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For the love of it
Sometimes you shouldn’t think too much about things. Driven by passion and emotion, people sometimes take decisions that, if not necessarily the most profitable from a business point of view, are enricing in intellectual and human terms. A few months ago a french couple –both of whom are still active in the world of film – unhindered
by any grandiose business plan, opened a small, cosy, and, aboveall, unpretentious gallery in the chic Zavel/Sablon district.
A decision taken with them works by artists whom they had taken to in the same honest, impulsive way. Since then, without any theoretical nonsense or programme, they have concentrated on showing paintings that have brought real a esthetic pleasure to visitors and collectors.
A worthwhile project in itself. Currently, spread over two floors of their little gallery, they are presenting a selection of works by Alain Pontecorvo, Peter Peereboom, and Claude Quentelo. The most striking are the paintings by Pontecorvo, whose masterly technique enables him to give an added dimension to the urban landscape. Somtimes there is a film noir mood in his works : strange compositions, which often feature reflections, massive areas of shadow, and unusual points of view. But these paintings are not melancholy : quite the contrary. His often sunny canvasses have, however, something indefinable about them : menace may lurk around the corner. These highly contemporary works are proof that Pontecorvo still maintains a very coherent discourse.
Agenda expo - June 24th 2005
Yves de Vresse

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