November 2021. The Indian artist Karishma D'SOUZA joins the Collection VR D'AFFAUX.

Karishma D’SOUZA is a young painter who belongs to the new generation of Indian artists. In the work of D’SOUZA, memories of places, stories and people are containers of a psychological world. Drawn from the anchor of lived experiences, the paintings are places of acknowledgement of the dignity of journeys, of stitched together personal realities. « The past has fallen away like a bridge in an adventure game; I didn’t see it coming. The path still exists ahead of me, it needs to be run, for a while.
My paintings draw from Mughul and Pahari miniatures, the geometry and the delight in life, peacefulness, in a memory of a Rajasthani miniature painter working with a fine brush, complete concentration, within a community, where the work is without individual authorship. I look for absolute quietness in a painting, where the human figure acts as witness. It existed, it occurred, because we remember. » Karishma D’SOUZA

Welcome to the "VIRTUAL RESIDENCY", a virtual exhibition space dedicated to the french artist

Marcel BASCOULARD (1913 - 1978)

Forty-three years after his assassination, Marcel BASCOULARD remains an iconic curiosity of the city of Bourges (France). There he was the illuminated wanderer, a scholar marginal known for his meticulous drawings of the city. Self-taught, he is the only figure appearing in his work as evidenced by his photographs produced over thirty years, from 1942. These are full-length self-portraits in which BASCOULARD wears dresses that he draws himself and holds. a broken mirror, alone in exterior and interior settings.

Marcel BASCOULARD left at the age of 19 for Bourges where his mother was interned after having murdered her husband. He remained there until his death in 1978, having developed throughout his life a marginal and isolated artistic practice, consisting of drawings, photographs and poems. Marcel BASCOULARD thus staged the story of a character known to have been both a transvestite and talented tramp. His works have been regularly exhibited in Paris since 2016 at the Christophe GAILLARD gallery (Paris, France) which is patiently and brilliantly dedicated to the recognition of this extraordinary artist.

December, 2020. Alex BROWN, a new artist in the Collection VR D'AFFAUX.

Alex BROWN's paintings & drawings blend Photorealism with Optical Art. Often working from unexceptional found photographs, postcards, brochures, and magazines, Brown distorts images of landscapes and people with patterns, gridded fields, and strange shapes. By superimposing images and playing with light and shadow, he creates mesmerizing illusions that are both abstract and figurative. Brown says of his paintings, "It's fun to look at these worlds within worlds. It offers a nice balance to the ones that are done with rigid, geometric grids and vice versa."

Alex BROWN died in 2019 at age fifty-two following an aneurysm. The first dead artist collected by the Foundation.

November, 2020. Ignasi ABALLI, a new artist, joins the VR Collection of AFFAUX !

Employing a range of practices as wide as painting, video, photography or installation, the work of Ignasi ABALLI invests in issues related to language, representation, systems of construction of meaning and the notion of time. Promoting hybrid processes of appropriation and manipulation of objects or images found, he explores the tension between what is manufactured and what is mechanical or linked to a natural process, between the visible and the invisible, the material and the conceptual.

October, 2020. Pauline BOUDRY and Renate LORENZ, a duo of artists joins the VR Collection of AFFAUX !

Pauline BOUDRY and Renate LORENZ have been working together in Berlin since 2007. They produce objects and installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Their objects include “stage pieces” and “wig pieces.” Their films capture performances in front of the camera, often starting with a song, a picture, a film or a score from the near past. They upset normative historical narratives and conventions of spectatorship, as figures and actions across time are staged, layered and re-imagined. The wig pieces conceived using long strands of synthetic hair, which the artists either pin to the wall or suspend on metal structures, entertain an aesthetic ambiguity. Their equivocal status—neither painting nor sculpture—seems to echo the notion of “Specific Objects ” coined by Donald Judd, while the sensuality and corporeality of the materials associated with the world of drag and underground haunts cuts against the grain of the geometric purism and austere codes of Minimal art.

September, 2020. Renaud REGNERY, a new artist in the Collection VR D'AFFAUX.

