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REVISIT: The artists gathered for an unprecedented group show to mark the two-year partnership between Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36.

For the past two years, Hatchikian Gallery has developed a partnership with Quai 36 to present artists working both in public space for mural projects and in workshops on canvases or various media. This duality fuels the momentum of practices that combine creative brilliance and aesthetic research, for the deployment of singular trajectories that have been able to establish themselves on the contemporary art scene. To celebrate the two-year success of this partnership, which has highlighted emerging talents from the field of urban art, Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36 present a group show that brings together the diversity of the visual propositions of the artists exhibited during recent seasons within this intersectional perspective between the gaze of a gallerist and that of art producers for places in transition. Audrey Hatchikian and Julie Frydman propose a dynamic scenography that combines the heterogeneous universes of the artists who have punctuated two years of encounters and events: an unprecedented encounter will mark the confrontation between the whimsical graphic gimmicks of David Bruce, the inspiring dreamlike architectures of Chazme, the organic colorations of Nelio, the captivating abstractions of Yann L’Outsider, the vibrant geometries of Simon Poter, the humanist calligraphies of Zepha and the magnetic chromaticity of the elements of Zabala.

Simon Poter, the vibrant vibrations of geometric abstraction

Discovering Simon Poter’s universe is a real delight because, while the artist inscribes his work within the movement of geometric abstraction, the formal rigour is dispelled by a striking rhythm that leads us into a resolutely vibrant momentum, and we feel intensely the full dimension of pleasure emanating from the artist’s approach.

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

Although the collaboration between Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36 continues through the exhibitions presented since the partnership was inaugurated in 2022, it is driven by a contagious enthusiasm that brings together the teams, curators, and artists to highlight talents yet to be discovered through original sets that stem from an affinity between personalities who above all enjoy working together and sharing their artistic emotions.

Zabala, pictorial realism with a prism of a striking chromatic topology

Although Pablo Zabala began drawing and painting at a very young age before freely developing his visual language in public space through the creation of graffiti and murals that quickly gained recognition, his interest in the artistic practice led him to study Fine Arts in Bilbao. In his view, an accomplished artist must humbly confront the great masters who have marked history and learn to master the techniques of classical painting in order to better forge his own unique identity. It is about inscribing oneself in the artistic common world that precedes us, whether by accepting it as a reference or proposing a path of rupture. To distinguish oneself and build one’s artistic identity does not mean erasing the past or denigrating history: let the nihilists have their illusion of their Promethean egos.

Chazme, a chromatic of the urban artifact

If architecture is the first art, the major art of designing and constructing spaces, it forms the matrix of Chazme’s pictorial research, a formal abstraction inspired by urban geometries and nuanced by a singular chromaticity that opens up a metaphorical perspective. The formal universe unfolding as a web of buildings represents what man encounters in postmodern contemporary life? Are they the internal labyrinths into which our dreams lead us? Are these artifacts meant to connect us or separate us, isolating us in wall-based segregations? Chazme’s work opens up endless questions, both intimate and societal.

Projections, a set design by Audrey Hatchikian and Julie Frydman for a group show by Chazme, Nelio and Zabala

Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36 renew their collaboration with an event that will open the year 2023: a Group Show, an exhibition of three internationally renowned artists whose universes will interact through an original set designed by curators Audrey Hatchikian and Julie Frydman. Chazme, Nelio and Zabala have transformed walls around the world with monumental and captivating works of art that evoke powerful associations, before exploring the canvas in the studio for a research that opens abstraction to new creative directions.

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Toxic, the irreverence of color

To see what Toxic looked like at the age of 18, the best way is to wander through the collections of the Whitney Museum in New York. Among Basquiat’s works, the canvas titled Hollywood Africans represents, in this unique visual language, a trio of artists formed by Basquiat himself, Rammellzee and Toxic, three «gangsters» stereotyped in the Hollywood myth, three Afro-American New Yorkers seeking to make their name in an even more inaccessible and ungrateful universe for talent from the margins, the suburbs and minorities. A series of words refers to the lackluster role reserved for blacks in the films of the golden age of cinema. Slashy, striped words that say a lot about the segregation that fractures society at the time.

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