no idea
No Idea is Fabien Verschaere’s first major solo exhibition.
After New Chinon*, a previously unseen series of 400 watercolours on paper produced and presented in Chinon in 2002, it is the other side of the artist’s work that we are discovering in Tours.
While watercolours on paper represent the intimate side of his work, this monograph will give pride of place to his more extroverted forms: his universe will unfold in space, with paintings and wall drawings, installations, photographs, sculptures and sound.
“No Idea” is an exhibition without watercolours, but it nonetheless questions this rare practice in art today. It explores the limits and possibilities of watercolour, suggesting ways out onto other media and scales.
Conceived between Chinon and Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), two cities on opposite sides of the world where the artist spent a month apart in the spring of 2002, “No Idea” is also a digression on travel, both physical and mental.
Extract from the press release – 2002
fabien verschaere
The artist was born in 1975 in Vincennes. He lives and works in Paris.
Fabien Verschaere uses a falsely childish vocabulary in his drawings, frescoes or sculptures. He approaches major themes of life such as sex, madness, disease, or death, in a dreamlike or nightmarish way. Filled with monsters, chimeras and fairies, his abundantly creative universe draws inspiration from tales, mythology, comics, but also everyday life. Everything is intertwined without hierarchy, and without a defined narrative arch. The artist creates his own and personal mythology, and gives just as much poetic weight to the beautiful as the banal.
Fabien Verschaere is represented by the Galerie Brugier-Rigail, Paris.
No Idea is Fabien Verschaere’s first major solo exhibition.
After New Chinon*, a previously unseen series of 400 watercolours on paper produced and presented in Chinon in 2002, it is the other side of the artist’s work that we are discovering in Tours.
While watercolours on paper represent the intimate side of his work, this monograph will give pride of place to his more extroverted forms: his universe will unfold in space, with paintings and wall drawings, installations, photographs, sculptures and sound.
“No Idea” is an exhibition without watercolours, but it nonetheless questions this rare practice in art today. It explores the limits and possibilities of watercolour, suggesting ways out onto other media and scales.
Conceived between Chinon and Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), two cities on opposite sides of the world where the artist spent a month apart in the spring of 2002, “No Idea” is also a digression on travel, both physical and mental.
Extract from the press release – 2002
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