Exhibition of works by Eugène Leroy opens at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris

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Exhibition of works by Eugène Leroy opens at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris
Eugène Leroy, Homme en croix, 1990. Huile sur toile, 195 x 130 cm © Courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/ Bruxelles et Galerie Werner.



PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents an exhibition of Eugène Leroy, whose singular work has not been shown in Paris since the exhibition Les dernières peintures d’Eugène Leroy in 2010 at the Galerie de France. After the exhibition presented in its Brussels gallery in 2013, this is the second exhibition that the gallery has devoted to this great painter from the north of France, born in Tourcoing in 1910 and dead in 2000.

Blending the most diverse heritage, from Rembrandt to Malevitch, and including Jean Fautrier, Eugène Leroy explored the multiple possibilities of material and matter, deploying a science of impasto which conferred an incomparable relief to his paintings. This paradoxical opacity, made of light and colours, gives the onlooker the impression of ‘entering into a cavern’, as one of Leroy’s greatest admirer’s, the German painter Georg Baselitz, would say : ‘There I found images brown like the fields, like stone, wood, moss, scent,’ he recounted, reflecting on his first encounter with Leroy’s oeuvre, ‘as though all the painter’s trousers were hanging from a hook and told the story of an unknown masterpiece.’

The Peintures-Fusains exhibition presented at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia allows visitors to discover twenty works, charcoals on paper and a dozen oil paintings, in medium and large formats, produced during the last decade of Leroy’s life from 1990 to 2000 – of major importance because during this time the artist achieved international recognition.

The latter is illustrated in particular by Leroy’s consecutive participation at the Biennial of São Paulo in 1990 and Documenta in Kassel in 1992, both while the artist continued to pursue his personal trajectory, resolutely at the margins of the period’s dominant trends. Two major retrospectives would follow at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Nice in 1993 and the Kunsterverein in Düsseldorf in July 2000, three months after the artist’s death in his home-studio in Wasquehal. The Peintures-Fusains exhibition is also an opportunity to showcase five oil paintings of major importance, dating between 1988 and 1991.

« Pour un corps de femme », « Seuls », « Homme en croix », « Lumières sur Marina », « La marée », « Noël 88 », « Lumières d’hiver »… Evocative, the titles of the paintings by Eugène Leroy presented at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia convey the constant attention he paid to light and human representation; his way of clashing with his subjects, which he seemed to tame through paint to then negate their contours; his attempt to capture their essence while conserving their mystery, buried beneath an accumulation of layers, added year after year, shaping a face, body, landscape. The drawings obey the same concerns, as art critic Denys Zacharopoulos so rightly remarked: ‘But it is from the shadow, made up of multiple interwoven or blurred charcoal lines, that bodies and faces emerge like apparitions1’. Through this exhibition, which offers onlookers a kind of epiphany and a genuine ‘celebration of the senses2’, the Galerie Nathalie Obadia is proud to pay homage to one of the great French painters of the second half of the twentieth century.










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