Galleries in Paris » Eva Nielsen

NIELSEN – JOUSSE

Galleries — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:37:13 +0000

Galerie Jousse Entreprise is pleased to announce Eva Nielsen’s second solo exhibition, INTARSIA from 14 May to 18 June 2022.

The exhibition presents the outcome of the artist’s LVMH Métiers d’Arts residency in 2021, during which she had the opportunity to collaborate with craftsmen and specialists renowned for their exceptional know-how in producing works of art combining leather and silk.

For six months, Eva Nielsen set up her studio at the Tanneries Roux in Roman sur Isère and benefited from the expertise of the Twinpix workshop, which specializes in textile printing. The artist offers new substrates to her creations and brings together on the same surface two materials as opposite as leather and silk. The result is a new series of works naturally impregnated with the geographical location of the residence, the proximity of the Isère river and the omnipresence of the Vercors relief.

All destinies are anchored in the river. Rainwater falls on the land, streams on the surface, infiltrates the soil, and forms springs that merge here to become the Isère. It is at the confluence of these waters, which collect, store and erode that Eva Nielsen has taken her painting to worlds she had never explored before: leather and silk. In Romans- sur-Isère, where the Roux Tanneries are located, she returned every month of last year, when we were experiencing an unprecedented disruption in our relationships with others, in our mobility and our flesh. As a painter, she took over the studio on the top floor of the tannery with her tools. When she moved in, she quickly caught the warm
and strong natural light of Romans. Captivated by the personal and collective narratives that settle down in layers on the premises, the artist crossed these landscapes that were unknown to her, leaving the usual paths to drift and literally dive into new temporalities of research and production that are so precious in an artist’s life. (…) Blurring the boundaries between mediums, practices and patterns, Eva Nielsen alters legibility and performs an anatomy of the urban landscape’s devastation. (…) Throughout the residency, Eva Nielsen considered several series of new paintings, mainly in very large formats, starting from residual images printed on transparencies hung on the walls of the studio, then seizing scraps of leather and canvas, the mastery of which was perfected each week and month with the teams of the tannery and the silk factory. (…)

With these territories that are constantly being rewritten, Eva Nielsen paints the strata of imaginary or invisible cities, from the brownfield land to the country town, source towns or garden cities, containing transposable paths that converge and diverge like transfers from one form to another. Forms that circulate and migrate in the manner of a city that copies itself. This is certainly where the living dimension of her painting lies. By analysing in a chemical sense the components of a city, of a territory between travel and immobility, intention and disorder, real and imaginary, past and future, emptiness and proliferation, weight and lightness, invisible and elsewhere, Eva Nielsen never ceases to cross her own cosmos in order to explore in depth our multiple ways of existing.

Pictorial pastoral landscape, one that connects the sources
Extracts from the text by Marianne Derrien

TENTATIVES DE POSITIONNEMENT – JOUSSE

Galleries — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:07:33 +0000

Tentatives de Positionnement
TIM EITEL | ANNE-CHARLOTTE FINEL | NATHANAËLLE HERBELIN | EVA NIELSEN

The intention behind Tentatives de Positionnement is to encourage a dialogue between the work of four artists. Anne-Charlotte Finel’s video connects with Eva Nielsen’s paintings to reveal almost supernatural landscapes, focusing on geographical and chronological interstices. Elsewhere, the psychological portraits of our urban society made by Tim Eitel meet Nathanaëlle Herbelin’s paintings, weaving links between intimacy and politics. The dialogue embarked upon between these two twosomes questions how territory is seen. The artists o er us their vision of the world and their stances. The works become meta-territories causing us to re-think and re-invent the world.

