Ingrid France, author on Hatchikian Gallery

March 16, 2024 by Ingrid France in Blog

RETROSPECTIV: the artists gathered for a unique group show to mark the two-year Hatchikian Gallery x Quai 36 partnership.

For two years Hatchikian Gallery has developed a partnership with Quai 36 to present artists working both in public spaces for murals and in workshops on canvas or different media. This duality fuels the momentum of practices that combine creative brilliance and aesthetic research, for the deployment of singular trajectories that have established themselves on the contemporary artistic scene. To celebrate the two years of success of this partnership which has highlighted emerging talents from urban art, Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36 present a group show which brings together the diversity of the visual statements of the artists exhibited during these last seasons within the framework of this crossed perspective between the gaze of a gallery owner and that of art producers for places in transition. Audrey Hatchikian and Julie Frydman offer a dynamic scenography which combines the heterogeneous universes of the artists who punctuated two years of meetings and events: a unique display will punctuate the confrontation between the facetious graphic gimmicks of David Bruce, the inspiring dreamlike architectures of Chazme, the organic colorimetries of Nelio, the captivating abstractions of Yann L'Outsider, the vibrant geometries of Simon Poter, the humanist calligraphies of Zepha and the magnetic chromatics of Zabala's elements.

March 4, 2024 by Ingrid France in Blog

Pol Quadens, sublimating matter: from beautiful objects to sculptures.

As a tireless aesthete, Pol Quadens draws the features of a world where the “commodity”, a fetish of transactional ugliness, would have escaped, ousted by the beauty of the object. As Kant wrote to establish the limits of extensive commodification, “Everything has either a price or a dignity”, Pol Quadens would perhaps say “either a price or a beauty”. Sublimating matter is an impulse that comes from childhood, a way of registering with the world, becoming a man, in transmitting a pride in designing and manufacturing beautiful objects that are irreducible to their function. Born in 1960 in Brussels, he develops a body of work whose outcome reconciles design and art.

13th October, 2023 by Ingrid France in Blog

Variation(s), Yann L'Outsider, a decade of formal abstraction in black and white.

Looking back on a decade of creation since his transition from the wall to the canvas to publish the monograph Variation(s), Yann L'Outsider must have experienced a dizziness, and this dizziness the viewer is also confronted with when he immerses his look into the dual abstraction of his works where the surges of light projected into the interstices of dark matter lead towards unfathomable infinities... Throughout the black and white series which have marked the last ten years, Yann L'Outsider has tirelessly explored the possibilities of form in the visual language of abstraction: an aesthetic of the letter, through the prism of typographic games, which extends its original urban practice in the workshop, but also an aesthetic of form in movement. Variations in the plural, which the artist seeks to capture, not in suspended snapshots but precisely in their dynamics of transformation, and it is indeed a singular vibration which emanates from his works, creating a tension in which we are, spectators, literally caught up.

September 9, 2023 by Ingrid France in Blog

From Château La Coste to the island of Naoshima, Tadao Ando's architectural design for exceptional artistic areas.

For art lovers, destinations offering both an exceptional environment and open-air museums are a real delight for an esthete looking for escapades to encounter spectacular works and architecture. From nearby Provence to the distant Japanese islands, let's visit two estates which have established themselves as essential artistic stops: Château La Coste, a wine estate in the foothills of the Luberon, and Naoshima, an island in the Seto Inland Sea in Japan. The link between the two? The architecture of Tadao Ando, Pritzker Prize 1995, whose purity poses a unique way of inserting the built into landscapes and capturing the light, to create the design of art places offering visual and sensory experiences unpublished.

August 11, 2023 by Ingrid France in Blog

Five contemporary art foundations to visit on the Côte d'Azur

Discover La Commanderie de Peyrassol, the Venet Foundation, the Maeght Foundation, the Hartung Bergman Foundation and the CAB Foundation, between Var and Alpes-Maritimes.

18th May 2023 by Ingrid France in Blog

David Bruce: the colors and figures of a joyful artistic impulse

David Bruce's artistic journey has taken place without premeditation, like a playful experience where colors and shapes appear as a way of maintaining a carefree relationship with existence, welcoming all opportunities to express the optimistic vibrations that lighten the gravity.

13th May 2023 by Ingrid France in Blog

Simon Poter, the dazzling vibrations of geometric abstraction

Discovering the universe of Simon Poter is a real delight because if the artist inscribes his work in the movement of geometric abstraction, the formal rigor is thwarted by a dazzling rhythm that leads us into a resolutely vibrant momentum and we feel intensely all the dimension of pleasure that emanates from the artist's approach.

6th May 2023 by Ingrid France in Blog

Geronimo, art between humanism and flamboyance

Geronimo aka Jumping Bull sees life in black and white, maybe that's why his existence is so colorful. Achromatopsia reduces his field of vision to shades of gray, the colors only exist in his memory and yet the character is flamboyant: his career and his resolutely iconoclastic art do not fit well with the conventions and closed reasons he follows. employs to shake up not without panache. However, it would be misunderstanding Geronimo to reduce him to the rock spirit and the stage lights that inspire a major part of his work: behind the scenes, the artist is interested in behind the scenes, in the invisible and to the left behind whom he honors in some of his works and for whom he engages in charitable projects. It must be said that he himself experienced both glory and abandonment, deviations from the road and “on the road again”: an intensity of existence in all its dimensions. It is indeed in prison, and he assumes it all the more so as the continuation of his course earned him a rehabilitation, that he approached artistic practice to channel his energy. Initially, canvases, technical tests and many portraits, canvases hung in his home without his assuming authorship and which very quickly aroused enthusiasm.

April 4th by Ingrid France in Blog

Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36 invite you to the Urban Art Fair 2023 from April 13 to 16 at the Carreau du Temple (Paris 3)

Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36, partners since 2022 for a series of exhibitions dedicated to artists from the graffiti movement, are participating in the 2023 edition of the Urban Art Fair, an international fair dedicated to urban art, which will be held from April 13 to 16 in the Carreau du Temple hall in Paris, in the Marais district. A 7th edition of the event which particularly honors women gallery owners and curators: Audrey Hatchikian from the eponymous gallery and Julie Frydman from Quai 36 are delighted to be among the new generation who are keen to offer original scenographies for to renew the way of highlighting the artists by emancipating oneself from the practices and categories which have until now codified the presentation of the works. Founded and chaired by Yannick Boesso, the Urban Art Fair Paris places great emphasis on women: it is directed by Morgane Perroy and has Magda Danysz on its artistic committee.

March 26, 2023 by Ingrid France in Blog

JUMPINCOLORS, duo show David Bruce & Simon Poter: the brilliance of color between pop figuration and geometric abstraction

If the collaboration between Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36 continues through the exhibitions presented since the inauguration of a partnership in 2022, it is through the momentum of a contagious enthusiasm that brings together the teams, the curators, the artists, to highlight talents to be discovered through original scenographies, coming from elective affinities between personalities who above all enjoy working together and sharing their artistic emotions.

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