Bologna, four French artists exhibit at LABS gallery on the theme of Metamorphosis

From March 19 to May 11, 2024, the LABS Contemporary Art gallery in Bologna presents the exhibition METAMORFOSI featuring the four French artists Cécile Beau, Nicolas Boulard, Jean-Baptiste Caron, and Charlotte Charbonnel, in collaboration with the Parisian gallery 22.48 m2 and with the support of CNAP - Centre national des arts plastiques.

The exhibition is the result of an exchange project born out of the desire of gallery owners Alessandro Luppi and Rosario Caltabiano to foster the vision and research of their artists and to expand their networks by presenting new projects designed specifically for their respective exhibition spaces. During the same period, LABS Contemporary Art presents Puntinismo, a double exhibition by Italian artists Giulia Marchi and Marco Emmanuele, which opened on March 3 at 22.48 m2. The connection between human beings, substance and the environment has always inspired imagination in the artistic, scientific and philosophical fields. The intimate connection with materiality and its various forms defines our connection with our surroundings. Various artistic practices, at the crossroads of art and science, reveal to us that substance and its transformation are not only physical phenomena, but also bearers of a dreamlike potential that guides us toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and the contemporary world.

For the exhibition Metamorphosis, the diverse practices of the four artists find a meeting point in the observation of nature and the human gaze on it. By examining the results of chemical, physical or geological phenomena, the simplified idea of a purely sublimated or demonized nature is deconstructed. Through micro-ecosystems (living, extinct or imagined) and meticulous interventions on matter, the artists investigate the essence of the identity of the living world: the incessant movement of universal transformation. In an era of irreversible climatic changes and increasingly rapid technological and social evolutions, reflecting on the notion of metamorphosis intrinsic to nature (with or without human intervention) becomes crucial to understanding contemporaneity and facing the constant changes of the future with a fresh perspective.

Notes on the artists

Cécile Beau, born in 1978, lives and works in France between Paris and Brittany. Her visual and sound experiments translate time and space, proposing interstitial territories with alienating features: sounds and images interact in devices that often reveal anomalies, absences, suspended spaces or fictitious environments in their apparent banality.

Nicolas Boulard, born 1976 in Reims, lives and works in Clamart, on the outskirts of Paris. His sculptures and installations combine references to minimalism and conceptual art by means of organic materials, most of them from the world of food production. Since 2010, among other things, he has been working on a project entitled Specific Cheeses, a study of the similarity between Minimal Art forms and cheeses.

Jean-Baptiste Caron, born in 1983, lives and works in Montesson, Ã?le-de-France. A keen observer of the world around him, his practice seeks to circumvent physical reality while adhering to a rigorous scientific approach. His works interrogate the limits of the laws of physics and mechanics, manipulating the most varied elements to put them in tension, experimenting with the notions of gravity and weightlessness, density and lightness, materiality and immateriality.

Charlotte Charbonnel, born in 1980, lives and works in Paris. Per Nathalie Desmet; “Her work stems from a multifaceted empirical research process: listening to and capturing natural materials and phenomena, exploring different states of matter, meticulously observing elusive substances. His practice locates an unlimited field of experimentation in unstable fluids, changing waves, clouds, smoke and other misty forms.”

Bologna, four French artists exhibit at LABS gallery on the theme of Metamorphosis

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