Expositions en cours et à venir / Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

PAXAL is presenting for the first time at CORPS ET AME GALLERY a SOLO-SHOW of its works with the common thread of HUMANITY in all its forms across eras, places and cultures.
 
This exhibition will be visible online from December 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021, also for purchase Online on Artsper but also visible in the gallery on Rendez-vous.
 
HUMANS offers a restricted collection of works by PAXAL that encompasses several works that come back frequently to the artist, such as revisited classic works, distorted paintings on glass and free interpretations of historical subjects.
 
PAXAL strives to give meaning to everything it does, puns and transgression are never far away.
But the final meaning of the painting is up to you.
" The important thing is not what we look at, but what we see." - PAXAL.
 
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01 DECEMBER 2020/15 JANUARY 2021.
ONLINE & GALLERY.
 
Different options are available to you to enjoy this exhibition from home.
First, discover the exhibition in a virtual visit by clicking on the related link,
then review the various works offered by the artist via the online catalog.
Ask the questions you would like to ask face to face by calling the exhibition gallery owner
 or by sending an email to human@corpsetamegallery.com
 
Take care of yourself !

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A Propos de l'Artiste :

Bondieuseries revisitées d’un côté, scènes oniriques et compositions fantasmagoriques de l’autre, les constituants du travail de PAXAL, formes, lignes en mouvement, vivantes, entités psychédéliques, participent d’une seule intention : offrir au regard une perspective différente, une clairvoyance, une acuité nouvelle ouverte sur des plans subtils.
Sa démarche, réunir dans un même cadre l’ancien et le nouveau, la figuration et l’abstraction, l’introspection et l’art contemporain, la bande dessinée et les images sacrées, interroge notre mode de vie occidental - gloutonnerie, impatience, dispersion, zapping permanent. Elle s’en veut le reflet et emprunte sa fébrilité pour mieux la dénoncer, inviter à l’apaisement, à la réflexion, à la contemplation. 
Paxal entre à l'École des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse dès l'âge de 15 ans, en cours du soir. C'est à l'âge de 16 ans qu'il intègre l'école à temps plein. Il vit ensuite de la publicité ; illustrateur et créatif, rapidement il dirige sa propre agence. Puis la publicité ne l'amuse plus, il devient un temps directeur artistique dans l'édition, mais les pinceaux le rappellent... en 1999 il rejoint la Maison des Artistes.
A mi-chemin entre le surréalisme et la figuration libre, entre DALI et COMBAS, il apporte une nouvelle vision à l'Art Contemporain.
Il est présent aujourd'hui dans de nombreuses collections privées partout en Europe.

About the Artist :

Dreamlike scenes and phantasmagorical compositions, the constituents of the work of PAXAL, shapes, moving lines, living, psychedelic entities, participate with only one intention: to offer a different perspective, a clairvoyance , a new acuity opened on new planes.
His approach, bringing together the old and the new, figuration and abstraction, introspection and contemporary art, comics and sacred images in the same framework, questions our Western way of life - gluttony, impatience, dispersion, permanent zapping. She blames herself for it and borrows her excitement the better to denounce it, invite appeasement, reflection, contemplation.
Paxal entered the École des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse at 15 years old, in evening classes. It was at 16 that he entered the school full time. He then made a living from advertising; illustrator and creative, quickly he runs his own agency. Then advertising no longer amuses him, he becomes for a time artistic director in publishing, but brushes remind him ... in 1999 he joined the "Maison des Artistes".
Halfway between surrealism and free figuration, between DALI and COMBAS, he brings a new vision to Contemporary Art.
It is present today in many private collections all over Europe.

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