Masters of Symbolic Space

GARY ROMARIN, PHILIPPE ROLAND BERTHOMMIER, HEATHER CHONTOS, JAMES BROWN, MIRKO MARCHELLI

The Carole Korngold Gallery is pleased to present, from September 18th to October 10th, "Masters of Symbolic Space," a group exhibition that explores the in-between, intermediate spaces, and shifts. Transformed into a place of convergence, Tourrette is inhabited by assemblages and tension, where emptiness and matter, sign and surface respond to each other. "Everything that rises, converges" wrote Teilhard de Chardin, here, the assembled works inscribe painting in a geometry of passages and resonances, where what is at stake is not so much the image as its slide towards the symbol.

The gallery is honored to present the work of Gary Komarin, an American painter and heir to Abstract Expressionism, who exhibited alongside Philip Guston and was a major figure in the New York avant-garde scene. His emblematic series, Cakes, combines his cakes, architectural and domestic totems, with rigor and pictorial lightness, true poems of imperfection.

In resonance, Philippe Roland Berthommier offers an immobile cartography, an interior topography where lines and folds trace suspended landscapes. Heather Chontos's painting summons memory, childhood, and intuition as fragile zones of emergence. James Brown, for his part, explores the margin and the border through assemblages where the surface fractures and recomposes itself into unstable territories. Finally, Mirko Marchelli inhabits this symbolic space in a rhythmic and syncopated way, a raw poetry of colors, shapes and materials, in keeping with the contemporary tradition of Arte Povera .

GARY ROMARIN
Masters Of Symbolic Space