GUY DE MALHERBE, ” SHORES, FRAGMENTS, FIGURES ” AT THE GRAND MANÈGE IN VENDÔME

The City of Vendôme will be hosting a major solo exhibition of Guy de Malherbe’s work during the summer of 2024 at the Grand Manège Rochambeau from 5 July to 24 September.

This vast building, a listed historic monument, will showcase an exceptional collection of more than a hundred paintings by the artist, in which he tackles the themes that have been his main preoccupations for the last few years. In impressively large formats, shores are the recurring inspiration for Guy de Malherbe’s generous use of gesture and color.

While rocks, whether cliffs or fragments, scree or shells, have played an important role in his work in recent years, Guy de Malherbe has also developed a major body of work known as “Reliefs”. A word that still evokes rocks and landscapes, as much as it designates the reliefs of meals: oysters, lamb chops, and plates of artichokes.

Visitors can immerse themselves in the world of Guy de Malherbe and wander through several series of paintings, first among the sleepy figures, bodies lying on the sand amidst stone debris, then among the chaos and breaches, a kind of cavern, which preceded the great series of cliffs, inspired by the Normandy coastline. In this chaos of matter, stone, and water seem to come alive in the play of light and shadow, and the eye believes it recognizes bodies, shapes, and silhouettes.

Through painting – its movement, its color, its material – the link between the mineral and the organic and the dreamlike interpretation of forms emerges as one of the artist’s main concerns. This is what unfolds, notably in several impressive large canvases in which Guy de Malherbe places us face to face with the sea and the sky, or should we say, face to face with painting.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

GUY DE MALHERBE
Shores, fragments, figures
5 July – 24 September 2024
Opening on Friday 5 July at 6pm

Rochambeau Armoury
Véndôme (41100)

Opening times
Thursday to Sunday, 3pm to 7pm, Saturday 2pm to 7pm.
Free admission