Galerie Natalie Seroussi
Martin Boyce , Scotland
"Walk With Me"
Martin Boyce Spook School, 2016 Giclee Photographic Prints 19 x 12,5 cm each (unframed), 21 parts 52 x 42 x 2 cm each (framed), 21 parts Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul Photo © Martin Boyce Studio
Walk With Me is an exhibition conceived by the Scottish artist Martin Boyce in collaboration with Galerie Seroussi and Esther Schipper, Paris. Taking the work of Raymond Hains as inspiration for the exhibition, Boyce will exhibit his photo series Spook School, 2016. Consisting of 21 photographs of the interior of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, the images were taken after the first fire in 2014, but before the catastrophic second in 2018. Unbeknown to the artist at the time, these photographs now document the building in a moment of phantom-like limbo, not quite dead but not yet fully brought back to life. In these images, which Boyce has drawn much of the light and colour out of, we see the school in a state of renovation and repair. There is hope in its bones but
in fact it was just a tinder box waiting for a match. In the exhibition the match comes courtesy of Hains. An outsize box of matches, Saffa, Omagio a Mondrian e a De Chirico, 1970, will be exhibited alongside one of Boyce’s fireplace sculptures. Here is perhaps where the spectre of Surrealism appears. Hains’ open matchbox revealing another kind of space.
Solo show of Martin Boyce
From May 23rd to July 26th, 2025
The gallery
Natalie Seroussi opened her gallery on Rue de Seine in 1983. From the very beginning, the program has been dedicated to establishing dialogues between different movements in modern and contemporary art history.
Originally specializing in Surrealism, the gallery promotes the work of Francis Picabia, Jean Arp, and Alexander Calder, while also supporting the avant-garde movements of the 1960s, including Martial Raysse, Yves Klein, and Kiki Kogelnik.
With the arrival of Julien Seroussi in 2017, the gallery has initiated new conversations, beginning with the exhibition Franz West | Thu Van Tran, followed by Calder | Tomás Saraceno and Kings of Kin (Bodys Isek Kingelez, Moké, Chéri Samba).
Gallery artists
Carla Accardi, Jean Arp, John Baldessari, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Cadavre Exquis, Alexander Calder, Sergio Camargo, Giorgio De Chirico, Lygia Clark, Jean Crotti, Salvador Dalí, Jean Dubuffet, Suzanne Duchamp, Max Ernest, Yolande Fièvre, Franz West, Raymond Hains, Hans Hartung, Bernard Heidsieck, Hannah Hoch, Zao Wou-Ki, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Yves Klein, Kiki Kogelnik, Jannis Kounellis, Gordon Matta-Clark, Henri Michaux, Fracis Picabia, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Chéri Samba, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vassilakis Takis, Yves Tanguy, Antoine Tapies, Jean Tinguely, Gil Joseph Wolman, Wols
