When?: March 24th – April 3rd 2022
Where?: Galerie Orbis pictus, 7 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris

It is in music, it is in jazz, that spring 2022 is celebrated thanks to an unprecedented musical collaboration with the French national radio FIP. To celebrate 40 years of jazz on the air, a wind of freedom will blow with the exhibition of a selection of portraits by Jesse A Fernandez of the greatest jazzmen and jazzwomen: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holliday, Eartha Kitt, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins… all this a stone’s throw from the museum which houses the works of another immigrant, Pablo Picasso.

The 1950s were synonymous in the United States with a fundamental movement for equal rights. Jazz musicians have overwhelmingly rejected “separate but equal” by taking a stand against any segregated gathering, concert, or event, in order to promote integration. Jazz was seen as the music of democracy and freedom shared by and for blacks and whites. And, it was the emergence of free jazz, a new genre that rejected the predefined norms of the time. Gone were the traditional melodies, rhythms and structures of the pre-war years, the sound became dense, modern, and often frenetic, bending the rules abandoning any notion of composition or arrangement for a music open to infinite possibilities.

Free thinker and humanist Jesse A Fernandez (Havana 1925 – Neuilly-sur-Seine 1986) knew how, with his eternal Leica, to seize as a visionary, intense moments of life and freedom. A visionary, he knew that these geniuses he was shooting would accompany and politically promote this new society in a prosperous America. It is therefore not surprising to find him, a true afficionado, among the spectators-actors of the Great South Bay Area Jazz Festival (1958) and the Newport Jazz
Festival (1960) which have largely contributed to writing the history of Jazz.

Like the music he photographs, Jesse refuses all established school rules, and any agreed pose or posture, he captures a very intimate and personal side of photographed characters and invites into an improvised musical journey.

Info :
Bio (pdf)
Web : www.orbispictus.art
www.jesseafernandez.com

© Estate Jesse A. Fernández / Collection F. Mazin
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport. 1960

© Estate Jesse A. Fernández / Collection F. Mazin

Miles Davis and Frances Taylor Davis, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, 1958

© Estate Jesse A. Fernández / Collection F. Mazin
Dizzy Gillespie, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport. 1960

© Estate Jesse A. Fernández / Collection F. Mazin
Miles Davis, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, 1958

When?: January 20th – March 22nd 2022
Where?: Galerie Orbis pictus, 7 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris

“Within Nebojša Bežanić‘s art of painting, everything starts and ends with a drawing. As one of the best European drawers, he has expanded human anthill with his drawing, and spread it over his own map of the world, which has neither beginning nor end. He includes countless figures in his map of the parallel world, small and big soldiers waging war for him. The painter is like the demiurge, God of one of numerous universes where human is given the significance different from the real one. The artist is no traditional minos, but the creator of the world, which operates according to its own rules, in agreement with space and fictitious time, which is lived faster and more existing.” writes Serbian critic Dejan Djoric.

The manicured human garden of Nebojsa Bežanić is timeless and explores with an abundance of details and symbols anatomy, monuments, curious objects, fairy animals… It is an invitation to understand the human world and soul, like a contemporary Hieronymus Bosch.

The recent and unpublished works on display are steeped in the artist’s signature style while embracing modernity with a ruthless, dizzying realism. The deliriously hellish scenes collide violently, and capture, with a lucid and sharp wit, the worst depravities of our times.

Info :
Bio (pdf)
Press release (pdf)

© Nebojša Bežanić
Evolution vs Revolution, 2021
Ink, watercolour and acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
Format : H75 x L110 cm

© Nebojša Bežanić
Africa, 2021
Ink, watercolour and acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
Format : H75 x L110 cm

© Nebojša Bežanić
After the glorious 30 (years) the appalling 40 (years), 2020
Ink, watercolour and acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
Format: H110 x L150 cm

© Nebojša Bežanić
Drunken boat, 2019
Ink, watercolour and acrylic on paper mounted on canvas
Format: H110 x L230 cm

© Carlos Munoz Yague
Nebojša Bežanić at work

When?: October 6–22nd 2021
Where?: Galerie Orbis pictus, 7 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris

A foray into the poetic yet actual world of Serguei who has been drawing the news for more than thirty years at the newspaper Le Monde…
A unique opportunity to take a different look at press cartoons without which our press would neither have the same strength nor the same flavor…

Serguei’s prints illustrate the role of awakening the gaze and conscience that press cartoonists have been over the generations.
 

Infos :
www.serguei.fr

© Serguei

Drought, 2019

© Serguei

Freedom of speach, 2020

© Serguei

Global warming, 2021

© Serguei

Technological ride, 2000

© Serguei

Le tango du dessinateur
Edition Hérodios. October 2020.
ISBN 978-2-940666-04-1

When?: September 2nd 2020 – February 6th 2021
Where?: Galerie Orbis pictus, 7 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris

An Afro-Asian masquerade staging:
– a Japanese photographer adopted by the Dogon country before reviving masks throughout the history of art in Paris, Tokyo, and Venice.
– an Ivorian artist who, from Abidjan to Paris, draws inspired by African traditional history and symbolism in a strong spirit of ecumenism.

Two artists with many treats in common: the delicate use of material, the work on the mask and its historical significance, technical mastery as well as a universal aesthetic the viewer can identify with even before venturing, if they want to, into the underlying conceptual meaning.

Their work is not about drama, artifice, vanity, pretense, sunblock, or sanitary measures. The two artists rather engage in a game of aesthetic hide and seek, and, through their work around the mask, offer us a very personal and original vision of humanity and its many facets.

Infos:
www.kimiko.fr
www.ernest-duku.com
Press release (pdf)

© Ernest Dükü
AKIINEH @ Mis A.NU.BIS repetitas. 2012
Drawing and collage on creased paper
Format : H85 x L66 cm

© Kimiko Yoshida
The tale of Genji XXXVIII. 2020
Archival pigment print on matt canvas, Japanese lacquer, gold powder, kakejiku
Format : H150 x L55 cm

© Ernest Dükü
IKODI @ S.R.S return, 2019
Drawing and collage on black Canson paper
Format : H21 x L14,8 cm

© Kimiko Yoshida
Meditation (Black cross by Malevitch, 1918, MNAM, Paris). Selfportrait, 2016
Archival pigment print on paper mounted on aluminium
Format : H50 x L50 cm

© Sitor Senghor
Galerie Orbis pictus

© Sitor Senghor
Galerie Orbis pictus