Yu Nishimura lives and works in Kanagawa Prefecture, where he draws from the visual fabric of everyday life in Japan—ranging from street photography and anime to the shifting landscapes and built environments that surround him. His multilayered paintings fuse dreamlike portraits with urban scenes, rendered in evocative palettes and minimal, graphic compositions. While grounded in contemporary visual culture, his works also carry a subtle sense of melancholy, evoking the passage of time and fading memory. Nishimura's paintings occupy a space between the present and the remembered, capturing fleeting moments with both clarity and introspection. ...
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. ...
