Fragments d'un visage féminin aux cheveux bruns avec une coiffe alsacienne et d'un corps féminin nu — Naïades en colosse, peinture à l'huile, pastel gras et crayon de couleur sur toile, 300 x 700cm, 2024 © Margaux Laurens Neel

Henner, the ribbon, the ember | Margaux Laurens-Neel

End of residency exhibition by Margaux Laurens-Neel

Some days until 23rd September 2024

11:00 - 18:00

Audience type All audiences

Presented by Margaux Laurens-Neel

reservation@musee-henner.fr

Exhibition presentation

"Henner, le ruban, la braise" will be the culmination of work in dialogue with the work of Jean-Jacques Henner, conjuncture of his two emblematic motifs: naiads and women in Alsatian costumes and headdresses. Crossing mythologies between the two painters, the emergence of ribbon-capped nymphs and the reincarnation of models from the past. To question what emerges under the triple nomination of artist-muse-model, between figures of the past and contemporary faces. In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Henner's obsessive and desirous spirit.

photographie d'une jeune femme debout devant une partie de peinture dans un atelier d'artiste — Margaux Laurens-Neel debout devant une partie de sa peinture à l'huile "Naïades en colosse" au musée henner résidence © Margaux Laurens-Neel

Ensorcing the museum, bringing to life in flesh and volume, its faces, its silhouettes... Alongside research into the traditional and folkloric heritage of Alsace, that of headdresses and ribbons, contemporaries of Henner ( chosen period: 1850 to 1900), a highly significant women's wardrobe of infinite textile richness to be unveiled within the exhibition. (through photography, sculpture, painting and the presentation of authentic objects).

Biography

Margaux Laurens-Neel, born in Deauville in 1997, is a Franco-British painter, photographer and sculptor. She lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021, where she studied with comic book artist Joann Sfar, photographer Eric Poitevin and art historian François-René Martin. Her career was punctuated by a stay at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and another in Berlin.

Today, Margaux is accompanied by Galerie Droste, who recently offered her the opportunity to present her first solo show. Through a sensual dialogue between painting and ceramics, she questions the place and representation of women through the history of art and figuration, modes of representation of the nude body, and the expression of feminine desire, through the use of a symbolic bestiary and the language of flowers, that of clothing, accessories, color...