The Expectation
Galerie Gisela Capitain•Jun 11, 2026 — Aug 14, 2026
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Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce The Expectation, the second exhibition of new works by the French-born, Mexico-based artist Yann Gerstberger (1983 in Cagnes sur Mer, France).
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I was looking for a good title for this show. For some reason, all the titles I had in mind were either too long, or totally unrelated to the works, or strangely connected to natural and meteorological phenomena.
So, I decided to stop thinking in words for a while, to just focus on the production. Hopefully, the works themselves would lead to something.
On a Sunday afternoon, as I was re-reading 1940’s Adolfo Bioy Casares’s short novel The Invention Of Morel*, I realized I had always been fascinated – not to say obsessed – by its cover, without having a clue who had created it.
In Richard Oelze’s 1936 oil painting, The Expectation, a hat-wearing crowd stares off into the forest, into a stormy landscape. The air feels thick with suspense. Is the crowd looking at the forest – is it a forest? – or at the…
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The Expectation
Galerie Gisela Capitain•Jun 11, 2026 — Aug 14, 2026
Press Release
Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce The Expectation, the second exhibition of new works by the French-born, Mexico-based artist Yann Gerstberger (1983 in Cagnes sur Mer, France).
~
I was looking for a good title for this show. For some reason, all the titles I had in mind were either too long, or totally unrelated to the works, or strangely connected to natural and meteorological phenomena.
So, I decided to stop thinking in words for a while, to just focus on the production. Hopefully, the works themselves would lead to something.
On a Sunday afternoon, as I was re-reading 1940’s Adolfo Bioy Casares’s short novel The Invention Of Morel*, I realized I had always been fascinated – not to say obsessed – by its cover, without having a clue who had created it.
In Richard Oelze’s 1936 oil painting, The Expectation, a hat-wearing crowd stares off into the forest, into a stormy landscape. The air feels thick with suspense. Is the crowd looking at the forest – is it a forest? – or at the…
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