Vernissage September 16, 2014 at 6PM
Exhibition Until November 9, 2014

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With the aim of creating a dialogue between Brazilian and European contemporary art, espace_L brings together artists such as Niura Bellavinha, Victoire Cathalan, Alyâa Kamel, Martin La Roche, as well as Nicolas Lieber, Gabriela Maciel, and Ozi for the exhibition Melting Pot to be held at the gallery.

The exhibition Melting Pot intends to serve as a manifesto of diversity, presenting in a single space the approaches of different artists with multiple origins and influences. This encounter reflects a quest for an alliance between various artistic universes. The approach recalls the sophisticated mix of cultures of which the City of Calvin has become a reflection. In this sense, art appropriates the phenomenon and creates Melting Pot, a concept born from a collective impulse where heritages collide and intertwine.

This mixture aims to offer the viewer a new kind of expression, bringing together works from heterogeneous worlds, full of both resemblances and divergences. This combination of works suggests a cultural lineage in which artistic particularities and influences from here and elsewhere produce a subtle metamorphosis of genres.

Here, one encounters an urban atmosphere combining colors and stencil drawings; there, a plastic reflection on the intrinsic properties of nature; and over there, an exploration of material and form. The result offers a glimpse into the artists’ explorations, a personal vision of their microcosm—their original environment—which is then shared and confronted with more distant influences.

Through their constructions and arrangements, the artists work with materials that, depending on their transformation, generate creations with a particular intensity. The exploration of color only enhances the uniqueness of this blend, deeply marked by lively, festive, and colorful moods, or, conversely, by more refined atmospheres where contrasts quietly emerge within certain paintings or photographic works.

Melting Pot brings together diverse and sometimes contradictory compositions—a clash, an encounter that ultimately leads to sharing. A place of reunion where one can identify, find a fragment of oneself, a space that feels like home.