ART PARIS ART FAIR

Booth E6

With works by:
Gilles Aillaud
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel
Blaise Drummond
Jean Dupuy
Robert Filliou

Natural Histories. A Focus on the French Scene
by Alfred Pacquement

The vitality of today’s artists’ interest for the animal and plant kingdoms is constantly being asserted as they explore, observe, and take stock, highlighting the beauty of nature, taking note of changes and threats, and investigating every state of its existence. You may have thought that painting flowers or portraying fauna was an artistic practice of a bygone era and yet it was the proliferation of all sorts of natural histories in contemporary art that led me to suggest this theme for the spring 2022 edition of Art Paris.(…)

One of the first names that came to mind was Gilles Aillaud. His portraits of animals in artificial zoo environments are imbued with an almost dramatic tension that contrasts with the outward appearance of his flatly painted and precisely composed works. He later went on to paint light-filled landscapes.

“Natural histories” is a thread that runs through all the works we chose to exhibit this year, echoing the theme chosen by Alfred Pacquement, guest curator at Art Paris 2022.