Xavier Drong, Pierre Wat
Monographic catalog
HARDCOVER, CLOTH BINDING, 18 X 24 CM, 96 PAGES, BILINGUAL
29,90 €
“Memento mori. There is something of the vanitas in Xavier Drong’s painting, something like a meditation on a world losing its humanity.As warnings, his paintings are also through their light perhaps not very reassuring, but present in spite of everything: trying to preserve, in their poor and fragile way, this world sucked in by the negative force of darkness. There is the painter, there is his place and his role […].”
Extract from Pierre Wat, C’est, 2023
Xavier Drong, born in Brussels, lives and works in Paris. He recently exhibited at Gallery DIX291, Paris, as well as at L’ArtBoretum, Argenton-sur-Creuse. He also collaborated with Sébastien Hoëltzener on an experimental installation titled “Petit groupe cohérent dans un milieu hostile où la densité et la luminosité interfèrent.”
Pierre Wat is an art historian and critic. His latest published work is “Hans Hartung, La peinture pour mémoire,” Hazan, 2019.
Hardcover
Cloth binding
18 x 24 cm
96 pages
French/English
Translation: Laurie Hurwitz
Graphic design: Maison solide
ISBN 978-2-37440-183-6
Release date: June 2023
