DUO SHOW BY DAVID BRUCE & SIMON POTER at HATCHIKIAN GALLERY, PARIS
This spring will be punctuated by pulsations of color with the duo show by David Bruce and Simon Poter, curated by Audrey Hatchikian and Julie Frydman.
An exhibition to be registered already in the diaries of April, following the group show Projections which currently brings together Chazme, Nelio and Zabala around pictorial proposals that question the perspectives and horizons of the world-scape we inhabit.
The cross-over between an art gallery and an urban art production company offers an original opportunity to appreciate the interferences between mural practice and pictorial research in the work of two artists who play with bursts of color and stylized forms. Their works are vibrant with the energy of urban culture that emerges from the polychrome graphic lines and are a true antidote to the monotony of our daily environments. Inspired by the codes and imaginary of urban playgrounds and their tribes of belonging, David Bruce and Simon Poter deploy a resolutely sunny and carefree acid pop visual language, carrying a playful utopia that conjures the existential tragedy.
David Bruce discovered the practice of graffiti in the Paris suburbs, on the street basketball courts. Carried away by the conquering intoxication of the wall space by imposing the mark of his graphic identity, he pursues an exalted work which celebrates gaiety through naive pop figures dominated by vitaminized yellows. Bananas, logos and pictograms draw a universe that thwarts the heaviness of life to bring us back to the facetious dimension of existence. David Bruce regularly participates in urban festivals, exhibits internationally and collaborates with an iconic American streetwear brand associated with basketball: Nike, which spotted his work on social networks, called upon his artistic identity for the realization of three t-shirts now worn worldwide. Now based in Liège, he works in his studio on canvas and ceramics with compositions that continue his commitment to a frank simplicity of vibrant colors. David Bruce was one of the artists presented by Quai 36 during the last edition of the Urban Week Paris La Défense festival.
Simon Poter was introduced to graffiti before a more classical training at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon. His compositions play with polychrome abstraction, with a dynamic of mosaic forms whose movement is caused by the tension of the line and the contrast of the flat areas of color. His graphic style, a geometry where color is the unit of measure, opens the doors to collaborations with emblematic brands of urban culture. Regularly invited for mural creations, within the framework of festivals or institutional commissions, he develops in parallel in his studio a work that transcribes this multicolored intensity of abstract motifs on the scale of the canvas. Simon Poter collaborated with Quai 36 in the context of the Entract' architectural project for the construction of the Artchipel residence in La Garenne-Colombes, unveiling a monumental fresco conceived as a vibrant jazz rhythm, in which the colors would have replaced the notes.
The duo show JUMPINCOLORS will offer a common artistic playground to these two artists, for new productions that will confront their graphic proposals in the manner of a friendly colorimetric joust where the lines confront the curves: the game promises to be balanced with bounces of colors that will certainly wake us up from our hibernations to the brightness of a delightful visual vivacity.
The exhibition will be held from April 6 to June 30 at the Quai 36 space within the Fiminco Foundation in the new cultural hub of eastern Paris. Hatchikian Gallery and Quai 36 warmly invite you to the opening in the presence of the artists who will intervene in situ on Wednesday, April 5 at 6 pm, with exchanges and dedications.