Like his colleagues, Benoît Porcher has experienced the amazement of an abrupt closure in mid-march. “What to do ? To stop everything ? Continue ?”, the gallery owner, who had just signed a new lease, said that he was overwhelmed with doubts. But after a week of reflection, the willingness to go forward has taken over. “We were too engaged in this new project. He had to go there, ” he says, convinced of having made the right choice.
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It is then that, with his team of seven people, he set out to make the removal boxes. Indeed the challenge for this dealer 43-year-old, who began his career as a publisher of art books (an activity he still pursues), and opened her first gallery in 2007 in the 20th arrondissement.
Szabolcs Bozó : a breath of fresh oxygèneSzabolcs Bozó, Big Bang, Semiose, Paris Courtesy Semiose, Paris Photo : A. Mole
Always on the lookout for young talents, the gallery owner gives a chance to unknown to the parisian public, the Hungarian 28-year-old, based in London, Szabolcs Bozó, for which he has had ” a true heart “. The point of him devoting an exhibition opening. “It comes in like a breath of fresh air,” said the merchant, who has fallen for the hybrid creatures who smile, stir, and trace their path, such as dragons, across the table in colors full of energy.
Szabolcs Bozó, Big Bang, in the brand new space of the Gallery Semiose, rue Quincampoix (4th) Courtesy Semiose, Paris Photo : A. Mole
in The light of the current context, the paintings devilishly original become suddenly ” an antidote to the background noise of anxiety of everyday life ; when that the we can expect, or even require, art is simply an affirmation of our own vitality…” one can read in the preamble of the exhibition.
Szabolcs Bozó, Big Bang, Semiose, Paris Courtesy Semiose, Paris Photo : A. Mole
Home Semiose, there will be then the work of the very iconoclastic artist-performance artist Abraham Poincheval, while Benoît Porcher represents among a team of twenty artists. In addition to Amélie Bertrand, Laurent Le Deunff, or Hippolyte Hentgen in which he defends the work from their early beginnings, he was able to gain the loyalty also figures more confirmed as Françoise Pétrovitch, Ernest T. or Beat Zoderer. Not to mention that this super active takes care of the representation of the Estate of William S. Burroughs from the exhibition “Beat Generation” at the Centre Pompidou in 2016.
move To the Center Pompidou
It is precisely near the great museum of contemporary art, Semiose is approaching even more, taking over the legendary Galerie du jour Agnès b. – fashion designer and collector smart has just opened its Fab in the 13th – which itself was the successor to Jean Fournier, marchand legendary of the years 1970-80. A space of 450 m2 on three levels (planned by the designer Marion Mailaender) which will exhibit large-scale works. The great feast, originally scheduled, will be replaced by a two-day vernissage open to the public Friday and Saturday next.
Gallery Semiose, 44, rue Quincampoix (4e). Tel. : 09 79 26 16 38 www.semiose.com
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