Art Quam Anima
What the eye touches before the mind follows.
Some paintings arrive before thought — a color that lands before the eye decides to look, a figure emerging the way a memory does: luminous at the edges, gone before you can name it. They carry the heat of Mediterranean afternoons and the quiet of Paris at dusk. Not portraits of places. What remains after the encounter...Harmony
Through the Aperture — Research on Harmony Twenty-four paintings by Arnaud Quercy, each a transposition of a Western tonal chord into visual form. Shown at Art Quam Anima in Paris's 6th arrondissement, the series constitutes a rigorous and deeply felt investigation into the chromesthetic correspondence between musical pitch and color — a body of work that is simultaneously systematic and sensory, analytical and alive.
Matter that holds its breath. The sculptures ask for proximity — for the hand's instinct to reach. Stone, steel, sand: materials that already know their own gravity. Something presses outward from inside the form, waiting for the shape to release it. A wave. An idea.
STUDIO Art Quam Anima 28 Rue du Dragon, St Germain-des-Prés, Paris 6