This contemporary artwork features a minimalist, abstract composition of a simple white shape with a distinctive outline. The overall shape appears to be a stylized animal or creature, with a distinctive profile and pointed ears or protrusions. The piece utilizes a limited color palette of white and black, creating a striking contrast and emphasizing the clean, geometric lines. The artist's use of negative space and the interplay between the positive and negative shapes suggests a playful and whimsical interpretation of a familiar form. The work's focus on basic geometric shapes and bold silhouettes reflects a modernist approach to representation, potentially inviting the viewer to contemplate the relationship between form, perception, and meaning. ...
Jonathan Binet’s work is characterised by the presence of body and movement. His paintings, installations and sculptures are directly performed through and against the space of their exhibition. Binet’s shows are full of obstacles and interventions, forcing the viewer to navigate through sprayed lines, holes in walls, aeroplane carcasses, pencil marks, frames from which the paintings are missing, and then paintings blank in their abstraction. Such elements, like clues to some fictional narrative, are both deliberate and accidental and make up a space that looks like an artists studio abandoned in a hurry. Relying on external forces of time, gravity and entropy, Binet’s work is always honest and performative.
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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. ...
