PARIS.- kamel mennour recently opened three new solo shows including artists Ymane Chabi-Gara, Valentin Carron and Alberto Garcìa Alix that started on December 8th, and will end on January 28th, 2023.
Ymane Chabi-Gara: After being awarded many international prizes, Ymane Chabi-Gara is having her first solo show at galerie kamel mennour. Ymane Chabi-Gara presents a new series of works made in 2022 that deal with the experience of the body faced with a world saturated with objects. Since 2020, Chabi-Gara has been exploring the Hikikomori, a phenomenon causing young Japanese to stay isolated in their bedrooms, in large-format paintings on wood and small, detailed paintings entitled One Day Paintings. In her new series of paintings, Chabi-Gara invokes the Mono No Aware aesthetic concept, an expression referring to a nostalgic emotion felt in the presence of everyday objects. Chabi-Gara draws inspiration from gleaned images, transforming the spirit and the form of things into painterly material.
Valentin Carron: kamel mennour hosts a solo show by Valentin Carron. Bonjour Monsieur Serpent ! is a landscape of tender, caustic sculptures, a new series that sees the return of the sculptor’s hand and a more intimate turn in his practice. The pilgrim, the boy with thorn, a man and child, a crucified figure; all appear here as subjects in a joyous investigation into the contemporary relationship to representation. The artworks preserve the trace of their surprising mode of fabrication, in a repurposing of materials and proportions that are dear to the artist's creative process.
Alberto Garcìa Alix: My relationship with Kamel Mennour began in spring 2001. He invited me to exhibit at 60 rue Mazarine alongside Nobuyoshi Araki, Roger Ballen, Peter Beard, Larry Clark, Pierre Molinier, Jan Saudek, Stephen Shore and Zineb Sedira.
Lo que queda por venir [What is yet to come] celebrates the twenty years of our relationship and friendship, through some of the images that marked the beginning of our shared adventure.
The works presented are vintage prints, mostly artist proofs. They carry the atmosphere of the days when they were made. An atmosphere from which I can’t escape. Nor can I fail to read in them my vocation as a photographer. Time gives us perspective. I have done nothing but portray what is my own, my world. A world that is always evolving.
