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Sunday, August 30, 2026

Henri Chartier exhibition of Phillippe Hortala's ~Here Comes Summer~ September 14- Octber 2026.

 Hortalal's work on display brings into perspective his view; the  chaos of experience focusing on color and construction descripted in the abstraction of his compositions. See details below.  

vue exposition Philippe Hortala voila l’été
crédit photo Didier Michalet
[EXPOSITION]
PHILIPPE HORTALA, VOILÀ L’ÉTÉ

RÉOUVERTURE LE MARDI 1ER SEPTEMBRE, À 14H.
JUSQU'AU 3 OCTOBRE.
De retour de Barcelone, Philippe Hortala quitte le blouson noir pour la chemise à fleurs. Dès 1985, il peint et expose ses intérieurs, des vues d’appartement aux couleurs vives, électriques, aux perspectives bousculées, béantes. L’intimité domestique grouille d’objets et de détails pour qui sait regarder. C’est un chaos organisé, un électrochoc visuel : on ne sait si le dedans verse dans le dehors ou plutôt l’inverse. Le regard du spectateur plonge souvent, surplombant les sujets du tableau : rien n’est droit, tous les volumes et les ouvertures surgissent de biais, entrechoqués comme dans un décor de film expressionniste (Le cabinet du docteur Caligari) : en premier lieu des fenêtres, des balcons, des portes et des tiroirs ouverts, des écrans allumés de télévision -avec de la neige, des images incertaines -, des tableaux aux murs. A l’intérieur la vie est lente quotidienne, comme écrasée par la chaleur. La lumière du jour entre dans ces intérieurs, allonge les ombres sur le sol, la chaise, la table… Parfois la nuit, l’appartement toujours abondamment éclairé. La vie du dehors est pleine de vacarme, les usines avec les cheminées qui fument, les avions passant au ras, dont on voit le ventre, les ailes, les hélices qui tournent, les réacteurs. Comme une menace. Du reste les lustres à pampilles s’en balancent au plafond (1). Ces tableaux forment le théâtre d’une vie bruyante, une vie extraordinaire à force d’exagération : le paysage entre dans l’appartement. Lire plus

Extrait texte, communiqué exposition Philippe Hortala, voilà l’été.
Benoît Decron, historien de l’art, directeur honoraire du musée Soulages, Rodez.

Back from Barcelona, Philippe Hortala trades his black jacket for a floral shirt.
As early as 1985, he began painting and exhibiting his interiors—vibrant, electric views of apartments with jumbled, gaping perspectives. Domestic intimacy teems with objects and details for those who know how to look. It is organized chaos, a visual shock: one cannot tell whether the inside spills into the outside or rather the other way around. The viewer’s gaze often plunges downward, overlooking the subjects of the painting: nothing is straight; all volumes and openings emerge at an angle, colliding as in the set of an expressionist film (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari): first and foremost windows, balconies, doors, and open drawers, lit television screens—with static, uncertain images—and paintings on the walls. Inside, daily life moves slowly, as if crushed by the heat. Daylight streams into these interiors, casting long shadows on the floor, the chair, the table… Sometimes at night, the apartment remains brightly lit. Life outside is full of noise: factories with smoking chimneys, planes flying low, their bellies, wings, spinning propellers, and jet engines visible. Like a threat. Moreover, the chandeliers with their pendants swing from the ceiling (1). These scenes form the stage for a noisy life, a life that is extraordinary through its very exaggeration: the landscape enters the apartment.
Excerpt from the press release for the Philippe Hortala exhibition, “Here Comes Summer.”
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Excerpt from the press release for the Philippe Hortala exhibition, “Here Comes Summer.”
Benoît Decron, art historian, honorary director of the Soulages Museum, Rodez.
 
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Nicolas Auvray Gallery exhibition of ~Surfacing Forms~ works by artist J. Margulis. September 10-October 18, 2026-

             The works of J. Margulis  below display color, contrast, and texture enhancing  these abstractions                 within an optically 3D visual end image.               

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, September 10
Dissolutions, 2026. Acrylic sheets, mixed media. 10 panels, 40 x 40 in. each, 200 x 80 in. total
 
J. Margulis
Surfacing Forms


Save the Date:
September 10 – October 18, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 6–8pm in presence of the artist
522 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011

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Nicolas Auvray Gallery is pleased to present Surfacing Forms, a new exhibition by J. Margulis opening this September. From intimate wall works to immersive multi-panel compositions, it is the most extensive presentation of the artist’s practice to date.

Constructed from painted, faceted slats set at precise angles, Margulis’s reliefs contain multiple compositions within a single structure. The works remain static while the image shifts with the viewer, revealing changing arrangements of color and form.

Born in Venezuela, Margulis engages the country’s rich history of kinetic and perceptual art, associated with artists such as Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Rafael Soto. Through complex surfaces and an expansive chromatic vocabulary, Surfacing Forms explores perception as fluid, spatial, and dependent on the viewer’s movement.


Learn more and RSVP below. Please email info@nicolasauvraygallery.com for a VIP preview or walkthrough of the exhibition.
 
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Featured Works
Untitled, 2026. Acrylic sheets, mixed media, two panels, 36 x 36 in. each
Porthole Fragments, 2026. Acrylic sheets, mixed media, four panels, 16 x 16 in. each
Porthole Fragments (detail), 2026. Acrylic sheets, mixed media, 16 x 16 x 3 in.
About J. Margulis
J. Margulis is a visual artist working in kinetic wall relief. Born in Venezuela, Margulis’s practice extends a lineage of Venezuelan kinetic and optical art into a new body of work distinguished by topographic surface complexity and an expanded color language. Surfacing Forms is his most extensive exhibition to date.
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