The artwork features the minimalist text "DOCENT" displayed prominently against a plain white background. The stark black letters stand out with a clean, bold typeface, emphasizing the stark simplicity of the piece. The overall composition is minimalist and focused, drawing the viewer's attention to the text itself. This work likely reflects the artist's intention to explore the role of language and text in contemporary art, inviting the viewer to contemplate the meaning and significance behind the simple word "DOCENT". ...
Julian Farade explores human emotions through dense, colorful compositions where figures seem to emerge from one another. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, he wishes to extract himself from this dichotomy to develop the possibilities offered by this zone of uncertainty and instability, the place where a figure is still a sign, a drawing a grapheme, a color a pure emotion. He thus composes a vocabulary of recurring figures - a house, a crocodile, a ladder ... - that he arranges in all his paintings and that disappear at first glance to let us read a very expressionist overall composition. ...
Founded by Édouard Montassut in Paris in 2015, the gallery is located in the city’s ninth arrondissement. From the outset, it has focused on showcasing young, international, emerging artists—including Marie Angeletti, Matthew Langan-Peck, Hélène Fauquet, Maggie Lee, Nora Kapfer, and Özgür Kar—many of whom had their first gallery exhibitions in Paris there. Committed to challenging and reshaping public perceptions of distinctive artistic practices, the gallery presents a dynamic program spanning sculpture, photography, painting, and installation. ...
