Press release Still life Style of life - Jean

Press release
STILL LIFE – STYLE OF LIFE
24Beaubourg
24, rue Beaubourg
75003 Paris
March 17 – April 2
Opening: Thursday the 17th of March
6 pm – 9 pm
Florence, wood © Demiak
The 24Beaubourg is very pleased to give carte blanche to Jean-Marie Oger. Celebrating his
first anniversary, he presents a group show based on the idea of still life and on our way of
living.
Artists:
Angélique, Michael Bastow, Sergio Ceccotti, Demiak, Monique de Roux, Pierre Lamalattie,
Ray Richardson, Francine Van Hove
Still life
In a consumer society in which every object has to produce a greater well-being, the genre of still life
reminds the transitory state of nature and the futility of processes to circumvent their expiry. Like
the fruit compositions by Monique de Roux or the future foods by Angélique. By extension, still life
can indicate an environment ravaged by disasters. This idea underlies the work of Dutch artist
Demiak, exhibited for the first time in Paris. His painted landscapes and sculptures of houses
destroyed by hurricanes are some kind of memento mori of our civilization.
Style of life
It echoes the notion elaborated by Alfred Adler (1870-1937), defined like a behavioral mechanism
developed by an individual to face up to the external world. The style of life reflects his values,
attitudes and worldview. Through the prism of painters, it comes out as an unveiling of obsession
and an attempt to respond to the disorder of contemporary life: Michael Bastow and the
contemplation of feminine body, Sergio Ceccotti and the metropolitan anxiety, Pierre Lamalattie
and the alienation at work, Ray Richardson and the cinematographic self-reconstruction, Francine
Van Hove and the delectation to enjoy unproductive moments of life.
About
Jean-Marie Oger is a private art dealer, representing a select group of artists working through all
mediums with an emphasis on painting. Committed in the promotion of contemporary figuration, he
seeks to highlight a continuum between the art of the past and the present.
Having ten years experience in the art market, he has adopted an alternative way of working as an
art gallery based on outdoors exhibitions in temporary places. Apart from his exhibitions, artworks
are visible by appointment only.
About 24Beaubourg
Mijo Roussel-Giraudy runs the 24Beaubourg, a space that is destined to be a springboard for
emerging artists, an exhibition gallery for established artists or a Parisian showroom for foreign
galleries.
Press contact
Jean-Marie Oger• 75bis, avenue de Wagram 75017 Paris
T. +331 40 54 93 88 • [email protected] • www.jmoger.com
ANGÉLIQUE
Born in 1957 (France), she lives and works in Paris.
Angélique is a photographer and sculptor, renowned more
particularly for her sculptures in organdy. Her work is focused
on signs of contemporaneousness, still lives or portraits of real
people filled with urban cultures. The white color, emblematic
of her work, is the vector of a metamorphosed description of
her surrounding world.
Recent shows
2016 - "F.A.I.R.E.S 2016", 116 Centre d’Art Contemporain de
Montreuil; 2014 – Prieuré Saint-Vincent, Chartres; 2012 - "Sacré
blanc! Hommage à Thomas Gleb (1912-1991)", Musée JeanLurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers; 2011 "Morceaux exquis", Espace Fondation EDF, Paris; "Au fil des
œuvres", Musée d'Elbeuf; 2010 – "Doublures", Frac Haute-Normandie
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
Nature morte du futur (1/6), 2014, acrylic resin, 32 x 45 cm © Angélique
Michael BASTOW
Born in 1943 (United-Kingdom), he lives and
works in Malaucène.
Feminine nude is the main subject of Michael
Bastow. Using raw paper, he traces the outlines
with charcoal and adds color pigments on
fleshes before hanging the drawings to the wall
for maturation. Linked with desire, the face to
face between the artist and his models produces
a pagan ballet of fulgurant beauties.
Recent shows
2016 - Galerie De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp;
2014 - "100 Chinoises", Galerie De Zwarte
Panter, Antwerp; 2013 - "L’Embarras du choix" –
la peinture figurative dans les collections du FRAC Franche-Comté; "Rêves chinois", Galerie Alain
Blondel, Paris; 2011 - "La Femme en majesté", Galerie Forêt Verte, Paris; 2004 - Musée de l’Érotisme,
Paris; 2003 - "D’une Certaine Gaieté", Cirque Divers, Liège
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
Heike deconstructed, pastel on canvas, 70 x 70 cm © Bastow
Sergio CECCOTTI
Born in 1935 (Italy), he lives and works in
Rome.
Sergio Ceccotti is the painter of normality.
Based on the ordinariness of daily life, his
pictorial fictions reveal paradoxes and fears
of our time and trapp the viewer in a
complex network of correspondences. Under
his brushstroke, the most insignificant object
can explode deeply all our certainties.
