Chevaliers errantes — Galerie Zlotowski
Zlotowski gallery welcomes curator Cécilia Becanovic (co-founder of the Marcelle Alix Gallery) for an exhibition that brings together around twenty modern and contemporary artists in a display of evident generosity, overflowing the confines of a delightfully compact space.
Chevaliers errantes — Une carte blanche à Cécilia Becanovic @ Zlotowski Gallery from May 24 to June 28. Learn more ] As if escaping from the walls, the artworks proliferate with the grace of urgency, the joy of allowing drawing and material, structure and accident to converse. Alongside historical figures, each artist contributes to a presentation that resonates like a declaration of survival. Drawing on her experience and close relationship with the artists (to whom she dedicates a beatiful presentation text shaped by the intimacy of encounter, in order to reveal its broader significance), Cécilia Becanovic weaves the threads of a long-term maturation to produce the event: a manifesto through gesture, a total commitment through discretion.
Offbeat, ambiguous, and capable of projecting each of us into a world sketched by a single gesture, the artworks subtly converge in their fleeting quality—a transient presence that invites the viewer’s gaze to settle and explore.
Everything here echoes the artists’ strategies, the ways in which their practices momentarily escape fixed definitions to find grounding—if only for the duration of an exhibition—within a framework that they both inhabit and justify. A miniature museum ideal, a mental house to be rebuilt using dissonant elements and living furniture—carrying forward the metaphor of youthful fantasies evoked in the accompanying text. It is in the everyday, in the constancy of the need to create, that these artists attain the status of heroes: knights who navigate the world atop their obsessions.
Errancy—which opposes the idealized notion of a life devoted solely to art—emerges, through this accumulation of evidence, as the necessary path toward a form of creation in motion. An errancy nourished by the reinvention (or even the shattering) of the very concept of the art space, allowing for an art that, in its emergence, creates its own place.
