Painting has been buried several times: after photography, after conceptual art, after the screen. Yet for some fifteen years it has been the medium most present in fairs, galleries and young artists’ studios. Why?
The return of the hand and the material
The more numerous, fast and identical our images become from one screen to the next, the more a unique object, made by hand and slow to produce, regains meaning. A canvas is looked at in space, at the right distance, with its relief and its accidents. It resists reproduction, and that has become a quality.
A painting that has digested everything
Today’s painters no longer choose between figuration and abstraction, between tradition and popular culture. They borrow from photography, cinema, graphic design and digital tools, and return to the canvas with them. The history of painting is no longer a burden but a repertoire.
What we show in Marseille
Galerie Diego Escobar’s programme is, for the most part, a programme of painting in all the variety of its techniques: oil with Mickaël Doucet and Gregory Thielker, spray paint with Spyk, resin on wood with Guillaume Grando, mixed media with Franck Noto, acrylic with Diane Benoit du Rey and Alex Kuznetsov. Eight exhibitions a year, in Marseille and at international fairs, to show that painting has not come back: it never left.
Collecting painting today
Start by looking a lot, in galleries rather than online. Follow an artist over several exhibitions. Prefer a work you will want to see every morning to one you think you will resell. And ask questions: a gallery is there to answer them. Ours welcomes you by appointment, seven days a week, at 74 boulevard Périer in Marseille: contact.