Maëlle Galerie presents Ernest Breleur’s “Mythologie de la lune, 1989-2022,” opening on Sunday, November 6, at 8 :00am (EST). Maëlle Galerie is situated at 29 rue de la commune de Paris, in Romainville, France.
Maëlle Galerie, which has devoted itself for 10 years to defending the sculptural and radiographic work of Ernest Breleur, is happy to current, for the primary time, pictorial works by the artist previous to 1992.
It’s exactly the interval of 1989—with the sequence Mythologie de la lune—that will likely be highlighted. Preparatory sketches from the interval, discovered and by no means executed, revived the artist and precipitated this new, beforehand unshown sequence produced 33 years later.
On December 24, 1992, Milan Kundera wrote: “In all of Breleur’s work, the moon, within the form of a crescent, is within the horizontal place, with its two ends pointing upwards, like a gondola floating on the waves of the evening. It’s not a fantasy of the painter; in actuality, such is the moon in Martinique. In Europe, the crescent is upright: combative, like a fierce little animal that’s crouched, prepared to leap, or, if you happen to favor, like a sickle, a wonderfully sharp sickle; the moon in Europe is the moon of battle. In Martinique, it’s peaceable. Maybe because of this Ernest gave it the nice and cozy, golden colour; in his legendary work, she represents an inaccessible happiness. Weird: I discuss it with a number of Martinicans and I see that they don’t know the look of the moon within the sky. I ask Europeans: do you bear in mind the moon in Europe? What’s its kind when it arrives, what’s its kind when it leaves? (…) Man now not appears up within the sky, this old school decoration that, absolutely, we are going to at some point exchange with one thing extra sensible and enjoyable.
Deserted, the moon descends on Breleur’s work. However those that now not see it within the sky is not going to see it within the work both. For individuals who lose a way of actuality concurrently lose a way of artwork. You’re the solely Ernest. Alone like Martinique in the midst of the waters. Alone like a portray by Van Gogh below the silly gaze of vacationers. Alone just like the artwork that will get misplaced sooner or later the place the misomuses reign. Alone just like the moon that nobody sees.”
Excerpts translated by Ivette Romero. For full description (in French), see http://www.maellegalerie.com/en/mythologie-de-la-lune-1989-2022-3/
[Ernest Breleur, « Untitled, » from the series Mythologie de la lune, 1989-2022, acrylic on canvas, 142,5 x 112,5 cm, courtesy of Maëlle Galerie, copyright Jean-Philippe Breleur.]