Jean Messagier Le prochain Été
June 02, 2024
Jean Messagier Le prochain Été
June 02, 2024
From June 2 to November 3, 2024
Curators : Christophe Mélard et Thomas Messagier
Joys, freedom, parties, sensuality, voluptuousness... here are a few words among others that can come to us in clusters when we see the works of Jean Messagier brought together for this exhibition. We often find them cited in the artist's catalogs or in his own writings. We are also immediately struck by another characteristic of these works: that of going beyond the limits within which we could seek to circumscribe it, of escaping categories – whether it is abstraction or figuration, of good taste or in bad taste - to evolve in freedom. The energy that blows in these paintings associated by Messagier with spring, makes one think of the “thaw wind” which opens in Nietzsche to the experience of a “Gay knowledge”, to “a mischievous, light, fleeting, divinely serene art , divinely artificial.”
Curators : Christophe Mélard et Thomas Messagier
Joys, freedom, parties, sensuality, voluptuousness... here are a few words among others that can come to us in clusters when we see the works of Jean Messagier brought together for this exhibition. We often find them cited in the artist's catalogs or in his own writings. We are also immediately struck by another characteristic of these works: that of going beyond the limits within which we could seek to circumscribe it, of escaping categories – whether it is abstraction or figuration, of good taste or in bad taste - to evolve in freedom. The energy that blows in these paintings associated by Messagier with spring, makes one think of the “thaw wind” which opens in Nietzsche to the experience of a “Gay knowledge”, to “a mischievous, light, fleeting, divinely serene art , divinely artificial.”
Romain MATHIEU Extract from the catalog of the exhibition Jean Messagier, The Next Summer Éditions Espace Paul Rebeyrolle, 2024