DILECTA

Sector General
https://editions-dilecta.com/fr/
galerie@editions-dilecta.com
+33 (0) 1 43 40 28 10

49 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris, France

Presentation of the gallery

Founded in Paris in 2005, DILECTA is a publishing house and gallery specializing in contemporary art. It publishes around twenty projects a year. On the one hand, publications (artists' books, exhibition catalogs, monographs); on the other, limited edition works, series or one-offs, which give rise to exhibitions.

The gallery, which opened in 2015, hosts 4 to 5 exhibitions a year, some of them collective, and sometimes at the invitation of external curators, reflecting the diversity of the artists' projects in our catalog and bringing them into dialogue with external loans; others aim to champion the work of artists whose approach, subjects, medium or support we feel close to. In recent years, we have focused on supporting artists who express themselves through works on paper, such as Nicolas Dhervillers, Mircea Cantor, Alice Gauthier, Valérie Sonnier, Caroline Corbasson, Rosa Maria Unda Souki and Eva Medin. We are committed to continuing our work in this direction, and to continuing our support for the art of drawing.

Présentation de l'artiste en focus

Claire Vaudey's works, in focus, revolve around the theme of the walled garden, inspired by the Annunciations of the Italian Renaissance, set in the background of the scene depicted. The result is a play on the construction of space, the interweaving of exterior and interior, manifested on paper by geometric lines and mineral forms, to which are added the effects of matter brought about by the silkscreen technique on the drawing, previously done in tempera. In this series, the artist uses restricted, dissonant color ranges, giving the compositions a sense of weight and a fragile balance between light and shadow.

In contrast, Mathieu Bonardet maintains a physical relationship with drawing. Just as the body is in tension, the seemingly minimal lines drawn by the artist appear animated, alive, in an action that seems suspended. The balance of the image created stems from a sensitive relationship with volumes, which bind them together.

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