In Hors-sol, Anne-Charlotte Finel films an impressive greenhouse by night. The visual pollution caused by the LED and sodium lights permitting the intensive cultivation of tomatoes tinges the surroundings with pink and yellow. The aurora borealis thus formed — a mark of human activity — disorients and disturbs the animals’ cycle. The visual and acoustic atmosphere of the work creates an ambivalent feeling in the viewer, hovering between fascination and anxiety in front of this luminous spectacle worthy of a sci-fi film. A similar ambivalence emanates from Eva Nielsen’s paintings which tend to challenge our visual and mental perception. In her new series titled Gradient, she further reveals her creative process. Using the random manipulation of fragments of her visual research, she constructs her painting in successive layers. Silkscreened angular forms cleave the landscapes which form backgrounds, thus upsetting the calmness of her desert expanses and creating non-places — worlds which do not seem to belong to any space/time-frame.

Nathanaëlle Herbelin’s stance is akin to that of the documentary maker. Her paintings illustrate a twofold geographical horizon: Israel and France — together with everything that geography engenders, and at times capsizes, in terms of a sense of belonging. The series Tentatives de Positionnement casts an anthropological eye on the deserts of the Negev and Judea, revealing the human and aesthetic complexities and contradictions that they contain. By transcribing her study objects with her particular sensibility, Nathanaëlle Herbelin’s artistic approach di ers from Tim Eitel’s, who uses painting to create analogies with reality, constructing fictitious parallel worlds based on situations which have been seen and experienced. In eliminating the details of reality, Tim Eitel’s paintings show an almost abstract simplicity which steeps his world in a serene and contemplative atmosphere. His works are a far-reaching quest for the perception of space, light, and time, testing painting’s potential for representing these elements.

CAUBET | NIELSEN – JOUSSE

Galleries — Sat, 11 May 2019 15:19:54 +0000

DIPOLAR winds up the cycle on affinity between artists and works, proposed by Sophie Vigourous in which a sensitive dialogue is established between the works, in order to try to learn from them, and reflect about the notion of intellectual friendships, collaboration, homage, duets and dualities.
After Affinité(s) and Mais pas du tout, c’est platement figuratif! Toi, tu es spirituelle mon amour! (co-curated by Anaël Pigeat and Sophie Vigourous), DIPOLAR is proposing an exhibition of two studio artists who have decided to establish a conversation between their works within the gallery space. Started more than a year ago, their project has been developed around formal and discursive relations between the silkscreened paintings of Eva Nielsen and Jennifer Caubet’s sculptural installations. The interplay of scale, incidentally, is a common feature in the works of both these artists, who produce territories shying away from the existing world, in which the proportions are confused and blurred. The confrontation and merger of forms betray reality and tend towards abstraction. Similarly, the artists’ work transforms our perception of trivial elements, and lends them another magnitude.

Nielsen – JOUSSE

Galleries — Thu, 18 May 2017 08:48:16 +0000

EVA NIELSEN

LES FONDS DE L’ŒIL

Galerie Jousse Entreprise – Paris 3

Galleries — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:58:44 +0000

For almost 30 years, Philippe Jousse has had a deep interest in the aesthetics of 20th century furniture, ceaselessly contributing to the recognition of designers and artists such as Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Mathieu Matégot, Le Corbusier… He has played an essential role in the development of French and foreign collectors’ tastes, by developing two parallel activities, in architect-designed furniture and in contemporary art. In 2001, Philippe Jousse separated his activities and opened a gallery dedicated to promoting contemporary art. The artistic line adopted aims to support emerging artists at the same time as renowned figures. The artists represented by the Jousse Entreprise gallery are mostly French, and enjoy an international standing.

Atelier Van Lieshout / Louidgi Beltrame / Elisabetta Benassi / Jennifer Caubet / Matthew Darbyshire / Florence Doléac / Tim Eitel / Anne-Charlotte Finel / Thomas Grünfeld / Clarisse Hahn / Nathanaëlle Herbelin / Richard Kern / Martin Le Chevallier / Ange Leccia / Seulgi Lee / Philippe Meste / Ariane Michel / Eva Nielsen / Rometti Costales / Kishin Shinoyama /Francisco Sobrino