GALLERIA CONTINUA

Pascale Marthine Tayou - Bonnes Nouvelles
Because good news seems to be increasingly rare these days, GALLERIA CONTINUA invites Pascale Marthine Tayou to inaugurate the first solo exhibition presented within its entirely renovated Parisian space.
True to form, Pascale Marthine Tayou transforms the space with a jovial and protean accumulation to populate it with elements of shimmering colors and hybrid materials that he continues to explore, notably via new plastic research centered around the softness of towels or the reuse of fabric scraps. The artist's bright colors are used in a frantic race of more or less abstract, anthropomorphic sewn forms or those borrowed from a fantastic bestiary reminiscent of tapestries or traditional fabrics.
New or recent works enrich this journey, like snapshots of Pascale Marthine Tayou's life in Africa. Mixing visual rhythms, he intervenes with objects of everyday life directly on his photographs, for example with plastic straws. The artist's emblematic use of colored sheet metal, crystal, and chalk creates a red thread in his production, which constantly questions human beings and the world around them.

GÉOMÉTRIES INSTABLES
GALLERIA CONTINUA is honored to present Géométries Instables, a group exhibition that delves into the work of eleven Brazilian artists, and constitutes the fourth episode of an exhibition cycle dedicated to the different territories in which the gallery has been established over the years. The curator and art historian Camila Bechelany composes a path that organizes a form of dialogue between the works, their references and influences. Drawing on elements of Brazilian history, culture and society, the trajectory conceived by Bechelany starts with movements such as modernism, concretism and neo-concretism to arrive at contemporary practices, also mentioning in passing the influence of some international currents of the last century - such as minimalism, pop art and conceptual art - in the approach of the artists exhibited.

Exhibited artists in the group show GÉOMÉTRIES INSTABLES:

Antonio Bandeira (1922-1967, Brazil), Sérgio Camargo (1930-1990, Brazil), Marcelo Cidade (1979, Brazil), Raymundo Colares (1944-1986, Brazil), Jonathas de Andrade (1982, Brazil), Antonio Dias (1944-2018, Brazil), André Komatsu (1978, Brazil), Judith Lauand (1922, Brazil), Cildo Meireles (1948, Brazil), Candido Portinari (1903-1962, Brazil), Franz Weissmann (1911-2005, Austria)