Kamel Mennour is hosting an exhibition featuring Claude Lévêque, Christodoulos Panayiotou, and Kamel Mennour feat. Clo’e Floirat, titled “Special Projects” through January 14, 2017.A major figure in the international contemporary arts scene, Claude Lévêque uses neon for its status as a universal standard, reproducing sentences or simple words in a trembling, fragile script that contains his whole philosophy and throws the viewer back on her own experience. The exhibited sentences are fragments of language, liberating and incantatory affirmations that act like poetic correspondences between states of mind. It would at first be possible to read Christodoulos Panayiotou’s pulp paintings within a formalist perspective, as the subversion of a late-modern monochrome aesthetic, with paper itself, pulped, taking the place of gouache or oil paint. Each painting is of the color of its bank note, each time the dominant colors of the note blending into one color. Political and symbolic representation disappears under a monochrome mass, where all iconographic particularities have been washed away. With her synthetic line and her supremely recognizable characters, Clo’e Floirat makes use of the most limited means, sacrificing them at times for a touch of color, if really necessary. Her practice, which she describes as drawing Crit’writing, is its own form of art criticism, a way of inviting us to sharpen our eyes.The exhibition is at Kamel Mennour,47 RUE SAINT-ANDRÉ DES ARTS, PARIS 6. For details, visit: http://www.kamelmennour.com Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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