Let's Talk About Painting (Again) at Médiathèque Jean Rousselot

The third edition of the series 'Let's Talk About Painting (Again),' initiated in 2009 in Lyon, is presented by artist Éva Nielsen and critic/editor Clément Dirié at Médiathèque Jean Rousselot in Guyancourt, a new town in the Paris region. The exhibition runs from April 3 to May 19, 2013. The poster features Lorenzo Lippi's 'Allégorie de la simulation' (1640) as a 'reverse of the exhibition.' Simple angled display panels in black, white, or raw wood are arranged with precision, their visible weights left exposed like a studio hang. On the reverse of the panels, artists were invited to show a familiar object from their workspace, revealing 'backstage' elements. The exhibition includes works by Amélie Bertrand (a 2008 painting of a pyramid of pebbles in a grid before iridescent palms, plus a drawing by Aurélie Godard left in her studio), Anne Neukamp (washed-out canvases with two preparatory works), Ruth van Haren Noman (canvases evoking Auguste Herbin and art brut, with a small drawing by her father as a child), Éva Nielsen (painting combined with silkscreen featuring a gargoyle-serpent, plus two small inkjet prints), Mathieu Blanchard (a painting made with folds and two angel wings formed from paint concretions detached from his studio floor, with found photographs), and Jean-Baptiste Bernadet (colorful abstract paintings with literary texts). The exhibition is not a survey of contemporary painting but a conversation among practitioners.