La Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Antwan Horfee and Renée Lévi, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon: 18 September 2019-5 January 2020

Antwan Horfee (1983, Paris) develops a studio work that brings together painting and drawing, figuration and abstraction, always looking for a failure of the gesture and the motif.
Tainted with popular cultures (from graffiti to comics from the 1930s to tattooing), the work of Antwan Horfee has recently taken off with his cartoon films: mutant dogs, vitaminized mushrooms, hallucinogenic animals, vertiginous, opaque and sometimes naughty perspectives, against a background of post-apocalyptic explosions.

Renée Lévi (1960, Istanbul) creates large-scale paintings and immersive murals where architecture becomes painting and pigments transform the environment. In his large compositions (sometimes made of letters or figures), the painting strikes the canvas (brushstrokes) or saturates (with sprays), the artist plays with abstract painting, ornamentation, graffiti and writing. Then the pictorial gesture opens up new horizons between mirage and obstacle.

Connected, the painting of Renee Levi and animated film Antwan Horfee then say that painting - still unstable - is not an innocent material.

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