until Saturday November 22 2014

Galerie Frank Elbaz
T : +33 (0)1 48 87 50 04
66 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France

Owner
Frank Elbaz
frank@galeriefrankelbaz.com

Assistant
Daphné Kossmann
daphne@galeriefrankelbaz.com

Like a portmanteau word, Blair Thurman’s work brings together otherwise distinct worlds of meaning. While at the same time evoking Minimalist art, Pop art and Op art, it also reveals a new approach to abstraction: a subjective translation of the ambiguous equivalences between art and reality and vice versa. And yet, when one looks at the works – the shaped canvases, the neons, the installations – this syncretic aesthetic fills one with a sense of inevitability.

Blair Thurman’s work occupies a place on the interface between painting and sculpture, abstraction and figuration, art and reality. Like a road sign pointing in two opposite directions and consequently pointing nowhere, it defies a single definition, reductive analysis, or would-be art-historical labels. The obvious ambiguity of his work opens up a dialogue between the realities of a personal and universal story, and allows for great freedom of interpretation – as if to demonstrate the ambivalent beauty of a world which is as depraved as it is virtuous.