L’esprit de l’atelier brings together 16 artists trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris in Djamel Tatah's studio, where he taught for fifteen years. The exhibition focuses on a "textbook case": the unique functioning of the Beaux-Arts de Paris studios.
Based on daily dialogue between an artist-teacher and his students, this workshop system does not aim to transmit a particular style, but rather to support each individual in developing their own practice. Djamel Tatah has thus trained a generation of artists who are now renowned for the power of their work and the diversity of their trajectories.
Bringing together more than 120 works, both recent and produced for the exhibition, L'esprit de l'atelier showcases a wide range of practices: painting, drawing, sculpture, weaving and installation. Between figuration and abstraction, reality and fiction, the works explore inner worlds nourished by multiple references, from the old masters to contemporary cultures.
What connects these artists is not a common aesthetic, but a shared experience of training and mentorship. The exhibition thus bears witness to the richness and diversity of the voices emerging from Djamel Tatah's studio, now fully established on the contemporary art scene.
With the artists:
Kenia Almaraz Murillo
Raphaëlle Benzimra
Djabril Boukhenaïssi
Tristan Chevillard
Fabien Conti
Mathilde Denize
Léo Dorfner
Clémence Gbonon
Bilal Hamdad
Nina Jayasuriya
Dora Jeridi
David Mbuyi
Zélie Nguyen
Pierre Pauze
Blaise Schwartz
Rayan Yasmineh
A catalogue published in partnership with Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions accompanies the exhibition.
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