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Ernest Pignon-Ernest

ERNEST PIGNON-ERNEST

Ernest Pignon-Ernest : Naples - Pasolini - Derrière la vitre Galerie Lelong 20 May–13 June 2020 13 Rue de Téhéran, Paris
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L’exposition d’Ernest Pignon-Ernest au Palais des Papes d’Avignon, de juin 2019 à février 2020 a rencontré un succès extraordinaire : 400 000 visiteurs ; cela se passe de commentaires. Pour saluer ce succès et l’inauguration récente de son œuvre pour la station de tramway Garibaldi de Nice, voici une exposition d’œuvres, photographies et dessins, pour plusieurs inédites, appartenant à trois moments essentiels de la carrière de l’artiste :

Le premier lié à Naples, cette ville-monde à la profondeur historique et humaine exceptionnelle où Ernest a travaillé à plusieurs reprises des années 80 jusqu’à très récemment. Évoquant la Sybille ou le purgatoire, éveillant la flagellation du Caravage ou Pulcinella, toujours au contact de la vie quotidienne du peuple napolitain qui lui rappelait le Nice populaire de son enfance.

Le second, touchant à Pier Paolo Pasolini, ce poète-romancier-cinéaste inclassable, au tranchant toujours acéré, qui traverse comme un fil rouge quatre décennies d’interventions d’Ernest, de Certaldo, la ville de Boccace en 1980, à Scampia, Ostie, Rome et Matera en 2016 en passant par Naples en 1990. Pasolini supplicié tête en bas, comme saint Pierre, Pasolini dédoublé, portant son propre cadavre en des lieux qu’il avait hantés…

Le troisième, où l’artiste fouille et exhibe les détresses urbaines contemporaines, comme il le fit dès les années 70. Il y avait encore des cabines téléphoniques au milieu des années 90 ; s’y réfugiaient souvent la nuit des sans logis, des désespérés… Puisant certaines de ses figures chez Hopper ou Lautrec, en inventant d’autres, Ernest a su mettre en lumière ces drames nocturnes cachés « derrière la vitre ».

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About the Artist

Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born in 1942 in Nice, France. He lives and works in Paris.

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About the Gallery
Galerie Lelong is located in Paris and New York. It was founded by Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle, Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Antonio Saura. The gallery also increased international recognition of the work of Ana Mendieta.

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Kiki Smith, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan to installations by Barthélémy Toguo and Lin Tianmiao, without forgetting painting, namely David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kate Shepherd, Nalini Malani, Nancy Spero, Juan Uslé, Leon Kossoff.

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Fiac Paris, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Expo Chicago...).

The directors of the gallery are Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong and Patrice Cotensin in Paris and Mary Sabbatino in New York.
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13 rue de Téhéran
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Galerie Lelong contemporary art gallery in 13 Rue de Teheran Paris France
Galerie Lelong
13 rue de Téhéran, Paris, France
+33 145 631 319
http://www.galerie-lelong.com

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Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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