Night's arcana

15 March - 22 April 2017

Denis POUPPEVILLE - Victor SOREN - Isabelle VIALLE, painters
Hans JORGENSEN, sculptor

Night sets in, the lights of consciousness go out. The mind oscillates between fright and fascination. In the upcoming twilight, opposites are mixing and hybrid creatures are getting drawn. The being's hidden face reveals itself, breaking taboos and their cortege of transgressions, debaucheries, and death. The works of the exhibition "Night's arcana" as the ancient alchemists' secret formulas, present themselves as enigmas. Their mystery remains intact, no interpretation nor code will clarify their worrying strangeness. The displayed four artists explore each in his own way the depths of the night. Disturbing animal or human figures at Victor Soren's, interloping characters at Denis Pouppeville's, warriors and amazons looming out of the dawn of time in Hans Jorgensen's, barques stranded out of a distant journey in Isabelle Vialle's are such singular aspects illuminated by black light as an echo of the nights that inhabit us.

Galerie ART aujourd’hui

8, rue Alfred Stevens

Paris 9^ème (métro Pigalle)

wednesday-saturday 2.30 -7.30 pm

Contact : Marianne RILLON : 06 52 34 98 24

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

www.galerie-art-aujourdhui.com

Victor SOREN

Victor SOREN Au fond de la souille Pierre noire et techniques mixtes sur papier 48x68cm 2011

 Entering the universe of Victor Soren, is envisaging the unimaginable to confront tearing, pain, wound and death. Drawing after drawing, the artist develops with black chalk and charcoal the multiple faces of anxiety.
Wounded, amputated, mutilated animals agonize in the shade. Teddy-bears, dolls, relics of a devastated childhood play cruel games with enigmatic rituals. "His favorite material is black chalk... He draws with his fingers and his hands out of a real hand-to-hand with the image, sanding, scraping with the cutter, polishing with the fingers, developing over time all kinds of techniques from his invention ", writes Jean-Michel Maubert in the postface of his two short stories inspired by the work of V. Soren. These drawings that dig night of consciousness leave no one indifferent. But isn't this taste for darkness, a major trend of modern sensibility dating back from surrealism to romanticism, passing through symbolism and the marquis de Sade ?

Victor SOREN Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu Pierre noire et techniques mixtes sur papier 21x34cm

Isabelle VIALLE

 
Isabelle VIALLE Les échoués acrylique et pigments sur toile 38x46cm 2017

 Isabelle Vialle's new works, "Les Echoués - The beached" are in perfect continuity with its previous series, The Trees and Douves that we presented in 2015, as well as the "Chaotic Arteries" in 2017. From a theme to another, she is always painting abandoned things or beings, drifting to the heart of abandonment and to the brink of forgetfulness. "Les Échoués" evokes the vestiges of immemorial journeys. Boats ran aground somewhere. The night of memory swallowed them little by little. Their skeletons like empty chest cages or dry trees stand up and gently sink into the blur of a sky confused with earth.

Isabelle VIALLE Les échoués acrylique et pigments sur toile 50x40cm 2017

Denis POUPPEVILLE

Denis POUPPEVILLE Le magicien Technique mixte sur papier 55,5x67cm 2016

Denis Pouppeville is known for the singularity of his drawings (mixed media on paper). We have presented them in previous exhibitions. His recent works continue this process with unpublished oils on canvas. We wish to prove that Denis Pouppeville is also a painter! His generous impasto, as painting's body and soul, says otherwise the strangeness that defines his universe. The characters of Denis Pouppeville belong neither to the present nor to the past. The top-hat of which they are often capped, is not mark of an era, but a caricatural and paradoxically timeless trait, appearing here and there to meet a purely and only pictorial necessity. They are night owls staying beyond any anecdote. His parisian or from else-where nights, attract a large number of shady queer characters, crooks, mobsters and pimps, mackerels, cod-fish, sardines and few other fishes, girls, mostly prostitutes, and some bourgeois hanging around. Pouppeville gathers and drowns the crowd of these ugly fellows in the jubilatory black colourfulness of his pictures.

 Denis POUPPEVILLE Un grand et un petit Huile sur toile 73x92cm 2016

Hans JORGENSEN

Hans Jorgensen Amazone (détail) bois polychrome 120 x50x36cm 2016

With Hans Jorgensen's sculptures, we are in a completely different world: that of primordial myths which are the origin of cultures, Greek, Nordic or African one, who cares! From telluric forces's night, the artist makes warriors and amazons emerge like infernal divinities. Powerful and archaic figures, carved out of the wood, they draw their strength from the tree out of which they were born and from which they keep the wounds. Hans Jorgensen's robust warriors shout silently their suffering out, echoing the suffering of the world.

