Galerie Babel opens in St Germain
Text Elisabeth Fourmont
If it has been Armageddon for the art market lately, one upshot is that places are opening for newer artists where one wouldn’t expect. On the rue Guénéguad in the heart of Saint Germain des Prés, you can find African art, design furniture, and fashion-edge photography, but also local painter Denis Gérablie, 40, (pictured) who this spring opened Galerie Babel in a space that formerly exhibited Man Ray.
The name references the Tower of Babel, because buildings appear unfixed in his paintings, but it’s about something more fluid than a tumble of bricks and mortar he says. “My houses are like trees. They can grow, wilt, sway in the wind. Walking in these cities I create, there is something vegetable about it, like walking in a forest.” He was inspired in part by the French word for real estate, immobilier. “Immobile. I think I reacted against this term. And I think my paintings are also a reaction against a world that is wooden and heavy. I always thought houses were closed off by walls, and very serious," he says.More on: Galerie Babel opens in St Germain








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