Paul MIGNARD
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Paul MIGNARD
Paul Mignard, Lecco lago di Como, details, 2016. Courtesy Gallery Poggi, Paris ©Nicolas Brasseur
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Paul MIGNARD
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For its third time in Mexico City, the Poggi Gallery is glad to devote a solo show to the young French artist Paul Mignard (born in 1989). Since having won Laurent Dumas’ (collector and president of the Palais de Tokyo) prestigious Emerige Prize in 2018, Paul Mignard has drawn to himself a great deal of attention from the French and international artistic scene.
In October 2019, a significant publication on his work has been launched, bringing together texts by critics and curators : Gaël Charbau, Alain Berland, Marianne Derrien and Diana Campbell Betancourt. Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit and the Samdani Foundation, Diana Campbell Betancourt discorvered Paul Mignard's work at the time of the previous edition of Material art Fair, where the gallery presented his paintings along side two others artists, Sidival Fila and Georges Tony Stoll.
For this next edition, the project will focus on a recurent theme in Paul Mignard's practice : that of the mountain. The latter, which can be perceived from the landscape’s point of view, but equaly as a spiritual and alchemical symbol, common to numerous cultures across the world, or as a ritual and initiatory voyage, often exercised by the artist.
Exhibition view of Un Ciel tout vert at Gallery Poggi, Paris, 2019
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Diana Campbell Betancourt, Le cinquième point cardinal ("The Fifth Cardinal Point"), 2019
« I first encountered the magnetic qualities of Paul Mignard’s paintings while visiting Mexico City in the spring of 2019. I was there as part of an ongoing personal journey, trying to dislodge English as the center of my cognitive apparatus. (…)
Paul Mignard has long been fascinated with alchemy and its quest to create precious materials/phenomena – be it gold or immortality – from elements brought together through carefully planned rituals and practices. Alchemy is a long-standing part of the artist’s native French cultural traditions, and references to medieval European alchemical formulas appear throughout his work. However, just like me, Paul Mignard strives to displace the idea of the occidental heritage as being central to the understanding of the universe, our planet and its histories.(…)
Words and writing are an essential part of Paul Mignard’s practice. Like an alchemist, he transforms his own poetry into paintings, often layering pigments over texts, which he thus conceals from our view. He is particularly interested in ideograms and pictograms from across the history of human writing, and the secrets that these ancient forms of transmitting knowledge might hold. (…)
Breathing, meditation, visualization, ritual: these are four words that describe not only the works in this show, but also Paul Mignard’s entire practice as an artist. The painter blows directly onto the surface of his canvases pigments, which, like cinnabar, were created through millions of years of geological processes invisible to the human eye. I encountered various forms of ritual in Paul Mignard’s studio through different objects: for example, rosaries that are used to pray (here found in several of his paintings as negative space when he blows pigments around them), as well as vinyl records that he plays on a turntable as part of his painting process, not to mention the marks on the f loor where he stands to consider what he has achieved at the end of each day. Meditation and rituals are a way to build layers of meaning, understanding, and transcendence by means of repetition. Spiritual journeys through mountains are found in many religious traditions. Paul Mignard similarly found his way back to painting, which he had ceased working on after graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyons, while traveling to the undulating green landscape of Scotland. Christianity speaks of finding faith to move mountains. Taoism relates to ways of experiencing mountains beyond the limitations of a human lifetime. In Paul Mignard’s work, this sublime and recurrent motif moves us to reconsider where we find ourselves in space and time by opening up our imaginations to what we might otherwise consider beyond our grasp. »
Extract from the catalogue Un ciel tout vert published by the Gallery Poggi in 2019.
