Ghislain Garlin at Grain de Beauté

Sarah Moroz writing for I V Y paris

Cheeky and innovative, the drawings of Ghislain Garlin are exhibited upon white walls polka-dotted with black (grain-de-beauté strewn?) flourishes. The silkscreened pieces are appealing of their own accord - and that much more so when hung collectively.

Garlin makes a liaison between things that at first seem incongruous yet, once seen together, merge with seeming naturalism. A certain childlike style of drawing is fused with more grotesque elements: extra limbs, odd creatures, repetitions, tied-up entanglements.

There is a general fluidity between things normally categorized as separate: corporeal mixings of animal and man, humans so possessed by objects they intertwine with them, insides spilling out. Part fantastical, part eerie resonance with modern culture, the themes of consumerism, malaise, and distortion are nonetheless infused with humor and treated with wit instead of didacticism.

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 pm to 8 pm,
Now through September 26th 2008.

Galerie Issue
38 rue Quincampoix
Paris 75004
01 42 77 12 46