Jérôme Allavena (Born in 1979)

It is with Jérôme Allavena a logic of disobedience. In this practice of drawing, one is as wary of hieraticism as of the finished object. Is preferred a principle of latency which induces that things are apprehended in duration and hybridization, according to a double condition which places the process on the side of modeling. Where the eyes have no immediate hold does not indulge in any condition.

Here the territory of design is redefined by intermodality: it touches on animation, painting, illustration and new technologies to place yourself elsewhere only in the immediacy of the gesture and integrate aspects that were not not proper (duration, relief). As well as the bronco - art of the rodeo or, by analogy, the fiery animal - tends to free itself from its deadly gangue, the line is emancipated from its support. What if the drawing had to be tamed like a wild horse ?

Visually, the rendering is both sober and chaotic. On the one hand, the work stands out for its graphic qualities and its black and white values. On the other, the lines blur, ignoring all logic. The subject of the rodeo is hidden in disparate strokes that are cleared of flower motifs on the canvas.

Text by Elora Weill-Engerer, Independent Critic // Member of AÏCA France

Opening: 22 October, 6.30pm