Nathanaël Koffi is pleased to present his second personal and self-produced exhibition: "The Seasons of Love".
For two years, Nathanael has explored the concept of love: What is this feeling? How does it arise? How does it evolve? What are the different types of love? How can it be explained? Around Valentine's Day, the artist unveils an exhibition at 24 Beaubourg divided into six chapters, six stages imagined as six seasons that make up love.
The exhibition deals with the beginning of a relationship, the beginnings, adolescence and first love, flirting, the beginnings and then the exploration phase of the couple where we discover the true face of our partner.
Gradually, the exhibition evolves to the rhythm of the relationship. Then comes the routine phase, this phase that can frighten as much as reassure, but which is inevitable.
Then comes the phase of commitment, acceptance after several years with one's partner, a phase that leads to marriage.
Then, the crisis phase. Either we overcome it, or it razes everything in its path. The exhibition presents various typologies of crises to lead to the last phase:
The phase of no return, where different reasons specific to each person lead to separation.
An opening question closes the journey: When should we separate, break up love and what is the best way to do it?
"The seasons of love" illustrate these different phases and themes in the form of metaphors with the emblematic colored patterns of the artist Nathanael Koffi.
An invitation to take a look at one's own love stories through this exhibition that explores a universal and yet very personal theme.
Nathanaël Koffi is a 29-year-old painter and visual artist who likes to express himself on different media and divert forgotten objects to sublimate the world around him. The intuitive momentum of his work balances with the precision and rigor inherent in the creation of his works.
In a very abstract approach, he plays on variations of colors and patterns, searches for shades, shapes, textures and materials.
He works freely, without sketches or preparation in advance. The composition of colors is spontaneous, done on the spot.
"The Freedom in my work reflects that of my mind that I transcribe in my creations. The interlocutor is free to interpret the work in his own way according to his own frame of reference. The perception of the work belongs to him. It is an exchange: I create with spontaneity, the public is invited to feel with the same freedom."
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