Philippe Fangeaux at Le Carré/Musée Bonnat

Philippe Fangeaux, a Marseille-based painter, presents an exhibition at Le Carré/Musée Bonnat in Bayonne, France, from February 22 to April 29, 2002. The show follows a residency at Domaine d'Abbadia in Hendaye. Fangeaux's work combines banal scenes and identifiable registers—landscapes, animals, dolls, self-portraits, toys, fictions, metaphors, and citations—to create experimental image models. He employs strategies of distancing, recurrence, repetition, and variation to generate perceptual and sensational effects. His paintings force articulations between disparate elements, such as self-portraits with toys in mouths, displaced landscapes and animals, and suggestive dolls, producing expressive shocks and brutal joints that reveal a troubled reality. Fangeaux's approach is one of contamination and mixture rather than opposition, creating a constant passage between the imaginary and the real. The works function as fictional and autobiographical models, engaging viewers in a labyrinth of intersecting narratives. He will also exhibit at Galerie Decimus Magnus Art in Bordeaux from September 27 to November 9, 2002.