Berthet-Aittouarès
Daniel Pontoreau , France
"Sculptures"
CARTE BLANCHE
Daniel Pontoreau, exhibition at Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès from May 23 to June 29, 2024 © Odile Aittouarès
After his solo exhibition in 2023 at the Museum of Ceramics in Belgium – Keramis – Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès presents Daniel Pontoreau with 20 sculptures: wall works and works in space, created between 2002 and 2023.
“I came to sculpture through a direct, intuitive, manual approach to elements: through an interest in the most diverse techniques, the physical and spatial organization of things” – Daniel Pontoreau
From violent matter to mastery of gesture, from primitive feeling to mental feeling, Daniel Pontoreau cultivates contrasts. His forms, intentionally simple, sometimes receive the mark of an engraved line, a delicate drawing, like a scarification on the surface. We understand that Daniel Pontoreau is not seeking the spectacular but rather a simplicity of effect. Daniel Pontoreau is also a space builder, and each exhibition becomes an installation in itself.
“I do not want to dictate the reading, I invite,” he says, “to the contemplation of a space of awake dreaming.” This is how he offers the viewer a new way of approaching their journey.
Solo show of Daniel Pontoreau
From May 23rd to June 29th, 2024
Rendez-Vous
Saturday 25 May 2024 at 11:00 am
Meeting with the artist Daniel Pontoreau
75006 Paris, France 14 Rue de Seine
75006 Paris, France 0143265309 www.galerie-ba.com
The gallery
Michele Aittouarès founded Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès in 1986. In 2000, she was joined by her daughter, Odile Aittouarès, an art historian and author of the catalogue raisonné of Friesz, co-founder of the Festival Photo St. Germain, and of the Association JeudiDesBeauxArts.
Their collaboration began with the exhibition "China-West or the adventure of the sign" featuring Zao Wou-ki, Mark Tobey, Jean Degottex, Henri Michaux, and Shan Sa.
The gallery occupies two spaces on the Left Bank; initially at 29 rue de Seine, then at 2 rue des Beaux-Arts, the former gallery of Pierre Loeb.
Mother and daughter specialize in modern and contemporary art with a focus on informal art from the 1950s to the 1980s. They are authorities for artists such as Jean Degottex, Hans Hartung, Pierre Tal-Coat, Henri Michaux, André Marfaing, Vera Molnar, and Mario Giacomelli.
Gallery artists
Maria Albanese, Eric Antoine, Eve Aschheim, Georges Badin, Pierre Bonnard, Gregorio Botta, Marie-Claude Bugeaud, Claude Buraglio, Pierre Buraglio, Amélie Chabannes, John Craven, Jean Degottex, André Derain, Jean Dieuzaide, Bernard Faucon, Sophia Fassi, Anne Ferrer, Marc Ferroud, Pascal Frament, Daniel Frasnay, Mario Giacomelli, Hans Hartung, Laszlo Horvath, Bertrand Hugues, Elvire Jan, Marine Joatton, Peter Knapp, Giulia Manset, André Marfaing, Gastineau Massamba, Henri Michaux, Vera Molnar, Georges Noël, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Jacques Prévert, Antoine Schneck, Jean-Pierre Schneider, Malick Sidibé, Pierre Tal Coat, Alain Turpault, Claude Viallat, Etienne Viard, François Weil, Zao Wou-Ki, Nil Yalter
Galerie sélectionnée par Laurence Maynier
