22/2/2012
Yves-Eric 2boy
22,48 m2, Paris
The artist plays with familiar codes. His abstract spaces and forms are set in perspective and echo a perfectly recognizable form of visual language. They balance the threats from eternally competing worlds: the stable and the moving, the hard and the soft, the solid and the liquid.
curator Laetitia Chazottes
It's tempting to see Yves-Eric 2boy's work with slight amusement. Borrowing from the narratives of storyboards, the clarity of sketch sheets and the systematic linearity of billboards, his paintings seem to suggest - like the effortlessness with which he makes use of thetwo-dimensional orthonormal world of videogames - that they're easily done. Doubtlessly that's what a first reading might suggest. And yet, we seem captivated by their simplicity, freshness, and apparent spontaneity, and feel drawn to the screen, “bubblicized” bytheimage.
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Yves-Eric 2boy plays with familiar codes. His abstract spaces and forms are set in perspective and echo a perfectly recognizable form of visual language. They balance the threats from eternally competing worlds: the stable and the moving, the hard and the soft, the solid and the liquid. Yves-Eric 2boy presents us with the token of a rigorous universe. Still, the painter's excitement remains contained; like the visual energy as the image achieves it's density.It might be this coherence that invites us to participate, and to believe in the possibility of other worlds.
Laetitia Chazottes
During the opening day the 23th February, other events taking place that day in Belleville include the opening of a new exhibition of Shila Khatami at the Gallery Samy Abraham, and a conference-performance of Ryan Gander at Le Plateau.
Image: Yves-Eric 2boy, Sans titre # 26, 2011, peinture acrylique sur toile, 100 x 100 cm
Opening Thursday, 23 February 2012 from 6pm to 10pm
22,48 m²
30 rue des Envierges 75020 Paris
Open: from Wednesday to Saturday from 2pm to 7 pm