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Ella Bergmann-Michel, sans titre (b-205)

Ella Bergmann-Michel

Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896-1971) is one of the most important and original artists of the German avant-garde of the 20th century. Fascinated by music and art, she decided as early as 1915 to study art at the “Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts”. With...

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Tony Regazzoni, MANT (Telic-alcatel Minitel 1) Affiche, 2022

Tony Regazzoni

Tony Regazzoni was born in 1982 in the Jura Mountains. He graduated from the ENSA of Dijon (2005) and the ECA o Lausanne (2006). From this rural culture, which is both preserved and overlooked, he developed links with the Queer milieu that welcomed him when...

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HYPER CARBONE – Pierre Gaignard & Roy Köhnke

Following on from ANTE:IRL, a kind of prelude on view at WONDER/Fortin during February 2021, Pierre Gaignard and Roy Köhnke present HYPER CARBONE at the Eric Mouchet gallery. This exhibition invites visitors to venture into the world of carbon, coal and combustion for a moment frozen in time. Here, flames blaze brightly once again, bringing into being tales of fires, regeneration – burnings producing new growth – and nocturnal gatherings.

It’s reminiscent of the landmark Surrealist exhibition in 1938 where a fire crackled in a brazier, illuminating a coal-dust covered space. HYPER CARBONE summons up the subconscious in all its anthropomorphic guises. Roy Köhnke and Pierre Gaignard bring a more modern take to these collective imaginings through science fiction, which holds out a future that’s already old and a past that’s constantly chopping and changing. If we were to describe where the two artists came together, we would picture a phantom and a hybrid as one. The phantom represents jumbled up, broken down pieces of memory, remembrance made tangible. The hybrid represents an anatomical amalgam, the de-composition of what had been physiologically whole.