Recent shows
2015 - "Momentos íntimos", Instituto Italiano de Cultura, Buenos Aires; 2014 - "La vita enigmistica",
Musei di Villa Torlonia, Rome ; "Capolinea 19", La Stellina Arte Contemporanea, Rome; 2013 "Histoires sans histoire", Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris; 2011 – La 54ème Biennale de Venise, Padiglione
Italia, Regione Lazio, Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
Violoncello e piano forte, 1985, oil on canvas, 65 x 80 cm © Ceccotti
DEMIAK
Born in 1967 (Netherlands), he lives and
works in The Hague.
Demiak revisits the genres of landscape
and historical painting in the light of
contemporary
concerns
about
environmentalism. "The Big Blow" series
depicts the aftermath of great climate
imbalances. By the use of small-size
formats to avoid sensationalism, Demiak
offers a representation of devastated
cities and houses in a more intimate way. As if they were historical relics.
Recent shows
2015 - Galerie Helder, La Haye; "Sanctuary", Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam; 2013 "Trouble the Water", Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids; "ZomerExpo", Gemeentemuseum, La Haye; 2012 "Deepwater Horizon", Galerie Kappur, Tilburg; "The Big Blow", Redbud Gallery, Houston
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
Lisbon, Portugal 1755, 2012, oil on MDF, 24 x 33 cm © Demiak
Monique DE ROUX
Born in 1946 (France), she lives and works
in Madrid.
The symbolic language of Monique de
Roux is based on experiment on colors.
Emphasized by fragile outlines and a
geometrical simplification of volumes, her
still lives of attractive fruits convey a
troubling and paradoxal feeling of
transience.
Recent shows
2015-2016 - “¡ A LA RICA ESTAMPA!, 15
años de Galería Acanto”, Galería Acanto, Almería; 2014 - Galería Pelayo47, Madrid; 2013 - "Moesta
et Errabunda", Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris ; "Quand vient le soir", Galería José Rincón, Madrid; 2010 "Dibujos", Galería Pelayo47, Madrid; 2007 - Inter Art Gallerie Reich., Cologne
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
Nature morte jaune et rose, 2014, pastel on canvas, 81 x 100 cm © de Roux
Pierre LAMALATTIE
Born in 1956 (France), he lives and works
in Paris.
Pierre Lamalattie is a painter and a writer
who uses his experience in human
resources as a material for his work.
Adding inscriptions in his paintings – the
curriculum vitae in which he reduces an
entire life in a few words – he examines
the disillusionment of today’s world:
servitude at work, weight of managerial
speeches and vicissitudes of sexuality.
Recent shows
2014 - "Un machiste bienveillant", Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris; 2011 - "121 curriculum vitae pour un
tombeau", Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris; "Peindre des vies tout entières", Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
De toute façon, elle en avait marre de ce job pourri, toujours en déplacement, 2016, acrylic and oil on
canvas, 114 x 146 cm © Lamalattie
Ray RICHARDSON
Born in 1964 (United-Kingdom), he lives and works
in London.
Ray Richardson paints the South-East London,
theatre of his personal concerns sometimes
expressed through his emblematic double, an
English Bull Terrier. Mixing humor, drama and social
critic, his painting tells vignettes of life, staged by
“cinematic ways of looking at things”. Nicknamed
the “Martin Scorsese of figurative painting”, his
painted snapshots immortalize an urban
pantomime.
Recent shows
2016 - “London Soul”, Beaux Arts London; 2015 - "LinolCut", Paul Stolper Gallery, London; "REALITY:
Modern and Contemporary British Painting", Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; 2012 - "BP Portrait
Award", National Portrait Gallery, London; "Everything Is Everything", Beaux Arts London
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
From the Streets of South East London, 2012, oil on linen, 112 x 112 cm © Richardson
Francine VAN HOVE
Born in 1942 (France), she lives and works in Paris.
Francine Van Hove paints young women who are
enjoying laziness or everyday pleasures: reading,
having tea, daydreaming or sleeping. Her intimate
work reflects a feeling of impossible communication
and a saving loneliness, as a retreat deliberately
chosen to be protected from the noise of the world.
Francine Van Hove seeks to perpetuate the classical tradition of painting: her refined work brings a
sensation of wonder through the play of light, the rendering of the textures and the richness of
details.
Recent shows
2016 - "Everybody is crazy, but me"; La Maison Particulière art center, Brussels; 2015-2016 - "Tables
et festins. L'hospitalité dans la peinture flamande et hollandaise du XVIIe siècle… et la bande
dessinée", Fondation Glénat-Couvent Sainte-Cécile, Grenoble
Picture (more available pictures upon request)
La petite lampe 1930, 2008, oil on canvas, 54 x 81 cm © Van Hove