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SHOWROOM
PERMANENT INSTALLATION,
WINTER, 2023 - 2024
PARIS-B is pleased to present its winter showroom, a permanent exhibition unveiling artworks from a selection of artists represented by the gallery.
Dorian Cohen employs a realistic figurative approach rooted in classical tradition to explore naturalistic genre scenes, urban imagery within landscapes and mirages. Structured as series, his works recounts woven snippets of the mundane by examining the interplay of pictorial and narration mechanics within each of these series.
“Dorian Cohen speaks of his “natural stories” in which he seeks an “inner naturalism”, those innocuous and repeated moments that tirelessly punctuate our lives, sources of ephemeral joy and tenacious melancholy. His fluid and velvety touch, never photorealistic but always perfectly neat, keeps in it the gesture of the painter, which makes it exciting. The artist never reproduces images using an overhead projector but draws everything by hand and you can feel that. […] In fact, each element of the decor, for which the eyes delight in their finesse, respond to each other and make sense.”
— Julie Chaizemartin, Journalist and art critic
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Dorian Cohen, exhibition views, Dans l’intérieur des silences (2023), PARIS-B, France
BIOGRAPHY
Dorian Cohen is a young French painter born in 1987. He lives and works in Paris. He has a degree in urban design and engineering and is self-taught as a painter. His paintings were revealed to the art world in 2017 during the 62nd Montrouge Salon. In 2018, he won the Colas Foundation Award and in 2019 he was nominated for the 10th edition of the Sciences PO Contemporary Art Award.
Often damaged with time, the sculptures are broken, fractured with limbs missing. Qi Zhuo got the idea to bring them back to life, to restore them in his own unique way: he’s going to use blown glass to fill the void, the lost fragment. Thus, a new life cycle is formed as the pre-existing artwork becomes another, evoking the bouddhist’s reincarnation cycle.
The chemistry occuring between the shape of the age-old originnal stone sculpture with the contemporary and delicate aspect of the colored glass carrying the statuette leads us into the peculiar, the incongruous which are concepts dear to the artist, for whom humor and transgression are natural forms of communication.
Qi Zhuo fuels his artistic practice with the daily experience of the semantic and linguistic miracles generated by cultural gaps and their long history of misunderstandings.
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Qi Zhuo, exhibition views, History never really says good-bye (2022), PARIS-B, France
BIOGRAPHY
Qi Zhuo was born in 1985 in Fuxin (Liaoning province, China). He graduated with honors from the Le Mans Higher School of Fine Arts (the DNSEP Diploma), did the post graduate program KAOLIN of the ENSA Limoges in France and the Geneva University of Art and Design in Switzerland, he has been working and living in France since 2008. He did a residency at the Fondation Martell in Cognac, France at the end of 2020.
Jacques Julien skillfully intertwines analytical and poetic elements with a touch of humor in his works.
To him, a sculpture serves as the inception toward the unseen, the absent corporeal form, or the vacant figure. Since the 1990s, the artist has dedicated his efforts to contemplating the essence of form: from its conception and realization to its eventual relinquishment.
Consequently, Julien’s artistic narrative revolves around the act of sculpting within the confines of the studio, where time unfolds and dissipates, mirroring the ephemerality of life. His creations are a succession of empirical experiments, striving to attain a semblance of autonomy congruent with the environment that birthed them. The persistent focus on the relationship to space remains essential in his explorations.
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Jacques Julien, exhibition views, 55 (2022), PARIS-B, France
BIOGRAPHY
Jacques Julien was born in 1967 in Lons le Saunier, he lives and works in Paris and Montdidier (80). He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Grenoble. He is a lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris la Villette. In 2021, he was in the art residency at the Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome. Since 2000, his work has been the subject of major exhibitions at the CRAC Occitane, the Frac Normandie and the Domaine de Chamarande. His works are also in numerous public collections such as the FNAC or the Frac Bretagne, Bourgogne, Pays de la Loire…
Léa Belooussovitch‘s explores the aesthetics of disappearance, in order to challenge our societal response to graphic violence. Her work, such as “Wrapped Bodies,” delves into the vulnerability of specific moments, shedding light on the artist’s humanity.
Recreating photographies documenting scenes of war, disaster or catastrophe using coloured pencils on felt, she blurs the image until it’s indistinguishable from the original. However the nebulous waves of colours, despite their ethereal appearance, still carry the violence of its template.
As such, the image comes forth as ephemeral as a ghost, resembling the imprint of its origin in our memories. Despite the viewer’s physical proximity to the artwork, they remain distanced from the harsh reality. This deliberate emphasis on the gap between the signified and the signifier is a central theme in her work.
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Léa Belooussovitch, exhibition viws, Le chant des cygnes (2022) and Eidôlon (2019), PARIS-B, France
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Paris in 1989, she currently lives and works in Brussels. After receiving a master’s degree in drawing from the ENSAV La Cambre in 2014, she was nominated for the 2016 edition of the Prix Révélations Emerige, she is also the winner of the 2018 edition of the Young Talents prize of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. In 2020, she was rewarded by the Prix des partenariats Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint Etienne Métropole in France.
Yang Yongliang, The Clouds, 2022, Single channel 4K video, 8’00” edition of 7 ex
Yang Yongliang examines the economic, environmental, and social challenges we grapple with, shedding light on the harmful aftermath of unchecked urbanization and industrialization both within China and globally.
Influenced by shanshui, a traditional Chinese style of painting depicting harmonious scenes of mountains and waters, Yang Yongliang’s artistic motif resonates profoundly with the aesthetic elements of landscapes.
Upon close inspection, intricate interplays of metal lattice towers, decaying skyscrapers, and man-made structures unfold. In contrast to ancient masters wanting to express nature’s stability, Yang Yongliang seeks to depict in his digital landscapes the ongoing volatile cycle of demolition and construction unfolding before him, particularly notable in his hometown of Shanghai.
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Yang Yongliang, exhivition views, Imagined Landscape (2023), PARIS-B, France
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Shanghai in 1980, he studied traditional Chinese painting with the calligraphy master Yang Yang for ten years. Photographer, painter, videographer and visual artist, he graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Design and the China Academy of Arts in the fields of visual communication and design. He is now a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Shanghai in 1980, he studied traditional Chinese painting with the calligraphy master Yang Yang for ten years. Photographer, painter, videographer and visual artist, he graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Design and the China Academy of Arts in the fields of visual communication and design. He is now a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art.