at a snowy mountain descent or starlit nocturnal pass, their primary commitment is still to abstraction, specifically the nuanced layering of line, tone, and texture. Continuing to produce variations on an identifiable style and format, Grotjahn builds on a dynamic rhythm that transcends simple visual record to achieve a unique formal and emotional complexity. 

EXPOSITION SURRÉALISME

DE 1924 À NOS JOURS

Informations pratiques | Event details

5 rue Jacques Callot - Paris VI

Du 17 septembre au 09 octobre 2024

Ouverte du mardi au samedi De 10h30 à 19h00

Félix Labisse, Grand exorcisme du rituel de Malines (détail), 1957

À l'occasion du centenaire du Surréalisme, Agnès Aittouares vous invite à découvrir un ensemble d'œuvres d'artistes surréalistes proches d'André Breton.

L'exposition rassemble des peintures, dessins, sculptures et objets de 1924 à nos jours de Jean Arp, Victor Brauner, Agustín Cárdenas, Salvador Dalí, Léonor Fini, Félix Labisse, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Georges Papazoff, Pablo Picasso, Marie Vassilieff... Tous ces artistes sont également présents dans l'exposition « Surréalisme » au Centre Pompidou.

To mark the centenary of Surrealism, Agnès Aittouares invites you to discover a collection of works by Surrealist artists close to André Breton.

The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures and objects from 1924 to the present day by Jean Arp, Victor Brauner, Agustín Cárdenas, Salvador Dalí, Léonor Fini, Félix Labisse, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Georges Papazoff, Pablo Picasso, Marie Vassilieff... All these artists are also represented in the "Surrealism" exhibition at the Centre Pompidou.

Artist Biography

"I have always worked in the "abstract," borrowing whimsical shapes from the stages of dance performances and ballets I've designed, and geometric shapes from architectural drawings for buildings I've designed. Painting gives me the freedom to incorporate both." —Tom H. John

Tom John. Untitled, 2016. Gouache and pencil on paper Rosenberg & Co

Tom H. John (1931–) is an American polymath who applies his creativity to a variety of fields, but is first and foremost a visual artist. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, John pursued an array of diverse projects, particularly in set design and production.