Emmanuel Régent at Mamac Nice: From Drawing to Sculpture

The exhibition 'Sortir de son lit pour une rivière' at Mamac Nice (October 13, 2012 – January 27, 2013) presents Emmanuel Régent's works spanning drawing, painting, and sculpture. Régent, based in Villefranche-sur-Mer, combines traditional gesture with iconography from new technologies. The show includes dense drawings of shorelines and queues on vellum, where blank white spaces universalize time. A series of paintings titled 'Nébuleuses' features black depths that yield to color and a polished central light. The sculpture 'Valles Marineris' is a ten-meter-long wall of forty stainless steel blocks derived from a small antique stone. Régent's practice involves covering, scraping, sanding, and stacking, drawing inspiration from the everyday and the infra-ordinary, echoing Georges Perec's call to question mundane objects. The exhibition encourages patient viewing.