When: March 20th – 30th 2024
Where?: 7, rue du Thorigny
75003 Paris

A non-profit association, the Lézards is the story of a friendship between its members who have in common the same desire to explore, discover, and meet contemporary artists, visit workshops, discover artistic trends, be anchored in the contemporary art world, and at the end acquire works to be shared.
After having exhibited in September 2022 43 works acquired from 43 artists between 2007 and 2022, the Lézards are proud to grant an award to the most noticeable artist of the lates round of acquisitions (2019-2022), Jérémie Lenoir. The prize consists in holding a 10-day exhibition in a Parisian gallery.
For the past 15 years, Jérémie Lenoir’s work makes up an anthropology of contemporary landscapes while at the same time exploring the limits of the photographic medium. Photography, only photography, always photography.

Lenoir’s images deflect the idea of objective or documentary photography and shift our gaze, resulting in a transfiguration of reality, questioning the meaning, history, and intimacy of the world around us.

This articulation of the aerial point of view challenges the ability of the photographic medium to reproduce the real and of our landscapes to fall within a law of identity. In this way, his “paintings” put forward a rereading of contemporary terrains where real and imaginary, presence and absence, retraction and attraction, distance and abandonment enter into dialogue.
So, what do we see? Flints in macro? Wrinkles on one hand? Drifting icebergs? We transmit our own artistic references into these artworks, such as our vision of a childish, dreamlike, scientific, or purely sensory world… we read multiple cosmogonies that I invite you to decipher, convinced of the imperative need to create, through imaginary, an intimacy with the world around us.

Info :
Press release (pdf)
7lezards.net
www.jeremielenoir.com

© Jérémie Lenoir

Construction site, Achères, 2012
Direct print on Dibond
80 x 80 cm

© Jérémie Lenoir

Storage, Duisburg, 2020
Direct print on Dibond
120 x 120 cm

© Jérémie Lenoir

Storage, Amsterdam 2021
Direct print on Dibond
80 x 80 cm

© Jérémie Lenoir

#6559115, Salt Lake, 2017
Direct print on Dibond
80 x 80 cm

© Jérémie Lenoir

Topology #9, 2024
(Mine, Golconda, 2017)
Tar paint and white ink on Dibond
50 x 50 cm

When?: November 10th – December 23rd 2023

Where?:: Galerie Orbis pictus
7, rue du Thorigny
75003 Paris

In the context of the 2023 edition of Paris Photo and as part of Photo Days during Paris’ “Le Mois de la Photo”, the gallery Orbis pictus is exhibiting the work of Kimiko Yoshida, the greatest living Japanese photographer.

An emblematic specialist of the self-portrait, unfettered by rules and codes, Kimiko takes a new look at our society without forgetting ancestral traditions.

In this exhibition the artist will be presenting works that are elaborated in collaboration with prestigious craftsmen, the living national treasures, the suppliers to Japan’s Imperial House, offering us lacquered images (urushi-e): traditional imagery that is applied with traditional lacquer and powdered gold or silver over the self-portrait of the artist printed on a mat canvas. The result is a double-image, an image from a period long ago superimposed over a contemporary one.

Infos :
Press release (pdf)
www.kimiko.fr
orbispictus.art

© Kimiko Yoshida

Urushi-e (Hokusai on Mao)
Archival pigment print on matt canvas, Japanese lacquer, gold powder, gold frame
71,5 x 71,5 cm

© Kimiko Yoshida

Urushi-e (Sakura on Botticelli)
Archival pigment print on matt canvas, Japanese lacquer, gold powder, gold frame
71,5 x 71,5 cm

© Kimiko Yoshida

The Tale of the Genji XLIV (Athena), 2022
Archival pigment print on matt canvas, Japanese lacquer, gold powder, kakejiku
200 x 110 cm

© Kimiko Yoshida

The Tale of the Genji LVIII (Phoenix), 2022
Archival pigment print on matt canvas, Japanese lacquer, gold powder, kakejiku
200 x 110 cm

© Kimiko Yoshida

The Tale of the Genji XII
Archival pigment print on matt canvas, Japanese lacquer, silver powder, silver frame
97,5 x 97,5 cm

© Kimiko Yoshida

The Tale of the Genji XXI
Archival pigment print on matt canvas, Japanese lacquer, silver powder, silver frame
97,5 x 97,5 cm

When?: September 8th – October 3rd 2023

Where?: Knust und Kunz
Ludwigstr. 7
80539 Munich

In our world several knowledge interfere with our human and immaterial lives. In the Akan universe, the ancestors are souls who are present but cannot be seen. Like the Boson, one of the four quantum energies revealed by nuclear physics, which cannot be seen by eye, the ancestors accompany us without our being able to detect them.

Ernest Dükü brings to light in this exhibition “Invisible Ancestor”, the Bosons, particles of quantum light with the Akan Bosons which, in their own way, offer us their light to access the understanding of the complexity of the world.

Info:
Bio (pdf)
Web

© Ernest Dükü

Rêve orange @ Chaos cosmique all this times (2023)
Encre et acrylique sur papier Canson noir
H65 x L50 cm

© Ernest Dükü

6 for the future @ Awalé en éclats (2023)
Ink and acrylic on Black Canson paper
H65 x L50 cm

© Ernest Dükü

Ô sortie du froid TUM TUM @ Maatancestor FRH isotope 004 (2018)
Ink, acrylic, watercolour, ball pen and collage on creased paper
H80 x L70 cm

 

When?: May 12th – 14th 2023
Where?: Photodoc
Halle des Blancs Manteaux
75003 Paris

In Palermo there is a cemetery unlike any other: the catacombs of the Capuchin convent. Since 1599 on for almost three centuries, a whole society has been buried there, from the humblest to the most noble: princes, bishops, and public figures. Reclining or upright, isolated or in groups, here the dead have not been buried, hidden forever from the eyes of the living. Here, they are displayed, staged, and deeply moving; corpses whose mummification has preserved their clothing, attitudes, and expressions in a particularly disturbing way.

In black and white, using the little natural light escaping from the few light shafts, is an extraordinary photo reportage that Jesse A. Fernández made in 1980 for his friend Anne de Margerie, then director of Éditions du Chêne. With striking images, at times so poignant as to be unbearable, the expressive nature of these mummies seems to invite us to follow a sort of grandiose and funereal opera in which the glory, vanity, misery and decay of the world play the leading roles.The juxtaposition of a well-known figure and «his mummy», as Jesse A. Fernández might well have imagined, allows the visitor to Photo Doc to
look without looking away at this preserved humanity, explained in the extraordinary Capuchin convent. The diptychs presented by the gallery today allow us to perceive all their meaning.

Infos :
Communiqué de presse (pdf)
orbispictus.art

© Jesse A. Fernández

Checkmate.
Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1956
Catacombs of the convent of the Capuchins, Palermo
Vintage and modern silverprints

© Jesse A. Fernández

Dandy
Catacombs of the convent of the Capuchins, Palermo
Salvador Dali, New York, 1958
Vintage and modern silverprints

© Jesse A. Fernández

Premonition
Miles Davis, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, 1960
Catacombs of the convent of the Capuchins, Palermo
Vintage and modern silverprints

© Jesse A. Fernández

Success
Catacombs of the convent of the Capuchins, Palermo
Françoise Sagan, New York, 1956
Vintage and modern silverprints