Renaud REGNERY chooses a regulated material: wallpaper. But not any: specifically the one with industrial pattern used during the crisis in the 1930’s America, on sale at the same time as stove tiles. As a poorer population could not afford to buy those, the wallpaper cheaper imitation is temporarily commercialized. Taken away from these historical details, the pattern to be seen remains simple, with no specificity, apart from the reddish color of the grid. Only the simple composition and the chosen format allow distinguishing the works within the series entitled “Faux-tiles Paintings”. The wallpaper is not unfurled, pinned or stuck on the wall as in traditional painting, but enriched with compositions with no particular affect, expelling here too the notion of ready-made.

Frédéric Galliano, April 2018

August 2020, Apolonia SOKOL is back !

The Annonciation, 2016 (Bonbon and Ylva)

Oil on canvas 76.77 x 45.27 Inches

July 2020.  A new photography by Dora BUDOR in the Collection VR D'AFFAUX !

To get old...

June 2020.  A new piece by Pierre SEINTURIER in the Collection VR D'AFFAUX !

Pierre SEINTURIER imagines an entire theatre for his fantasy memory, creating sto

ries, staging them in landscapes mired with a tense atmosphere, animating them with characters, about whom the uncertainty remains, whether they be fictitious or not, and what their identity may be. The way he inhabits space by staging it on different planes allows him to play with trompe-l’oeil effects and with a visual maze which force the viewer into an active, curious, and even nosy stroll. 

In Philippe Piguet, Inner journeys, 2015

May, 2020. Ben ELLIOT, a new artist in the Collection VR D'AFFAUX.

The artistic approach of Ben Elliot is translated by the assembly of objects whose set he explores to diffuse an idea or a concept, often polysemic, therefore understandable at the same time by the actors of the art world, the influencers and the general public. A French artist and influencer born in 1994, he has over 28,000 followers on his Instagram account.

March 2020.  Thomas LEVY-LASNE is back !

«Alex Beaupain », 2019

Watercolor on papier representing singer Alex Beaupain in the middle of a party (album PAS PLUS QUE LE JOUR QUE LA NUIT) 

January, 2020. Happy New Year 2020 with the Collection VR d'AFFAUX Foundation, Paris, France

And welcome to the work of Jean Michel ALBEROLA which joins the Collection :

« Cette oeuvre appartient à un collectionneur »

Mix media on paper

5.51 x 47.24 Inches

2008

August 2019, Hélène DELPRAT is back !

«My new job », 2007 - Bad taste

Acrylic on paper on canvas under glass

July 2019.  A new BARBIER Artwork in the Collection VR D'AFFAUX.

«Summer Drawing #3 », (August 2016)

Pencil on paper and sun exposure

June 2019.  Pierre SEINTURIER is back !

« There has always been tension, anxiety generated by the characters…

I first have an idea of an atmosphere, of colours and of touches of paint in a décor; characters are then added, and things start happening. Topics depend on the décor actually, just like a scene from a play or a film. »

Pierre SEINTURIER, conversation with Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Gallery

May 2019.  A new Julien des MONSTIERS Artwork in the Collection VR D'AFFAUX.

« Painting isn’t sacred, it has never been, it’s only a surface that escapes the canvas and overflows into Life. »

Julien des MONSTIERS, August 2018

April, 2019.  Nathlie PROVOSTY is back !

How does the pupil, delicate organ that it is, perceive form and color ? These paintings investigate this question by making form and color suggest one thing while evoking another. While they may initially appear monochromatic, deeply layered tones and shapes reveal themselves the longer one looks. Black pigment dissolves into earth tones;  shades of lemon yellow and peach emerge from beneath white paint. The austere, curved lines have a mechanical meter, yet are drawn by hand. The shapes within recall letters, numbers, and other signs, yet willfully signify nothing. The image exists neither in the painting nor the pupil, but in the unresolved space in between. Provosty’s work posits a nuanced concept of vision, testing how the material itself - oil paint on linen - communicates, never assuming that the mind sees what the eye perceives.