Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2018 With a text by Annabelle Gugnon and a booklet Raymond Hains: You Know Nothing Raymond
‘With the exhibition Fire Walk With Me, Demester catapults us into the savagery of the world. This wildness conquers our body. Our five senses cling to it, diffract it, try to tame it. The pigments, the forms, the movements of his canvases make visible the elements that stir the universe. They surface from the magma of colour and the precision of poetry as if from a parallel world that bubbles in the very heart of our lives. This world does not disclose itself but secretly guides desires, produces dreams, holds the memory of humanity, of our childhood.’
A. Gugnon, ‘Vision’, in Jeremy Demester: Fire Walk With Me, Paris/Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2018, p. 5
Publisher: Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin Text: Annabelle Gugnon Publication date: 2018 Binding: Hardcover with Booklet Dimensions: 31 x 24.5 x 1.5 cm Pages: 64 and 20 ISBN: 978-3-947127-03-0
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As a descendant of the wandering ancestry of the Romani community, Jeremy Demester (b. 1988, Digne) draws from a wide variety of cultures and traditions within his oeuvre. It is an inherited wanderlust that first drew the artist to Benin in 2015, where he was invited for a residency at the Zinsou Foundation in Ouidah. Here, Demester discovered an alternate way of connecting to the world, through the power of magic, rituals and dance inspired by a keen observance and insightful knowledge of the country’s nature and ancient rites. Today, the artist lives and works between Benin and the South of France. Demester’s recent works gather and convey the visions of an artist who gives a central place to intuition, which is a driving force in his practice. ‘Painting is a body in which thought and unknown desires are embodied,’ he explains. Drawing on the rich folklore, oral history, mystics and mythology of Benin culture, Demester explores the imaginative forces that bind Vodun societies and travelling peoples in his vibrant paintings, esoteric sculptures and intricate works on paper. Frequently executed in vivid layers of paint – at times free-flowing and gestural, at others meticulously rendered – his work speaks to the dreamy, expressive landscapes of the spiritual world.
Artist page on maxhetzler.com
Fire Walk With Me
Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin
2017
Exhibition page on maxhetzler.com
