Analix Forever

Sector Digital
Booth D1

10 Rue du Gothard
1225 Chêne-Bourg
Genève, Suisse

Presentation of the gallery

Founded in 1991 by Barbara Polla, Analix Forever is an unusual gallery, deploying its projects both within its own walls and in its secret garden, as well as abroad, and favoring collaborations and co-elaborations with multiple players in the world of art and culture. Committed to revealing the essence of the artistic gesture, the gallery values the symbolism and creative processes of the artists it accompanies, and enjoys exploring interfaces, such as between drawing and video, drawing and performance, drawing and painting, drawing and the history of aesthetics, and drawing and new technologies. In 1992, for example, Analix Forever showed computer-generated drawings by the Greek artist Miltos Manetas, a practice that was uncommon at the time, and it's only natural that the gallery should take an interest in the dual manual and virtual practice of Orianne Castel, a doctor in aesthetics who was present at Drawing Now in 2024. Finally, at Analix Forever, the love of art, drawing and poetry included that of words - a lifelong love - and, in January 2025, Analix Forever became a gallery-bookshop, in collaboration with BSN Press.

Présentation du projet

For the Digital sector of Drawing Now Paris, Orianne Castel presents three inks on paper accompanied by their sketches, digital sketches made with a stylus on a smartphone and shown here on a tablet. This work takes the form of a series of homages to the painting of Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse, through compositions combining motifs borrowed from their works with views of the artist's interiors. While the use of digital technology is a structuring element in Castel's working process, the gap between the studies and the final drawings highlights a shift in the status of the image. In the sketches, rapid, deliberately allusive strokes in very bright colors sketch out compositions reduced to essentials. In the final works, several of these pared-down compositions interweave and stabilize in a complex arrangement, elaborated according to a formal vocabulary derived from observation of the painting itself: the square of the frame, the cross of the stretcher, the intertwined lines of the canvas weave. Gestures become meticulous, colors are reduced to a palette of grays, and drawing asserts itself as a space of construction and reflexivity.

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