Sanctuaries
Arthur Lambert
Solo show
from March 21 to May 9, 2026
Opening on Friday, March 21st, from 6pm to 9pm, in the presence of the artist
For Arthur Lambert, drawing is about experiencing a world, observing a fragment of this universe common to all, traversing it, feeling it, highlighting what might have escaped us in order to reveal it. Demanding intense concentration in their creation, his works are visual experiences that evoke powerful symbolism from primary forms that overlap and intertwine.
Optical effects, appearances, disappearances, vibrant or imperceptible colors, gold leaf—all these compose a cosmogony rooted in humanity’s ancestral traditions. The artist thus creates collections of exclusive images and sometimes ventures into Op Art territory, playing with appearances and disappearances, the vibration of lines, and the layering of color.
What connects all of Arthur Lambert’s works is this search for the immaterial within the material, with the overarching idea of revealing to the viewer, through tempera painting, gouache, pencil, or even photography, a field of force, a vital energy.
For his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Robert Dantec, Arthur Lambert created a series of tempera drawings on black and white photographs. A majority of the images were taken in places imbued with spirituality, such as Shinto temples in Japan. A revealing tension arises between the drawing and the photograph, as if the artist were showing the magical dimension of the place and illuminating its sensitive and structured architecture.
In contrast, two new series of drawings on paper, created with gold leaf and tempera, present abstract compositions that play with our perception and our optical understanding. The patterns and textures highlighted by Arthur Lambert are then seen as cosmic systems where the saturation of the patterns refers to a spiritual dimension.
