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ANDRÉ DERAINNE /

LUKAS WEIDINGER /

Pendler, 2021 ink on paper, 20 x 14 cm — Do not miss the occasion to visit our online exhibition ‘MODERN LIVES’ at collection croisée gallery.

« Oyez, oyez ! », we are thrilled to announce the opening of our new exhibition ‘MODERN LIVES’ tomorrow (May 18) at collection croisée gallery.

For this new show, I invite the prolific artist Lukas Weidinger (DE) to present a series of 19 uniquely marvelous and hilarious drawings.

LAST WEEKS to visit our exhibition dedicated to Arisa Odawara. Explore the show online at collectioncroisee.com, we present 20 original artworks from My Diary for this occasion!

About Arisa Odawara /

My Diary is an illustrated, fictitious journal by the artist Arisa Odawara. The perspectives represented in this work evoke memories of a past one would hope does not only exist in dreams. Bringing together more than 2,000 watercolor paintings, this ambitious artistic project began in 2008. To present this collection of memories, the artist draws on certain codes specific to vintage fashion illustration. Within each drawing lies a mystery, an enigmatic illusion or a haiku-inspired image. The ephemeral colors of floral motifs worn by the characters and displayed in the backdrops remind us of poetry that is inexpressibly tender. In this fragile environment, Odawara seems to reject the city and its electrifying presence in favor of a return to nature. At the edge of a forest, one that is likely near the artist’s home in Tokyo’s suburbs, the characters in her drawings devote themselves to gleaning, picking, going on treasure hunts, or playing games of hide-and-go-seek. There is potential for romance among the flock of characters represented in Odawara’s work, which seems to amuse her. Indeed, she gently pokes fun at the absurd situations they are in. These moments are fleeting and reflect a tangible reality made up of imagined or genuine experiences akin to fragments of wild memories that awaken the feelings and desires hidden deep within us. _ Born in Tokyo, Arisa Odawara is a pluridisciplinary artist and also runs a space “Junbicyu” for artists in Tokyo. She draws events such as fragments of her behavior, the scenery she saw for a moment, and her delusion on paper with watercolors like keeping a diary every day. She paints on canvas, and makes collage works with origami paper and pottery works from drawings on paper.“My Drawings” by Nieves in 2019 and “My Diary” by Slow Editions in 2021 (available in our  gallery bookshop) have been published. _

LUKAS WEIDINGER /

Act cool, 2021 ink on paper, 26 x 18 cm — Do not miss the occasion to visit our online exhibition ‘MODERN LIVES’ at collection croisée gallery.

Currently exhibiting the work of Matt Lock at collection croisée gallery Explore the show online at collectioncroisee.com, we present 15 original artworks for this occasion. 

Focus Matt Lock /

Matt Lock’s drawings are premonitory witnesses. They seem to surface from a highly radioactive future ravaged by the excesses of mass consumerism where humans have undergone mutations of the most heinous kind. Garbage and biological waste are strewn about, piling up in open—air dumps. The mutants are alienated and disfigured; their flesh is pierced by strange bionic implants that look like excrescences. In the space Lock creates, they look as if they are primed for a fight. However, there is more to Lock’s work than stained asphalt, war and desolation. His dystopian worlds are informed by science fiction from the 80s and 90s; they convey a primitive and visceral power emboldened by an anxiety—ridden vision of a doomed future. The force behind Lock’s art lies in a certain aesthetisation of the monstrous. His imagination is coloured by representations of the organic in all its forms, a predilection reminiscent of the body—machine hybrids found in the science—fiction novels of William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard. The use of coloured paper allows nostalgia to seep into these sinister landscapes. Though violence pervades his drawings, an effervescence somehow manages to subsist in the apocalyptic landscape portrayed.

Matt Lock is a self—taught illustrator and occasional painter, originally from Massachusetts but residing in close proximity to NYC since 2010. Most of his work consists of line drawings on small to medium colored paper. His drawings are often intricate in detail and depict post—apocalyptic alien futures or hidden alternate realities. Lock has been posting art on the Internet since 2006 and since that time has exhibited in various galleries worldwide. Additionally, there have been several books and zines published featuring his work, both exclusively and alongside other artists. _

Image : Matt Lock / Diy mutoid grown on self-aware substrate, 2018 Pen, colored pencils, markers on paper 29,7 x 21 cm (A4)