This abstract painting features bold and vibrant colors, with a prominent figure depicted in a dramatic, expressionistic style. The central figure appears distorted and twisted, conveying a sense of anguish or torment. The use of angular shapes and intersecting lines creates a fragmented, geometric composition that adds to the emotional intensity of the piece. The overall style and technique suggest a modernist or avant-garde approach, with the artist possibly exploring themes of the human condition or the subconscious. ...
Ernst Yohji Jaeger’s paintings exist at the intersection of figurative and abstract composition. His quiet and gloomy works capture silhouette, domestic settings and landscapes, all radiating an eerie sense of loneliness. The imagery of the German artist’s oil paintings seem to exist in a detached, dream-like twilight where intimate moments are concealed from the viewer’s eyes. Jaeger’s subjects look like they are contemplating, but what exactly is unknown. In its inability to be placed within a specific art historical category, Jaeger’s work is timeless in its calming darkness. Coming from a Japanese-German background, Jaeger’s inspirations span across such 20th century painters as Felice Casorati and Helene Schjerfbeck, and Japanese manga. His paintings, thus, present a crossing of cultures in the most original way. ...
Crèvecœur, founded in 2009 by Axel Dibie (born 1981) and Alix Dionot-Morani (born 1979), located in the Belleville area (eastern Paris) has, since its creation, presented artists from France and the rest of the world whose different practices question current conditions for producing images and objects. The gallery sees itself as a body that supports its artists in the various stages of production, demonstration and dissemination of their practice. Through its work inside 3 gallery spaces — a 160 sq.m. space in Eastern Paris (20e) with natural light that can host ambitious exhibitions; and two spaces in the historic centre of Paris (7e) through the co-creation, since 2015, of a new alternative fair called Paris Internationale; through a publishing house called oe publishing books by represented and invited artists; and through support for production of the institutional shows of the represented artists, Crèvecœur is an entity which aims to adapt, in an organic way, to the challenging systems that contemporary artists experience today. ...
