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Tempus Fugit
Frédéric Heurlier Cimolaï
September 2024
Galerie Amelie Maison d’Art unveils the exhibition "Tempus Fugit," showcasing recent works by Frédéric Heurlier Cimolai and offering a retrospective of the artist's complete body of work through the presentation of his monograph.
Tempus fugit, Times flies ; an expression taken from the book by the Roman poet Virgil: "Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore", meaning: "But in the meantime, it flees: time flees without return, while we wander, prisoners of our love of detail.
Here he expresses the concern that the little time we have is consumed by something that may have little intrinsic substance or importance at that single moment.
As historian, art critic, curator and teacher Pierre Wat so aptly puts it, to look at a painting by Frédéric Heurlier Cimolaï is to experience. It's seeing, of course: the interplay of forms that show and forms that hide, like a call to take the time to really see, like a call to consciously lose oneself. And then there's the experience, because from one form to another, from one color to another, the painter never ceases to offer other sensations: something soft, or rough, smooth, rough, or silky. Painting is all the texture of the world, contained within the plane of a single picture.
The painter's work unfolds in series, so many ways of putting the work to work: of bringing out what it shows and what it hides, what it contains and what it releases, this beauty sometimes held and sometimes emerging, like a vital impulse finally imposing its reign.
We are delighted to present the work of the painter Frédéric Heurlier Cimolai for the first time in New York from September 12 to 28.
