With this group exhibition featuring Matthieu Pommier, Sixe Paredes, Pia Chevalier, Invader, Rosalie Maillard and Karolina Orzelek, the Jonathan Roze Gallery inaugurates its new permanent space at 4, Place du Parlement de Bretagne in Rennes.
THE GALLERY MOVES TO RENNES' HISTORIC SQUARE
After its first few months on Rue Leperdit, the gallery is moving to a permanent home at 4 Place du Parlement de Bretagne. Ideally located, it benefits from interesting spaces that will allow for the organisation of large-scale group and solo exhibitions. With its period parquet flooring, beams and typical façade, it has all the assets to fit into the contemporary Breton landscape.
For this inaugural exhibition, we invite you to discover the new works of artists represented by the gallery, in Paris or during the previous months in the Rue Leperdit space. On display are paintings by Adrian Falkner, a Swiss artist to whom we have already dedicated four solo exhibitions in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022 on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. For his first steps in Brittany, he unveils a series inspired by his work on circles, incorporating the assembly and sewing of canvas, characteristic of his recent creations.
Alongside him are Matthieu Pommier's gouaches on paper and oils on canvas. He too is presenting a new series of works, inspired by his summer travels. These feature themes dear to the artist, such as boats and fishing.
Also in the first room are two new ceramics by Pia Chevalier. More sculptures than vases, they embody her recent research into an enamel with an almost marbled effect. As delicate and elegant as ever, each piece is unique.
The well-known Invader occupies the fourth wall of this first exhibition room with four editions: silkscreen prints, lithographs referenced in his catalogue raisonné ‘Prints on paper’ and an Alias from Hong Kong, HK-50.
In the second room of the gallery, we first see Karolina Orzelek's oil paintings on wood.
An artist of Polish origin, Karolina lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris (in 2020) and her works were presented in the same year at the Le Feuvre & Roze gallery on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, during the “Faubourg des jeunes artistes” cycle, during which the gallery held its first exhibitions of young graduates or students from the Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Next to Karolina's highly contrasting painting is Rosalie Maillard's new work on paper. Still inspired by synapses, still organic, still intense, Rosalie's large drawing — now in her fifth year at the Rennes School of Fine Arts — is, like the previous one, done in watercolour, acrylic and coloured pencils on paper.
Finally, and it is a pleasure to show his creations once again, you will discover the latest paintings on paper and the original sculpture, in painted and enamelled metal, by Barcelona-based Sixe Paredes. Inspired by nature and the animal world, these works are also punctuated with enigmatic numbers and symbols reminiscent of earthly and celestial elements.