Joseph Jeantet presents Ombre, a new body of works made with pure pigment, on canvas and on large-format paper. At the heart of the artist’s work: fragility.
For his fifth exhibition at the Galerie de l’Europe, Joseph Jeantet presents Ombre, a new body of works made with pure pigment, on canvas and on large-format paper. At the heart of the artist’s work: fragility. Volatile pigments, water, black ink: painting becomes a dialogue with matter, where each gesture calls forth the next and forms emerge like natural concretions. From deep blue to almost-black lapis, Joseph Jeantet continues his exploration of vibrant monochromes, transparency, and the unforeseen. Shadow is not the absence of light, but what allows light to appear: a threshold, a trace, a presence barely withdrawn from the visible. The fifth chapter in a collaboration begun in 2021 with the Galerie de l’Europe, Ombre marks the maturity of an approach in which painting, attentive to all the forces that may influence it, lets itself be traversed by what exceeds it.
Source: paris.fr — photo: ©JosephJeantet_Galerie_de_l_europe