Galerie Pixi - Marie Victoire Poliakoff

For over 20 years, the Pixi gallery Marie-Victoire Poliakoff exhibited works show little concern successive modes or "expectations" of the art market. It favors the "young" artists (but not Carre he said no one remains as a young painter that is not too expensive?), She regularly shows works both during clashes that collective these special exhibitions. They have in common the refusal of the bluff, a taste for understated subtlety, and a requirement with respect to the viewer: it takes time to discover the riches that deserve and do not engage the eye careless or hasty. The Pixi gallery can cycle abstraction and figuration whose alleged opposition loses its meaning since what counts is the motivation of the forms, the need of the materials, the density of color fields, the gradual deepening of approaches which, while authorizing variants, remain faithful to the initial choice of a few perfectly productive principles. We may say that we are entitled to expect these qualities to anyone claiming artist: it would be naive, that is confirmed as soon as we pay attention to what can be spread under the guise of entertainment news. The exhibitions of the gallery Pixi are therefore exemplary appearance, reminding that can still hear that art is also a serious business, if not moral.

Gérard Durozoi