Renaud Jerez's sculpture "Smiley" features vibrant yellows with touches of red and blue, forming a dynamic composition covered by a draping green fabric. The work combines organic forms with structural, mechanical elements, resembling a fusion of human and machine that recalls both cyborgs and festive figures. Jerez's style is marked by a raw, tactile technique that conveys a sense of decay and renewal, highlighting the interplay between body and space. This piece reflects Jerez's exploration of spatial restraint and transformation through his unique and eclectic sculptural forms. ...
The relationship between the body and architectural space, whether public or private, is of particular importance in Renaud Jerez's work. The body is constrained by the space around it, just as it constrains that space. In addition to his paintings, Jerez has produced a large number of mummified sculptures over the years. These sculptures are halfway between cyborgs and carnivalesque creatures, testifying to both degradation and the potential for a new, insolent enchantment.
When looking at Jerez's work, one can almost feel the private, inner world of his unconscious excesses, transforming and altering familiar objects into the unknown.
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Crèvecœur, founded in 2009 by Axel Dibie (born 1981) and Alix Dionot-Morani (born 1979), located in the Belleville area (eastern Paris) has, since its creation, presented artists from France and the rest of the world whose different practices question current conditions for producing images and objects. The gallery sees itself as a body that supports its artists in the various stages of production, demonstration and dissemination of their practice. Through its work inside 3 gallery spaces — a 160 sq.m. space in Eastern Paris (20e) with natural light that can host ambitious exhibitions; and two spaces in the historic centre of Paris (7e) through the co-creation, since 2015, of a new alternative fair called Paris Internationale; through a publishing house called oe publishing books by represented and invited artists; and through support for production of the institutional shows of the represented artists, Crèvecœur is an entity which aims to adapt, in an organic way, to the challenging systems that contemporary artists experience today. ...
