Regardless of the artistic discipline, there is something essential in the act of creation, common to all artists: a cry for existence and a desire to present to the world a personal idea dear to them. Thierry Dalat the painter, Claire Espanel the designer and Jean-Paul Ruiz the engraver will not tell you otherwise. The first became a specialist in absence. Whether in his landscapes or in his portraits, the minerality and the “damaged” aspect of his paintings create an impression of emptiness, emphasizing with ambivalence the elements missing from our gaze. The black and white universe of Claire Espanel plays with emptiness and darkness, letting our mind imagine what is happening in the black of her drawings. The dark is also the kingdom of Jean-Paul Ruiz, who gives birth to dazzling luminous openings from darkness, fragmenting space and matter with beauty. Once again, the Taylor Foundation presents three artists whose cries for existence echo each other brilliantly.

Did you know?
He gave his name to a century-old foundation, but who really was Baron Isidore Taylor? A pioneer of the romantic movement, the French playwright and philanthropist was also the king's commissioner to the Pasha of Egypt and negotiated the transfer of the obelisk from Luxor to Paris.