Les formes s'effaçaient et n'étaient plus qu'un rêve,
Une ébauche lente à venir,
Sur la toile oubliée, et que l'artiste achève
Seulement par le souvenir.
- extract from Une Charogne, Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
Introducing its new collaboration with the American artist Leslie Smith III, Isabelle Gounod Gallery is pleased to invite Guido Maus, director of the MAUS CONTEMPORARY Gallery (Birmingham, USA)
The group exhibition “like a gesture holding light” brings together the works of eight artists, whose practices are characterized by a particular approach of abstraction.
Radical proposals of Felix Becker, Clayton Colvin and Eugene James Martin here converse with the more narrative and metaphysical compositions by Leslie SMITH III, Akiko Mashima and Nico Munuera. Two fields of experimentation between which Irene Grau’s monochrome installation and Mark Flood’s more popularly cultivated work find their place.