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Lecco lago di como, 2016Lago di Como seriesPigments and glitter on unstreched canvas97 x 297 cmCourtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
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Paul MIGNARD
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Como lago di como, 2016Lago di Como seriesPigments and glitter on unstreched canvas96 x 306 cmCourtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul MIGNARD
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La lag lago, 2016Lago di Como seriesPigments and glitter on unstreched canvas100 x 300 cmCourtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
La lune, 2018La terre n'existe pas encore seriesPigments on unstreched canvas149 x 149 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Le soleil, 2018La terre n'existe pas encore seriesPigments on unstreched canvas149 x 149 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Mange debout désolé, 2017Gâteau des songes seriesPigments on unstreched canvas162 x 113 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Tétra Polaire, 2016Testo do Biou seriesPigments and glitters on unstreched canvas103 x 150 cmCourtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Aboule tes frites, 2016Testo do Biou seriesPigments and glitters on unstreched canvas103 x 150 cmCourtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Poumon gauche - Poumon droit, 2017Les Bronches seriesDyptich - Pigments on unstreched canvas99 x 60 cm each panelCourtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Mois de l'écorchement des bois de renne, 2019Calendrier évolutionnaire Tchouktche seriesPigments on unstreched canvas49,5 x 64,5 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Mois du pis qui gèle, 2019Calendrier évolutionnaire Tchouktche seriesPigments on unstreched canvas49,5 x 64,5 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul MIGNARD
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Mois du raccourcissement des jours, 2019Calendrier évolutionnaire Tchouktche seriesPigments on unstreched canvas49,5 x 64,5 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Mois automnal, 2019Calendrier évolutionnaire Tchouktche seriesPigments on unstreched canvas49,5 x 64,5 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Mois de la chaleur, 2019Calendrier évolutionnaire Tchouktche seriesPigments on unstreched canvas49,5 x 64,5 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Mois de la viande étroite, 2019Calendrier évolutionnaire Tchouktche seriesPigments on unstreched canvas49,5 x 64,5 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul Mignard - Un ciel tout vert
Mois des premières gelées, 2019Calendrier évolutionnaire Tchouktche seriesPigments on unstreched canvas49,5 x 64,5 cm Courtesy Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris©Nicolas Brasseur
Paul MIGNARD
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Born in 1989 in Paris (FR). Lives and works in Paris (FR).
Paul Mignard’s syncretic paintings revisit the landscape genre from the depths of psyche and time. He is an explorer of the expanded consciousness, whose universe thrives on para-sciences such as alchemy, astrology, and the anthropological study of ancient oral traditions or folklore from across the world. His practice’s strong ritual dimension breaks away from Western contemporary canons. Working with an acrylic medium, he sifts or blows pigments, metal powders and glitter dust directly onto loose canvases, sometimes printed beforehand and always exhibited unframed. His colorful aqueous compositions unfold visual palimpsests that evoke occult charts, linking motifs pertaining to the human body and nature to esoteric signs, geometric forms, and partial reproductions of ancient scriptures – notably pictograms and ideograms. Profoundly inspired by Taoist doctrines, Paul Mignard further suggests the mutual transformation of the self and its environment through his depiction of mental landscapes, where the past and the present, reality and imagination, as well as the sacred and the profane aren’t separated but irrevocably connected.
Paul Mignard graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyons, in 2011. He was the recipient of the prestigious Bourse Révélations Emerige in 2018. His works have been exhibited in solo and group shows, including Outside Our at the Villa Emerige (Paris, France), Le temps des assassins (The Time of the Assassins) at the Galerie Michel Journiac (Paris, France), and Rappelles toi de la couleur des fraises (Remember the color of strawberries) » at the Crédac (Ivry-sur-Seine, France). He joined the Galerie Jérôme Poggi in 2018.
Paul Mignard
Paul Mignard, Centre : éparpillé dans la nuit occidentale, details, 2019 Courtesy Galerie Poggi, Paris ©Nicolas Brasseur.
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La Peur au Ventre - Luc Bellier's collectionJan. 25th - March 14th, 2020Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
ART FAIRS
MATERIAL ART FAIR, Mexico (MX)Paul MignardFebruary 7th - 10th, 2020
| Babi Badalov (AZ, 1959)| Fayçal Baghriche (DZ/FR, 1972)| Anna-Eva Bergman (NO/FR, 1909–1987)| Maxime Bondu (FR, 1985)| Julien Crépieux (FR, 1979)| Bady Dalloul (FR, 1986)| Larissa Fassler (CA, 1975)| Sidival Fila (BR, 1962) | Yona Friedman (HU, 1923)| Nikita Kadan (UA, 1982)
| Kapwani Kiwanga (CA/FR, 1978)| Bertrand Lamarche (FR, 1966)| Paul Mignard (FR, 1989)| Wesley Meuris (BE, 1977)| Sophie Ristelhueber (FR, 1949)| Société Réaliste (FR/HU, 1982/1972)| Djamel Tatah (FR, 1959)| Georges Tony Stoll (FR, 1955)| Marion Verboom (FR, 1983)| Kees Visser (NL, 1948)
ARTISTS
Nikita Kadan - solo showMarch 28th - May 7th, 2020Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
ARCOmadrid, Madrid (ES)Djamel TatahFebruary 26th - March 1st, 2020
FRIEZE, New-York City (US)Kapwani KiwangaMay 3rd - 5th,, 2020
