Past
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DE L’EFFACEMENT DE LA FIGURE HUMAINE
Exposition collective / Group Show : Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Eugène Carrière, Raphaël Denis, Alessandro di Lorenzo, Gabriel Leger, Éric Manigaud, Thien-Ngoc Ngo-Rioufol, Bruno Pelassy, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Lawrence Weiner 23 May - 12 Jul 2025 « The erasure of the human figure is addressed in the context of modern and Contemporary art movements, notably in abstraction. Abstract art, from the early 20th century onwards, sought to move away from figurative representation of the human body, in favor of shapes and colors that did not necessarily... Read more -
The AfterImage Pt 1
Hugo Deverchère 13 Apr - 17 May 2025 Lingua cosmica How can we preserve our memories in the face of a horizon that goes beyond our presence on Earth? Like a futuristic archaeology, The AfterImage exhibition probes the persistence and remanence of images. Here, artist Hugo Deverchère pursues his reflections on notions of representation beyond an anthropocentric vision,... Read more -
EFFONDREMENT ET TREMBLEMENTS
Jean-Marc Cerino 23 Feb - 5 Apr 2025 From Trois ruines aux animaux, Guernica, Varsovie et Dresde (2012), to Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin incendié, 1871 (2024) and his recent participation in the “Forme de la ruine” exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2023-2024, the representation of ruin runs through Jean-Marc Cerino’s work. The “ruined“ and... Read more -
LES CHOSES
Christian Gonzenbach 12 Jan - 15 Feb 2025 Christian Gonzenbach creates works that question our relationship between the material world to ordinary objects. For this new exhibition at galerie Sator, he presents several bodies of works. Created through his offbeat gaze, he explores the objects of today as well as those of yesterday, while questioning what makes us... Read more
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SYNTONIE
Caroline le Méhauté 23 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 Metanoïa in the middle, among, with, between, beyond, after 1 At the heart of Caroline Le Méhauté’s practice lies a questioning of how we are in the world, how we situate and position ourselves, how we question our impact on it and, beyond that, how we inscribe in it this... Read more -
FAVOURITE DESCENDING INTERVALS
Corentin Canesson 3 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Corentin Canesson’s painting is a crowd-puller. The collective nature of his practice has long been underlined by all those who have written about his work: his exhibitions always end up as group shows curated by himself, often accompanied by concerts. In our case, the logic of dialogue arrives, as it... Read more -
TALISMANS D'UN VOYAGE SACRÉ
LEONORA CARRINGTON cur. Fermín Llamazares & Laurent Doucet 23 Oct - 9 Nov 2024 As a result of a meeting between curators Fermín Llamazares, Director of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in Mexico City, Laurent Doucet, poet and President of the association “La Rose Impossible”, which saved André Breton’s house in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (Lot), and Vincent Sator, Director of Galerie Sator, the exhibition presents just over... Read more -
L’ATTENTE ET LA RAISON ARDENTE
Jean-Claude Silbermann 13 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 Jean-Claude Silbermann was born in 1935. At the age of eighteen, after reading Guillaume Apollinaire’s book, Alcool , he made the decision to reject the bright future he was being led towards, and decided to devote his life to poetry. He took part in the Surrealist movement from 1956 to... Read more
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AR(T)CHÉOLOGIE
LÉO FOURDRINIER, ARNAUD KALOS, GABRIEL LEGER, NAZANIN POUYANDEH, TRÚC-ANH, DUNE VARELA 8 Sep - 26 Oct 2024 Archaeology aims to study human past through research, observation and the analysis of material traces and artifacts by following objective criteria. Since the 18th century, excavations at the site of Pompeii and the early days of Romanticism, a dialogue has developed between art and this emerging scientific discipline. In the... Read more -
FORSCHUNGEN
Raphaël Denis 24 May - 20 Jul 2024 Low visibility Organized looting, as an act of violence and dispossession, implies a form of logistical sophistication from which Raphaël Denis’s work reveals the brutality. Paintings redacted, works and images impeded, objects reduced to their transport device or inventory number, dizzying bureaucratic documentations narrating the fate of goods seized by... Read more -
J’ÉTAIS LÀ.
