3 Days in Paris

Event From November 29 to December 1, 2013

Like 14 galleries in the Marais, the gallery is taking part in the “3 Days in Paris” event, a new event that marks the desire of the galleries in this district to make their mark in the contemporary art scene. For this first edition, the route is dedicated to contemporary drawing.

On Friday 29th, Edward Deeds’ monographic exhibition will be on display.

On Saturday, November 30th, a reading of Perrine Le Querrec’s Plancher will be offered at the gallery.

In addition, Jean Brolly has chosen to scatter on the walls of his gallery the drawings of 45 artists, including those of Josef Hofer, one of the creators we represent exclusively.

Artists

Josef Hofer

Josef Hofer, who has been a resident of an Austrian institution for more than 30 years, does not speak. He draws. Tirelessly. In the metaphoric mirror that he uses and reaches out to us, people attempt to flee from the straitjacket of the frame with eroticized and untamed grace. His works - to which Michel Thévoz has devoted several essays - depict a founding duality between body and psyche. Present in numerous museum collections, he is also part of great private collections: A. de Galbert (France), A. Shaker (Switzerland) and even in the collection of A. Rainer (Austria), who considers him “one of the greatest of the brut contemporary artists.” A significant number of his works was donated to the Centre Pompidou collection in 2021 while the gallery became the owner of his estate in 2022.

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James Edward Deeds

Behind James Edwards Deeds’ art hides the story of a young American, born in 1908 in Springfield, Missouri, and forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 17. He would spend his whole life there, enduring electroshock treatments up to twice a week, without anaesthetic.

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