The Gallery
Emmanuel Alexandre gallery presents artists she loves, works she has selected with care and interest.
This choice is above all determined by the originality and the definitely INNOVATIVE side of these great masters of the second half of the 20th century, each in their difference having been the source of such a particular movement or expression, imprinted eternal in the history of Art. Victor Vasarely, (1906-1997) visual artist, father of optical art, having opened a
field of visual research into movement.
His work (paintings and sculptures) sometimes in black and white sometimes in bright colors is more relevant than ever and still a source of inspiration for contemporary creation and design. Witness the constantly increasing attendance of the amazing and splendid foundation of Aix-en-Provence of the great intergenerational master, appreciated by young and old. Georges Mathieu, grand master of lyrical abstraction, “Western calligrapher” according to André Malraux, artist of free gesture, spontaneous, daring and dazzling. His work is the expression of the spring of his creative force.
Time and time again the artist, like a canvas samurai, has given himself in public , over to the production of finished works in record time with lyrical force never equaled to the spectacular and masterful result. As early as the Christmas holidays, the gallery will offer a monumental painting from 1960 entitled The first arms of Thierry of Alsace (1.25 x 3.26 m). A battle scene in which all the vivacity and spontaneity of the master show through.
Let us retain the term calligraphy to make the link with the other immense abstract artist whose work will also be offered at the gallery (by appointment only): Zao Wou-Ki whose work is an ode to the forces of nature, air, water, earth dance under his brushes, but also to the interiority of being.
The gestural expression whose fineness of material, color and line refers to the Chinese origins of the painter, like an indelible imprint. Zao Wou-Ki was the friend of great poets, Henri Michaux, René Char, François Cheng … His paintings are strong, sensitive and immensely poetic.
Two great abstract masters confronted with Victor Vasarely, the famous inventor of optical art, the gallery’s flagship artist since its opening. Geometric compositions, sometimes colored, sometimes black and white, built with an almost scientific rigor. Three essential masters, forever inscribed in the history of art for their innovative and distinctive contribution.