The Galerie Parallax in Aix-en-Provence organizes with the Galerie Baudoin Lebon an exhibition by Joel-Peter Witkin. As a preface, these few very apt words:
Joel-Peter Witkin gives images that could only be provocative a dimension of secular icons, of sacrificial allegories. It is Soutine or Bataille that we must cite to find similarities in the art of sublimating horror.
His work is not decadent, it is absolutely desperate and metaphysical. At first glance, we have a feeling of repulsion, of disgust, of morbidity, of unease, then with a little hindsight we get used to the horror and we can have tenderness for these models and be touched by their unpleasant beauty .
An exhibition produced with the complicity of the Galerie Baudoin Lebon.
Joel-Peter Witkin : Désagréable beauté
Until November 23, 2024
Galerie Parallax
3 rue des Epinaux
13100 Aix en Provence
www.galerieparallax.fr
