LES NOUVEAUX ANGES
MARCH 2, 2013 TO APRIL 27, 2013

For his new exhibition at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Guillaume Leblon brings together a group of works that convoke the suggestive potential of the body through the material: grains of sand conglomerate with sea shells to form the body of a Nageuse endormie. The series that gives the exhibition its title,Les Nouveaux Anges, consists of paster bas-relief panels that evoke the absence of the body. The procedure of the imprint reveals a human form with shapeless contours, where the body is  suggested by the imprint of clothing, and where, ironically, there remain traces of cigar ashes, of a  scarf…