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Galerie Eric DupontDirector : Eric DupontGallery creadon’s year: 1997www.eric-­‐dupont.cominfo@eric-­‐dupont.com+33 1 44 54 04 14138 rue du Temple 75003 ParisDamien Cabanes, Un-tled, 2012. Gouache on paper 31 x 25 cm © Courtesy Galerie Eric Dupont, ParisFocus ardst : Damien Cabanes, born in 1959Others ardsts exhibited on the booth: Clément Bagot, Taysir Batniji, Didier Mencoboni, Yazid OulabPrices of the works: from 1 200 € to 7 000 €We will show a set of gouaches on paper of Damien Cabanes, revealing his interest in human figure. It always embodies under a vigorous and energedc line, strong, muted or vivid colours.These gouaches highlight the way he works, all at once in urgency and under long days of pose, when he is trying to consume his reladon to the model through evoludons and infinite progressions around a same character, a same aƒtude or a same presence in the space. His wish is to keep « the wonder of the first sight on the model ». Damien Cabanes realizes his gouaches with rapidity, according to the immediacy of a definidve and expressive gesture, opening and including all at the same dme. Thus, the gouaches seem to be open to liberty of the sense and the sensadons. It is less the anecdote, the appearance or the psychology of his models – always named by their first name -­‐ but their power, their presence and their uniqueness to being human that is transcribing Damien Cabanes. « Those are not the feeling of the model that I express but mine » he says.Born in 1959, Damien Cabanes is a painter, drawer and sculptor. Graduated in 1983 in the Ensb-­‐a in Paris, he is part of the nominated at the Marcel Duchamp award in 2011. A retrospecdve is devoted to him in 2011 in the Musée d’art moderne of Saint-­‐Edenne; in 2009, his recent works were showed at the Salomon Foundadon. His works are part of many public and private collecdons in France and abroad.Presse mappe I Seite 24