rodolphe janssen

Des géométries variables presents an unexpected encounter between two painters, LéonWuidar and Brooklin A. Soumahoro, who at first glance seem to have little in common. They differ in artistic lineage, generation, and geography. Wuidar was born in 1938 in Liège, where he still lives, and since the late 1960s has produced singular paintings, works that inherit geometric abstraction yet never fully renounce figuration or references to the world around us. Soumahoro, on the other hand, was born in 1990 in Paris and has lived for about a decade in Los Angeles, where he began his self-taught painting practice. His work is rooted in a highly precise form of abstraction, composed of mathematically repeated triangles within a strict, pre-defined colored grid. While these two painters emerge from vastly different worlds, they share more common ground than one might initially think...

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