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Amir Nave, From the body of the mortal, a split splits toward the other side, 2023, Encre sur papier, 27 x 20 cm
© Amir Nave, courtesy de l'artiste & galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris

In Situ - fabienne leclerc

La Galerie Rouge

L’Avant Galerie Vossen

Michel Potage 1949 — 2020, France

"Michel POTAGE Peintures et Dessins"

  • Michel Potage, Dans la vase, Technique Mixte, 130 x 195 cm

Michel Potage, Dans la vase, Technique Mixte, 130 x 195 cm

The theater is set in a workshop in the backyard of a house, a vast room renovated and transformed into a living space where, without a wall, there’s a kitchen, a living room and dining tables. It’s also an anecdote. It features two painters, the owners and a few guests who escaped from a Parisian vernissage that night. No one can say today where the idea for the duettist act the two painters performed came from, but large sheets of drawing paper, two pots of black ink and the calames Michel cut from reeds and stored in a corner of the room had to be set up on the parquet floor. The story begins as a friendly joust, at least in the minds of the spectators, whose pleasure is easy to imagine.

The difficulty of working in public lies in the painter’s obliviousness to the public; if he knows he’s being watched, he puts on an act, feigns passion or, more simply, does what he knows how. The first painter produced, honestly, perhaps intimidated by the presence of strangers, chatting with them, never forgetting them – an actor, then, but wasn’t all this (the place, the audience, the fictitious rivalry) theater? For the second, Michel, the calamus was transformed into a magic wand; no sooner had he touched it than he was transported elsewhere, where the transformed studio, the admiring public and even the other painter had disappeared. He drew; he danced; he drew while dancing, or danced while drawing, I don’t know – I thought of the rite of Tibetan shamans chasing away demons with phurba blows. The audience, joined by the first painter, watched him, aware that they were witnessing an exceptional event, a kind of contemporary mediumistic trance. Then Michel stopped, dispossessed by the drawing, calm again. He picked up the dozen or so leaves and offered them up. In their place, beneath his feet, a large black ink stain covered the parquet floor.

So Michel isn’t a painter, at least not in the usual sense of a tradesman – and the anecdote doesn’t say anything else. He’s a shaman. Long before this trance, in 1982, he had slept in a tent set up on sand in the gallery where he was exhibiting sensitive memories of his trip to Australia’s Aborigines. Here again, he wasn’t playing, he was an Aborigine, he was dreaming…
Excerpt from Olivier Cena’s text in the exhibition catalog.

Solo show of Michel Potage

From May 15th to June 14th, 2025

58 Rue Chapon
75003 Paris, France
06 60 22 25 02 avant-galerie.com

The gallery

For six years the gallery is creating a bridge between classical art and new medias

Gallery artists

Robie Barrat, Ronan Barrot, Louise Belin, DataDada, Énora Denis, Normal Harman, Julien Levesque, Denis Laget, Prosper Legault, Albertine Meunier, Anna Ridler, Robness, studio u2p050

In the thematic « Drawing »

Joachim Bandau, vue de l'exposition personnelle ''La Face cachée'', 2016, Galerie Maubert, Paris

Galerie Maubert

Joachim Bandau 1936, Germany

"Solo Show''



Anne Wenzel, Requiem of Heroism (monument II), 2010, Ceramic and wood, 45 x 63 x 58 cm, Courtesy of the artist and and Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

Anne Wenzel, Otto Dix

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"Anne Wenzel x Otto Dix"

Galerie Zlotowski

Pierrette Bloch, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Louise Bourgeois, Anne-Lise Coste (Uruk), Sonia Delaunay, Jochen Lempert, Sol Lewitt, Vera Molnar, Anthony Plasse, Helen Mirra, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Valmier, Arnaud Vasseux, Josselin Vidalenc, Zohreh Zavareh

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"chevaliers errantes"

In the thematic « Modern Art »

Xevi Solà, Nova, 2023, Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, 28.7 x 23.6 in

OPERA GALLERY

Amoako Boafo, Fernando Botero, André Brasilier, Bernard Buffet, Marc Chagall, George Condo, Paul Delvaux, Andy Denzler, Raoul Dufy, Philippe Hiquily, Alex Katz, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Gustavo Nazareno, Julian Opie, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Niki de Saint Phalle, Xevi Solà, Manolo Valdés, Kees van Dongen, Andy Warhol et Tom Wesselmann

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"Le Féminin"

Elizabeth Lennard, Flower Mold, Red, 2010.

Les Douches la Galerie

August Sander, Daniel Masclet, Anna et Bernhard Blume, Michel Journiac, Valérie Belin, Stéphane Couturier, Elizabeth Lennard, Henri Foucault, Denis Darzacq, Alain Fleischer, Patrick Tosani, Ghislaine Vappereau, François Kollar, Roger Catherineau, Bernard Plossu etc..

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"Dans ma cuisine"

Giorgio Morandi, Fiori, 1943, huile sur toile, 35,5 × 25,5 cm, Bertozzi & Casoni, Per Morandi, 2020, céramique polychrome et bronze, H. 50,5 × 31,5 × 32,5 cm Courtesy of Galleria Maggiore g.a.m.

Galerie d’Art Maggiore g.a.m.

Giorgio Morandi et Bertozzi & Casoni

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"La rencontre entre le quotidien et l’extraordinaire"

In the thematic « Painting »

GaHee Park, Incarnation, 2025, Oil on linen, 172.7 x 182.9 cm, Photo: Paul Litherland, Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin

Perrotin

GaHee Park 1985, South Korea

"Not Quite Tomorrow"

Alighiero Boetti, Entre chien et loup, 1988, Tapestry, Embroidery/fabric, 18 x 18 cm, Courtesy : Pron

Pron

Alice Gavalet, Alighiero Boetti, Bernard Rooke, Carlo Scarpa, Diego Giacometti, Ernesto Basile, Ettore Sottsass, Fausto Melotti, Gommaar Gilliams, Jane Yang-D’Haene, Kodai Ujiie, Lucio Fontana, Maurizio Donzelli, Niyaz Najafov, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Pietro Ruffo, Roberto Matta, Rémy Pommeret, Roger Herman, Ujiie Kodai, et Vittorio Zecchin

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"Exposition inaugurale"

Pieter Jennes, Il me tarde, 2025, Huile et collage sur toile / Oil and collage on canvas
190 × 170 cm / 74 13/16 × 66 15/16 inches
192 × 172 × 4 cm / 75 9/16 × 67 11/16 × 1 9/16 inches (encadré / framed)

Semiose

Pieter Jennes 1990, Belgium

"Le Bouquet manquant"

In the tour « Marais »

Osvaldo González - Descendencia, exhibition view - GALLERIA CONTINUA, Paris (C) Hafid Lhachmi - ADAGP Paris, 2025

GALLERIA CONTINUA

Osvaldo González 1982, Cuba

"Descendencia"

Adam et Eve, 2020-2021, bois, caisses de munitions, diptyque : 242 x 99 x 12 cm / 244 x 100 x 10,5 cm.

RABOUAN MOUSSION

Dimitri Tsykalov 1963, Rusia

"ELEMENTS"

La Galerie Rouge

Clarissa Bonet 1986, United States

"Clarissa Bonet, City Space"

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