Galerie G-P & N Vallois — Artists

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Paul Kos Installation, mixed media... Born in 1942 in Rock Spring, Wyoming (USA), Paul Kos lives and works in California. An internationally renown artist, he was one of the forerunners of conceptual art in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, in particular in the San Francisco area where he has been teaching at the Art Institute for over thirty years.	Julien Berthier Installation, mixed media... “Do not leave the world into the hands of specialists“. By building hyperrealistic yet fictional objects that he confronts in public space, Julien Berthier, a young French artist based near Paris in Aubervilliers, stays faithful to such statement. Berthier seeks a permanent ambiguity in the works or situations he produces.	Julien Bismuth Installation, sculpture... Born in 1973, Julien Bismuth lives and works between New York and Paris. His mode of expression is diverse, from performance to theatre, from text to object, oscillating from written to oral forms and often combining them. His work is an exploration and a reflexion on the conditions of existence and the operativeness of language.
Gilles Barbier Installation, mixed media... Gilles Barbier arrived in France at the age of twenty. He has established a body of work that he defines as neither criticism, nor “painting of the world”, nor problematics, but as fictions.	Virginie Yassef Installation, photography... Inspired by her surroundings, Yassef takes childlike pleasure in uncovering the strange beauty of the world that surrounds us. Her Scenario Fantôme document fragments of this world. Consisting of tiny photographs that are often mounted together, their very name reveals the ethereal and magical quality of these works.	Winshluss Drawing The term “graphic novel” makes him mad. He finds speech bubbles boring. He also says that the things “he loves most” are the ones that he “is best at trashing.” It’s certainly true that Winshluss is a champ at the art of Aunt Sallying forth into just about any field, from comics to films to animation and music.
Martin Kersels Installation, drawing... Martin Kersels’ work is profundly anti-authoritarian, proposing the artist as bricoleur, as autodidact, pursuing idiosyncratic, individual research to find out what he needs for his specific purposes.	Alain Bublex Mixed media, photography... Giving life to a project through the creation of new formats, that not only prevent the project from being imprisoned in just one instant (by merging conception, production and exhibition), but also allow heterogeneous practices to communicate for as long as possible: from design to photography, and from mechanics to …	Henrique Oliveira Installation The Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira transfers the dynamic decay he finds at the borders of his native São Paolo to the very heart of Paris. Working with painting, sculpture and installation, Oliveira unleashes a vibrant series of organic (almost parasitic) forms, textures and colors.
Jean Yves Jouannais Installation The heir of Robert Filliou and Marcel Broodthaers, Jean-Yves Jouannais chose in 2008 to focus on a unique project: to elaborate an Encyclopaedia of wars into alphabetical disorder, by adding elements and by going back and forth in time in human history (until 1945).	Adam Janes Painting Adam Janes’ works on paper mix collage, pencil and watercolor. They are populated with funny and recurrent characters such as “Johnny Jump Up“, and, inspired by the American popular imagery of the 19th and 20th century.	Richard Jackson Installation, sculpture “If Richard Jackson is not a painter it is only because, as with many artists of his generation, his work cannot be defined by medium alone. Nevertheless, he is certainly one of the most significant and underappreciated artists in contemporary painting.
Pierre Seinturier Painting Born in 1988, Pierre Seinturier lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the Ecole nationale des arts Décoratifs in 2011 and two years after his paintings and drawings were noticed during the Salon de Montrouge, where he won the Jury Award. Then he showed at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Lyon, through the Modules du Palais de Tokyo Program.	Keith Tyson Painting Keith Tyson was born in Ulverston, Cumbria. He left School at 15 and worked as a shipyard apprentice, building Trident nuclear submarines. In 1989 he enrolled onto the Art Foundation course at Carlisle College, and completed a degree in Alternative Practice at Brighton University in 1993. In 1996 he received the ICA Arts & Innovation Award, and in 2002 won the Turner Prize.	Jacques Villeglé Collage When a body of work acquires a certain standing, or even recognition, it inevitably becomes a subject for exegesis. No more linear narratives. No more chronological unity. To subject a work to interpretation is to sketch out new perspectives for understanding. To constantly replay its contents. It is to underscore …
Zhenya Machneva Mixed media Zhenya Machneva hand weaves the tapestries, prompting comparisons between the obsolescence associated with the places she depicts and her own choice of time — consuming craft — one that she also sees as a form of conscious resistance to art’s ongoing digital drift.