"The Confinement Drawings"
Xavier Veilhan
PERROTIN
76 RUE DE TURENNE 75003 PARIS
TEL : +33 1 42 16 79 79 e-mail:
through November 28th, 2020
For Paris-based artist Xavier Veilhan, the shutdown brought about the closure of his airy, architect-designed studio, a 1960s-era storage hangar in Paris's Père Lachaise neighborhood. However, a silver lining soon emerged: the confinement, and the limited space that came along with it, forced the French artist to reassess the articulation of his conceptually rich visual language into a series of new sketches.
The new body of work is marked by stark lines and poetic minimalism, revealing an artist basking in brevity. The simplicity of the new sketches — largely composed of crisp, austere lines — belie their true conceptual rigor. The new drawings rely on a rigorous geometric vocabulary, with the artist utilizing primary shapes as vanishing points and circles that evoke ever-shifting perspectives. Each work offers its own formal meditation on symmetry, color, and space.
The new body of work is marked by stark lines and poetic minimalism, revealing an artist basking in brevity. The simplicity of the new sketches — largely composed of crisp, austere lines — belie their true conceptual rigor. The new drawings rely on a rigorous geometric vocabulary, with the artist utilizing primary shapes as vanishing points and circles that evoke ever-shifting perspectives. Each work offers its own formal meditation on symmetry, color, and space.
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