Galerie Alberta Pane
Christian Fogarolli , France
"Mauvais Corps"
Christian Fogarolli, MauvaisCorps
Mauvais Corps, Christian Fogarolli’s new solo exhibition at Galerie Alberta Pane, is a journey into the anatomy of prejudice, into the fragile frontier between sin and redemption, between malaise and healing.
The works on display question the concept of the body as a territory of control and a site of guilt. They explore the act of healing through the therapeutic power of plants used as antidotes to madness, but also as instruments of control and sedation.
Through a visual language that blends video, installations, photographs, archival documents and sculptures, the exhibition proposes an immersive journey between condemnation and salvation, in which the “bad body” becomes a form of redemption, thanks to the possibilities of transformation.
Nature as remedy, nature as poison : Herbs to calm delirium, roots to awaken visions, magical rituals to calm the mind. Where is the line between healing and annihilation?
A suspended space between science and ritual, between control and the desire for liberation.
Maybe there is no such thing as a bad body. Maybe it’s just history that makes them so.
Solo show of Christian Fogarolli
From May 24th to July 26th, 2025
Rendez-Vous
Saturday 24 May 2025 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Opening – Galerie Alberta Pane
Paris, France 44-47 Rue de Montmorency
75003, Paris, France 01 72 34 64 13 albertapane.com
The gallery
Alberta Pane gallery is specialised in contemporary art. It has had branches in Paris since 2008 and in Venice since 2017: two luminous white cubes in the Marais (at 44 and 47 rue de Montmorency in Paris) and a former carpentry of 350m² in Dorsoduro (Venice).
The gallery presents several exhibitions per year and takes part in international art fairs. It supports the work of international artists, whose practices conceptually focus on a variety of subjects, through an interdisciplinary approach and with a particular attention towards installations, volumes, and space perception. Photographs and books by Claude Cahun (France, 1894-1954) have recently been considered in the gallery’s exhibition program, thanks to their contemporary resonance.
The gallery's artists have shown their works in museums, events and cultural institutions such as dOCUMENTA, Biennale di Venezia, Manifesta, Istanbul Biennial, Biennale de Lyon, Solomon R. Guggenheim New York, Centre Pompidou, Palazzo Grassi, Monnaie de Paris, Palazzo Fortuny, Jeu de Paume, to mention a few.
The consistent activity of the Alberta Pane Editions is also an integral part of the promotion of the artists’ work. Born in 2017, these publications have an essential form, on the edge between the monographic review, the pamphlet and the artist book.
Alberta Pane values collaboration very much.
The gallery is a member of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art and Paris Gallery Map in France and of Venice Galleries View in Italy.
Gallery artists
Claude Cahun, Gayle Chong Kwan, Marie Denis, Romina De Novellis, Igor Eškinja, Christian Fogarolli, Luciana Lamothe, Marie Lelouche, Marcos Lutyens, Ivan Moudov, Fritz Panzer, Michelangelo Penso, Davide Sgambaro, Michele Spanghero, Esther Stocker, João Vilhena
