bienvenue art fair
José Manuel Egea
Bienvenue is a new independent art fair in Paris that is dedicated to promoting, exploring and enriching the contemporary art scene.
The first edition of the Bienvenue art fair presents 25 hand-picked galleries at the Cité Internationale des Arts, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville (75004) from Tuesday 16 to Saturday 27 October 2018.
15 new works by José Manuel Egea will be presented there, some of which were exhibited in the 7th Biennial of Contemporary Art in Madrid in 2018.
Convinced of his lycanthropy (belief in the transformation of a man into a wolf), this young Madrid-based artist draws inspiration from Kafkaesque metamorphoses in comics and mythology. His polymorphic work—drawings, sculptures, performances—urges us to embrace our repressed therianthropy (human-to-animal transformation). Represented by the gallery since 2016, his works appeared recently in Photo | Brut #2 in Brussels (2022), Portreto de la Animo at the Museo Nacional de Soares dos Reis in Porto (2023), as well as at Fundación ONCE in Madrid and Fondation Francès (2024). His creations are part of major European collections, including those of Hervé Lancelin, Laurent Dumas, and Piet Meyer.