4 International Artists : ADOLPHE - DUBOSCQ - GRAY - WAGNER
6 November - 31 Decempber 2022
Frédérick Mouraux Gallery presents four international artists as part of a new "Constructing-Decomposing" movement, reminiscent of the "Support-Surface" movement of the 1970s.
Unlike the artists of that time who were all French, the artists today come from different parts of the world but know and appreciate each other. This new movement "Constructing-Decomposing", defined by the gallery in light of this exhibition, highlights the link between these four artists who have already exhibited together in France and Germany and now in Belgium.
Exceptionally, they are reunited at the Frédérick Mouraux Gallery in Brussels.
Frédérick Mouraux
Please find below a selection of images.
Dom GRAY © Envela Castel - © Jean-Philippe DUBOSCQ
© Jonathan ADOLPHE - © Henri WAGNER
DOM GRAY – United Kingdom – The artist makes us appreciate his abstract paintings, often monochrome, painted on paper. The support is exposed by the technique, which does not extend entirely over the surface: unfinished edges from which we, the viewers, can escape. By dint of superimposing the color in "sheets of paint" the artist decomposes the structure.
JEAN-PHILIPPE DUBOSCQ – Belgium – As his work has already been presented at the Frédérick Mouraux Gallery, Duboscq’s conceptual works are well known. The superimposed canvases are often torn, ripped, folded, unfolded, folded again... constructed, decomposed, reconstructed... On which the color, sometimes vivid, seeps in, overflows, and becomes an integral part of the work. The rhythm of the surfaces is reminiscent of the rhythm of the music found in the artist’s musical compositions or in the writings of Samuel Beckett.
HENRI WAGNER – France – The artist’s paintings on glass originate from graffiti. It is not surprising that the multiple techniques used (spray, gesso, mortar, glue, wood, glass) give rise to stratified compositions. His "abstract images" of complex simplicity transport us into a world of sensory experiences, a sensation of contrast between soft and hard, movement and immobility, free and fixed... Henri Wagner’s color palette is varied and above all very refined.
JONATHAN ADOLPHE – USA – Adolphe’s abstract works are presented as transparent "plastic paintings". The work begins at its creation: a slow, step-by-step process using powdered pigments, fiberglass sails, urethane... The techniques that evoke the street art of graffiti are multiple (airbrush, spray, sprinkling, pouring, pressure, painting) – they leave room for the unpredictable. The artist uses holes like craters, creating an internal and external world: a kind of protection of a fragile intimate realm where one finds like repressed feelings, translucency, fog, mist, cloud, water, ice...
In conclusion, a work of art must be taken as a whole: from the beginning of its realization (choice of the support, the techniques, and the colors) until the final result. The work is charged with a whole emotional content of sensitivities, of sensory experience, of life experience of the artist. It is obvious, to different degrees, that the "viewer" experiences this accumulation of feelings; it is the transmission of a sensitivity to another.
The four artists exhibiting at the Frédérick Mouraux Gallery respond to this art form which associates the physical language of the choices of realization with the result that is the finished work.
We invite you to discover this daring exhibition that presents a new movement "Constructing/Decomposing" at the Frederick Mouraux Gallery from Nov. 6 to Dec. 31, 2022.
