Eric Roux-Fontaine “Neverlandscape” : Nov 5 – Dec 2, 2012 EXHIBITION CATALOG

Eric Roux-Fontaine Neverlandscape

Eric Roux-Fontaine Neverlandscape

November 05 - December 02 2012

Neverlandscape - 47’’ x 55’’

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We are all star dust.

The nucleus of all our atoms were born from the center of stars several billion years ago.

Hubert Reeves astrophysicist

Neverlandscape I am on a quest to find the source of where dreams find their imagery.

On looking closely at an atlas, you can see the lines and blocks of color which delineate the different countries and continents. Each element is joined to the next like some kind of shamanic design. In the time it takes to browse through this Book of Marvels and already certain details will have changed: here a sea is shrinking, there a continent is sliding under another. Lines are stretched and color blocks are changed, and a new country emerges, both scientifically real and perfectly imaginary.

This country is our blind spot. It is like the vague memory of a film whose title we have forgotten but where certain scenes seem familiar. These jungles suspended just below the clouds belong as much to our collective imagination as they do to the landscape of the new world. What time is it, and where are we? Could it be the 25th hour, not daytime and certainly not the night, in infinity 10째West?

Thanks to the tectonics of the soul, the world has become a garden again. We are back to the Pangaea, to 280 million years ago when the continents were but one. Or are we simply in one of those imagined countries that ancient cartographers invented in guise of their signature.

Approach in silence and you will first see a jungle, rooted in the imaginary, a jungle where human ails are absorbed and flung skyward. Here we perceive a glasshouse protecting as much as it hides. There, a bridge, suspended between two worlds. And further along, just below us hiding in a little clearing, a forgotten bedstead slumbers amid the wild flowers: ancient dreams, worlds anew. From the far side of the valley, through the mist, we make out the sound of a fast-moving car. Inside, Joseph Mallord William Turner, turned toward the driver, is passionately discussing lyrical abstraction. The driver laconically replies that he used to be a seaman, and he thought simply of the waves rushing beneath the shell of the ship and the bottomless deeps thereunder - now he could feel the road some twenty inches beneath him, unfurling and flying and hissing at incredible speeds across the groaning continent.

Genesis - 55’’x 47¼’’

El Rio Celeste - 39¼’’ x 39¼’’

Shadow Boxing - 47’’x 55’’

I am on a quest to find the source of where dreams find their imagery.

Walk the line - 55’’x 47¼’’

Nostalgie du futur - 23½’’x 47¼’’

Thunder road - 23½’’x 47¼’’

Conquistador - 55’’x 47¼’’

As a seaman I used to think of the waves rushing beneath the shell of the ship and the bottomless deeps thereunder - now I could feel the road some twenty inches beneath me, unfurling and flying and hissing at incredible speeds across the groaning continent with that mad Ahab at the wheel. When I closed my eyes, all I could see was the road unwinding into me. When I opened them I saw flashing shadows of trees vibrating on the floor of the car. There was no escaping it. I resigned myself to all.

Jack Kerouac – On the Road

Salsa Brava - 47¼’’x 39’’

Babel1 - 39’’x 44½’’

Soundscape - 39’’x 44½’’

Into the west - 39¼’’x 39¼’’

Pangéa - 31½’’x 39½’’

Rhapsody - 23½’’x 31½’’

Les matins du monde - 23½’’x 31½’’

Neverlandscape - 47’’ x 55’’

Angel - 23½’’x 23½’’

Oro - 39¼’’x 39¼’’

Leurs soirs ont de longue traînes - 23½’’x 31½’’

Gulabi - 55’’x 47¼’’

Eric Roux Fontaine Main exhibition

Born in 1966 - France Fine Art School of Saint Etienne graduated Suma Cum

Solo Show

Group Show

Books & catalogues

2012-Rêves anciens-Mondes nouveaux-Galerie Felli-Paris/France

2010 - 2011-PontsPalais des Papes - Avignon/France

2012-Rêves anciens,Mondes Nouveaux- Ed. Galerie Felli. Paris/France

2011-Eden-Galerie Le Soleil sur la place - Lyon

2010-Slick 2010- Paris -St Art Strasbourg 2010

2010-Festina lenteGalerie Felli - Paris/France

2008-Le territoire et ses limitescommissaires : Alain Fleischer, Christian Lacroix Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles/France -Musée Paul Dini -Exposition- IrréelItinérances - La Roseraie Belgique -Rromano than - Liberchie/Belgique -Frontières - Lille/France -Septembre de la photographie Lyon/France

2011-Le livre de la Jungle85 toiles d’aprés l’œuvre de R. Kipling - 214 p. (2011) -Eden (30 pages) -Ponts (Catalogue for a group show, Palais des Papes, Avignon/France)

2009-Bahra - Galerie Le Soleil sur la place - Lyon/France 2008-RétrospectiveFondation Josep Niebla Gironne/Espagne -Ivre de la jungleGalerie Felli - Paris/France -Elvis has left AmericaSeptembre de la photographie Lyon/France -Rromano than- La Roseraie Bruxelles/Belgique 2007-Galerie le Phenix-Bruxelles 2003-Sind- Galerie Olivier Houg Lyon/France 2002-Jardin NomadeRez d’Art Contemporain Ville de Meyzieux/France 2001-Wispering in paradiseBridge Gal. Dublin/Irlande 1999-Galerie Olivier Houg -Acquisition Musée Paul Dini 1998-Terrains et territoiresMaison de l’Image et du son Villeurbanne/France 1995-Voyage au centre d’un muséeMusée des beaux-arts de Chambéry/ France 1991 Mundo NuevoGalerie Metropolis

© Eric Roux-Fontaine All works : Pure pigment, marble powder & resin.

2007-Galerie Felli-Paris/France -Musée Paul Dini - Villefranche -FRONTERAS -CCCBMusée des cultures contemporaine Barcelone/Espagne 2006-FRONTIÈRESMuseum, Lyon- France -Galerie le Phenix Bruxelles/Belgique 2005-Galerie le Phenix-Bruxelles 2004-Acquisition AIB Fondation Ireland - Art fair Dublin/Ireland

2010-Roux-FontaineMonographie par Marlène Girardin Ed. Critères Éditions -Festina Lente- Galerie Felli Paris/France 2007-Elvis has left AmericaEd. Transbordeurs -Fronteras. CCC Barcelone 2006-Rromano than, Chroniques réelles d’un pays imaginaireEd. Transbordeurs -Frontières- Museum de Lyon/ France 2004-Rajasthan, un voyage aux sources GitanesEd. du Garde-Temps 2002-Jardin Nomade- Rez d’Art Contemporain - Méyzieux/France 2001-Wispering in paradiseBridge Gallery. Dublin/Irlande

2003-Rotterdam Art fair 2003Holland

1998-A palo secoMIS Villeurbanne/France

2001-Les chemins de la peintureCentre d’art d’Oyonnax/France

1995-Voyage au centre d’un muséeMusée des Beaux-arts de Chambéry/ France

2000-Big TorinoBiennale-Italie -Centre d’art d’Oyonnax/France -Bridge Gallery Dublin/Ireland 1998-Terrains et territoiresMaison de l’Image et du son Villeurbanne/France

Acknowledgements Photography: Alain Basset Catalog Design: Jean-Michel Poizat Bertrand Delacroix

Rêves lointains, mondes nouveaux - 59’’x 67’’

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