NEW YORK, NY – This September Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the exhibition FIAT#LUX - The Immersive Exhibition, a site-responsive collaborative installation by the internationally acclaimed French abstract painter Chantal Westby and the photographer Lénaïc Mercier. The exhibition opens on September 26, 2017 and runs through October 17, 2017.
The encounter between the Painter, Chantal Westby, and the Photographer, Lénaïc Mercier, was one of those fortunate meetings between two artists who immediately realize they share a common vision. This meeting, and the realization of their shared passion, occurred at the time of Chantal’s exhibition «Kaleidoscope» in Nantes, France in 2014. Although traditionally painting and artistic photography are considered parallel disciplines, they decided to combine their talents in a collaborative project entitled «FIAT#LUX».
Lénaïc’s unique photographic gaze imparts a dreamlike quality to the scene as Chantal creates highly emotional works utilizing Chinese inks and natural mineral pigments. Before the camera’s eye the painter’s hand poses the brush on the canvas and the ensuing mixture of inks and pigments is registered in a unique combination of two artistic disciplines.
Through their project, Lénaïc and Chantal seek to provide a completely immersive experience, just as they had experienced during its creation. It is this creative universe, its sights, scents and sounds that they wish to share with the public.
Thanks to modern technical devices, video mapping, lights and diffusion of different scents and timeless sounds and the music composed by Moby, they will be able to immerse the visitors into their creative world, making them react to the art and interact intimately with it, thus bringing the paintings and photographs to life.
In order to create a complete surprise for the public, all the paintings and the photographs will be unveiled only during the exhibition.
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 26 – Oct. 17, 2017
Reception: Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Event URL: https://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Westby_and_Mercier.aspx
About the Exhibition
FIAT#LUX — a Latin phrase meaning "let there be light" — is a collaborative project by photographer Lénaïc Mercier and painter Chantal Westby that doesn't confine itself to photographs and paintings alone, but realizes through this site-specific installation an entirely immersive experience, at once utopian and intimate.
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