Jérôme Fortin
DANCE: CHOREOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS FOR THE EYE
22 Oct - 12 Nov 2022
The gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Jérôme Fortin entitled: Dance: choreographic variations for the eye which includes two series of monotypes Danser and Lignes.
"The series Danser declines the same theme in more than fifty works. Jérôme Fortin folds, unfolds and refolds strips of paper. He then prints these folds on a sheet of paper that retains only their traces, only their reliefs. The support keeps in memory the gesture of the artist.
From afar, the visitor embraces the works in their whiteness. Their similar format unites them in a coherent whole. Up close, their composition differentiates them. To discover their uniqueness, Fortin invites the viewer to move gently in front of each of them. By changing the point of view, the viewer makes different triangles, rectangles and polygons appear and disappear. The artist plays with our visual perceptions. Under the effect of the play of light and shadow, the surface comes to life. The background and the shapes alternate. The curious eye sees emerge a small ballet of abstract geometric forms that overlap, intersect and overlap. The fleeting shapes play hide-and-seek in the grooves of the paper. Some go to the limits of the support to escape. Their asymmetry gives rhythm to the surface. The diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines energize the compositions and guide the eye in a playful and delicate tête-à-tête. The visible and the invisible dialogue on the paper, letting us glimpse the elusive. Each person creates his own little choreography, invents his own poetry. From the fine prints, the spectator guesses the original foldings, imagines them. The dance of forms exists in the magical and ephemeral encounter between the works and the attentive eye.
"The series Danser declines the same theme in more than fifty works. Jérôme Fortin folds, unfolds and refolds strips of paper. He then prints these folds on a sheet of paper that retains only their traces, only their reliefs. The support keeps in memory the gesture of the artist.
From afar, the visitor embraces the works in their whiteness. Their similar format unites them in a coherent whole. Up close, their composition differentiates them. To discover their uniqueness, Fortin invites the viewer to move gently in front of each of them. By changing the point of view, the viewer makes different triangles, rectangles and polygons appear and disappear. The artist plays with our visual perceptions. Under the effect of the play of light and shadow, the surface comes to life. The background and the shapes alternate. The curious eye sees emerge a small ballet of abstract geometric forms that overlap, intersect and overlap. The fleeting shapes play hide-and-seek in the grooves of the paper. Some go to the limits of the support to escape. Their asymmetry gives rhythm to the surface. The diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines energize the compositions and guide the eye in a playful and delicate tête-à-tête. The visible and the invisible dialogue on the paper, letting us glimpse the elusive. Each person creates his own little choreography, invents his own poetry. From the fine prints, the spectator guesses the original foldings, imagines them. The dance of forms exists in the magical and ephemeral encounter between the works and the attentive eye.