Abie Loy Kemarre (left), Pierre Ribà (center and right) © Photo Bertrand Hugues

This exhibition is the initiative of gallery owners Stéphane Jacob and Gilles Naudin, both admiring the work of these solar artists.

Abie Loy Kemarre

Abie Loy Kemarre was born in 1972 in the heart of the Australian desert, 275 kilometers northeast of Alice Springs.

Represented by Arts d'Australia- Stéphane Jacob - www.artsdaustralia.com

Abie Loy Kemarre is inspired by the ancestral traditions of the Aborigines which consist in telling the legends linked to their territory, in particular through painting. His works revolve around four recurring themes: Bush Leave (his totemic plant), Bush Hen (his totemic animal), Awelye (body paintings of his clan) and Sandhills (the dunes that mark his territory) .

The smallest details of these mythical epics have been taught to her since her earliest childhood through song and dance to finally become part of herself. With a fixed gaze, as in a trance, Abie Loy thus makes slowly emerge from the canvas forms retranscribing his territory or depicting the elements that compose it.

Between an aerial view of the landscape and a spectacular dive into the heart of the vegetation, Abie Loy Kemarre's painting is in perpetual motion. It gives off a vital energy alternating between the hypnotic and vibratory magnetism of its bush leaves (Bush Leaves) and the serene and cadastral vision of the territory of the wild hen (Bush Hen).

The artist still paints on the floor, seated cross-legged. The contours are laid delicately, without preparatory sketches. Magic of the creative act, with a brush or a simple stick plunged into a bucket of paint, she then takes the drop of paint and stretches it, or even "pricks" her canvas with a multitude of more and more points. ends, tirelessly repeating this gesture in an almost musical rhythm.

His canvases in which the gaze is lost are much more than abstract works, they plunge the viewer into a dreamlike world where abstraction borders on the sacred.

Pierre Riba

Pierre Ribà was born in Ardèche in 1934. He has exhibited since 1958.

Represented by Gilles Naudin - Galerie GNG - www.galeriegng.com

Pierre Ribà, this 'cardboard collector', for his part, creates sculptures, - placed on the ground or fixed to the wall - from preparatory drawings. He cuts the fluted cardboard with the help of cutters, he assembles it, glues it, projects resin to harden it, the fragile material then solidifies in a poetry that amazes, a silence beyond the present time. For the works with black patina, Ribà projects a mixture of powdered graphite, for the sculptures left in the raw state of beeswax. Finally, for the white patina, he uses a mixture of titanium white and liquid wax.

The completed forms reveal in a free inspiration of Cycladic art, faces, or without particular historical reference, megaliths and origami. Born in Ardèche, his very mineral work certainly owes its inspiration to the volcanic landscapes and schist reliefs of his childhood.

"One can dream, imagine, with Pierre Ribà so much the beauty and the mystery which emerges from these sculptures makes it possible to project oneself in the universe which one chooses" Jérôme Clément

If nothing predisposed these two artists to one day exhibit together, their works will rub shoulders for more than a month at 6, Mandel. They all have in common that they draw their strength from the origins of the world, the molten magma that Ribà tames, the vibration of the earth that Abie paints.