Four exhibitions selected by the editorial staff of Lyon Capital
There Le Bleu du Ciel gallery welcomes Under the flowered balconies by Guillaume Chamahian, who addresses the war in Syria, a country martyred and massacred by Bashar al-Assad and his family, in power since 1970. The artist has carried out real investigative work to, he says, “start civil war”, nourished with documents, photos, videos, models and objects that come from what he hacked: magazines, historical works, files and reports, archives, dark web, social networks, etc. An impressive work of reconstruction and memory! (until May 25).
Opening its spaces to contemporary art for years, Lyon Parc Auto offers Extreme Sitting, an immersive installation by the AuchKatzStudio duo which invites the visitor to contemplate nature, seated, and taking the time to perceive – in a sensitive relationship to three-dimensional painting and sculptural design – painting and sculpture from an unusual angle. The exhibition takes place simultaneously with Saint-Antoine Park and at Kommet art center in the Guillotière district (until May 18).
After last year’s success, François and Michelle Philippon are opening to the public their impressive collection of contemporary art located in an old golden stone mill called Artissima which runs along the promenade of taverns on the banks of the Saône in Rochetaillée.
Paintings and sculptures are more than ever in the spotlight with the presentation of numerous new works: Chiharu Shiota, Wang Keping, Zanele Muholi, Gloria Friedmann, Megan Rooney, Yan Cheng Wang, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas… Two new exhibition rooms offer also offers visitors a unique tour revealing behind the scenes of the collection and the confidential atmosphere of the place. The visits are guided and in small numbers, a getaway not to be missed! (until October 26).
Supported for several years by the Ceysson & Bénétière galleryTrudy Benson is a 39-year-old New York artist, in line with American lyrical abstraction.
Her work always consists of an initial acrylic background, often speckled, which she covers with shapes and colors on several planes, always ending with arabesques applied with a paint tube or airbrush, thus creating different reading spaces.
Aerial and very colorful, Nothing Net can be discovered in this beautiful Lyon gallery until May 18.
