Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard
Gregory Hodge , Australia
"Solo Show Gregory Hodge"
Gregory Hodge, Bloom, 2024. Acrylique sur lin, 230 x 160 cm © Gregory Copitet - Courtesy Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard
Recently settled in France, Australian painter Gregory Hodge will begin a residency at the Cité des Arts in 2024, where his research will focus on the influence of tapestries from the Manufacture des Gobelins on Nabis paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard and Denis at the Musée d’Orsay. In his recent paintings, where nature is omnipresent, the artist uses specially hand-crafted tools and brushes to create layered compositions, sometimes revealing obscured foliage motifs (landscapes), sometimes ribbon-like pictorial gestures moving across the surface of still lifes, where the multiplied floral motif invades the entire canvas (on bloom series). The deliberately artisanal quality of his canvases, which mimic the weave of a tapestry, enables Gregory Hodge to offer a contemporary variation on trompe-l’œil, made possible by meticulous photocollage and the combined use of acrylic paint and translucent pigmented gels. Through the canvas-tissue detour, the artist pursues a reflection on the concept of perception and changing color, inherited from the Nabis and the Impressionists, but also informed by the new possibilities offered by Photoshop filters and digital brushes.
Solo show of Gregory Hodge
From April 30th to June 14th, 2025
Rendez-Vous
Friday 23 May 2025 from 12:00 am to 12:00 am
Night opening – Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard
Saturday 24 May 2025 from 12:00 am to 12:00 am
Tea time – Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard
Sunday 25 May 2025 from 12:00 am to 12:00 am
Brunch – Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard
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The gallery
Founded in 2022, Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard represents a select stable of international artists to whom it offers tailor-made support for collectors and museums alike, forging privileged relationships with festivals (Les rencontres d'Arles, Bratislava Biennale, 100% Villette, Photo Phomn Pehn. ...) and institutions (Victoria and Albert Museum, Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, MEP, BNF, Musée Guimet, Amis de Pompidou...), accompanying each project with a bilingual publication signed by renowned authors from the art scene (Fiona Rogers, Guillaume Logé, Grégoire Prangé, Michel Poivert, Nanda van den Berg...).
With a particular penchant for issues of representation and narrative, Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard represents artists from different generations and in a variety of practices - painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, video, installation and digital art - acknowledging the porosity of approaches and mediums in contemporary art. From the outset, the gallery has participated in leading international fairs such as Paris Photo, Art Paris, Art Brussels and Asia Now.
Gallery artists
Elie Bouisson, Gilles Caron, Pauline-Rose Dumas, Yoshimi Futamura, Ilanit Illouz, Nhu Xuan Hua, Park Chae Biole, Park Chae Dalle, Pierre, Elie de Pibrac, Antoine Ronin, Katé Araoz, Bachelot & Caron
