Guillaume Lo-A-Njoe - Trees and Leaves
2 Aug - 26 Aug
Exhibition
In Guillaume Lo-A-Njoe 's work, a wide variety of human experiences are made tangible in sculptures, paintings, drawings and engravings. His images testify to a deep-seated trust in the eye: seeing convinces more than reading. Fear and happiness, violence and vanity, prosperity and misfortune become visible in his work without explanation. In the faces and poses of kings, citizens, generals, robbers, saints, beggars and swindlers, he recognises age-old actions and experiences, universal themes that have inspired artists for generations.
Yet Lo-A-Njoe has gradually moved away from recognisable subject matter. His work no longer seeks imagination, but experience. No narrative imagery, but a suggestion of atmosphere. He aims for the unspeakable, an expression that eludes meaning but is palpable in moods, in silences, in gestures.
His vision of culture is as poetic as it is fundamental: culture is inner communication, a shared understanding by which we recognise behaviour. So he returns again and again to the beach, a place of constant movement, where he captures the traces of an inner moment with a simple gesture in the wet sand. The sea erases it. What remains is space. Emptiness. An endlessly clean surface for a new creation.
Dates and Times
| Tuesday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Wednesday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Thursday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Friday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Saturday |
12:00 – 17:00
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| Sunday |
12:00 – 17:00
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