RABOUAN MOUSSION
Val Smets , Luxembourg
"Guest House"
Devil’s Sonata, 2024, oil on canvas, 160 x 110 cm
Dive into the immersive world of “Guest House,” the first solo exhibition by Val Smets at Galerie Rabouan Moussion. Presenting a collection of monochrome paintings, “Guest House” invites viewers on a journey through landscapes where hidden symbolism, mythologies, and inspirations from art history intertwine to form a rich tapestry of visual narratives.
Each artwork in the exhibition serves as a portal to a realm where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur. Inspired by the surrealist movement and artists like Salvador Dali, Smets uses psychic automatism to construct compositions that encourage viewers to let their gaze wander and discover the hidden narratives within the canvas. From subtle forms of a praying mantis to evocative imagery of bodily shapes, each painting holds a story waiting to be uncovered.
Solo show of Val Smets
From May 18th to June 15th, 2024
The gallery
In 1989, Jacqueline Rabouan Moussion opened a gallery rue Vieille du Temple in Paris and showed artists like Hervé Télémaque, Jean Degottex, Valie Export, Otto Muehl, Sandy Skoglund and Oleg Kulik. In 2015, the gallery inaugurates a new space rue Pastourelle with a solo show of Erwin Olaf « Waiting ». The artist and the gallery were partners of La Nuit Blanche for the 2016 edition with a creation based on The Strife of love in a Dream, on a proposal by Jean de Loisy.
Artists represented from their beginnings and today recognized by institutions (Hervé Télémaque, Erwin Olaf, Oleg Kulik) meet the creations of young talents and established artists (Stephan Vanfleteren, Guillaume Durrieu, Ghyslain Bertholon, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Val Smets, Jay Ramier).
Gallery artists
Ghyslain Bertholon, Florence Cantié-Kramer, Kirill Chelushkin, Guillaume Durrieu, Vincent Fournier, Louis Jammes, JonOne, Oleg Kulik, Quentin Lefranc, Erwin Olaf, Jay Ramier, Val Smets, Hervé Télémaque, Dimitri Tsykalov, Stephan Vanfleteren
