Off-site exhibitions

The exclusive curation created for The 1818 Collective in their Sag Harbor space, on view starting May 22, extends the site's sensitive and creative experience, in dialogue with its architecture, history, and the objects that inhabit it.

THE 1818 COLLECTIVE
43 Madison St,
Sag Harbor, NY 11963

USA

Opening Hours
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am – 5pm
Monday: by appointment only
Closed on Sunday

For over five decades, Francis Limérat has practiced an art of the “in-between.” Neither painting, nor truly sculpture—or perhaps both at once—the viewer encounters these works within the uncertainty of genres. Informed and traversed by the entire history of 20th-century avant-gardes that challenged the flatness of painting and the monolithic nature of sculpture, hybridized by a shift of reflection toward other cultural productions such as Art Brut and the Arts Premiers, these works summon a “sensitive” plasticity that resists a strictly formalist approach.

These linear structures, made of fine painted wooden rods, are set a few centimeters away from the wall, thus creating—through the play of their cast shadows—a “projected drawing” of their composition.

At the same time, Francis Limérat develops an extensive body of graphic work on paper, combining a sensitive capture of reality—during his travels—with an autonomous approach to a formal process freed from all representation.