Timothée Humbert: Parade is on view at Florian Daguet-Bresson, Paris
May 24 – July 6, 2024
Daguet-Bresson presents the exhibition “Parade”, dedicated to the multi-disciplinary French artist Timothée Humbert. His work is the fruit of experimentation, exploring the sculptural and plastic qualities of ceramics.
Timothée Humbert composes extravagant characters that form and deform, draw and agitate. Fantastic little and big monsters, colorful, mischievous and curious beings, whose texture seems to match that of paper-mâché dolls. This play on materials, combined with a spontaneous, energetic gesture, gives rise to captivating, strange, one-of-a-kind characters. Timothée Humbert’s ceramics, paintings, drawings with primitivist influences immersed in a neo-Pop Art aesthetic awaken and delight our gaze !
For the artist, materiality is not a limitation; he crosses materials to express his creative desires. Today, he is one of the leading figures among emerging artists using ceramics as a medium of expression.
Curious about everything, I draw images and volumes from everywhere and nowhere, in every genre. My universe can as easily include forms associated with primitive civilizations, applied art, art brut, painting and drawing, manga and video games… And then there’s an evolving, shifting elsewhere: my imagination, teeming with fantastic monsters that oscillate between candid astonishment and frightening stupor…
For each new piece, I forget everything. I need to find something magical, a new dimension of spontaneity akin to the archaic creative impulse of childhood. At once primitive and oceanic, elsewhere between drawing and clay outside of time.
Timothée Humbert
A graphic and sculptural universe nourished by numerous cultural references, dreamlike and delightful!
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75008 Paris
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