FOREVER POP : EVELYNE AXELL / HUBERT LE GALL – Exhibition September 14-27, 2018
Continuing our tradition of blending art and design, we are proud to begin our fall season, 2018 with “Forever Pop” featuring Evelyne Axell, a major Belgian artist who passed away in 1972 and Hubert Le Gall, a young French designer creating today.
During her very short life, brusquely interrupted by a car accident, she was counselled by her family’s friend René Magritte and succeeded in establishing a strong imprint within the exceptional pop period of the 60’s. Her work highlights the emancipation of female sexuality and fully integrates into painting the possibilities offered by new materials such as plastic. Axell’s works are just as fresh and contemporary today, as when they were created in the 1960’s. Her artistic voice stands out even within the context of the overall revolutionary work created internationally in the 60’s. It exudes a strong sense of female confidence unknown before and a refreshing sexual liberation and hedonism.
Axell’s work succeeded in captivating the interest of today’s French pop designer Hubert Le Gall and inspired him to select for this exhibition a group of remarkable works which generate an exciting dialog with works created half a century earlier by a pop, pioneering female artist. In today’s overcrowded design field, Le Gall’s works stand out clearly and strongly through their sense of humor, elegant pop content and superb materials and execution.
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