16/10/2026
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Jonathan ADOLPHE
« VIELS OF LIGHT »
« My paintings have an interdir and an exterior. The image is preserved beneath the surface. A thin, translucent membrane separates the fragile interior from the coarse skin shielding it. The scarred, pockmarked urethane skin acts as a protective barrier from the outside world. The works are a casting of the fragility of life, the fragility of feelings.
I wish the paintings to be an evocation of the sacred. Light and transparency are my tools. I draw with smoke and the pouring of urethane. A kind of abstract writing appears. The necessity of expressing these inchoate feelings leads me to invoking natural phenomena with translucent qualities: light, fog, steam, mist, clouds, water, sweat and ice. Like an undiscovered creature embedded in ice, the paintings offer a reveal. The practice is a form of writing without writing and painting without painting. » Jonathan Adolphe
FRÉDÉRICK MOURAUX GALLERY
Chaussée de Waterloo 690 #27
1180 Brussels - Belgium
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www.frederickmourauxgallery.com
Mouraux Durand-Ruel Gallery
Jonathan Adolphe
Photos copyright Inès Bergen