For the AU-DESSOUS | AU-DESSUS exhibition, the artist created a complex installation which took up the entire
gallery space, from the first floor to the basement, and including the stairs, entrances and corridors. It was made up of
paintings, wall-sized digital prints, and texts.
On the first floor, four paintings created specifically for the exhibition were hung
on a printed background, producing a trompe-l’oeil effect where the paintings and the prints were in literal
dialogue.
In the stairwell, the entrance, and the corridors, a set of printed drawings highlighted the specific architectural features of the gallery, creating effects of thresholds and passages.
Finally, in the basement, three paintings inspired by neo-plasticism took up compositions already used by the artist, in
a version stripped of its usual motifs. The text written by Jill Gasparina, and itself composed of self-contained blocks
freely arranged on the wall, went back over questions which the artist had been developing since the 1980s, in his
paintings and his writings: urban planning, the growth of digital technology, the synthetic spaces of video-games and
architectural renderings, the links between European and American traditions of abstraction, and between modernism and
postmodernism. The space was thereby transformed into an immersive installation.