Tout va bien: 6 artists from contemporary figurative painting

CHENUS LONGHI is pleased to present Tout va bien, an exhibition about a dystopian world where everything's fine, or almost fine. Under the guise of being reassuring, behind the expression "all's well" lies an individual and collective anxiety about a world that is disintegrating. An expression with a social role, which nonetheless shows a desire to be well, a desire for optimism.

Our exhibition focuses on contemporary figurative art through the work of 6 artists whose works express both our flaws and uncertainties, but also the beauty of what surrounds us, which sometimes hides in the interstices of our daily lives.

 

Rouge Hartley, a 35-year-old artist from Bordeaux, uses an unacademic pictorial language to take a look at living things, as light as the poetry of nature, and as heavy as the weight of the world. Julian Semiao, a 28-year-old Parisian artist, is developing a style of painting made up of lines and colors, which seeks to free itself from traditional codes, fleeing light and shadow, and which, in its relationship with reality, speaks to us of intimacy, couple and freedom. Nadège Dauvergne, combining rigorous drawing and chromatic knowledge, offers a body of work inspired by art history and contemporary society. Nicolas Marciano, a young Parisian artist, is interested in the world of childhood, and creates in paint heterotopias that are intended for children, spaces for play and life. For Argentinian artist Francisco Diaz Scotto (known as Pastel as a muralist), poetry lies in detail, with a painting that unfolds in the representation of flora, at once an ode to nature and a social critic. Finally, artist Hélène Planquelle explores our inner struggles in works that play with the use of resin and the notion of reflection and image depth, aiming to question ourselves.