Ceysson & Bénétière
Tomona Matsukawa , Etats-Unis
The Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist Tomona Matsukawa. Matsukawa’s distinctive and somewhat dramatic pictorial works reconstruct fragments of everyday life scenes, drawing inspiration from conversations with other women of her generation. The titles and motifs of the artworks are inspired by striking phrases from these conversations. Born in 1987 in Aichi, Japan, Matsukawa graduated from Tama Art University in 2011, specializing in oil painting. Some of her recent exhibitions include “Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice” at the Mori Museum in Tokyo in 2016, “Shell Artist Selection” at the National Art Center in Tokyo in 2013, and “Artist Meets Kurashiki vol.12 Tomona Matsukawa” at the Ohara Museum of Art in Okayama in 2016. A finalist of the Asian Art Award in 2017, Matsukawa received the Fukazawa Ichiro Memorial Award in 2011 and the 25th Holbein Scholarship in 2010. The exhibition at the Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery offers the opportunity to delve into the artist’s latest works, allowing visitors to explore her refined ability to capture fragments of everyday life and convey the essence of human vulnerability through her suggestive painting. The opening will take place on May 16, 2024, providing a unique opportunity to experience Matsukawa’s art in a captivating exhibition context.
Solo Exhibition by Tomona Matsukawa
May 16 – June 29, 2024
The gallery
Founded in Saint-Étienne in 2006 by François Ceysson and Loïc Bénétière, later joined by artistic advisor Bernard Ceysson, the Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery has expanded its presence to Luxembourg, Paris, Geneva, and New York. In Luxembourg, the gallery now has a spacious venue of 1,400 square meters in Wandhaff / Windhof, near Koerich, with over 1,200 square meters dedicated solely to exhibitions.
Expanding our exhibition spaces is neither an obsession nor an end in itself for us. It is about better serving our collectors, whose trust we value deeply. It is especially about, in the context of today's development and diffusion of artistic creation, showcasing the artists we have chosen to promote because we are convinced of their talent and, for some of them, their historical significance as the protagonists of the "Supports / Surfaces" movement.
The artists who can be gathered under the somewhat reductive term, given the strong and exceptional singularity of their works, but convenient, of the "Supports / Surfaces Moment," certainly constituted the ultimate avant-garde of modernity. However, they not only paved the way for artists of subsequent generations who, thanks to them, could abandon the sterile games of endlessly repeating the "last painting," but also reconnected with an art that can attest that it is not only "attitudes" that generate forms, fables, and figures.
Art is a means and an object of knowledge. It allows us to exist in the world and to contemplate it. This is what these artists have demonstrated through and in their works. This is what the younger American and French artists, whose works we are proud to present, are striving for. They are forging a path beyond postmodernity, beyond the contemporary understood as an avatar of past "-isms," towards a new modernity that bears no resemblance to the completed "modernism."
Gallery artists
Wilfrid Almendra, André-Pierre Arnal, Amina Benbouchta, Trudy Benson, Vincent Bioulès, Roger Bissière, Robert Brandy, Pierre Buraglio, Louis Cane, Denis Castellas, Franck Chalendard, Alan Charlton, Max Charvolen, Claire Chesnier, Stephané Edith Conradie, Olivier Debré, Marc Devade, Daniel Dezeuze, Noël Dolla, mounir fatmi, Philippe Favier, Daniel Firman, Christian Floquet, Gloria Friedmann, Toni Grand, Nancy Graves, Rémy Jacquier, Phillip King, Sadie Laska, Lauren Luloff, Jean Messagier, Champion Métadier, Nicolas Momein, Tania Mouraud Alexander Nolan, ORLAN, Bernard Pagès, Aurélie Pétrel, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Roland Quetsch, Lionel Sabatté, Patrick Saytour, Frank Stella, Rachael Tarravechia, Nam Tchun-Mo, David Tremlett, Mitja Tušek, André Valensi, Bernar Venet, Claude Viallat, Jean-Luc Verna, Wallace Whitney, Jesse Willenbring, Yves Zurstrassen
Galerie sélectionnée par Gaëlle Choisne
