Contemporary Summer Highlights : the gallery's summer exhibition
A selection of contemporary artists working between figuration and abstraction
For this summer season, Galerie Hurtebize is presenting a unique exhibition showcasing contemporary artists with distinctive artistic styles. Entitled Contemporary Summer Highlights, this exhibition brings together eight artists whose works range from stylized figuration to visual narration, gestural abstraction, and experimentation with materials.
Organized in two distinct spaces, the exhibition establishes a strong dialogue between two major currents in contemporary art: contemporary figurative representation and abstract research.
Contemporary figuration: narration, symbolism, and culture
In the first room, three artists explore contemporary figurative art through very different but complementary approaches:
- Salifou Lindou offers compositions rich in contrasts, where drawing, collage, and visual symbols intertwine to evoke stories rooted in the African collective memory.
- Julien Colombier, meanwhile, deploys a graphic and decorative universe populated by stylized plant motifs, somewhere between abstraction and poetic figuration.
- Finally, Kim Duck Yong revisits the codes of traditional Korean painting through delicate and meditative pictorial marquetry.
Each of these artists offers a sensitive representation of reality, rooted in a strong cultural heritage and personal aesthetic research.
Abstraction: matter, gesture, and experimentation
In the second part of the exhibition, Galerie Hurtebize showcases artists whose work explores the expressive possibilities of materials and gestures:
- Bernard Bezzina works with paper as a sculptural material, playing with density, transparency, and light.
- Arthur Unger uses a rare pyrochemigram technique on copper, where chemistry becomes a tool for creation.
- Maryna Maryienko creates poetic abstraction through a secret technique that gives rise to unique organic textures.
- Jean-Jacques Marie continues the legacy of dripping with energetic gestural abstraction, where layers, movements, and colors are superimposed.
These works offer a true panorama of contemporary abstract creation, combining technical mastery and freedom of execution.
An exhibition to discover all summer long in Cannes
The Contemporary Summer Highlights exhibition is on display all summer long at the Hurtebize Gallery, located in the heart of Cannes, just a few steps from La Croisette.
🕦Opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
📍Address: 17, La Croisette 06400 Cannes
Céline Fernandez
With 15 years of experience in marketing and communications, Céline has worked for major companies such as the Hopscotch agency, the Galerie Lafayette Group, and several communications agencies. For over four years, she has managed the gallery's communications through its website, social media, and traditional media.