Gabriel Folli 17 - 26 May 2024 Gabriel Folli develops in his work systems of hybridization of processes and images to the point of producing the most composite drawings possible. From Polaroid or digital images transposed into ink drawings, colored pencil or charcoal on a wide range of found and inexpensive materials, to the act of collage,... Read more -
h(H)istoires
Jean-Marc Cerino, Nicolas Daubanes, Christelle Franc, Éric Manigaud - Cur. Fanny Robin, Philippe Roux, Pascal Thevenet 28 Apr - 18 May 2024 The Galerie Sator, the Fondation Bullukian and the magazine De(s)générations are joining forces to tackle a cross-cutting issue: what makes history? There is the history told by the victors. There is the silent history of the vanquished. However, this remains in the « order of discourse »1 . Vincent Sator,... Read more
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PHALÈNE
Djabril Boukhenaïssi 3 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 The moth as a pearl, the moth as a fragile and dense irruption - a dance - of life. Appearance, disappearance, a binary movement, like the flapping of its wings. Like the sack and surf of The Waves. What can we see in this beating ? What do we hear... Read more -
NO PLACE / FENESTRIA
Tamara Arroyo, Hugo Deverchère, Lieven Hendriks, José Luis Landet, Jaime Tarazona / Commissaire d’exposition / curator : Raphaël Denis 14 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 Read more -
RedNow, Me
Pu Yingwei 5 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 Born in China in 1989, Pu Yingwei studied at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (2013) and the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (2018). He lives and works in Beijing. An active member of the new generation of Chinese conceptual art, Pu Yingwei combines and develops the visual and ideological... Read more -
Comme une respiration
Sylvain Ciavaldini 10 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Sylvain Ciavaldini’s precise stroke meticulously sketches reality, using the light and shadows that compose it. Rather than using contours, he employs materials, transparencies and gradations of gray to reveal volumes. The artist then adds disruptive elements that act on the image, revealing details and giving rise to a new reality.... Read more
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Avant que je ferme les yeux…
Danh Vo & Trúc-Anh 25 - 28 May 2023 Read more -
Ceux qui creusent
Éric Manigaud 14 May - 22 Jul 2023 In 1830, Belgium gained independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1865, Leopold II, the new Belgian king, wished to strengthen the young nation both financially and politically. In contrast to large European states — particularly France and England— Belgium did not have colonies to exploit. In Africa, Europeans... Read more -
SEULS SIGNAUX
Gabriel Leger 12 Mar - 6 May 2023 SEULS SIGNAUX [sole signals] questions receivers and receptacles, telecommunication and vibrations , voyages to come, cosmos — and bees’ trajectories. At first sight , Gabriel Leger seems to have distanced himself from the archaeological considerations that he is fond of with new works that all seem to be placed outside... Read more -
RED RENDEZ-VOUS Dialogue autour de l’art de la Nation
Pu Yingwei 21 - 27 Feb 2023 Since 2017, and his stay in France, he has more specifically addressed post-colonial themes. When he returned to Beijing in 2018, he incorporated these elements of political history into contemporary Chinese art. The tools for analyzing Chinese art were then based on a post-Marxist or post-structuralist framework. They must be... Read more
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Les Infinis Invisibles
Trúc-Anh 15 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 Painter, draftsman, performer, poet and sculptor Trúc-Anh was born in Paris in 1983. After having lived in Lausanne, Brussels, Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles, he now lives and works in Marseille. For his fifth solo presentation at Galerie Sator, and his first intervention in the Komunuma gallery space... Read more -
AMETAVI
Atisso Goha 1 - 10 Dec 2022 Discovered in Togo during the second edition of the ArtMéssiamé Residency* in November 2021—an initiative itself born in the ATI workshop (dedicated to work with the wood medium) at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, directed by Pascal Aumaître—Atisso Goha is a very young self-taught artist whom I found irresistible... Read more -
KALLISTÉ
