Galerie La Forest Divonne
Patrice Giorda , France
Patrice Giorda, Les Alyscamps, acrylique sur toile, 73 x 92 cm, 2022
The Galerie La Forest Divonne is pleased to welcome Patrice Giorda among the artists it represents.
A first exhibition will take place in Paris from May 10 to July 8, 2023.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in the late 1970s, Patrice Giorda soon began exhibiting in French and foreign galleries and institutions. Since the 1980s, his works have been part of the most important national collections in France, including the Centre Pompidou.
In his painting, powerful and contrasted, where the golden light builds the space of the canvas, the symbolic representation of nature or man goes beyond simple landscapes, scenes, portraits or still lifes: reality is enriched by the memory and permanence of a quest that Giorda qualifies as “digging of the being”. He attunes the untunable: the dazzling beauty of light and color, and the depth of the shadows of solitude.
For this first exhibition, La Forest Divonne Gallery has selected recent paintings of southern landscapes and views of his studio. With a great formal, spiritual and poetic requirement, Patrice Giorda mixes real and imaginary, universal and singular.
Alongside these recent paintings, the Gallery has chosen to show some iconic paintings from 2013 to 2019.
Exhibition from May 10 to July 8, 2023.
Rendez-Vous
Friday 26 May 2023 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Screening of the film “Patrice Giorda, une scénographie intime” and meeting with the artist
Saturday 27 May 2023 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Screening of the film “Patrice Giorda, une scénographie intime” and meeting with the artist
Sunday 28 May 2023 at 2:00 pm
Screening of the film “Patrice Giorda, une scénographie intime”
75006 Paris, France 0140299752 www.galerielaforestdivonne.com/fr/accueil
The gallery
Founded in 1988 by Marie Hélène de La Forest Divonne, Galerie Vieille du Temple became Galerie La Forest Divonne in 2015, when it moved to the emblematic rue des Beaux-Arts in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. In 2016, she opened a second space in Brussels, run by her son Jean de Malherbe, previously Head of Development at the Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais. Two generations of gallery owners defend an independent line of international artists, in all contemporary artistic practices.
The gallery presents a dozen exhibitions each year between its two spaces and participates in numerous fairs, notably in France, Belgium and the United States.
Gallery artists
Arthur Aillaud • Bruno Albizzati • Vincent Bioulès • Philippe Borderieux • Caribaï • Bernadette Chéné • David Décamp • Catherine François • Lucien Hervé • Alexandre Hollan • Jeff Kowatch • Rachel Labastie • Denis Laget • Elsa & Johanna • Guy de Malherbe • Jean-Bernard Métais • Jean-Michel Meurice • Valérie Novello • Tinka Pittoors • Ana Mark • Illés Sarkantyu • Alain Veinstein
Galerie sélectionnée par Hervé Lemoine
