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Art Paris

3 - 6 avril 2025

A&R Fleury gallery is delighted to be taking part in the 27th edition of Art Paris. The gallery’s booth will feature exceptional works by historic figures in post-war and contemporary art.

Echoing the exhibition “Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space” at the Guggenheim in Venice, organised during the Architecture Biennale, the gallery is dedicating a Focus space to the painter, exploring her connections with the urban landscape.

A second space will be dedicated to the sculptures of Simone Boisecq (1922–2012) and her “savage period” from 1946 to 1960, during which she developed a symbolic vocabulary and elemental forms inspired by primitive art.

Simone Boisecq | Lucio Fontana | Sam Francis | Simon Hantaï | Hans Hartung | Le Corbusier | André Lhote | Joan Miró | Serge Poliakoff | Jean-Paul Riopelle | Gérard Schneider | Pierre Soulages | Bernar Venet | Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | Ossip Zadkine

 

Booth C18

“I look at the street, people walking on foot and on different machines, at different speeds, and I think about the invisible wires that pull them. They're not allowed to stop. I don't see them any more, I try to see the cog that moves them. It seems to me that this is perhaps a little of what I'm trying to paint.”

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

“The primitive influence of her works, stemming from her personal mythology, the originality of their material rendering, their aggressive and violent nature, as well as their evolution towards more abstract and sensitive forms, do not go unnoticed by her contemporaries.”

Guy Marester, Combat, 1952

“There are paintings whose strength lies—not so much in the pictorial material itself—as in the material used: a material with its own existence derived from its concrete quality […]. One might think that walnut stain—a humble material—belongs to this category, but this is not the case, as it is used for its pictorial qualities: the interplay between fluidity and viscosity, transparency and opacity, and also for the quality of the painted form’s contours—sharp, grainy, or blurred—which, in relation to the background, gives rise to a pictorial light created by contrast or by the reflection of light on the painting.”

 

Pierre Soulages, « Brou de noix », in Pierre Soulages, Écrits et propos, Paris, Editions Hermann, 2009

Jesús-Rafael SOTO

Tes jaunes et blancs dans le cercle

Unique
Painting on wood, metal
152 x 152 cm
59.84 inches x 59.84 inches

Art Paris 2025 – 27th edition
From 3 to 6 April 2025

Grand Palais
7 avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

 

Opening hours

Thursday 3 April 2025 : 12pm – 8pm
Friday 4 April 2025 : 12pm – 9pm
Saturday 5 April 2025 : 12pm – 8pm
Sunday 6 April 2025 : 12pm – 7pm

Opening Preview for VIP & Prestige invitations holders
Wednesday 2 April 2025: 11am – 9pm

Daily Preview for VIP, Prestige and Daily Preview invitations holders
From Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 April 2025: 10am – 12pm

 

News

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space

12 April - 15 September 2025

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

In the spring of 2025, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents “Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space”. Featuring approximately 70 works, the exhibition offers an exploration of the visual language of the Portuguese-born artist, who was later naturalised as a French citizen. Through Vieira da Silva’s references to Portuguese decorative traditions, as well as […]

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space

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