When? : September 15th – October 15th 2016
Where?: 6 Mandel
6, avenue Georges Mandel
75116 Paris
Time: From Tuesday to Saturday 2:30pm until 7:00pm (except on private events days)
(closed on 16/09 – 27/09 – 6/10)
Info:
Bio (pdf)
Press release (pdf)
Lucas Weinachter (1959) followed without any hesitation his passion for drawing and dropped his destined architecture path at the Paris Beaux Arts. The accurate and strongly defined lines are everywhere in his work, always showing the skeleton of his imaginary structures, the tales narrated in dotted lines, constant dreamlike situations where anonymous characters are simply self-reflective.
The fragility of the base material used in Weinachter’s work, mostly Japanese natural paper, fine, textured, live, frail yet elastic like skin on which lead pencil, charcoal, or ink, find its print like a tattoo. It is the fragility of our world but the message is far from being solemn. Nothing is perfect, but the dotted or loose lines open up, through their motion, the world of possible dreams.
The human body is always present in the works shown; inside/outside, upside/underneath, hidden/secretive, real/imaginary… it is the exposure, medically and mentally of our most intimate mechanisms.
Reminiscent of anatomic drawing, the work is always enhanced by stitches of cotton yarn, as well as many references to common medical codes (myology, blood vessels, nervous system), and culminates in imposing a geographic map of intimacy, where fantasy and diversions of meaning are intertwined.
Weinachter likes these lines, threads, wires, yarns… and uses them more and more often to show the scars of life in construction and deconstruction, the imperfections that need to be mended, underlying the meaning and enhancing the movement… These lines naturally guide us to surrender and self-examine, leading us towards a Baudelairean daydream.
© Sitor Senghor
The Anonymous (2016)
Acrylic on paper on canvas, cotton yarn, fabrics
Format: H200 x L150 cm
© Sitor Senghor
Decorated I (2015)
Acrylic, lead pencil, cotton yarn, fabrics on kraft paper
Format: H80 x L60 cm
© Sitor Senghor
Antlers I. 2016
Ink, acrylic and cotton yarn on Japanese paper
Format: H60 x L80 cm
© Sitor Senghor
Follower I / II. 2016
Lead pencil, colour pencil and cotton yarn on Japanese paper
Format H100 x L46 cm