SMOKE – PARIS XCHNGE LONDON – curated by
Stephane Lebenson, Martin J Tickner and Sean McLusky

Private View: Thursday 06 February 2020, 6.30-10pm
Exhibition dates:  07 – 29 February 2020
First Thursday: 06 February 2020, 6.30-8.30pm
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6pm
Sunday by appointment (please ring office for entry)

YUVAL SHAUL

ROMAIN RIVIERE

LEE SOL

HEIDI MORIOT

LUCAS PRICE

DERRICK SANTINI

DOPPELDENK

JOACHIM ROMAIN

MANON MOLESTI

MYONG HO LEE

PHILIPPE SOUSSAN

ARNIE

OBVIOUS

Two influential european galleries offer XCHNGE – PARIS XCHNGE LONDON – Lebenson Gallery and GALLERY46 – present ‘SMOKE’ & ‘STRENGTH’. 

Artists featured in ‘SMOKE’ curated by Stephane Lebenson (of Lebenson Gallery, Paris) presented at GALLERY46 are YUVAL SHAUL, ROMAIN RIVIÉRE, THINK, LEE SOL, HEIDI MORIOT, LUCAS PRICE, DOPPELDENK, PHILIPPE SOUSSAN, JOACHIM ROMAIN, MYONG HO LEE, DERRICK SANTINI, ARNIE & OBVIOUS.

Only the smoke can elevate us among a pile of insignificant images, a smoke which covers, veils, reflects. The smoke puts everything into distance which is the only luxury in art. This smoke is literally relevant in the work of ROMAIN RIVIÉRE where the smoke is getting between our vision and the objects, “smoking” all the limits of narration. But by its absence, the smoke becomes an element of the invisible, a-non image, an essential disturbance to the common reading. 

Getting an invisible smoke in art is the art of disturbance, which happens to be at the centre of the dyslexia of reality by PHILIPPE SOUSSAN with his series of chairs, or the essential disruptive alterity in the case of Obvious where the algorithm give us to see a visage, a presence unseen before. ARNIE gets into the inner blue vision of a metal soul, giving a soul to the digital flux. YUVAL SHAUL, leans us to the abysses with his porcelain shark submarine and antler boats from Pearl Harbour. 

Smoking, if only I could again, in a fucking lonely cinema in St Germain!

 

The importance of a curatorial exchange to bring together and unite peoples & cultures has perpetually been the role of artists and galleries, not just in times of turmoil and right wing politik – the necessity to engage, embrace and bond sensibility and action is a vital and intrinsic purpose.

The XCHANGE of perspectives and ideas that come from artists and galleries in their respective climate and culture gives understanding of differences in nuance and perspectives the artist and curators attain without thought and allows the audience to understand an insight if the differences can be detected or seen.

Whilst ‘STRENGTH’ heads to Paris from GALLERY46 – with artists -DAVID HUGHES & PAUL DAVIS, JUNG SANG SUB, JONATHON REDING, KERIM RAGIMOV, SEAN DOWER & SEULGI KANG – transplanting key curatorial culture, weaponising galleries and artists in this climate of separatism and divisiveness. 

Private View: Thursday 06 February 2020, 6.30-10pm
Exhibition dates:  07 – 29 February 2020
First Thursday: 06 February 2020, 6.30-8.30pm
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6pm
Sunday by appointment (please ring office for entry)

YUVAL SHAUL

ROMAIN RIVIERE

LEE SOL

HEIDI MORIOT

LUCAS PRICE

DERRICK SANTINI

DOPPELDENK

JOACHIM ROMAIN

MANON MOLESTI

MYONG HO LEE

PHILIPPE SOUSSAN

ARNIE

OBVIOUS

Two influential european galleries offer XCHNGE – PARIS XCHNGE LONDON – Lebenson Gallery and GALLERY46 – present ‘SMOKE’ & ‘STRENGTH’. 

Artists featured in ‘SMOKE’ curated by Stephane Lebenson (of Lebenson Gallery, Paris) presented at GALLERY46 are YUVAL SHAUL, ROMAIN RIVIÉRE, THINK, LEE SOL, HEIDI MORIOT, LUCAS PRICE, DOPPELDENK, PHILIPPE SOUSSAN, JOACHIM ROMAIN, MYONG HO LEE, DERRICK SANTINI, ARNIE & OBVIOUS.

Only the smoke can elevate us among a pile of insignificant images, a smoke which covers, veils, reflects. The smoke puts everything into distance which is the only luxury in art. This smoke is literally relevant in the work of ROMAIN RIVIÉRE where the smoke is getting between our vision and the objects, “smoking” all the limits of narration. But by its absence, the smoke becomes an element of the invisible, a-non image, an essential disturbance to the common reading. 

Getting an invisible smoke in art is the art of disturbance, which happens to be at the centre of the dyslexia of reality by PHILIPPE SOUSSAN with his series of chairs, or the essential disruptive alterity in the case of Obvious where the algorithm give us to see a visage, a presence unseen before. ARNIE gets into the inner blue vision of a metal soul, giving a soul to the digital flux. YUVAL SHAUL, leans us to the abysses with his porcelain shark submarine and antler boats from Pearl Harbour. 

Smoking, if only I could again, in a fucking lonely cinema in St Germain!

 

The importance of a curatorial exchange to bring together and unite peoples & cultures has perpetually been the role of artists and galleries, not just in times of turmoil and right wing politik – the necessity to engage, embrace and bond sensibility and action is a vital and intrinsic purpose.

The XCHANGE of perspectives and ideas that come from artists and galleries in their respective climate and culture gives understanding of differences in nuance and perspectives the artist and curators attain without thought and allows the audience to understand an insight if the differences can be detected or seen.

Whilst ‘STRENGTH’ heads to Paris from GALLERY46 – with artists -DAVID HUGHES & PAUL DAVIS, JUNG SANG SUB, JONATHON REDING, KERIM RAGIMOV, SEAN DOWER & SEULGI KANG – transplanting key curatorial culture, weaponising galleries and artists in this climate of separatism and divisiveness.