Nazanin Pouyandeh 6 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 Nazanin Pouyandeh’s new exhibition is largely based on a residency that the artist participated in in Corsica (Casell’arte Fabrica Culturale, in the village of Venaco) that had a profound effect on her. Firstly, because of the stunning landscapes in which the models pose. She was literally hypnotised by nature in... Read more -
DEDANS, TOUT SE BOUSCULE COMME DE PETITS MONSTRES QUE LA LUMIERE A RÉVEILLÉS PAR SURPRISE
Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia 11 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Read more
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TEXAS BAR BORDEL
Corentin Canesson + invité.e.s 5 Jun - 23 Jul 2022 ‘ ’Paintings from Texas and Brittany’’ For Pierre Molinier , “our mission on earth is to transform the world into total mayhem.” In February 1956 , the surrealist artist wrote to André Breton to announce the opening of his brothel, the ‘Texas Bar ’. Corentin Canesson ’s new exhibition at... Read more -
D’un musée l’autre
Raphaël Denis 10 Apr - 28 May 2022 Raphaël Denis’ exhibition “D’un musée l’autre” [Museum to Museum] focuses on the fate of artworks in museum collections within contexts of profound historical upheaval. The idea of displacement, both geographical and political, is at the centre of this new project. Through migration, concealment and appropriation, the institutional work of art... Read more -
VOLCELEST
Eric Charles-Donatien, Fabien Conti, Andréa De Bortoli, Lélia Demoisy, Victoire Inchauspé, and Marlène Mocquet; Curator: Marianne Dollo 20 Feb - 2 Apr 2022 Does it make sense to dedicate a contemporary art exhibition to the theme of “Hunting and Nature” in our contemporary moment? Indeed, at the core of the subject is a practice decried by a significant part of the public opinion evoking ecological, ethical, moral, sociological, even political reasons. And yet,... Read more -
FRAGMENTS
Jean-Marc Cerino 9 Jan - 12 Feb 2022 Jean-Marc Cerino collects old film photographs. He buys and assembles them. He compiles the basis of his research on the Internet via popular sites that sell all kinds of objects to tell a history of the 20th century through anonymous and modest fragments. Most of the subjects that the artist... Read more
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MISS WITHOUT PAPERS
Evangelia Kranioti 6 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Evangelia Kranioti travels to Lebanon for the first time in 2015, just after having completed a series of photographs in the Moria refugee camp in Mytilene (island of Lesbos, Greece). In Beirut, her investigation on the fringes of a Mediterranean ravaged by the tragedy of exile leads her to discover... Read more -
ET L’HORIZON S’ENFUIT D’UNE FUITE ÉTERNELLE !…
Sylvain Ciavaldini 12 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 It vibrates. In the light of darkness, it vibrates tirelessly. The horizon. Streak at the end of the world, original line, vibrates to the rhythm of the night. No longer a chain of mountains, a hill or calm sea, it is sound, dance and light; gesture, trace and memory. At... Read more -
DOUBLE SENS
Stéphane Pencréac’h - Nazanin Pouyandeh 26 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 ‘Double Sens’ [‘Double Meaning’] brings together the work of two painters, Nazanin Pouyandeh and Stéphane Pencréac’h. The exhibition juxtaposes their respective visions, each of which is made up of illusions, allusions, and inversions that multiply the possible meanings of their work. The two artists have known each other for many... Read more -
LES OMBRES QUE NOUS SOMMES
Katia Bourdarel 5 - 21 Jun 2021 It is under the sign of night and nature that the new canvases of Katia Bourdarel, presented at the Marais space of the Sator gallery, are placed. Black dominates here: a nocturnal theater of metamorphoses. Vegetal metamorphoses in which fragments of trees and intertwined nudes move, women as nymphs and... Read more
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LA ISLA DE LAS SIETE CIUDADES
Hugo Deverchère 14 Mar - 10 Apr 2021 The “Isla de las Siete Ciudades” is the name of a phantom group of islands that was once believed to be situated off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula between the 15th and the 16th centuries. Over the course of this period, the archipelago changed name, shape, and position, with... Read more -
DEEP TIME
Gabriel Leger 10 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 One after another, the pieces of the game are taken off the board. They will be put back into play, other yet the same, identically but differently. Jean-Daniel Pollet, Méditerranée DEEP TIME offers an encounter with the past: before our eyes, ancient objects, long unused, become animated once again, switch... Read more
