Florian & Michael Quistrebert

Florian & Michael Quistrebert work in painting, video and installation. The brothers’ practice is filled with abstract colours, light, textured materials and visual illusions. Their works appropriate the motifs of modern art history while subverting them through optical semblances and movements. The duo’s paintings are always elusive, never showing what they are. They depict abstract angles exploring the seductive and eerie relationship between colour and light. The brothers’ installations are similarly immersive, their 2016 exhibition at Palais de Tokyo featuring a large optical theatre with canvases continuously pivoting and rotating, flickering with tiny LED lights. Eloquent and powerful, the Quistrebert brother’s works continuously playing tricks on one’s senses. ...

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. ...