Têtu – Jacques Sultana
April 2022
Jacques Sultana Hyperrealist painter
I discovered Jacques’ work when a collector asked for my expertise. Disturbed by the hyperrealism of his paintings, he feared a technical trickery akin to retouched photography. After climbing the seven flights of stairs, I entered the painter’s world: an accumulation of portraits of men. Every wall was covered with them, piles piled up on…
“Obsession Dietrich” Bastien Pourtout & Edouard Taufenbach
With its two thousand pieces, Pierre Passebon holds one of the largest photographic collections dedicated to Marlène Dietrich.Édouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout have created original images based on Marlène’s photographs, used as visual quotations.Based on Pierre Passebon’s photographic collection.
ANIMUS
For a year, in her Montreuil studio, Clémentine de Chabaneix devoted herself to this exhibition, produced by Antonine Catzéflis and Pierre Passebon. Antonine, who has supported her since 2014, approached the collector and dealer to put together this major exhibition featuring some sixty unique pieces and Clémentine’s first bronzes. The exhibition takes place at Galerie…
Reborn Project – Ginori Art Collection
Ginori 1735 presents “Reborn Project designers” and leading artists reinterpret Ginori’s stock of blank pieces, creating new dinner services, furniture and objects for the Ginori Art Collection. Curator: Frédéric Chambre
Matt Mitros and José Sierra Ceramics
“These two young American ceramists, discovered by Louis Lefebvre, enthralled me with their energy and creativity. I don’t know of anything quite like them.Each in his own way creates unique, eccentric, colorful, beautifully crafted pieces.The quality of their workmanship makes them true works of contemporary art.” Pierre Passebon “From the practical objects of previous centuries,…
Insomniac
We have, I think, two parallel lives. The first by day, for all to see, the second, more mysterious, at night, made up of dreams, nightmares and insomnia. From these moonlit dreams, unknown lands open up to us. Sometimes I return to wander in palaces whose corridors I know, outside the truth where unconscious invention…
Claudio Locatelli: “Rosemarie” animal sculptures
Claudio Locatelli moved to France at the age of twenty to study drawing and sculpture, and was accepted at the École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-arts de Paris in 1994. Initially, he worked from live models with Jean Francois Duffau, the sculptor César’s assistant, in the Perrin Duffau studio. He then joined the studios of Bruno…
Denis Dailleux Photographs “Du Nil dans mes veines” (The Nile in my veins)
“… In this strange music of smells, the melodic phrase that always came back, dominating, smothering the tenderness of vanilla and the sharpness of orchids, was this human odor.” Emile Zola Pierre Passebon is pleased to present Denis Dailleux’s third exhibition. In 2007, “Du Nil dans mes veines” (From the Nile in my veins) brought…