Les leçons particulières
Blue Velvet Projects•Jan 05, 2024 — Jun 10, 2024
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Les leçons particulières features paintings by Augustin Katz and sculptures by François Durel. In this autofictional presentation, the artists depict their childhoods, marked by their affiliation to the lower nobility and their Catholic upbringings. From this erotic and putrid decorum, the exhibition draws seven lessons, seven particular moral laws that the artists either break or execute. Domestic and symbolist, devout and lascivious canvases interact with sculptures of sutured skins, hereditary furnitures and restraining cabinets. In their biographical confession emerges love correspondences, class culture, punishment and ardor, repressed detours and exultations.
In the beginning: François Durel and Augustin Katz live in Paris in the same apartment. We bump into them at parties, in squats, or in their artists' studios in the dormitory suburbs of Ile de France. They share the singular trait of having received an aristocratic particle, a superfluous legacy which they preferred to omit…
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Les leçons particulières
Blue Velvet Projects•Jan 05, 2024 — Jun 10, 2024
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Les leçons particulières features paintings by Augustin Katz and sculptures by François Durel. In this autofictional presentation, the artists depict their childhoods, marked by their affiliation to the lower nobility and their Catholic upbringings. From this erotic and putrid decorum, the exhibition draws seven lessons, seven particular moral laws that the artists either break or execute. Domestic and symbolist, devout and lascivious canvases interact with sculptures of sutured skins, hereditary furnitures and restraining cabinets. In their biographical confession emerges love correspondences, class culture, punishment and ardor, repressed detours and exultations.
In the beginning: François Durel and Augustin Katz live in Paris in the same apartment. We bump into them at parties, in squats, or in their artists' studios in the dormitory suburbs of Ile de France. They share the singular trait of having received an aristocratic particle, a superfluous legacy which they preferred to omit…
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