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Amir Nave, From the body of the mortal, a split splits toward the other side, 2023, Encre sur papier, 27 x 20 cm
© Amir Nave, courtesy de l'artiste & galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris

In Situ - fabienne leclerc

La Galerie Rouge

L’Avant Galerie Vossen

Michel Potage 1949 — 2020, France

"Michel POTAGE Peintures et Dessins"

  • Michel Potage, Dans la vase, Technique Mixte, 130 x 195 cm

Michel Potage, Dans la vase, Technique Mixte, 130 x 195 cm

The theater is set in a workshop in the backyard of a house, a vast room renovated and transformed into a living space where, without a wall, there’s a kitchen, a living room and dining tables. It’s also an anecdote. It features two painters, the owners and a few guests who escaped from a Parisian vernissage that night. No one can say today where the idea for the duettist act the two painters performed came from, but large sheets of drawing paper, two pots of black ink and the calames Michel cut from reeds and stored in a corner of the room had to be set up on the parquet floor. The story begins as a friendly joust, at least in the minds of the spectators, whose pleasure is easy to imagine.

The difficulty of working in public lies in the painter’s obliviousness to the public; if he knows he’s being watched, he puts on an act, feigns passion or, more simply, does what he knows how. The first painter produced, honestly, perhaps intimidated by the presence of strangers, chatting with them, never forgetting them – an actor, then, but wasn’t all this (the place, the audience, the fictitious rivalry) theater? For the second, Michel, the calamus was transformed into a magic wand; no sooner had he touched it than he was transported elsewhere, where the transformed studio, the admiring public and even the other painter had disappeared. He drew; he danced; he drew while dancing, or danced while drawing, I don’t know – I thought of the rite of Tibetan shamans chasing away demons with phurba blows. The audience, joined by the first painter, watched him, aware that they were witnessing an exceptional event, a kind of contemporary mediumistic trance. Then Michel stopped, dispossessed by the drawing, calm again. He picked up the dozen or so leaves and offered them up. In their place, beneath his feet, a large black ink stain covered the parquet floor.

So Michel isn’t a painter, at least not in the usual sense of a tradesman – and the anecdote doesn’t say anything else. He’s a shaman. Long before this trance, in 1982, he had slept in a tent set up on sand in the gallery where he was exhibiting sensitive memories of his trip to Australia’s Aborigines. Here again, he wasn’t playing, he was an Aborigine, he was dreaming…
Excerpt from Olivier Cena’s text in the exhibition catalog.

Solo show of Michel Potage

From May 15th to June 14th, 2025

58 Rue Chapon
75003 Paris, France
06 60 22 25 02 avant-galerie.com

The gallery

For six years the gallery is creating a bridge between classical art and new medias

Gallery artists

Robie Barrat, Ronan Barrot, Louise Belin, DataDada, Énora Denis, Normal Harman, Julien Levesque, Denis Laget, Prosper Legault, Albertine Meunier, Anna Ridler, Robness, studio u2p050

In the thematic « Drawing »

Charles Le Hyaric, Les jours bleus, 2024, Peinture à l’huile, peinture en spray sur papier, 75 x 110 cm

Galerie Papillon

Cathryn Boch, Erik Dietman, Joël Kermarrec, Jürgen Klauke, Charles Le Hyaric, Frédérique Loutz, Javier Pérez, Raphaëlle Peria, JC Ruggirello,Didier Trenet

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"Des dessins"

Ofer Lellouche, Atelier 1, Bronze, 40 x 80 x 40, Epreuve 1_7, 2014 Courtesy Galerie La Forest Divonne

Galerie La Forest Divonne

Ofer Lellouche 1947, France

Sophia Fassi, La sieste I, 2024, huile sur toile, 114 x 146 cm, ©Galerie Berthet-Aittouares

Berthet-Aittouarès

Eve Aschheim, Claude Buraglio, Marie-Claude Bugeaud, Sophia Fassi, Anne Ferrer, Liliane Klapisch, Vera Molnar, Nil Yalter.

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"8 femmes"

In the thematic « Modern Art »

Bernard Requichot,

Galerie Alain Margaron

Bernard Réquichot 1929 — 1961, France

"Bernard Réquichot, penser par la peinture"

Xevi Solà, Nova, 2023, Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, 28.7 x 23.6 in

OPERA GALLERY

Amoako Boafo, Fernando Botero, André Brasilier, Bernard Buffet, Marc Chagall, George Condo, Paul Delvaux, Andy Denzler, Raoul Dufy, Philippe Hiquily, Alex Katz, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Gustavo Nazareno, Julian Opie, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Niki de Saint Phalle, Xevi Solà, Manolo Valdés, Kees van Dongen, Andy Warhol et Tom Wesselmann

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"Le Féminin"

Anne Manoli, Sauvage est le vent, 2017, Peinture à l’huile, cire et emulsion sur toile, 158 x 198 cm

Berthet-Aittouarès

Anne Manoli, Yann Bagot, Paul Iratzoquy

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"La nature en question"

In the thematic « Painting »

Lalitha Lajmi. Performer and Child, 2015. Watercolor on paper, 21 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the Estate of Lalitha Lajmi and Gallery Art & Soul, Mumbai.

Galerie Anne Barrault

Lalitha Lajmi 1932 — 2023, India

MAX ERNST & JOAQUÍN FERRER - Les surprises du hasard exhibition view, Galleria Continua / Paris Matignon. Photo: © Paul Hennebelle. Paris ADAGP 2025

GALLERIA CONTINUA

Max Ernst & Joaquín Ferrer

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"Les surprises du hasard"

Valentin Rilliet, Untitled, 2025, oil and sand on linen, 130 x 90 cm (51 ⅛ x 35 ⅜ in.). Courtesy de l’artiste et de la Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich/Paris

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Valentin Rilliet 1996, Switzerland / China

"The Dream Synopsis"

In the tour « Marais »

Valentin Rilliet, Untitled, 2025, oil and sand on linen, 130 x 90 cm (51 ⅛ x 35 ⅜ in.). Courtesy de l’artiste et de la Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich/Paris

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Valentin Rilliet 1996, Switzerland / China

"The Dream Synopsis"

GaHee Park, Incarnation, 2025, Oil on linen, 172.7 x 182.9 cm, Photo: Paul Litherland, Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin

Perrotin

GaHee Park 1985, South Korea

"Not Quite Tomorrow"

Elizabeth Lennard, Flower Mold, Red, 2010.

Les Douches la Galerie

August Sander, Daniel Masclet, Anna et Bernhard Blume, Michel Journiac, Valérie Belin, Stéphane Couturier, Elizabeth Lennard, Henri Foucault, Denis Darzacq, Alain Fleischer, Patrick Tosani, Ghislaine Vappereau, François Kollar, Roger Catherineau, Bernard Plossu etc..

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