Justin Weiler
OPERIRE #8
Vernissage Tuesday, May 10, 6 p.m.
Exhibition from May 10 to 15, 2022
Justin Weiler
OPERIRE #8
Vernissage Tuesday, May 10, 6 p.m.
Exhibition from May 10 to 15, 2022
Introducedlast year with an immersive installation of glass steles and Indian ink paintings, Operire #8 presents the new color series of paintings on glass by young visual artist Justin Weiler.
"The three primary colors, if mixed, become black, the black to which Justin Weiler has accustomed us in his work. Here, cyan, magenta and yellow are not mixed, but superimposed. And it's the absence of one of the primary colors that gives rise to color.
For Justin Weiler, the approach is the same: there's always the need to hide, to conceal, and each layer of paint covers the glass a little more, erasing its transparency. Yet a part of the drawing left blank reveals an architectural space that structures each painting. The motifs follow one another and link the paintings together. A framework emerges that takes us on a linear journey. We follow the exhibition from painting to painting, one leading to the next, letting ourselves be carried along. Step by step.
In the motif, spectres appear, ghosts, apparitions that project us into the painting.
To the meticulous covering of the glass are added layers of glass, superimposed planes that let the light in through a precise protocol set up by the artist.
It is the reserves of paint that reveal the light, depth and subtlety of the painting. Things become intertwined, and we no longer know whether light influences our perception of color or vice versa" Annie Fillon, 2022.
Introducedlast year byan immersive installation of glass steles and Indian ink paintings, Operire #8 presents the new color series of paintings on glass by young visual artist Justin Weiler.
"The three primary colors, if mixed, become black, the black to which Justin Weiler has accustomed us in his work. Here, cyan, magenta and yellow are not mixed, but superimposed. And it's the absence of one of the primary colors that gives birth to color.
For Justin Weiler, the approach is the same: there's always this need to hide, to conceal, and each layer of paint covers the glass a little more to erase transparency. Yet a part of the drawing left blank reveals an architectural space that structures each painting. The motifs follow one another and link the paintings together. A framework emerges that takes us on a linear journey. We follow the exhibition from painting to painting, one leading to the next, letting ourselves be carried along. Step by step.
In the motif, spectres appear, ghosts, apparitions that project us into the painting.
To the meticulous covering of the glass are added layers of glass, superimposed planes that let the light in through a precise protocol set up by the artist.
It is the reserves of paint that reveal the light, depth and subtlety of the painting. Things become intertwined, and we no longer know whether light influences our perception of color or vice versa" Annie Fillon, 2022.
GALERIE MELANIE RIO FLUENCY
3 place Albert Camus, on Ile de Nantes, opposite La Fabrique. 02 40 89 20 40
Exhibition times:
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 1 pm > 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday 3 pm > 7 pm and by appointment
Justin Weiler
Justin Weiler (1990) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with honors in 2017. He lives and works in Nantes.
He has won the Prix des Arts Visuels de la ville de Nantes, the 15th Biennale des Arts actuels du CRAC de Champigny sur Marne, the Bourse Diamond, the Prix Cogedim/Beaux-Arts de la première œuvre and the Prix des Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la Collection de la Société Générale. Her work has been shown in several exhibitions in France, China, Cyprus, Spain and Luxembourg.
Daedalus at the Musée d'Arts de Nantes
february 11 to September 30, 2022
Opening Thursday, May 12, 6:30 p.m
The Musée d'arts invites Justin Weiler to take over the glass space in front of the museum. In a dialogue between the street and the museum, the artist has conceived an installation composed of glass panels colored by the application of multiple, meticulous and slow passages of paint and ink.
The materiality of the space and that of the sculpture merge to form a whole that summons light. Through the repetition of gesture, the artist proposes a sensitive work with multiple points of view.
Views of the exhibition at the gallery: © Germain Herriau