From 15 January to 25 March, the HELENE BAILLY gallery is taking to the skies with its new exhibition: UP IN THE AIR!
Following in the footsteps of Icarus, painters and sculptors have tried to conquer weightlessness with the grace of their art. From the figurative representation of the wind to its materialisation through conceptual art, artists have always sought to interpret the floating, the celestial.
The exhibition "UP IN THE AIR" brings together the great figures of artistic creation of the 19th and 20th centuries and allows us to discover their different interpretations of the element air, so complex to grasp, through the choice of the support, the colour or the material.
The artist Charles Pétillon is the guest of this new exhibition. His white spheres suspended in the middle of landscapes devoid of any human presence underline the beauty of these empty spaces. Through his photographs, the artist invests striking places by giving them a new flight. A dialogue is created between the ancient and the modern, through the architecture of these abandoned spaces. Between abstraction and harmony, balance and fantasy, Charles Pétillon's invasions of balloons transcend spaces and create a new breath.