28 May – 7 June

Créatures — Alexandre Baumgartner

Alexandre Baumgartner presents a body of paintings, sculptures and drawings that straddle contemporary practice and art brut. His work evokes hybrid, often ambiguous creatures, balancing an apparent innocence with acute perceptual intensity.
Using gestural drawing, tactile paint surfaces and sculptural forms, the pieces probe the boundary between presence and disappearance. The exhibition questions how simple contours and raw mark-making reactivate buried affects, revealing fragile emotional registers and the paradox of clarity within naiveté.

4A chemin Tressy-Cordy
Photo Credit: Arteresilia/Baumgartner
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Photo Credit: Arteresilia/Baumgartner

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