Opening atelier Les Courants d’Art

The opening of the workshop will be an opportunity to exchange with the public and to give visibility to the creative process of its current members around some of their works. A part of the reorganized studio will be used for a presentation of paintings, drawings, photographs or other productions (sculpture, volumes or limited edition multiples, some of which could be offered for sale). The artists currently working in the Les Courants d'art-Lyon workshop are fully involved in the theme of fragility and resistance, which is the theme of the biennial event, and this in several aspects. Because of their different ages, their personal histories, their professional backgrounds and their creations, they all have their own unique universe, but what can bring them together are the notions of fragility, doubt and uncertainty that drive them and encourage them to create and question the world in which they live from different points of view. Maximilien Musetti works with gestures on the canvas and random compositions until he finds the moment that will mark the balance of the painting. He translates his sensitivity to sound phenomena, to light and to colours of urban and organic spaces in a constant relationship between strength and fragility, between letting go and resistance. Karl Éric Sannier questions abstract painting and works in a particular way. Each of the canvases he undertakes is a palimpsest made up of successive overlaps that mark his state of uncertainty about the composition, the right tone and the outcome of the work on the surfaces. Julien Ekiem expresses his desire to create in a universe of wefts and motifs that often seem to hesitate between abstraction and figuration. Faced with the fragility of life and the things that surround us, his work tends to design space to make it more cheerful, more pop and perhaps to re-enchant it and give us energy. It is his way of resisting the gloom and inviting us to believe in a bright future. James Joseph is a young New York artist who also questions painting and its components: the thread of the canvas, the support, the colour, using an original approach and reappropriating the crochet technique to create his works. These works question the place of the painting, its presentation device and experience the space around them. Their presence seems to reflect a state that could be precarious but at the same time offers a flexible and optimistic solution to the future of painting. Ryan McNamara, also a young New York artist, questions the world through his films, photographs and volumes that combine recycled materials and resin. The objects he creates or that his images capture seem to be tested by disintegration, discarding or questioning their future. They could be a re-actualization of an aesthetic of ruins, but with a desire to transmute the elements to give them a second life with an enigmatic appearance. Finally, Alain Fraboni transcribes in his paintings and photographs his fascination for the natural environment and the transformation of the Alpine landscapes he has been travelling through since his childhood. The paintings highlighting the snow cover express his concern about its disappearance from the reliefs he photographs. The cosmic and dreamlike versions of these same landscapes translate, through painting, his desire to escape the reality of the upheavals that affect our planet.