John Mejia
World artist John has his work regularly presented in the United States and Europe and has notably executed numerous commissions for public figures as well as for communities.
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Mme S.
She graduated from the Arts Appliqués de Parisand the Beaux-Arts de Marseille.
« As we look at the aslept ladies of Mme S. , alternatly sleepy, languid, a doubt arises… Are they freed by their dreams or are they invadedby them? Encroachment, that is quite the subject of Mme S.’s works. »
With poetry and sensuality Mme S. lays her asleptladies, made of ink, of pencil, on a paper she burns or pins, telling us about the internal feelings or landscapes taking place in her night encroachments.
🥇 Golden medal Salon des Beaux-Arts de Paris 2024 section papier
🥇 Golden medal Jury invité du salon des Beaux-Arts de Paris 2024
🥇 Prix Calligrane 2024 Salon des Beaux-Arts de Paris 2024
🥇 Prix "Géant des Beaux-Arts" du salon des Beaux-Art de Paris 2023
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Panagiotis Pougaridis
Panagiotis Pougaridis was born in 1968 in Thessaloniki, where he lives and works.
Panagiotis Pougaridis does ships.
Panagiotis Pougaridis’s ships are made of brass and copper.
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Panagiotis Pougaridis’s ships are made of brass and copper.
"Living in Thessaloniki, a city by the sea, the eye constantly trains upon the water, the port, the ships, I noticed their volume standing still, clearly outlined in the sunlight or fading away indiscernible through the fog. A vision recurring and at the same time diverse and captivating...
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Pierre Heintz
This will be the trigger; he has since become a painter-illustrator. We can now find his paintings on the walls of some beautiful villas, from the Côte d'Azur to Switzerland, from Saint-Barthélémy to Paris.
“I like the idea of a certain paradox: a naturalistic, apparently bucolic theme which is in fact dominated by a certain radicality.
Plants, nature are not the subject but the means.
I use plants, exploring all the combinations and contrasts of shape and color, to approach the subject of painting itself. The incredible diversity of life as a source of inspiration but not as a model.
These rules are a uniqueness of format and composition (centered), great clarity (avoid effects), contrasts of shapes and colors (radical rather than aesthetic), the systematic repetition of shapes and their accumulation. (…)
So if music were to accompany my painting, it would not be bucolic music but rather repetitive music like that of Philip Glass or Steve Reich.
Despite appearances, I do not place myself in what should be called figurative painting.
That’s the paradox.”
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Guillaume Cavalier
Its generous palette and the grace of its line play with the eye of those who venture to observe it. Part of its production reflects a civilization in turmoil. The other part tends to make a supersensible and singular universe intelligible.
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From his ink drawings to his paintings on canvas, a double search, exterior and interior, pushes these antagonisms to be reconciled. A quest, mixing Tradition and Freedom, is embodied in this artist born in 1994.
His subjects of reflection offer a panorama of life in the 21st century, making the artist the witness of his time.
A cleverly orchestrated symbolism frees speech and initiates a dialogue between ideas. Behind a humble and naive character hides a stubborn goldsmith, gradually revealing the treasures that reside within him.
Baldot
But life turned such he lived as a professionnal boxer conducting an international career on the latino american continent. Retired from the ring he then dedicated himself fully to his inner, his core impulsion for the lines and and the colors.
From one dance to another, from swiftness to spontaneity, from strenght to power, from the body and the mind the movements of life which were at play in the ring are now on the canvas.
Roots, soul, spirit, human awarness, earth, misteries, something of a woodoo trance is around here.
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Let us hear him :
“Art is like humanity itself, with beautiful and interesting imperfections. The viewer must let himself be carried away by the emotion generated by the work, which is the fruit of an ancestral heritage. It is he who shapes my paintings… roots are transformed into colorful images, meeting, producing masks which are expressions of my Afro-descendant identity. With their dance and their roots, they survive on my canvas, in an imaginary world.
In my work I bring to life the reflection of the richness of the Colombian Caribbean, with its joy, its magic, its composition and all its heritage of great tribes who conquered Latin America with their color. Hidden bodies, faces of black men, mulattoes, natives, mixed gods, wanting to emerge from the canvas itself. I am spontaneous, I ritualize with the canvas. I am expressive and I never work without a reason, because I believe in works with a concept. My features are guided by my soul, wanting to find myself, my dreams, my past, my struggle, questioning the very concept of seeing art.
