"Holy Destruction"

From 28 August to 31 October 2009
Picture - Untitled
André Butzer - Available works
Born in 1977 in Stuttgart, Germany Lives and works in Berlin    André Butzer is among the most typical of German artists who reveal expressionist tendencies with a definitely ironic bent....
Picture - Red Hoodie
Kim Dorland - Available works
Born in 1974 in Canada Lives and works in Toronto   This artist pushes the destructive treatment of the face to its furthest degree to reach his truth.  The  act of painting is equally...
Armen Eloyan - Available works
Born in 1966 in Erevan, Arménia Lives and works in Amsterdam and Zurich This artist’s work is characterised by a combination of observation and expression.  In blending the two he appropriates...
Picture - Ellen
Stefanie Gutheil - Available works
Born in 1980 in Ravensburg, Germany.Lives and works in Berlin. This artist targets consumer society and the futile way of living it imposes.  Each of her canvases offers a sarcastic vision...
Nicolai Huch
Born in 1977 in Bielefeld, Germany.A recent exhibition of this young German artist’s work was entitled «The Slumber of Reason», a direct reference to Goya and, through him, to all the visionary...
Marcel Hüppauff - Available works
The atmosphere of Marcel Hüppauf’s canvases is deliberately that of night, the colors both muted and electric, the touch fluid and quick. In dark and dense forests, not far from haunted houses, we...
Fred Kleinberg - Available works
 Born in 1966, Fred Kleinberg is a well-recognized emerging talent of the contemporary French painting scene.Trained at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he has been showing his work...
Picture - De tripas corazon
Cristina Lama - Available works
Born in 1977 in Seville, Spain   Lives and works in Sevilla. In this painting, the artist is expressing a Kafkaesque vision, a subject whose body takes the monstrous form of an...
Picture - Der Junker Toni
Jonathan Meese - Available works
Born in 1971 in Tokyo, Japan  Lives and works in Berlin. Jonathan Meese is among the most representative of the young generation of German artists.  His canvases, painted in thick matter...
Picture - Self image as Alan Bates
Bjarne Melgaard
Born in 1967 in Sydney, Australia Lives and works in Germany. Very early on, this artist expressed the purism of avant-garde modernists and incessantly broke all the rules of good taste.  In...
Picture - Death Army Dorothy
Dawn Mellor - Available works
Born in 1973 in Romford, England Lives and works in London.    The canvas carries the traces of the gestures that caused the figures surge forth.  Product of a hand-to-hand combat with...
Orlando Mostyn Owen - Available works
Born in 1973 in Romford, England.Mostyn-Owen's canvases carry the traces of his gestures, out of which figures surge forth. Born from a combat with oil paint itself, these ghostly silhouettes are...
Humberto Poblete-Bustamante - Available works
Born in 1966 in Santiago in Chili.In a video, we see the artist dancing frenetically to rock music before he begins to paint.  All the energy he calls upon beforehand later becomes a part of the...
Eva Räder - Available works
Born in 1978 in Ochsenhausen, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.   This artist takes advantage of all pictorial means in the service of expression and of content.  She uses all the...
Emmanuelle Renard
Emanuelle RenardEmmanuelle was born in 1963. She currently lives and works in Paris.Each canvas presents itself like a summary of the emotions that give a distinctive intensity and tension to...
Raphaëlle Ricol - Available works
Born in 1973 in LyonLives and works in Paris.Graduated of ESAG PeninghenProfiled against the deep red, dark night sky are the strange silhouettes of wind pumps, cold, metallic monsters with mouths...
Jo Robertson - Available works
Born in 1979 in Manchester, England.Lives and works in London. The grand-format canvas is saturated with matter to the point that the image is obliterated, even if, here and there, one can discern...
Picture - Big Brown Monkey Head
Allison Schulnik - Available works
Born in 1979 in San Diego, California.Lives and works in Los Angeles.The clown and the monkey are recurring figures in the production of this young artist. Through these disturbing images, she...
Picture - Basquiat Charisma
Lucy Stein - Available works
Born in 1979 in England. Lives and works in Berlin. During the exhibition “Holy Destruction”, in the polad-hardouin gallery, Lucy Stein presented, last year, a painting, tribute to Soutine... A...
Wu Xiaohai
Armed simply with charcoal, Wu Xiaohai creates on paper a (frequently ironic) vision of the world. The format of his works can be immense, since he maps them out on rolls several meters long, in...