NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Beaumont-de-Lomagne artist Pierre Boisseau in Sensorial Perspectives. The exhibition will open on December 3, 2016 and run through December 23, 2016 with an opening reception on Thursday, December 8 from 6-8 PM. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
Driven by the desire to create what he calls “the consistency of a whole,” Pierre Boisseau paints in order to create a correspondence between musical expression, painting, sculpture, and society. Originally an architect and even named the Prix de Rome of Architecture in 1964, he wanted more from life and decided to give up a promising international career in architecture. “Like a ship,” Boisseau explains, “under bad wind and hostile currents, in search of new horizons.” Shortly thereafter, he began to design fabric patterns, securing Yves Saint Laurent as his first client. His acrylic paintings pursue the same vibrancy and exploration of pattern, appearing at times like close-cropped graffiti triptychs.
Boisseau is inspired by the recollection of lost objects through the dominant memory of color. With his brushes, he paints symbols: subliminal glyphs wrapped in a color scheme. Boisseau hopes to compose his colors as one would music. “The organization of sounds and colors can produce all kinds of feelings,” he says, “without the help of speech or of representational art.” Summarizing his work, Boisseau turns to word association. “Game,” he says. “Color, harmony, composition, movement, listening, poetry, atmosphere.”
Pierre Boisseau lives and works in Beaumont-de-Lomagne in France.
Exhibition Dates: December 3, 2016 – December 23, 2016
Reception: Thursday December 8, 2016, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Pierre_Boisseau.aspx
Featured Artists:
Sensorial Perspectives
Volkmar Jesiek | Graciela Fortunata | Juan Salazar | Cesar Alvarez | Anna Des | Adam Craemer | Pierre Boisseau | Manoushak Azad | Mihalis Papakalodouka
About the Exhibition
Sensorial Perspectives: Experience of the Body
This December Agora Gallery presents Sensorial Perspectives, an exciting new collective exhibition that works to immerse the viewer, one physical sensation at a time. Five painters, two mixed-media artists, and one photographer offer work that challenge the traditional understanding of art as a purely visual medium. No fewer than four abstract artists are featured; they share a skillful use of bold colors and large-scale shapes but each differs in the emotional appeal to viewers. These painters show us the different ways color can shoot straight past the eyes to raise hairs on the skin and cause tingles beneath it. The exhibition's representational works also aim to make the viewer experience rather than look. One artist puts realistic figures against backgrounds of bubbling, exquisite clouds of reds and blues that communicate speed and movement. Another offers sharply contrasted, multicolor portraits that convey the presence of another person. The exhibition's photography show us the world from a human's eye point of view, with no more context and no more clarity than a person walking through would possess.
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