Next Exhibition
D’un trait distinctif
Alberto Cont, Bastien Faudon, Robinson Haas, Arthur Lambert, Isabelle Vorle.
From September 12th to October 31th 2025
The Robet Dantec Gallery is pleased to present recent drawings by five artists, painters, and sculptors, brought together in an exhibition whose title directly refers to a quote from the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. These five artists share the common thread of drawing lines—in pencil, watercolor, tempera, and even volume. Through a precise protocol that each of them imposes on themselves, the works presented reveal much more than simple lines. They open up a reflective dimension and question what constitutes art. Is it simply light, color, movement, rhythm, or form? Doesn’t this revealing trait highlight something deeper, a visual, poetic, or spiritual thought about the world?
Thus, in Alberto Cont’s work, watercolor and colored pencils make the line vibrate in an attempt to capture light. In his “Velature” series, the artist revisits the tradition of Venetian tonal painting, where the successive application of glazes—or velature—creates a delicate plastic effect, subtly merging subjects and environment. Through the combined use of colored pencils and watercolor, Alberto Cont superimposes layers that produce gradual transitions between tones, thus suggesting spatial depth. Color then becomes the main vector that shapes volume and space.
Robinson Haas uses repetitive protocols in which the movement of the body determines the line, often thought of as a musical tone. His work focuses on simple gestures, on the verge of non-action, repeated until the initial nature of the drawing is surpassed or transformed. This process seeks to bring out latent states of plastic or physical phenomena from which he attempts to reveal a sensitive dimension. In a slow working posture of meditative performance, it is as much time that shapes the drawing as the drawing gives form to time. With a reduced palette, bringing together full and empty, the artist conceives his works as spaces of contemplation to think about the moment and the fragility of the world.
In his thermoformed polystyrene sculptures, Bastien Faudon gives the drawn line a third dimension and a new materiality. Like the Moeubius ring, these sculptures astonish us with the infinite character of their ribbon and their fragile elegance. They play with balance, between the flexibility of the plastic, the twisting of the material on the verge of breaking, and the weight of the black wooden balls that play the role of overly heavy atoms. Enough to dream of the metaphysics of the world.
Painter who collaborated with Scottish artist Richard Wright, Arthur Lambert is an alchemist of matter and spirit. His creations require great concentration and unfailing dexterity. Whether he uses tempera, gold leaf, or colored pencil, his drawings often play on the appearance / disappearance of the image. Color, the vibration of lines and shapes, the abstract and optical dimension compose sensitive and structured architectures based on the golden ratio. Current cosmogonies, celestial and mystical imaginaries, his drawings summon very strong symbols from primary forms that telescope.
Isabelle Vorle is a painter and filmmaker. In her paintings and experimental films, she follows a path where chance and controlled visual experiences lead us toward a gentle visual poetry. She defines herself as an heir to American Color Field Painting, while freeing herself from dogma with an assumed freedom. In her watercolor and ink drawings, Isabelle Vorle experiments as a laboratory researcher would. She manipulates the paper, lifting it to let the line find its way on the paper, in a process that always involves research and experimentation. In this same vein, her videos and films remain experimental. They are shown at numerous festivals around the world.
