The artwork features a minimalist composition comprising the word "DOCENT" in a bold, sans-serif font against a plain white background. The visual elements emphasize the strong, typographic design with a focus on the monochromatic palette and clean, geometric shapes. The subject matter revolves around the text, which likely serves as the central focus and subject of the piece. The artistic style can be characterized as a reductive, conceptual approach, where the form and language itself become the primary means of expression. This work may be intended to explore the role and significance of the docent, or guide, in the context of art and education. ...
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. ...
