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THE ADORNMENT AND THE IMPRINT
Alain Delpech & Nadine Kohn-Fiszel
AVM Gallery
Contemporary Art Paris
From the 7th October, and until November 2, the AVM gallery presents an exhibition "La parure et l'empreinte" which brings together works by Nadine Kohn-Fiszel and Alain Delpech. "La parure et l'empreinte" because the exhibition aims to illuminate the meeting point between what each was led to develop, each in his quest. An essential strategy made possible by the artist's symbolic gesture: to observe, confront, transcend the carnal disappearance. From the remains of turtles washed up on a beach in Gambia, which Delpech adorns, by engraving them, with all the power of his imagination, to the "lost bodies" whose imprint Nadine Kohn-Fiszel recreates, everything takes its place in our world, to challenge us, everything in this rediscovered intimacy is destined for rebirth.
Engraver, painter and sculptor, Alain Delpech has been represented by the gallery for many years, which has dedicated several solo exhibitions to him.
For Nadine Kohn-Fiszel, painter and sculptor, who lives and works in Paris, and whose works have already been the subject of numerous exhibitions, both in France and abroad, this is a first presentation at the gallery.
It is from the heart of matter that Alain Delpech draws the vocabulary of his original, dynamic, and compartmentalized universe. For this artist, whose timeless writing establishes an intimate dialogue between light and construction, the image is a place of silence and meditation. A journey, a mandala, it escapes the current events of the world, preferring to immerse itself among the fundamental mechanisms of evolution.
Sober, subtle, the compositions that are born under his brush or his chisel call upon the notions of presence, distance, networks and reserve.
Monumental and timeless, each of the figures embodied possesses an ethnological, universal dimension. Delpech's work is neither here nor now. It embodies the space of time.
Françoise Monnin
Alain Delpech
Born in 1956 in Montauban
1979: Graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris
1981: Oslo School of Fine Arts. Norwegian Government Scholarship
1984: Arts and crafts exchange. Franck Bordas lithography workshop
Personal exhibitions
Paris
1982-1986: Haut Pavé Gallery
1986: Documents Gallery
1991: Checura-Forestier Gallery
1993-1997: Chesnoy Gallery
2009: Hamadryade Gallery
2010 – 2014: Space Around the Fire
2011-2015: L'Usine Gallery
2013: The Eye of the Twentieth Gallery
2017: AVM Gallery
2019: AVM Gallery
Southwest
1986: Olivier Dautry Gallery
1987: Toulouse Art Library
1988: General Council of Tarn et Garonne
1990: Municipal Gallery of Majorat (Villeneuve-Tolosane)
2000: Amacla Gallery (Toulouse)
2001: Brigitte Griffault Gallery (Montauban)
2011 – 2014: Concha de Nazelle Gallery (Toulouse)
Germany
1983: French Institute of Munich
1993: Marlies Hanstein Gallery (Saarbrücken)
2003: Regional Art Center (Bosen)
Group exhibitions
Paris
2002-2009: Bréheret Gallery
2008: International Drawing and Print Exhibition
2009: Taylor Foundation
2010: Sellem Gallery
2015 – 2022: AVM Gallery
Toulouse : 2005: Sculpture Biennial (ESA)
Montauban
2000-2003: Griffault Gallery
2010-2011: Avatar Gallery
2015-2019: Blandine Roques Gallery
Stranger
2001: Gallery of Riba Cadaquès, Spain)
2005: Canton Fair, China (with the Bréheret Gallery)
2005: Sculpture Biennale (Poznan, Poland)
Public purchases and catalogs
National Library of France. Library of Graphic Arts of Paris
Municipal Libraries of Toulouse and Montanban
Art libraries of Caen, Toulouse, Saint Maur, Cahors
o 1991 Delpech, Engraver and painter – Texts and poems by Marc Pietri
o 2000 Irons (reliefs on steel) – Text by Maxime Préaud
Suspended, heavy, sometimes animated by very slow waves which multiply the movement of the hanging bars, these sheets reflect the gravity of the bodies they evoke.
Prints, negatives of bodies, of trunks without legs, without arms, without heads, without sex or almost.
Body all the same, we recognize the torso, the attachment of a shoulder, the roundness of a hip.
Evoking ancient embalmings, foreign burials, burials without tombs, bodies without graves, blackened, burnt carcasses, the forms respond from work to work, emerging from the sheets, through superimpositions, or penetrating, turning their backs on the spectator, into a flat and supple world, dark and pale, rough and soft.
Catherine Ifergan
Nadine KOHN-FISZEL
Born in 1955 - Graduated from the ENSBA, sculpture section with honors, 1982. - Also works in the drawing, painting and engraving sections. - Thesis in Arts and Sciences of Art Paris I Sorbonne, L'auto-retrait, les voies de l'évidement, very honorable mention with unanimous congratulations from the jury, 2003. - Part of the thesis is based on issues inspired by Chinese calligraphy and painting; breath, emptiness, energy, line. - Studies in art history and aesthetics at Master's level. - Assistant to Dany Karavan from 1982 to 1984. - Artistic director at L'Imprimerie Nationale from 1987 to 1992. - Director of the artists' book collection, Collection Préférences at L'Imprimerie Nationale from 1992 to 1995. - Assistant to André Bruyère architect, as a visual artist for 15 years, created several monumental works for banks and hospitals in Paris from 1982 to 1992. - Also worked with other architects or for commissions in public and private places from 1980 to 1995. - Teaches art practice and theory until 2008. - Lectures on art, in France and abroad. - Interview in September 2007, on a cultural radio program J, l'Art et la vie, directed by Fania Perez, on my work following a personal exhibition. -
Personal exhibitions:
- Galerie des Grands Augustins 7500 Collages, 1978. - Galerie Peinture Fraîche 75007. Sculpture, bas-reliefs and drawing, 1982. - Galerie Un moment en plus, Drawings, 1981. - Espace Archy Ylzari, Paris 75009, Sculpture, 1992. - L' Appp'art Brussels, Belgium, burnt papers, 1989. - Centre Quang Lan – Transparence, works on paper, works on fabric, 1991. - Galerie Caractères, Paris 75005, A dessein, drawings, paintings, 2007. - Galerie Ego-Paris 2009, drawings, painting, Galerie Ego-Paris, painting exhibition of the Graphiterre series. - Fondation EMG art center, Beijing, May-June 2012, Festival Croisements. - EMG Art Center Foundation, Canton, June-July 2012, Croisements Festival. - This Festival is organized by the French Embassy and the French Institute with the support of the Chinese Ministry of Culture.
“Beyond lost bodies” Shuki Kook, curator, Tel Aviv -
Group exhibitions:
- Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris, 95, 2000, 2004. - Salon de Mai, de Montrouge, Réalités Nouvelles, several times each since 1980. - Work exhibited regularly at the Inter Atrium gallery in Porto Portugal. - Art fair Shanghai, 2010. - Art fair Canton, 2016. - Fincoach Exposition Isisexpo, 254, rue du Fbg St Honoré, 75008, Danielle Cohen, 2017. - Miami Acqua fair, 2018. - Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair, 2019. - Drawing from the series À dessein sold at public auction. Artcurial 2010. - Painting from the series Schmates sold at public auction, Artcurial.
Publications:
- Schmates, On purpose, Memory lane
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