“Le temps du printemps”: New group exhibition at CAC Meymac with Dorian Cohen.

A symbol of renewal, joy, blossoming and resurrection, spring is the promise of a beneficial tabula rasa, of a promising new beginning that chases away the darkness and gloom of winter. The first buds and the return of migratory birds, signs of spring’s arrival, are artistic motifs that have inspired many artists. Whether it’s Botticelli’s “Primavera” or Arcimboldo’s, Monet’s spring or Magritte’s, the word, etymologically derived from the Latin “primus tempus” meaning “first time, beginning, beginning”, is enough to summon up a palette of soft colors, warm tones, shades of green, floral motifs and light scenes. Like a window opening onto a nature in turmoil, the works dealing with this theme carry within them a vital impetus, a breath of life, a gentleness and an optimism that will be highlighted at our Spring exhibition.

Dorian Cohen is a French painter born in Paris in 1987. He lives in Paris and currently works in Aubervilliers. A graduate in urban engineering and urban planning, self-taught in painting, his work as a painter was revealed to the art world in 2017 at the 62nd Salon de Montrouge. In 2018, he won the Colas Foundation prize, in 2019 he was nominated for the 10th Sciences PO Prize for Contemporary Art and in 2020 he took part in the group exhibition Jeune Création 70 at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in Pantin. Since 2020, his work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions with Galeries PARIS-B in Paris and La Peau de l’Ours in Brussels. In 2024, the American gallery Long Story Short offered him his first solo show in New York.