Galerie Claire Gastaud | Paris
Jean-Charles Eustache , France
Car le temps est proche
Jean-Charles Eustache, A te conviene tenere altro viaggio, 2023, Acrylique sur bois, 20 x 20 cm
The Claire Gastaud gallery is pleased to present in its Parisian space, from April 14 to May 27, 2023, the monographic exhibition of the artist Jean-Charles Eustache, curated by Jean-Charles Vergne, director of FRAC Auvergne. The exhibition presents a set of about twenty recent works specially created for the exhibition, which outline potential narratives in the artist’s very particular universe: acrylic paintings on small wooden panels whose surprising mattness and the diffuse treatment of its colors give them a mineral and dreamlike aspect.
Jean-Charles Eustache was born in 1969, he lives and works in France. He graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Clermont Métropole in 2004. During his studies, he worked to build a pictorial work whose first orientations served as a basis for all that followed in the years that followed. The first works were already landscapes charged with mysterious atmospheres, stretches of abandoned buildings, architectures without quality, atmospheres that vacillated between a romantic perception of the world and a dark charge that was not without evoking Edward Hopper’s painting or David Lynch’s films.
«The figurative paintings – let’s call them that for convenience – gathered in the exhibition organized at the Claire Gastaud gallery represent visions, inspired by the artist’s memories and heady dreams, also borrowed from the field of apocalyptic literature (Dante, E.A. Poe, Cormac McCarthy) as well as from the dark annunciations or epiphanic revelations that strike children and shepherds in religious stories. «In his work, Jean-Charles Eustache has created a series of paintings that are not as narrative as the ones he created in the past, but that are similar to grids and embossments: «When he creates surfaces whose arrangement could be similar to meticulously ordered grids, Jean-Charles Eustache does not make abstract paintings, supposing that something like abstraction could exist elsewhere than in the ethereal visions of dreams and revelations. Instead, he renders in these miniature frescoes an intimate and utterly real moment dedicated to the observation of walls and facades caressed by sunlight.» Jean-Charles Vergne, Director of FRAC Auvergne
In 2021, the Claire Gastaud Gallery in Clermont-Ferrand and the FRAC Auvergne organized a double exhibition dedicated to the paintings of Jean-Charles Eustache – entitled From dark to dusk and From dusk to dark – on the occasion of which a monograph of the artist was co-edited.
The works of Jean-Charles Eustache are regularly presented in various contemporary art venues: Galerie Claire Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand; Manifesta Lyon, Lyon; Grand Palais, Paris; Fondation Vuitton, Paris; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain des Sables-d’Olonne, Sables-d’Olonne; Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; Centre d’art contemporain Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers; Kunstraum/Bethonien, Berlin.
Exhibition from April 14 to May 28, 2023.
Rendez-Vous
Friday 26 May 2023 from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Guided tours by the gallery team
Saturday 27 May 2023 from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Guided tours by the gallery team
Saturday 27 May 2023 at 5:00 pm
Aperitif around the works of Jean-Charles Eustache
Sunday 28 May 2023 at 2:00 pm
Guided tours by the gallery team
Clermont-Ferrand, France 37 Rue Chapon
Paris, France 0188339863 www.claire-gastaud.com
The gallery
The Claire Gastaud Gallery is divided into two exhibition spaces. The Parisian space, located at 37 rue Chapon in the Marais district, is dedicated to curatorial projects and allows the programming of exhibitions in connection with the current events of the Parisian fairs and museums, and the historical gallery, located at the foot of the Clermont-Ferrand cathedral, has several rooms allowing the organization of large museum exhibitions, equipped with an underground space regularly used by the artists for performances, meetings or creations of works in situ.
Claire Gastaud has built a strong, singular and eclectic body of work that favors artistic practices that question and challenge the current world and its issues. Always in search of new forms, the gallery proposes exhibitions that bring together artists of different generations, nationalities and mediums. Galerie Claire Gastaud is proud to represent established and even historical artists (Tania Mouraud, Nils-Udo, Vladimir Skoda...) but also artists of the emerging scene (Coraline de Chiara, Milène Sanchez, Léo Dorfner...) and is committed to the dissemination of the work of women artists who are numerous among the artists represented and invited (Natacha Lesueur, MC Mitout, Nicène Kossentini, Coraline de Chiara, Tania Mouraud...). The gallery regularly initiates or participates in the publication of exhibition catalogs, artists' books or monographic works in collaboration with public or private institutions, art critics or exhibition curators.
Gallery artists
Antoine + Manuel, Rémi Blanchard, Roland Cognet, Coraline de Chiara, Henri Cueco, Léo Dorfner, Anne-Sophie Emard, Erró, Jean-Charles Eustache, Bertrand Gadenne, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, John Haessle, Alain Josseau, Nicène Kossentini, Natacha Lesueur, Olivier Masmonteil, Tania Mouraud, MC Mitout, Milène Sanchez, Georges Rousse, Samuel Rousseau, Nils-Udo, Erik Schmidt, Vladimir Skoda
