The yin and the yang. Water and fire. The day and the night. Laura and Alexandre! In other words: one does not go without the other. The ten years of the Lazarew gallery, located on rue du Perche, remind us that its history is that of a beautiful complementarity of two characters, two looks, two life trajectories almost opposite to each other. At the start of their professional adventure, he was 72, she was 26.
A decade later, the two partners have retained their differences but the same freshness, the same childish wonder, the same admiration for their artists. “Art is childhood, that’s it,” says Laura de Pontchara, quoting Rainer Maria Rilke. Art, added the Austrian poet, is not knowing that the world already exists, and making it one. Not destroying what we find, but simply not finding anything completed. Nothing but possibilities. Nothing but desires. »
It is this sensitivity and this spirit of freedom, which from 2011, governed the original and relevant choices of Alexandre Lazarew and Laura de Pontchara. Le Marais Mood has been interested since the beginning in their gallery where a wind of freedom blows. We appreciate the unexpected work of in-house artists. Our favorites: Olivier Catté, who works with a cutter on cardboard recovered from the street and Sergey Kononov, a virtuoso who first exhibited when he was 19 years old.
But the list of pleasant surprises does not end there. It includes the pigment landscapes (Imagined Landscape) of the Israeli Aharon Gluska, the “soul portraits” on paper of the Beninese Rafiy Okefolahan or the photographer Louis Oke-Agbo, also from Beninese, who anchors his portraits of “invisibles” in their environment. Let us also mention Guillaume Toumanian, Pierre Daquin, Claude Como, Evrard & Koch, Marchal Mithouard and Amélie Bigard (recently graduated from Beaux-Arts).
Like the previous ones, each of them exhibits a work at Alexandre and Laura from September 14 to 25. A lovely way to celebrate the tenth anniversary of a bold and sincere duo.
The Lazarew Gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary from September 4 to 25
Lazarew Gallery
14, rue du Perche, 75003 Paris
From Tuesday to Saturday
14AM - 19PM
Closed Monday and Sunday
Tel: 01 44 61 28 73
Katia Barillot and Axel Gyldén
02.09.21