Hans Jorgensen Guerrier IV bois polychrome 80x30x32cm 2016

Biographies

Victor SOREN

 Born in 1967, spent his childhood at the Pouliguen. After a poor school education, he entered the Fine Arts School of Nantes for only a few months. Then he shut himself up in an old Nantes house loaned by his grandmother. This is where his universe will be born. Every night he draws in a great exaltation. Very solitary, he does not frequent the local artistic milieu and never shows his drawings. After a few years in Brittany, he settled in Paris where he met the work of Louis Pons and the gallery owner Béatrice Soulié who organized his first exhibition. Meets ART aujourd'hui gallery in 2015. 2009 and 2011: Personal exhibition, Galerie Béatrice Soulié, Paris 2010: Collective exhibition "Around Kubin" at the Abbey of Auberive 2011: "Le Salon des refusés" collective exhibition, Galerie Béatrice Soulié, Paris, 2013 . 2015: Outsider Artfair Paris. 2014 - Night Carnival, Espace Eqart Gallery, Marciac, (Gers). 2016 ART aujourd'hui gallery : The angel of the odd, Minimenta.

Denis POUPPEVILLE

 Born in 1947 in Le Havre. Studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked as a press illustrator (Le Fou parle, L'Express, Le Monde, Le Magazine littéraire). He also taught at the Faculty of Arts of Amiens and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
Since 1980, numerous exhibitions in France (Galerie Béatrice Soulié, Paris, Abbey of Auberive etc.) and abroad (Brussels Art Fair, Lausanne, Geneva, Tokyo etc.). Several retrospectives have been devoted to him as in 2011 at the Fort of Condé and in Fécamp at the Benedictine Palace.
Permanently at the ART aujourd'hui gallery. Exhibitions: The Angel of the odd. (2016)

Denis Pouppeville has also illustrated numerous literary texts: Jules Renard, Jean Paulhan, Louis Calaferte, Gilbert Lascault, Alfred Jarry, Lionel Bourg, Léon Bloy, (Fata Morgana editions).
In 2016, "Les fumeuses fatales" Gilbert Lascault, (ed. Fata Morgana) "La scie patriotique" Nicole Caligaris, (ed. Le nouvel Attila)

Isabelle VIALLE

Born in 1970 in Paris. After studying Plastic Arts in Rennes and Lille, moving to animated cinema, she devoted herself entirely to painting since a three-year-old artist's residence in Troyes where she animated courses at the Beaux-Art School .

First collective exhibition with O. de Sagazan (The face loses its face), then collaboration with the Gallerie du Rat Mort in Ostend. Since 2003, she has participated in many collective and personal exhibitions in galleries, heritage places, fairs and exhibitions in Europe (Salon de Mai Paris, Art Up Lille, St'Art Strasbourg, Museum of Visual Arts Heraklion ...).
A three-year stay in Greece allows her to learn iconography, in 2013 she presents an exhibition of drawings, paintings and photos at the French Institute of Thessaloniki and Rome.
In 2014 she published a monograph with the editor Jacques Flament and in 2015 she received the Critics' Prize at the ArtCité festival (Fontenay sous Bois).
Some of her works are in the collections of the French Consulate in Thessaloniki, the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki, the Troyes City Hall, and the Arthoteca "La sécu Espace d'Art Contemporain" in Lille.
Works permanently at Galerie ART aujourd'hui. Exhibitions:
Eloge du petit format (2013) La part de l'ombre (March 2015) Des Arbres: Around Prassinos (June 2015)

Hans JORGENSEN

Graduated from the Fine Arts School of Copenhagen in 1976. He devoted himself to painting and spent several years in Morocco and Spain, where he made numerous exhibitions. Definitely settles in France in 1990, leaves painting and turns to sculpture.
Exhibited in numerous galleries, in France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland etc. Including recently: 2014 Galerie L'âne bleu Marciac - J.Marc Laik Gallery, Koblenz, Germany - 2013 Cultural Center Louftemont (Belgium) collective exhibition organized by gallery La Louve. - Galerie Jakez, Pont-Aven - Egregore Gallery, Marmande - Galerie Le coeur au ventre Lyon - Price: Miroir de l'art / Artcité-Fontenay 2015. Artworks permanently at Gallerie ART aujourd'hui since dec. 2013. solo Exhibition (with I. Vialle, painter and drafstmen JM Cartereau - Ch. Biskup) : La part de l'ombre (March 2015).

Exhibition's images

 Pierre Deloffre's video

Photo report PhR.