This contemporary artwork features a striking monochromatic composition in shades of navy and black. The canvas is dominated by a dynamic, abstract arrangement of fan-like shapes and organic, nebulous forms that seem to radiate outward from the center. The visual elements create a sense of motion and energy, with the repetitive, overlapping patterns adding depth and texture to the piece. The overall style and technique reflect an experimental, sculptural approach to painting, blurring the boundaries between two-dimensional and three-dimensional art. This work likely explores themes of the natural world, the cosmos, or the artist's own creative process through its evocative, enigmatic imagery. ...
Through painting, sculpture, installation and film, Isabelle Cornaro explores the ways history and culture affect contemporary society’s perception of reality. A trained art historian specialising in 16th century European Modernism, the artist developed a visual language with art historical references to a wide range of periods, from baroque to modernism. In her series of installations titled Paysage avec poussin et témoins, Cornaro deconstructs landscapes in paintings of 17th-century artist Nicolas Poussin. Through the use of pedestals and meticulous orchestration of the display of objects, pathways and shadows, she turns landscapes into three-dimensional installations, questioning their cultural and aesthetic value. Cornaro often works with found objects and their assigned symbolism in the Western power dynamics, cultural representation and art history, tracing and challenging ways they shape one’s understanding of the world. ...
Balice Hertling was founded in 2007 by Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling. Balice Hertling has hosted the debut solo shows of many artists like Camille Blatrix, Xinyi Cheng and Isabelle Cornaro—all of whom have gone on to earn widespread recognition. From 2012 to 2016, gallery founders Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling operated a project space in Manhattan. Returning to France in 2017, they relocated the main gallery to Paris’ Marais district and transformed the former Belleville location into a space for curated projects and shows by younger artists. Indeed, many artists represented by the gallery exemplify unique subcommunities of the emergent art world. This breadth of representation also translates to a breadth of medium, as the gallery represents painters as well as artists working in mixed media such as film, performance and sculptural objects. The gallery also represents artists whose careers are more established : British conceptual artist Stephen Willats, Syrian-born painter and sculptor Simone Fattal, and Italian artist Enzo Cucchi. In its programming and practices, Balice Hertling constantly works toward creating a more diverse and equitable art landscape. In this spirit, the gallery is proud to represent the Estate of Behjat Sadr, who was the first woman artist to be recognized as a modern master in Iran. As a result of the pandemic, the gallery co-founded « Palai » in the summer of 2021, a yearly exhibition hosting a small group of galleries from around the world, in historic locations in Lecce, a city in Italy's Puglia region. Palai is neither a curated exhibition nor a fair, it is thought to be a version of a residency, a collegial collaboration, where artists, galleries, and friends of the art world come together. In 2021 Balice Hertling relocated and brought closer both spaces in the Marais with a new main space inaugurated by a Ser Serpas scultpure solo show, and a new showroom and project space on rue de Montmorency. ...
