This year, for its latest acquisitions, the Collection chose to focus on upcoming artists. After launching a call for projects to the new graduates from the Beaux-Arts de Paris at the end of last year, the works of fourteen of them joined the Collection right on time for the second instalment of the “Collective Transport” exhibition. But these young artists have even more to offer: full of vitality, they brim over with ideas and projects, and there are many ways to discover their work. Focus on the plentiful news of the artists that build the world of tomorrow...
Summer was a busy season for many of them:
Sophia Fassi presented her work at the Francès Foundation in Senlis,
Bilal Hamdad in
Perpignan, and
Guillaume Valenti at Parliament Gallery in Paris. But Fall
brings exciting new projects too, especially for painter
Ymane Chabi-Gara . The
future is looking bright for the young woman, who was the laureate of the 2
nd
edition of the Sisley Prize in March. Her work will be shown at the Hôtel des
Arts TMP in Toulon starting from the 4
th of December in the “
Fireplaces”
exhibition, which first took place in Paris in October. This event puts twelve
Revelations Emerige artists in the spotlight. And Chabi-Gara recently took part
in the
Phonomaton
podcast, which allows us to take a deep dive into her world even from a
distance...
Chelsea Mortenson is making herself heard
too. On the 10
th of December, she will give a speech on the way
artists can tackle climatic issues during a
conference
organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris. These same environmental
reflections are the main topic of
Nos Mondes Sauvages (Our Wild
Worlds), the magazine of the association
Colères du présent: a work by Mortenson is gracing its cover. In July, the duo
Elsa & Johanna celebrated the launching of their own book,
Beyond the shadows
(H2L2 Editions), based on the eponymous series of which the Collection owns two
prints.
Justin Weiler, a plastic artist, takes part
in the “
Dédale, un espace en
perspective (Dedalus, a Space in Perspective)” exhibition at the Cellier in Reims from the end of November until
February 2022. With the Tasseaux Brothers, he opens a cycle focusing on the
concepts of Anthropocene and ecosystem, and questioning the notions of
perception, space, and time. In Paris,
Katarzyna Wiesiolek is one of the
artists featured in the “Aleph-א" collective
exhibition held at Eric Dupont Gallery, where her drawings can be seen until
the 27
th of November. In Cologne, the prolific
Prosper Legault, who
just released a new track with Mad Rey, “
Atomic Dislexia”, has a solo show at
POP;68 Gallery until January, “It’s normal that everything is strange”.
And even if they don’t have an exhibition
going on at the moment, these young artists are still busy: “
Tempura Cockpit”,
the stage creation of
Léonard Martin and Elvire Caillon set up at the
Nanterre-Amandiers theatre will be presented again at the Théâtre de la Cité
Internationale in March 2022.
Winnie Mo Rielly is in residence at the Fondation
Fiminco and
Bady Dalloul was at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto at the beginning of the
year.
Lucas Leglise is currently working on algae, which he photographs (algae
farming in Finistère) and which he uses to develop his pictures, with the
support of the Mondes nouveaux [New Worlds] program of the Ministry of Culture.
Finally, some works by
Laura Tolen can be bought on the website of the online
gallery
Millenn’Art.
These make for many ways of exploring the possibilities opened by “Collective Transport”:
visitors can still explore its second instalment in the Société Générale
towers...
C.
Perrin
Photo : ELSA & JOHANNA, «Breakfast in America», BEYOND THE SHADOWS series, 2018