Henri Chartier Exhibits Jean-Michel Comte, 10/31/2020

Vues de l'exposition L'ASSAUT © Galerie Henri Chartier

Vidéos de l'artiste Jean-Michel Comte was born in 1975 in Nice, where he lived until the age of 21. The Provençal light of the countryside around Nice has been a constant inspiration for him, as has the violence heexperienced as a teenager. He began studying visual arts in 1994 at the Villa Thiole in Nice, then at the Toulon Beaux-Arts from 1996 to 2000. There followed a three-year course atHEAD - Genève, in Peter Roesch’s atelier, then several exhibitions inSwitzerland, where he settled permanently in the 2000s. Since then, his artistic output has developed in parallel with work in high-end prêt-à-porter.  Jean-Michel Comte’s work is gestural and instinctive, and is rooted in turbulent inner experiences, emotions and traumatic memories which he transcends and transforms into hidden writings, pulsing outlines and spattered figures. He works standing up, drawing a whole pen and ink series simultaneously, directly on the floor. By moving from one sheet to another, he captures the immediacy ofa gesture. «I get into a creative ballet,» he writes, «an instantaneous choreography that is never the same. I cover the sheets, I saturate them, I scratch them, I retouch and rework things all the time. I am expressive and repressive. I uncover things and I cover things up.» Read more — Céline Muzelle, juin 2020 Artist's videos

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Henri Comby exhibition at Henri Chartier Paris.

Collage et aquarelle sur papier, 64,5x50cm, 1966. © photo Blaise Adilon.

Born in Le Puy-en-Velay on 3 August 1928, Henri Comby acquired his passion for drawing from his neighbour, a master glassblower, at the age of fourteen. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, then in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Ranson, in the studios of Fernand Léger and Jean Deyrolle.  What he does, in fact, is to cut open an era in the same way that doctors in days of old used to open up bodies in search of a pathology, a physiological function or an unusual pattern. We might flashback here to Henri Comby’s childhood and adolescence, with animal carcasses hanging in the family delicatessen, or visits to a pig slaughterhouse. He makes no secret of his admiration for works like Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox or Soutine’s Carcass of Beef. How is a body (animal or human) made, how is Romanesque or Baroque religious architecture made, how is a factory, a wind tunnel, or a machine tool made? What organs are they composed of, what flows and motions go through them, what analogies bring them together? These are the questions that the artist’s metal sculptures, drawings and collages are basically asking. He is not praising them or passing judgement, but he is still astonished by both human and natural engineering and their potential for destructive brutality. At the same time, he finds artistic forms through which to devise new functions, new harmonies, new bio-industrial systems. But always with a touch of humour to lighten things up Read More  — Extract of "Henri Comby, moteur!", Jean Emmanuel Denave, cultural journalist & art critic, October 2020.  Translation, Jeremy Harrison.

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In Lyon, Galeria Henri Charter, April 16-May18, 2019

prise de vue, Group Show avril 2019   GROUP SHOW Marc Moret Guillaume Treppoz Lionel Sabatté Stéphane Guénier Jörg Gessner 16 avril - 18 mai 2019 Vous pourrez y découvrir une oeuvre monumentale de Stéphane Guénier (2005) venant de la collection Claude Berri, ainsi qu'un collage unique et rare de l'artiste suisse Marc Moret (collages que vous avez pu découvrir à La maison rouge en 2017, Inextricabilia). Lionel Sabatté est aussi à l'honneur, suite à sa 1ère exposition personnelle à la galerie en 2017, plusieurs dessins et peinture sur papier de l'artiste sont exposés, à l'occasion du parcours qui lui est consacré à Lyon à l'Institut Franco-Chinois, au Musée Gadagne et à quelques pas de la galerie à la Fondation Bullukian - Qui sait combien de fleurs ont dû tomber (jusqu'au 21 juin 2019). Une oeuvre exceptionnelle de l'artiste Guillaume Treppoz, Matière Cortex de 2007, que vous pourrez découvrir ou redécouvrir. Pour finir et suite au succès de l'exposition précédente de l'artiste Jörg Gessner quelques unes de ses plus oeuvres sont aussi à voir ou à revoir. There is an opportunity to see a monumental work by Stéphane Guénier (2005) from the Claude Berri collection, as well as a unique and rare collage by Swiss artist Marc Moret (whose collages you may have seen at La Maison Rouge in the 2017 exhibition, Inextricabilia). Lionel Sabatté is also featured. Following his first solo exhibition at the gallery in 2017, several of his drawings and paintings on paper are on display on an exhibition trail devoted to him in Lyon at the Institut Franco-Chinois, the Musée Gadagne and, just round the corner from the gallery, at the Bullukian Foundation –  Qui sait combien de fleurs ont dû tomber / (Who Knows how many Flowers had to Fall ?). An exceptional work by artist Guillaume Treppoz, Matière Cortex, 2007, awaits you here in the gallery. And, finally, following the success of our last exhibition of works by Jörg Gessner, we have a few of his finest paintings here. These meditative works bear looking at over and over again. traduction Jeremy Harrison La galerie sera fermée du 23 au 27 avril inclus.

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