This is why this way of expressing myself respects the dominance of color and the figure of the canvas, which has not been dominated by its creator, but which is free for the viewer.”
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Jon Voss
In 2004, Jon moved to Sydney Australia, perusing his passion for art and design. Since 2014 he has been living in Narbonne where he is creating works of sculpture, illustration and light art in his Antibes atelier.
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🏅 Jon has work held in collections in Australia and he has been commissioned for a number of large-scale projects including private and public art commissions nationally and internationally.
Philippe Gavin
After obtaining a Ph.D. in signal processing in geophysics, he worked for over 15 years as a researcher in the oil industry for the French Institute of Petroleum and TotalEnergie (formerly Elf).
His transfer within Elf to Pau brought him face to face with the Pyrenees mountain range. He began painting mountain landscapes.
The year 2000 marked not only a change of century but also a significant change in his professional life, marking the beginning of his career as an artist, passionate about mountains and the sea.
He has been a member of the Maison des Artistes since that year. In 2003, Philippe definitively left the world of scientific research for his own artistic pursuits. He moved to the French Riviera.
He regularly exhibits during classic yacht regattas in the Mediterranean. The Voiles d'Antibes, the Classic-Week of Monaco, the Voiles de Saint-Tropez, the Régates Royales de Cannes, etc.
He became a member of the Yacht Club de Monaco and crew member on "Tuiga," the flagship of the principality, for 20 years.
His dual expertise as a racing yachtsman and a painter of the sea allows him to transparently capture an atmosphere that connoisseurs appreciate in his work.
🏅 He has been selected several times for the "Salon de la Marine" at the Museum of the Navy at Trocadéro in Paris...
🏅 He is represented in the collections of French fine arts museums.
🏅 He has also been selected for the International Contemporary Marine Art Exhibition at Mystic Seaport on the East Coast of the United States.
🏅 His works have been represented for several years in a gallery in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the birthplace of the America's Cup.
Today, he is present in galleries in France, England, the United States, and the Caribbean.
Philippe lives and works in the heart of the old town of Antibes in the Alpes-Maritimes.
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Four Hands Works
John Mejia & Guillaume Cavalier
Gallery Alexandre Simonin presents a unique art experience: Guillaume Cavalier & John Mejia, painting together on the same canvases.
Two languages, two quests, one unique expression.
Two languages, two quests, one unique expression.
Mejia's pursuit of realism dismantles academic conventions through a series of delicate yet forceful gestures.
Cavalier, on the other hand, reveals reality through impressions, retracing a dreamlike narrative with a free and continuous black line.
From these two worlds emerges a singular dialogue between diverse approaches to reality. John's expressive figuration merges with Guillaume's symbolic narration. Together, their paintings deliver a cocktail of contrasts, shedding light on a pluralistic and humanistic vision.
Balanced between reality and imagination, their artistic duo embodies an aesthetic, spiritual, and social conciliation. Together, they aim to harmonize opposites in the pursuit of beauty.
The exhibition explores several themes, organized into four main categories: portraits, animals, famous paintings, and artists' tables.
For instance, Napoleon Bonaparte laid the foundations of a new society. Both admired and criticized, his strength of character and strategic intelligence opened him the doors to power. John restores the splendor of Napoleon’s golden years, where Bonaparte embodied an imperious ideal.
Guillaume, meanwhile, captures key periods of his life: the Italian, Egyptian, and Russian campaigns, his rivalry with the British navy, and his unwavering love for Josephine and artillery.
This series of portraits includes men of power, action, and arts, who coexist alongside their female counterparts, such as the portrait of The Geisha.
These two art lovers and admirers of its history resolve a centuries-old debate that began in Italy between proponents of color (the Venetian school) and those of line (the Florentine school). John Mejia and Guillaume Cavalier, through their collaborative work, crystallize a union of these two artistic approaches. John, as a disciple of color, brings a Latin warmth to the canvas. Guillaume, as a disciple of line, spiritualizes it.
Naturally, this led them to reinterpret iconic works by old masters.
Through the works of the elders Cavalier and Mejia bear witness to their time. They humorously contextualize paintings from the tradition in a post-industrial world.
This last theme communicates with simplicity the values of fraternity and living together, and once again materializes this aesthetic, spiritual and social conciliation embodied by their pictorial duo.