GAELLE LOTH
Graduated from ENSBA in 2012, Gaelle Loth practices drawing, painting, ceramics and installation through figurative work that uses strong contrasts of color, unfinished strokes and areas of reserve. Her portraiture attempts to express emotions as difficult to represent as melancholy or affection.
In 2022, her work was the subject of three solo shows: “L'Oreille décollée” at L'Épicerie Moderne (Lyon), “Le récit est une plaine” at the Fondation Bullukian (Lyon), and “De certaines manières affectées” at La Tôlerie (Clermont-Ferrand). In 2023, Gaelle Loth was the winner of the 2nd ADAGP x Cité internationale des arts residency (Paris).
Born in 1988 in Bordeaux (France).
Lives and works in Lyon (France).
GAELLE LOTH
Galerie Bacqueville is delighted to present the first solo gallery show by artist Gaelle Loth, whose work is expressed through drawing, painting, ceramics, installations and publishing.
For the "Trouble with doubles" exhibition, Gaelle Loth presents a recent series of painted portraits distinguished by a singular use of colour. Her pictorial work seems to be a synthesis between the fauvism of a Kees Von Dongen, with its contrasting and derealising chromatic associations, and the minimalist approach to figuration of a Françoise Pétrovitch or a Camille Henrot, expressing herself with very few strokes and leaving large areas of reserve.
"The portraits begin with a vision that pre-exists the gesture. The mental image is a trail that gives way to the material. An attempt to capture an emotion, to synthesise an expression. An imprecise figure appears on the canvas, the line blurred, the confusion in what is projected. The energy of the tones, the curves, the snags, the controlled or unexpected voids, arouses new sensations, transforms the figure represented into a motif, a pretext for pure painting ecstasy. Staring back at the viewer, pairs of eyes meet, silence and time hang together as if in a mirror. The portraits are like suspended doubles," explains the artist.
By framing her work tightly around the shoulders, Gaelle Loth draws our attention to the expressions of her figures, with their massive faces that alternately stare at us or seem immersed in themselves when their gazes are deliberately left opaque or nebulous. These figures, sometimes impassive, sometimes vulnerable, lend a gentle melancholy to the exhibition.
Exhibition runs from 20 October to 18 November 2023.
Opening on Friday 20 October. 6.30pm - 8.30pm.
Artwork : Face, 2021. Acrylic paint on canvas. 110 x 140 cm
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Born in 1988 in Bordeaux (France).
Works and lives in Lyon (France).
EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES / SOLO SHOWS
2024
La Fusion nucléaire (titre prov.), Le Point Commun, Annecy, France
2023
Trouble with doubles, galerie Bacqueville, Lille, France
2022
L’Oreille décollée, L’Epicerie Moderne, Lyon, France
Le Récit est une plaine, Fondation Bullukian, Lyon, France
De certaines manières affectées, La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2021
Abîme Printemps, Secret place, Lyon, France
2019
Bal Costumé, Chantier Public, Poitiers, France
2018
Andy Warhol Morningstar, LPA / Musée de l’Imprimerie, Lyon, France
2017
Ma petite maîtresse récalcitrante, Stamtich, Lyon, France
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES / GROUP SHOWS
2023
Soleil Vert, Monopôle, Lyon, France
2022
Pleuvoir, Le Basculeur, Revel-Tourdan, France
Fiertés, Galerie du Monparnasse, Paris, France
Comme un télescope, Multiplexe / Le Bassin, Bruxelles, Belgium
2021
À travers des succédanés [duo w/ Mandragore], Marché des Douves, Bordeaux, France
Poetik Bazar, Maison de la Poésie, Paris, France
2019
Bruegel Relecture, Hôtel Rustique, Bruxelles, Belgium
Winter Solstice, Komplot, Bruxelles, Belgium
Ecologie Urbaine, Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France
Sub Sole, L’Annexe, Paris, France
Cherry Pickers, Podium, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Illustration, une vie lyonnaise, Kiblind, Lyon, France
2018
Les 24H de l’illustration, Les Ateliers du Toner, Bruxelles
Bisous, Marché Gare, Lyon, France
2017
Parasites [duo avec Mehdi Beneitez], La Fanzinothèque, Poitiers, France
Danser sur un volcan, La Méduze, Lyon, France
2016
Les Images Fantômes, Le Wonder, Paris, France
Contre les murs, affiches d’auteurs, Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu, Lyon, France
Affiches, arts graphiques & musiques, Brass, Bruxelles, Belgium
RÉSIDENCES / RESIDENCIES
2023
Cité Internationale des Arts [lauréate ADAGP x Cité Int. des Arts], Paris, France
2022
Atelier Téméraire [duo w/ Frédérique Rusch], Brest, France
La Quincaillerie [résidence collective / Ed. de La Dernière Lettre], Dijon, France
Le Grand Large [avec le soutien de la Fondation Bullukian], Lyon, France
Grrrnd Zero [w/ la collective Nos Corps à Nous], Vaulx-en-Velin, France
2021
La Factatory, Lyon, France
Le Grand Large «Summer Studio», Lyon, France
la Fraternelle Maison du Peuple [w/ la Collective Nos Corps à Nous], St Claude, France
P.A.F, St Erme, France
2020
Chantier Public [duo w/ Frédérique Rusch], Poitiers, France
2019
Les Arts du Forez [w/ la collective Nos Corps à Nous], Saint-Etienne, France
Chantier Public, Poitiers, France
2018
Le Cagibi [résidence collective], Lille, France
2017
La Fraternelle Maison du Peuple [w/ la Collective Nos Corps à Nous], St Claude, France
2016
Le Terrier, Poitiers, France
2014
BAL Dessin contemporain [invitation de la HEAD], Genève, Switzerland
Les Annexes [Ministère de la Culture du Luxembourg], Bourglinster, Luxembourg