Co-existences

Françoise Besson is pleased to invite artist Numa Droz for his first solo exhibition, which will take over the walls of the petite galerie from September 13 to November 2, 2024:

"The Co-existences exhibition is built in two stages, according to the two levels of the venue, as an immersive and intimate journey (given the smallness of the formats), around the notion of duality. In other words, this complex couple, these two often opposed entities: the human sphere on the one hand, and nature on the other. Notions that live in the same limited and enclosed biotope, yet seem to find it Françoise Besson is pleased to invite artist Numa Droz for his first solo exhibition, which will take over the walls of the petite galerie from September 13 to November 2, 2024:

"The Co-existences exhibition is built in two stages, according to the two levels of the venue, as an immersive and intimate journey (given the smallness of the formats), around the notion of duality. In other words, this complex couple, these two often opposed entities: the human sphere on the one hand, and nature on the other. Notions that live in the same limited and enclosed biotope, yet seem to find it increasingly difficult to coexist. With the limited and derisory means of my brushes, I try to demonstrate that this link is primordial and vital to us. Nature, so prehistoric to humans, has welcomed us with the generosity of its soils and the richness of its humus.
For as long as I've been painting, I've always tried to pay homage to it and to express its fragile beauty. In the first gallery space, small, highly narrative scenes speak to us of humanity. They weave together narratives, free fictions that tell of joys and sorrows, races and cultures, solitudes and tenderness; all the pleasures and sufferings that arise from their merging or their differences. In the space below, only the landscape, discreetly shaped by man over the centuries, imposes its humanized presence: that of the bocage, delicately designed like a vast garden. The landscape, a human creation, is the place where man and nature meet, the place where we share and exchange, and the origin of our relationship with reality. These harmonious bocages, where forests and meadows alternate, are living, ancestral witnesses to this peaceful union. Created over a long period of time and with patient labor, these peaceful landscapes, though primarily working spaces, are also places for daydreaming and contemplative walks, places of coexistence, essential to our mutual balance".

Numa Droz, April 2024