13/09/2025 - 24/01/2026
In this exhibition, some drawings are presented that were collected in a folder, kept closed in a drawer of my studio. Chéri et cetera is a personal project, not a commission, just a creative impulse, perhaps a mild obsession. Notes, sketches, portraits, nudes that pursue an era, an atmosphere, the theatricality of a gesture, the study of a mocking clin d’oeil. Chéri, the protagonist of Colette’s novel—beautiful, unbearably anti-romantic, unbearably young—becomes here the ideal actor for these exercises in style. The et cetera, in turn, represents everything that surrounds it, almost inevitably spilling over into Radiguet’s “perfect” novel, The Devil in the Flesh, which portrays another archetype of youth, a very young scoundrel. Ultimately, Radiguet—his own brief, incredible existence—confirms the danger of youth, and the undeniable charm and regret it entails. This corpus of drawings is presented to the public for the first time. Here, a more private dimension of the artist, the study and the research, come to light, revealing the behind-the-scenes of painting—painting in the truest sense.
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