Galerie Isabelle Gounod
Canvas stretched like a drumhead, white background uneven with blue, red and yellow spots, lines, signs, folds, detours. The languid silhouettes of a mad garden tangle and dance, half-erased. A grid tries to hold the score, relayed in a corner. Sometimes words, deciphered backwards.
Michaële-Andréa Schatt paints as one writes, or rather as one takes notes for oneself, as one scribbles to free oneself from what invades us. First, the gesture is free, spontaneous and necessary. Let your thoughts flow, without punctuation, without restraint. For Schatt, it's in the margins that it settles, far from the painting, on large silk paper or tarpaulins. What's left on the blank page must then be reworked, scratched out, abandoned and assembled, on the large canvas where the artist transfers, one after the other, his intuitions and hesitations. Until, by dint of these transfers, the work comes into being.
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Thibault Bissirier, June 2023
Isabelle Gounod opened her first gallery in 2004, and inaugurated her space in Le Marais in 2008. The gallery is expanding with the “Studio”, which is both a showroom and a new exhibition space.
From the beginning, the gallery has paid particular attention to the French scene, and has accompanied and represented the work of Michaële-Andréa SCHATT, Martin BRUNEAU and Jérémy LIRON for more than ten years, and more recently Jacqueline DAURIAC, Florent LAMOUROUX, Moussa SARR, and Raphaëlle BERTRAN PINHEIRO.
Particularly recognised for its support of the emerging scene, it represents Lenny RÉBÉRÉ, Pierre AGHAIKIAN, Audrey MATT AUBERT, Sophie KITCHING and Mikaël MONCHICOURT.
Since 2016 the gallery has also strengthened its position by representing artists from the international scene: Glen BAXTER (GB), Leslie SMITH III (US), Dan BRAULT (CA), Katharina ZIEMKE (DE) and Axel PAHLAVI (DE), India LEIRE (UK) and Sam JACKSON (UK).
In 2020, a first exhibition dedicated to Carolyn CARLSON initiated the gallery’s commitment to the graphic and poetic work of the French-American dancer and choreographer.
The gallery presented the first exhibitions of Julien des Monstiers (2008), Claire Tabouret (2010, 2012 and 2013), Thomas Lévy-Lasne (2013) and Maude Maris (2013, 2015 and 2017).
Isabelle Gounod
Tel. 01 48 04 04 80
contact@galerie-gounod.fr
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am - 7pm and by appointment
Glen Baxter
Raphaëlle Bertran Pinheiro
Dan Brault
Martin Bruneau
Carolyn Carlson
Jacqueline Dauriac
Luke Heng
Sam Jackson
Sophie Kitching
Florent Lamouroux
India Leire
Jérémy Liron
Audrey Matt Aubert
Mikaël Monchicourt
Axel Pahlavi
Lenny Rébéré
Moussa Sarr
Michaële-Andréa Schatt
Leslie Smith III
Katharina Ziemke
