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Eugénie Paultre: Matter of Life

Past exhibition
2 July - 30 September 2021
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Overview
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Eugénie Paultre, Untitled, 2017, Ink, oil and pigment, 73 x 92 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Erna Hecey Gallery

Erna Hecey is delighted to present Eugénie Paultre’s second solo show entitled Matter of Life, in a new space in Luxembourg City-Centre. The exhibition will inaugurate two adjacent spaces, located in an urban complex designed by Foster + Partners in 2019.

 

Eugénie Paultre wonders what a shared world might look like. This is the case in her writings, as early as L’état actuel des choses (2012), as well as her painting. During a six-month residency in the English countryside in 2018-19, she devoted herself to painting large format canvases: there, the language of coloured lines, that she had developed until then on paper and canvas, extended into new physical dimensions. This period of intense production, where the painting took on an almost performative quality, was accompanied by moments of reflection. Eugénie Paultre took notes, and from this journal came Matter of Life (HENI, 2021), which questions the possibility of being alive, and the ways in which art can nourish this possibility.

 

In addition to presenting some of the large-scale paintings created in England for the first-time, the exhibition also includes a selection of works that retrace a journey made through art over several years, in parallel to her “Lines” series. Rather than a retrospective, it is an exploration of the experience of painting in many formats, using pigment, oil, ink, a knife, a cutter, fabric, wood or a paintbrush. Still life. Abstract. Action painting. Geometric. Figurative. Landscape. And also, assemblages, bordering on outsider art, where it is all about letting emerge. The many styles or modulations reveal the possibilities brought about by the act of painting as they converge in the exhibition space.

 


Erna Hecey City-Centre

Hamilius Centre-rue Aldringen

L-1118 Luxembourg
Public opening 2 July 2021, 6-9pm
Opening hours: Tuesday 3-7pm, Thursday and Friday 2-7pm, Saturday 3-7pm

 


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Installation Views
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Eugénie Paultre, Matter of Life, 2021, Erna Hecey Gallery

Works
  • Dying for love_eugénie paultre_painting_2020
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    DYING FOR LIMITS, 2018
  • the slighest sign of love_eugénie paultre_2020_painting
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    THE SLIGHEST SIGN OF LOVE, 2019
  • the slightest sign of love_eugénie paultre_2020_painting
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    THE SLIGHEST SIGN OF LOVE, 2019
  • Eugenie-Paultre_Peintures-d'Angleterre_2019_ink and oil paint_Erna-Hecey
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    THE SLIGHEST SIGN OF LOVE, 2019
  • safe and sound_painting_eugénie paultre_2020
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    SAFE AND SOUND, 2019
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    SAFE AND SOUND, 2019
  • Eugenie-Paultre_Peintures-d'Angleterre_2019_ink and oil paint_Erna-Hecey
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    SAFE AND SOUND, 2019
  • Eugenie-Paultre_Peintures-d'Angleterre_2019_ink and oil paint_Erna-Hecey
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    SAFE AND SOUND, 2019
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    UNTITLED, 2015
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    UNTITLED, 2017
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    « Matinée de liberté », 2017
  • Eugenie-Paultre_Klee-time_ink and oil paint_Erna-Hecey
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    KLEE TIME, 2017
  • Eugenie-Paultre_2017_peinture_Belz, Mayn Shtetele Belz
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    BELZ, MAYN SHTETELE BELZ, 2017
  • Eugenie-Paultre_Kafka_Painting_2017
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    KAFKA, 2017
  • EugéniePaultre_Aden_painting_2017
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    ADEN, 2017
  • EugéniePaultre_Abraham_painting_2017
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    ABRAHAM, 2017
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    « Abris de craie », 2017
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    SANS TITRE, 
    2016
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    Fleuve, 2013
  • EUGÉNIE PAULTRE « NON RIEN, CE N’EST PAS RIEN », 2019
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    « NON RIEN, CE N’EST PAS RIEN »
    , 2019
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    MESURE D'ATTENTE
    , 2021
  • Eugénie-Paultre_Matter-of-life_Exhibition_Erna-Hecey-Luxembourg_july-october_2021
    EUGÉNIE PAULTRE
    SANS TITRE, 
    2016
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Press release

Eugénie Paultre (b. in Paris in 1979, lives in Paris and Normandy) studied then taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, and since 2010 she has devoted herself to painting and writing. She is the author of numerous essays and poetry collections in French, English, and German. Her latest book, Matter of Life (2021), is the second publication HENI Publishers (London) has dedicated to Paultre, following the release of Outline in 2018. Paultre has held solo exhibitions at the Institut français, Bratislava (2019), Gandy Gallery, Bratislava (2019) and Erna Hecey, Luxembourg (2020). She has recently taken part in group exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli (2017), Mudam, Luxembourg (2019) and Lévy Gorvy, Paris (2021).

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