KAREN SWAMI : TRIBUTE TO BERND & HILLA BECHER

05/04/2023 – 10/06/2023

Galerie Minsky is pleased to present a new side of Karen Swami’s work through a solo exhibition that will open on April 5th 2023. A series of ceramic creations by the artist pays tribute to the two leading figures in German photography Bernd and Hilla Becher. Their photographs are put into dialogue with smoked stoneware pieces. Karen Swami brings new life to the industrial blast furnaces and water towers that were once crystallized by the German artists’ silver photographs, and then mostly destroyed.

Karen Swami has been working with Maison Liaigre for over 15 years and has undertaken special commissions for Dior and Guerlain. Her work has been exhibited at PAD Paris, PAD London and Art Basel Miami. More recently, Les Ateliers Courbet in New York showed her ceramics from December 2022 to January 2023.

LEONOR FINI

December 10th 2022 –  January 14th 2023

The Portrait of Victoria Pini, was painted in 1936 by Leonor Fini and has since then, stayed in a private collection. It is exhibited for the first time ever at Galerie Minsky.

ARNAUD LAVAL

 Galerie Minsky is delighted to present its newest exhibition dedicated to the meticulous and playful world of Arnaud Laval.

Since the mid-1960s, Arnaud Laval has been active in several creative industries such as theatre, fashion, animated film, decoration and children’s book illustration. From the ORTF to his apprenticeship as an engraver with Friedlaender, from Flammarion to Guerlain (1979, art designer) or Yves Saint-Laurent (1988, in charge of international decoration), from his work as a set designer to the direction of interior architecture for the Maison Lanvin (1992), he has demonstrated a tireless imagination and finesse.

LEONOR FINI

 REINE DE LA NUIT

Leonor Fini was only 17 when she had her first exhibition in Trieste, Italy. She precisely decided, at this moment, that she would become a painter. Her artistry then consisted mainly of familiar scenes from everyday life, as evidenced by l’Homme au Chapeau et aux Lunettes (1927), le Portrait du Triestin (1927), le Port de Trieste (1928) or La Visite (1924) currently exhibited. Bu as the writer and art critic Michel Nuridsany so aptly puts is “Leonor Fini is never where you expect her to be. Never”. Known  for her universe of hybrids and surreal monsters, the artist does not fail to remind us through the works mentioned above, of the richness of her work, but most importantly, her ability to surprise us.

Group exhibition

 SUMMER 2022

Antoni Clavé, Dongfang Tuquin, François Martin, Frantisek Janula, Henri-Jean Closon, Leonor Fini

The Minsky Gallery is pleased to present its new group exhibition “Summer 2022”, under the summer theme of pastels and shadows. Ochre, pink, pale blue, the pastels invoked by Leonor Fini, François Martin or Antoni Clavé echo the play of light that the summer sun provokes when confronted with the shadows it draws. The works guide us through the artistic illuminations that the sun could have placed on these canvases, in a similar way to those that Leonor Fini, Antoni Clavé, François Martin, Frantisek Janula and Henri-Jean Closon transcribe on their canvases.

The exhibition begins with Frantisek Janula’s broken, intersecting and rearranged mirror, revealing the multiple reflections that light can take on during the summer.

SAMY BRISS

April 7th – Mai 7th 2022

Samy Briss was born in 1930 in Issai, Rumania. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest (Camil Ressu’s studio) and acquired an international reputation in the seventies and eighties from frequent exhibitions, often several a year, in Europe, Canada and the United States.

The work of Sami Briss reveals an introspective, dreamy, timeless world which, despite the time that has elapsed since the Artist left his native land, seems largely inspired by his childhood memories, Rumanian folklore and icon painting.

MAX PAPART

March 8th – March 26th 2022

A Painter and engraver, whose motto was “art changes as life does”. Max Papart’s work evolved from a post-cubist figurative language to the expression of a pure abstraction. He combined flat shades of colours, collages of paper prints and other elements such as lace, thus mixing styles and materials in a well-balanced composition.

Win Knowlton‘s works on paper are disarming in their simple deadpan vocabulary of signs and symbols.

These drawings, where the color is the line and the line is the color, urge a rich panoply of forms to engage in a dynamic, subtle and complexly disjunctive dialogue with the physicality of the paper ground. The mysterious metamorphosis of marks and forms that float in amorphous space reinforces many vague and enigmatic references : traces of tribal rhythms, rituals and marks; oblique allusions to naïve and primitive ingenuity; hints of Paul Klee; echoes of Bauhaus and an insider’s flirtation with any number of post modern sleight of hands.

PIETRO  PIETROMARCHI

BOOK STEAM POWER

Book-signing 2nd of december

In the presence of the artist

EXHIBITION STEAM POWER

2nd December 2021 – 22th January 2022