Semiose
Glen Baxter , Belgium
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Glen Baxter, "Time was running out. He was down to his last two Mondrians" , 2017, 79 x 56 cm ©Pauline Assathiany
At 42 rue Quincampoix, Semiose will present the artist Glen Baxter’s first exhibition with the gallery (born in 1944; lives and works in London). On this occasion, a book of conversations with Bernard Blistène will be published by Semiose Éditions. Glen Baxter’s work, exhibited internationally and held in prestigious collections such as the Centre Pompidou and Museum of Modern Art, is characterized by ink and pencil drawings accompanied by dissonant, surreal-tinged captions. Drawing on vintage imagery from the 1930s and 1940s, he creates a tragicomic and poetic universe, disorienting in its sense of nonsense.
Solo show of Glen Baxter
From May 23 to June 20, 2026
The gallery
Founded in 2007 in the 20th district of Paris before migrating to the Marais area in 2011, from the outset, Semiose established itself in the artistic landscape as a gallery, whose aesthetic values are rooted on the margins of art. Nourished by underground culture, the gallery is committed to forms and ideas born in the political, social and geographical fringes.
The practice of citation is a common reference point for the roster of artists represented by the gallery and raises complex issues related to the production and dissemination of images, the role and purpose of archives and visual culture in the broadest sense. Semiose champions an aesthetic based on questions of taste and consequently of cultural hierarchies. Techniques such as collage, appropriation and cultural subversion are shared by many of the artists, leading to a converging interest in referencing reality and the everyday world.
Younger artists are exhibited side by side with established names and figures of international renown. Over the years and through a patiently developed professional network, various institutions and public collections have forged strong links with artists promoted by the gallery. Semiose however, is committed to much more than simply representing artists: the gallery rigorously fulfills its role in the eco-system of art through its scientific and curatorial approach. It oversees the production of oeuvres and undertakes meticulous documentary and archival work around the artists it represents.
Semiose has also expanded its activities through a publishing house, Semiose éditions. Internationally available, more than a hundred titles have been published to date, including monographs, books by artists, written works and essays, an on-going magazine and a collection of coloring books.
Gallery artists
Salvatore Arancio, Amélie Bertrand, Olaf Breuning, William S. Burroughs, Hugo Capron, Anthony Cudahy, Oli Epp, Steve Gianakos, Sébastien Gouju, Otis Jones, Aneta Kajzer, Laurent Le Deunff, Anne Neukamp, Justin Liam O’Brien, Françoise Pétrovitch, Abraham Poincheval, Présence Panchounette, Laurent Proux, Stefan Rinck, Ernest T., Moffat Takadiwa, Julien Tiberi, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Philemona Williamson, Xie Lei
