Galerie RX&SLAG
Julio Villani , Brasil
"L'eau rougit de la veine mémoire"
Julio Villani, Lettres Brisées, 2024, Acrylique, fusain, kaolin sur toile Courtesy RX&SLAG ADAGP
For his 4th exhibition at the RX&SLAG gallery, Franco-Brazilian artist Julio VILLANI will present a collection of paintings and large-scale, never-before-seen marouflaged canvases. The exhibition is part of the Brazil Season in France (April to December 2025).
Julio Villani’s paintings exude a sense of tranquility and serenity through the choice of neutral colors applied to the background of the canvas. However, a vibrant energy, galvanized by vivid hues, enlivens the composition. Indeed, we find ourselves before lines and curves that seem to trace letters, as if the artist were attempting to reveal the beginnings of a message.
Within these colorful interlacings, triangles and rectangles emerge like hoisted sails. The wavering of these geometric forms introduces a joyful chaos of illusion. It is a fleeting play of imbalance, a pictorial representation of the geopolitical magnitude of the present, one that will ultimately prove futile; the immutable order of creation will inevitably reclaim its rights.
Solo show of Julio Villani
From May 3rd to June 14th, 2025
The gallery
Founded in 2002 by Éric Rodrigue and Éric Dereumaux, the RX Gallery, located in the heart of the Marais since 2016, presents the work of some twenty recognized visual artists from the French and international scene. The layout of their new space offers the gallery's artists new exhibition perspectives and encourages collaborations with international curators and artists. Each exhibition allows for simultaneous installations, creating a dialogue between the works of different artists from gallery or those invited, allowing for several solo shows to coexist. The gallery also develops projects with public and private institutions. In 2021 the gallery established itself in the United States in association with the Slag Gallery, which has now been present in New York for the past 15 years. The new entity, RX&SLAG, creates a dynamic in which the mutualization of both galleries expertise, on the French and American scene, will contribute to reveal a young artistic scene while also developing the representation of historical transatlantic artists.
Gallery artists
El Anatsui, Bae Bien-U, Mrdjan Bajic, Jean-Baptiste Boyer, Pascal Convert, Raymond Depardon, Elger Esser, Jean-François Fourtou, Vincent Gicquel, H.K. Kwon, Fabrice Hyber, Alain Kirili, Tarama Kostianovsky, Christian Lapie, Lee Bae, Anna Malagrida, Hermann Nitsch, Georges Rousse, Samuel Rousseau, Naomi-Hon, Julio Villani...
