[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”1382″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”zoom” css_animation=”zoomIn”][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Lives and works in Escamps (Fr.). Ga\u00ebl Darras is a graduate from the Art School of Nantes M\u00e9tropole (2014). In 2022, he also followed an illumination training at CITIL (International Center for the Traditions of the Image of Light).[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/IxNZ3llZv9Y”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1562103889852{border-left-width: 1px !important;border-left-color: #e3afa7 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1622203229495{padding-left: 30px !important;}”]Paint a wall<\/p>\n
From the pattern of brick, a unit that is tirelessly repeated, Ga\u00ebl Darras uses watercolors to build architectural spaces in a minimalist style. Its buildings, devoid of any functionality, are devoid of spatial contextualization and precise time markers – they take us to a distant antiquity as much as they evoke our contemporary masonry. They float in the matrix whiteness of the paper, parts of which are left blank, like virtual volumes, mirages emerging from a blinding desert. These constructions do not inhabit, do not penetrate each other: they are walls. They show as much as they conceal, pushing the gaze to seek beyond. Their borders send us back to our privacy, like “inner temples” whose front door is kept secret.<\/p>\n
The systematic use of iron oxide as a pigment (the very one that gives brick its red color) deploys a monochrome and contemplative universe where each brick vibrates with a particular density. Ga\u00ebl uses tools common to both the architect and the painter (cavalier perspective, vanishing point, ruler, compass, square) and is interested in different traditions and techniques of image composition. He draws in particular from the symbolic geometry inherited from the illuminators of the Middle Ages (golden proportions, dynamic rectangles, polygons, etc.) and from the history of the fresco, from the Pompeian villas to the chapels of the Italian primitives.<\/p>\n
At different scales of his work, a modular principle is reiterated which proceeds from the fragment and the matrix. The accumulation of bricks draws the shapes, the tight framing alternates with the overall views, the images are cut out and assembled in polyptychs. As if pushed by a continuous rewriting of the myth of Babel, Ga\u00ebl Darras, in a constant repetition of gesture, motif and subject, seems to explore the contours of one and the same imaginary monument.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_custom_heading text=”art works” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”bg_color” bg_color_value=”#f2f2f2″ css=”.vc_custom_1563722577019{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_basic_grid post_type=”royal_portfolio” max_items=”-1″ item=”masonryGrid_SlideFromLeft” grid_id=”vc_gid:1747155255635-311266dfae9cb3ab061eddc741ba52cd-2″ taxonomies=”62″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” spacing=”5″ active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”solo exhibitions and duets” tab_id=”1559740892983-68397675-89f3″][vc_column_text]2023<\/strong> 2021<\/strong> 2020<\/strong> 2018<\/strong> 2017<\/strong> 2022<\/strong> 2021<\/strong> Cueillir les \u00e9toiles, with Art Delivery, Beaux Arts of Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Nantes<\/p>\n 2020<\/strong> 2019<\/strong> 2018<\/strong> 2016<\/strong> 2015<\/strong> 2014<\/strong> 2020 2019<\/strong> [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”1382″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”zoom” css_animation=”zoomIn”][vc_empty_space][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Lives and works in Escamps (Fr.). Ga\u00ebl Darras is a graduate from the Art School of Nantes M\u00e9tropole (2014). In 2022, he also followed an illumination training at CITIL (International Center for the Traditions of the Image of Light).[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/IxNZ3llZv9Y”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1562103889852{border-left-width: 1px !important;border-left-color: #e3afa7 !important;border-left-style: solid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1154,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1444\/revisions\/5740"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galerierobetdantec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChronos, Bam Projects, Bordeaux
\nLignes de force, with Arthur Lambert, Galerie Robet Dantec, Belfort<\/p>\n
\nAllons, faisons des briques et cuisons-les au feu !, \u00a0Robet Dantec Gallery, Belfort
\nQuadrature, with Fran\u00e7ois Dufeil, with Octo-Verso, Angers\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n1280\u00b0, at Espace Mira, with Leah Desmousseaux, Nantes<\/p>\n
\nLocus in aliore loco, with Leah Desmousseaux at CAPRA, Allonnes
\n<\/span>En r\u00e9alit\u00e9 je n\u2019ai trouv\u00e9 que du sable,\u00a0at the Alain Lebras’s studio, \u00a0Nantes<\/p>\n
\nEdmond Multiples and \u00e9ditions, at the Ateliers Millefeuilles, Nantes\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”group exhibitions” tab_id=”1566508529710-738885ec-a711″][vc_column_text]2023
\n<\/strong>\u00e9mergences #3, Galerie Robet Dantec, Nantes
\nDDESSIN PARIS, Galerie Robet Dantec, Paris<\/p>\n
\nArt Fair Dijon, with Robet Dantec Gallery, Dijon
\nLuxembourg Art Week – The Fair, with Robet Dantec Gallery, Luxembourg
\nNouvelles Acquisitions, with l’Artoth\u00e8que d’Angers au Repaire Urbain, Angers
\nPop-Up Galeries, at Fernet-Branca Fondation, with Robet Dantec Gallery, Saint-Louis<\/p>\n
\nLuxembourg Art Week \u2013 The Fair (in november), with Robet Dantec Gallery, Luxembourg
\n<\/span>Les solitudes, at The Temple du Go\u00fbt, Nantes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00c9mergences #2, with Robet Dantec Gallery, Belfort<\/p>\n
\nContre Forme at l\u2019Atelier, invited by MPVite, at Nantes<\/p>\n
\nDe la zone humide ou naissent les images at Open school gallery, ESBANM, at Nantes
\n<\/span>Last rite at Grand Atelier, Maison de quartier Madeleine Champ de Mars, at Nantes<\/p>\n
\nPresentation of a piece at the exhibition Do It of Frac des Pays de la Loire at HAB Gallery at Nantes<\/p>\n
\nArchiculture at Millefeuille at Nantes<\/p>\n
\nPublication of a Personal work in the magazine Kiblind, followed by a group exhibition at Point \u00c9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re at Paris
\n<\/span>Short Cuts at gallery Short at Nantes[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”awards and residencies” tab_id=”1559741494975-158455d0-4ded”][vc_column_text]2022<\/strong>
\nExceptional support fund reserved at visual artists of Nantes M\u00e9tropole
\nIndividual Help at Creation of the DRAC Pays de la Loire grant<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Finaliste of the 10th Jeune Cr\u00e9ation Price of the Atelier Blanc and The Moulin of the Arts, Saint-R\u00e9my
\nResidence at the Collectif BLAST, Angers<\/p>\n
\nIndividual Help at Creation of the\u00a0DRAC Pays de la Loire grant
\n<\/span>2nd place of Paris Price 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne for contemporary Art for a piece realized in collaboration with Leah Desmousseaux\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”public collections” tab_id=”1622203764642-917ad975-987c”][vc_column_text]Art Delivery, \u00c9cole des Beaux-arts of Nantes artotheque
\nM\u00e9diath\u00e8que of Pays d\u2019H\u00e9ricourt artotheque
\nAngers artotheque[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"