OPEN FIELDS — François Réau, Claude De Soria

Galerie Clavé Fine Art is pleased to present the exhibition Open Fields, curated by Bianca D’Ippolito, featuring works by Claude de Soria and François Réau at La Collection.

From September 14 to November 2, 2024, Open Fields celebrates the idea of landscapes, both as geographical spaces and as emotional and intellectual territories. Three artists from different generations transform specific materials – cement, fabric, graphite, plants – into a vast artistic narrative.
The Collection, confounded by Florence Cools and Arthur Tadevosian, transforms fabric into a dynamic expression of personal and cultural geography, highlighting timeless fashion as a space of human identity that embodies history, tradition and innovation. Each garment is carefully crafted, not just as a fashion item, but as an essential component of a larger artistic narrative. The curator’s choice challenges the vision of La Collection as a simple fashion brand, asserting its status as a creative power in its own right.

Each piece is a work of art, rich in emotion and signs of transformation, which dialogues with Claude de Soria’s elemental forms and resonates with François Réau’s infinite landscapes, completing this trio.
Claude de Soria redefines cement, transforming this robust material into delicate, abstract forms that evoke ancient natural landscapes. His approach favors an ongoing dialogue in which the material guides the creative process. this retrospective selection bears witness to his quest for surprise and letting go in the creative process.

François Réau, meanwhile, creates abstract landscapes in graphite, where each line evokes time, the poor connection between man and nature, and the ephemeral. Using simple lines and modest materials, he questions our relationship with space and time, inviting the public on a sensory journey through landscape and memory. His work is a kind of visual poetry, uniting the vast and the unspeakable, blending the ephemeral and the permanent. Réau sur papier’s repetitive, meditative process reflects Claude de Soria’s sculptures and the meaning of La Collection’s creations.

Together, these artists embody the spirit of exploration and curiosity, liberating materials and supports from their constraints. Their practice broadens the public’s perception of what a landscape is, whether physical or mental: an Open Field, a moment suspended in time and space, a meeting place for ideas and inspiration.

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