Mathilde Lestiboudois

For our first participation in Art Antwerp, we will present the work of Mathilde Lestiboudois as a focus, as well as pieces by Caroline Corbasson and David Kowalski.

For her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Mathilde Lestiboudois has created a new body of work, inviting viewers to wander through metaphysical landscapes with a surrealist aspect, halfway between unease and tranquility.

Bringing together the work of four women artists we collaborate with, our after summer hanging will showcase two artworks per artist, and create a link between a large and small work for each for them. No specific curation, simply a play on scale and perspective and, above all, the pleasure to dive in their respective universe.

With Caroline Corbasson, Alice Gauthier, Mathilde Lestiboudois and Valérie Sonnier.

For our participation at Art Paris this year, we are pleased to present a focus on the work of Mathilde Lestiboudois.

We will also be presenting works by Ghada Amer, Mohamed Bourouissa, Tacita Dean, Edith Dekyndt, Nicolas Dhervillers, Thomas Houseago, Anne Imhof, Emmanuel Régent, Mira Schor, Ser Serpas, Mircea Suciu and Pol Taburet.Nous montrerons également des œuvres et des éditions de Ghada Amer, Mohamed Bourouissa, Tacita Dean, Edith Dekyndt, Nicolas Dhervillers, Thomas Houseago, Anne Imhof, Emmanuel Régent, Mira Schor, Ser Serpas, Mircea Suciu et Pol Taburet.

At Paréidolie Fair, we'll be presenting the Indian ink work by Mircea Cantor. This body of work will echo the cultural richness of the city of Marseille with a series of "Masks" drawings - created in 2018 for the Musée de la Chasse - that resonate with their models, traditional zoomorphic masks from northern Romania. This presentation will be complemented by drawings evoking nature, a subject dear to the artist's heart.

We wish to promote the work of two young French artists. Mathilde Lestiboudois will present a set of previously unpublished drawings, with a surrealist atmosphere, constructed like dreamlike little theaters where time seems suspended. Also new, Alice Gauthier's drawings, a blend of gouache and watercolor, are inspired by the forms of living things, painting a poetic portrait of elements and souls.

The exhibition "Paradis artificiels" (artificial paradises) puts in dialogue, in a new way, the paintings of Mathilde Lestiboudois and the drawings and sculptures of Ellande Jaureguiberry, inviting us to plunge into phantasmagorical spaces, favorable to the deployment of conflicting feelings. We are invited to metaphorically cross uncertain zones, oscillating between the theater stage and the votive altar, between the built and its ornament. Of the same delicacy in the gesture that shaped them; of an identical will of precision while granting an importance to the qualities of the material; the works of these two artists activate a dance of the glance, sometimes caught by the effects of depth and the details, sometimes sliding on the smooth or powdery surfaces covering the support. They lodge us in a discomfort, a productive doubt by which the imaginary as well as the memory are awakened. Thereby, the familiar ricochets on the unknown, the real intertwines with the fiction.

Excerpt from Thomas Fort's text, art historian