Artists represented at Hestia
Painters, sculptors and photographs
Dan hoo
Although born in Vietnam, Danhôo has Chinese ancestry, and he infuses his work with the ancient practice of calligraphy. Inspired moreover by the great American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock as well as the free flow of Qi (the vital energy), Danhôo uses the Dripping technique, combined with other European influences. Matter, signs and symbols interlace, creating vast fields of colours and energy.
MPCEM
For him, art is not about of hopeless deconstruction, of the sweet abandonment to inspiration, of narcissistic modelling, it is instead a struggle with materials, as harsh and passionate as the biblical fight like Jacob against the angel, this is a fight in which so many artists would recognize themselves.“The act of creation, says M.P.C.E.M. responds both to an inner necessity, as well as an urgency to fulfill a vital need. In his battle with mateials, the artist externalizes sensations, ideas and poses questions that words alone cannot totally express. He wishes to provide a tangible offer, while preserving a certain spontaneity. One cannot express better the spiritual dimension of any artistic experience. An artwork is first of all, a work of the mind.
Pierre Vernon
Vernon’s work has a certain schematic quality—every singular element of the world he captures (a branch, a leaf, a trunk, a landscape) is instantly transformed into an abstract form. Yet, conversely, much like Nicolas de Staël or Kandinsky, Vernon complements this upward movement (from reality to form) with its visual counterpart: the idea that every abstract shape only finds meaning insofar as it harmoniously integrates into the colored space it inhabits.A painter-philosopher, closer to phenomenologists than to expressionists, Pierre Vernon seeks to unite, in a single intuition, the direct perception of reality and its geometric refinement. Is this an illusion? One thing is certain: by applying a kind of subtractive asceticism to his canvases, Pierre Vernon restores abstraction to its true purpose—and, in doing so, its vocation: to fracture the visible, to displace the cliché of perception; in other words, to offer us a renewed vision of the world in its purest essence—one that has never before existed.
