Pierre and Gilles at the Templon gallery, this is how the night goes – Libération

With the “Electric Night” exhibition, the iconic pop duo returns with a new scope of shots imbued with light and darkness and gives the idea that a new world is yet to come.

Can the night still save us? Lively and blinding with its infinite parties and its neon lights to the point of making us forget for a moment the generalized chaos of a world which is collapsing? It is these intense questions that titillate us as we wander past the recent predominantly nocturnal works (2023-2024) by Pierre and Gilles, in the very beautiful “Electric Night” exhibition at the Templon gallery. The artistic identity of the iconic pop duo is legendary, identifiable among all, and has been since the end of the 70s when they found each other and began to work, to think of everything together, Pierre to the photography and the lights, Gilles to the retouching, brushes and aerosols in hand.

We know these ultra-flashy paintings, often queer, erotic, bordered with neo-rococo frames (sometimes similar to large meringues) where stars follow one another – of song, cinema, porn… – and anonymous, under the features made up of wounded archangels, melancholic and flowery juvenilities, glam madonnas with generous breasts adorned with metal jewelry and other robust princes. Mythology flirts with baroque-kitsch. This also gave us some very beautiful album covers (Etienne Daho, Sylvie Vartan, Lio, Jakie Quartz…)

Butt crushed and boom finished

“It’s a night that could