tirage gélatino-argentique monté sous passe-partoutMarcelle Alix
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The image depicts a black and white photograph of two individuals sitting at a table, engaged in an intimate conversation. The overall composition is balanced, with the subjects positioned prominently in the frame. The use of chiaroscuro lighting adds depth and drama to the scene, highlighting the subjects' facial features and expressions. The subject matter suggests a moment of contemplation or introspection, with the individuals seeming absorbed in their conversation. The artistic style and technique evoke the aesthetic of mid-20th century photography, reflecting the genre's emphasis on capturing candid, slice-of-life moments. The context of the image suggests a narrative about the human experience, perhaps exploring themes of relationships, emotion, or the human condition. ...
Each film Lola Gonzàlez produces, makes the next one up. The complete set portrays an obsession, as dreams that'd never cease to return night after night, affecting day-time as well. The apparent lightness emerging from her first "buddy movies" has disappeared in favor of a desire that's more open to the world. Not unlike magical rituals, Lola Gonzàlez's films open on those young people facing outward, toward the landscape. Are they able to see a sign out there, they'll all read into in the same fashion? Each time, a deeply moving synchronicity sets in, creating a situation where communication channels through the bodies that brush by or voluntarily touch one another. ...
We founded Marcelle Alix in 2009 in Paris and settled in a characteristic, early 20th-century boutique in Belleville. The gallery is for us a creative space, where the dialog with artists is not only meant to selling artworks, but is also based on an equal relationship to creativity. We now represents thirteen artists and two duos. Our identity has been built with the support of the artists who opened our programme (Aurélien Froment, Louise Hervé & Clovis Maillet, Charlotte Moth, Ernesto Sartori, Marie Voignier) and those we introduced to the French art scene (Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Ian Kiaer, Donna Gottschalk). During these years, we have supported broad artistic careers (Laura Lamiel, Liz Magor and Mira Schor whose work we represent exclusively in Europe) and accompanied the development of new perspectives in sculpture (Gyan Panchal, Jean-Charles de Quillacq) in video (Lola Gonzàlez), and in drawing (Armineh Negahdari). Our gallery has been a pioneer in defining a space for queer art in France : in addition to showing her work within the artist duo Boudry/Lorenz since 2011, we have directed the translation into French of Renate Lorenz's 2012 seminal book, « Queer Art » in 2018. Since 2019, we have exhibited photographs by Donna Gottschalk documenting the lives of women living with women who were involved in the lesbian movement in the United States in the 1970s. In 2023 we organised an exhibition for the Utopi.e award—first award in France for Lgbtqi+ art—for which we have invited Paris galleries Air de Paris and Sultana as fellow participants. We insist on the central role of a gallery in the ecosystem of art as a place to make idiosyncratic positions visible and weave a critical narrative around the most contemporary visual forms. ...
