Brice Guilbert

「Ti brulé」

＜Dates＞ Friday,Nov 3, – Thursday,Dec 7, 2023
＜Location＞ PACE
＜Open＞ 11:00-19:00　Sunday, Monday CLOSE

All works in the show are titled Fournez, named for the local pronunciation of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island, where the artist was raised from age two to 14. For these works, which are part of a series the artist has been producing for the last seven years, Guilbert uses variously colored oil sticks on wood to create layered, gestural marks, imbuing each semi-abstract rendering of the volcano with different moods and resonances.

Guilbert’s practice spans painting, drawing, and music, and the works in his forthcoming exhibition with Pace in Hong Kong speak to his interest in recurring visual motifs that produce rhythmic, melodic effects. The artist’s practice is often engaged with his personal and lived experiences, with his Creole roots and childhood on Réunion Island among the inspirations for his paintings and musical compositions, which incorporate vocals and guitar. At the center of much of Guilbert’s work in abstraction is an ineffable, nostalgic quality that defies any fixed narrative.

“The volcano is part of an unconscious, a space I lived and grew up in,” Guilbert has said of his Fournez paintings, which figured in the 2021 group exhibition Silence at Pace’s gallery in Geneva and the artist’s 2022 solo exhibition Fournez at Pace’s gallery in Palo Alto. “The subject represented is an eruption, a projection, a sensation projected to the surface of every painting. Every work of art is the projection of an affect and of an idea.”

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