Exhibition "POLYRYTHMIE" d'Antoine Brot
Schedule
Tue Sep 16 2025 at 10:30 am to 06:30 pm
Location
France, Paris, Rue Biscornet, vanities gallery | Paris, IL
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Exhibition from September 18 to October 19 2025Opening reception on Thursday September 18 2025 from 6:30 pm
The exhibition Fragments in Suspension presents the pictorial work of Antoine Brot who graduated in 2025 from the third year of the Beaux-Arts in Paris. His practice explores the possibilities of painting through traces accidental or unforeseen gestures embraced as triggers of the creative process.
Each canvas is born from a dialogue with matter: drips erasures reworkings or random outbursts become the very structure of the composition. The artist conceives his paintings as a field of experimentation where layers ruptures and rebalancing overlap.
Rejecting static painting Antoine Brot favors movement and transformation. His works are constructed in series in dialogue with one another sometimes modified after a period of withdrawal. They open a discontinuous space where each image calls for the next like a window into an expanding universe.
The artist speaks of “chimeras” hybrid and fragmentary forms never fully asserted but always in becoming. This work questions the boundaries between figuration and abstraction real and imaginary visible and suggested. Recurring motifs—pearls spheres draperies or foliage—appear as fragments in suspension carrying a memory or an absence.
Antoine Brot’s approach can be compared to that of Ellen Gallagher whose works combine layers erasures and recurring motifs to produce hybrid images between figuration and abstraction. Like her he creates tension between surface and depth but distinguishes himself by privileging accident and the unforeseen as the initial driving force of the painting.
His approach also resonates with the experiments of Mark Bradford who builds his canvases from successive layers fragments and erasures. Whereas Bradford works from urban and social materials Antoine Brot moves toward a more cryptic and poetic dimension where forms appear as suspended chimeras.
Finally his work evokes in certain aspects that of Charline von Heyl who explores the limits of image and abstraction through reworkings and ongoing recompositions. Antoine Brot shares with her this logic of metamorphosis but his universe stands out through the pursuit of a floating timelessness and talismanic motifs.
This painting inhabits an in-between space where the metamorphosis of bodies and forms becomes the site of a sensitive experience. It echoes Paul Valéry’s words: “The deepest thing in man is the skin.”
Through this approach Antoine Brot opens a pictorial field where matter in perpetual mutation retains the trace of its own transformations.
From Tel quel by Paul Valéry published in 1929
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