Top of the bill: exhibitions to see the week of June 23

Exposure

● Jean-Michel Alberola

Fascinated by 1950s America, music and literature, Alberola once again tells stories like riddles, often with an element that serves as a link between his own work and those who observe it. The painter evokes Kafka, the Rolling Stones, the Queen of England, but also monsters of American art, such as de Kooning and Rauschenberg, borrowing from collective memory to dialogue with reality. And realize this beautiful set of canvases, serigraphs and works on paper, quite recent. Looking closely, one realizes that all these philosophical rebuses oscillate between figurative fragments and abstraction, humor and poetry, in a soft palette (pink, yellow, pastel blue). Alberola, born in 1953 in Saïda, Algeria, who had a carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo in 2016,has not ceased for more than thirty years to flirt with the fragility of beauty and the ambiguity of the gaze. S. DE S.

The King of Nothing

(Chinese), 2021, by Jean-Michel Alberola, at the Templon gallery (3rd).

B.HUET-TUTTI / Courtesy Templon, Paris –Brussels

Until July 17 at the gallery

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