French artist Philippe Cognée returns to Paris and Galerie Templon for the first time in four years with an exhibition devoted to his new series of paintings of crowds. The exhibition will run from January 7 to March 4, 2017.Philippe Cognée was born in 1957 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nantes, where he lives and works. With these works, he continues to explore the individual and the collective, the visible and invisible, the place of the real and the place of art. Figures emerge then dissolve into compact, hazy throngs within compositions that at first sight appear abstract. The viewer, faced with such extreme pictorial density, can no longer distinguish the image as figure from the material: ‘That which is enclosed within this layer of paint, within the crowd itself, is the individual.’ Philippe Cognée’s twenty-year artistic journey has led him to encounter a reality that is both stark and commonplace, made up of motorways, suburbs, industrial abattoirs, supermarket shelves and recycling plants.The exhibition will be on view at Galerie Templon, 30 rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris – France. For details, visit, www.danieltemplon.comClick on the Slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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