Dehydrated lemons, acrylic, aluminium, brass, hornbeam, cherry and ash wood. 95 x 110 x 60 cm - ©photo Y.Bohac
Wooden spoon, flint, moss, branch, poppy pistils, epoxy resin. 8 x 38 x 7 cm - ©photo Y.Bohac
Ceramic - ©photo Y.Bohac
Lava, coral, mother-of-pearl, metal. 17 x 19 x 12 cm - Unique - ©photo Y.Bohac
Ash wood, crystal. 28 x 180 x 40 cm. Unique - ©photo Y.Bohac
Indian ink, graphite, watercolor pencil, acrylic,
oil & collage (umbel flowers & glitter) on paper.
28,5 x 20 cm - ©photo Y.Bohac
inkjet print on Hahnemule Photo Rag paper
40 x 60 cm - 1/3 ©photo Y.Bohac
Cherry wood, raku-yaki, stoneware, copper. 17 x 19 x 12 cm - Unique - ©photo Y.Bohac
inkjet print on Hahnemule Photo Rag paper
40 x 60 cm -1/3 ©photo Y.Bohac
inkjet print on Hahnemule Photo Rag paper
40 x 60 cm - 1/3 ©photo Y.Bohac
Ash bark, acrylic, copper leaf. 28 x 14 x 9 cm - Unique - ©photo Y.Bohac
Mountain ash wood, quartz tips, brass, acrylic. 135 x 64 x 20 cm - Unique. ©photo Y.Bohac
Dust, metal grids, Kevlar wire, aluminium tubes, motors Variables Dimensions - ©photo Y.Bohac
Video Animation , 05'26" - 2/3 - ©photo Y.Bohac
Thermomalleable plastic, phosphorescent paint, brass and Wood light Variables dimensions - Unique - ©photo Y.Bohac
Galerie Laurent Godin is delighted to announce a new exhibition bringing together the work of artist Hugues Reip (born in France in 1964) and Swiss painter and medium Elise-Catherine Müller (Hélène Smith) (1861-1929).
For this, his first exhibition at the gallery, the artist - whom Claire Le Restif described «as a gardener of the supernatural» on the occasion of his solo show at Crédac (Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry sur Seine) in 2018 - is putting together a series of mostly new works whose poetry and mystery seem to come from elsewhere. The exhibition brings together several types of work and a range of media: photographs that focus on a range of micro-events found during the artist’s walks; objects/ sculptures that have been cobbled together, delicately and patiently transformed (painted bark, hybrid and recomposed trees); new «noirs desseins «*, a series begun in 2009, in Indian ink and watercolour augmented by collages, a kind of «vision vending machine»; the film La Tempête, made in 2017, plunges us into the heart of natural phenomena (lightning, thunder, wind, rain); the installation Black Sheeps (2014) unfolds here in the centre of the gallery: a set of wires at the end of which hang 18 small heaps of dust that swirl a few centimetres above the ground. This work has recently been shown on two occasions: in 2018 at Crédac and in 2020 at FRAC Ile de France in Rentilly as part of the exhibition ‘Le Cabaret du néant’ (comm. Jean de Loisy). Through the prism of the macro and the microscopic, creating universes where the patient and delicate reality of work, the compulsive collections of small objects found or tinkered with, the mysteries of the studio... all this Hugues Reip manages to extract an almost surreal poetry, where the works seek to establish resonances between them. In this way, he uses banal, everyday forms to create irrational atmospheres that are as magical as they are disquieting, allowing visitors to enter another reality somewhere between «abstraction and magic».
*All the drawings made between 2012 and 2022 were recently published in the artist’s book Wonderama published by Editions Macula (text by Vinciane Despret).