Galerie ERIC DUPONT
Galerie Eric Dupont
138 rue du Temple
75 003 Paris
Presentation of the gallery
Founded 35 years ago by Éric Dupont, the gallery presents young artists concerned with formal research in pictorial expression, such as Damien Cabanes, Didier Mencoboni, Siobhan Liddell, Carlos Kusnir, Hyun Soo Choi, Eric Poitevin and Paul Pagk.
The gallery expanded in the mid-1990s with artists introducing new media. The gallery's evolution continued in the early 2000s with the arrival of new artists using a variety of media (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, performance). The gallery also champions photographers whose work is committed to the arts (Mathieu Pernot, Nicholas Nixon, Taysir Batnji...). In the course of time, it has become home to new generations of artists: Willys Kezi, KatarzynaWiesiolek, Tahmineh Monzavi, Roméo Mivekannin, Terrence Musekiwa.
Thanks to a constant intercultural dialogue, Galerie Eric Dupont takes part in major international events, biennials and fairs: 1-54, Paris Photo, Art Paris, artBrussels, Investec Cape Town art fair, Mira Art Fair, Paréidolie.
Présentation de l'artiste en focus
Katarzyna Wiesiolek draws! Her work emanates a variety of sensations, from joy to dereliction.
Her subjects, whether objective or the fruit of her imagination, are undeniably poetic. At first glance, you're never quite sure what you're looking at, and it's only when you linger a little that you grasp all the magic that inhabits her drawings. She succeeds in shifting and even blurring the boundaries between different media: photography, drawing and even painting.
The viewer stops, looks and understands that there is nothing ordinary about what is going on. The images are still, but they vibrate: the moon rises, the waves slowly wash up on the beach, the flowers wither before our eyes.
Following on from her Echo series, which paid tribute to Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Katarzyna Wiesiolek offers a new series of landscapes, both joyful and melancholy. Her velvety sunsets become intimate, immersing us in the astonishment of having this country as our own.
