Exhibitions and fairs, 2016
Et quelque(s) espacement(s) / Delphine Deguislage, Emilie Duserre, Alexis Judic, Sophie Kitching, Lucie Le Bouder, Quentin Lefranc, Juliette Mogenet, Patrick Tourneboeuf
Group show January 23 - March 12, 2016, Paris
A carte blanche for young artists, this group show project was initiated by Quentin Lefranc, Lucie Le Bouder and Emilie Duserre, who have signed their first collaboration around the architectural framework of the gallery-apartment, an atypical exhibition space on the boundary between the public and private domains.
Image: Emilie Duserre, Untitled
Looking for Landscape / Delphine Deguislage, Angélique Lecaille, Briac Leprêtre, Nicolas Milhé, Benoît-Marie Moriceau
February 5 - March 19, 2016, Nantes
Group show January 23 - March 12, 2016
Opus 2 of an exhibition held at the gallery in 2014, Looking for Landscape interrogates the notion of landscape in the plastic research of five of the gallery's artists.
Image: detail from N. Milhé's Amerika, Amerika (2015)
From March 25 to May 14, 2016, Nantes
Ambroise Tézenas evokes places marked by tragedy that are now the subject of guided tours. The phenomenon, known in the English-speaking world as "dark tourism", is rooted in our fascination with the capacity of human beings to do evil, and our taste for viewing the after-effects of horror.
Image: A. Tezenas. Trip to Chernobyl (Ukraine), 2008
From February 5 to March 19, 2016, Paris
Dialogue dessiné is a group exhibition born of the invitation extended to four of the gallery's artists who practice drawing, to propose that artists whose work they appreciate each present a drawing alongside their own proposal.
Image: detail from Camille & Paul, L'Œil du chat, Indian ink, 2016.
june 3 - July 23, 2016, Nantes
Through his multifaceted artistic approach, Thomas Tudoux invites us to take a distanced look at our hyperactive times. For his first solo show at galerie melanie Rio, the artist draws on the hypothesis developed by certain sociologists of efficiency as the primary value of our age.
Image: Thomas Tudoux, Fait néant, video, 2016
Mirage / Franck Gérard, Edgar Martins, Silvana Reggiardo, Ambroise Tézenas, Patrick Tourneboeuf
June 18 to July 23, 2016, Paris
Temps modernes / Philippe Chancel, Edgar Martins, Patrick Tourneboeuf, Ambroise Tézenas
September 16 - October 15, 2016, Nantes
On the occasion of the 20th edition of the Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, the gallery offers the view of four of the gallery's photographers on periods of economic prosperity in the United States and Europe in the 20th century and in China in the 2000s. This exhibition questions the legacy of our economic development model, which is widely contested and rethought today.
Image: Philippe Chancel, Datazone, Drive Thru, 2015.
Inventaire à la Prévert / Photographs by Rune Guneriussen, Ambroise Tézenas, Edgar Martins, Raphaël Dallaporta, Nicolas Milhé. Drawings and sculptures by Thomas Tudoux, Angélique Lecaille, Briac Leprêtre, Franck Gérard.
December 9 to 11, 2016, Nantes
Exhibition of works by artists from the Nantes gallery, artists' books, limited editions.
Image: Rune Guneriussen, Evolution 03.
Installed in Nantes in a former mansion for 7 years, the gallery changed location and format in 2017 to develop new projects on the Ile de Nantes.
Since 2012, the gallery has also offered exhibitions in Paris in its space in the 11th arrondissement. This space is now used as a showroom for fairs and one-off events.
Installed in Nantes in a former mansion for 7 years, the gallery changed location and format in 2017 to develop new projects on the Ile de Nantes.
Since 2012, the gallery has also offered exhibitions in Paris at its space in the 11th arrondissement.
This space is now used as a showroom for trade fairs and special events.