Spazio Nobile & Studiolo
Season XXXIII- Éva Garcia, Solo Show, Taille douce
14 March -18 May 2025
Rue Franz Merjay 142 & 169, 1050 Brussels
The gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10-18.00, or by appointment
Welcome to our Sunday Brunch on 27 April 2025, 12-16.00
Finissage Weekend & Artist’s Book Signing published by Spazio Nobile Editions, 17-18 May 2025, 11-18.00, in the presence of Éva Garcia
Taille douce, a contemporary art exhibition of the French artist Éva Garcia
around her works on paper and sculptures inspired by her travel to the Red Tadrart
Éva Garcia at Spazio Nobile with Tadrart #4, 2023, Carborundum engraving on aluminium plate. Black typographic ink on burnt Sienna-tinted Fabriano paper, 163×128×5 cm. Unique print signed by the artist, framed in cherry wood, photo by Margaux Nieto, Courtesy of Spazio Nobile
“This area of the Algerian Sahara, the driest in the world, was once a savannah. The crossing will have taken thousands of years… I remember those forests of basalte-coloured magmatic rock, those soils strewn with stones in the shape of body fragments, which from one moment to the next, in the blindness of the micas, reveal a red sand underneath, so red, like a decisive flash that takes everything with it and starts all over again. Like sands that consolidate into sandstone and sandstones that disintegrate into sand. I remember those great monolithic masses of granite where the men and women painted and carved the walls and built their tools.” _Éva Garcia
Exhibition View featuring the diptych Tadrat #6 and Tadrart #5, 2023, Carborundum engraving on aluminium plate. Printed on burnt Sienna-tinted Fabriano paper with Ultramarine blue typographic ink, 174×135.5×5cm. Unique prints signed by the artist, framed in cherry wood
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Matrice Tadrart #6, 2025, Matrix, carborundum on aluminium plate, Ultramarine blue typographic ink, 160×125×5 cm, unique piece signed by the artist. Photo Courtesy of the Artist & Spazio Nobile
For her second solo exhibition, French artist Éva Garcia is presenting a body of new work based on her two practices: engraving, in dialogue and resonance with sculpture, as a shared vision of the state of the world. Weight, density and texture are omnipresent in a tactility that is both visual and haptic. The strength and fragility of elements such as the human body or rock enter into tension with the eye, provoking a profound emotion that is both total and fragmented.
“Tadrart, the title of my latest series of large-format engravings, with their burnt sienna paper and carborundum affixed to a metal plate, modulating the forms, sculpting the imprints, inscribing memory in the authority of impermanence. This work is part of a long-term process, a logical continuation of what has taken shape through this walk and this spiritual discovery passed on by the Ajjer Tuaregs, and is the culmination of experiments and creative devices I began during my residency at the Fondation Fiminco in France.” – Éva Garcia
Exhibition View, On the left: Tadrart #1, 2023, Carborundum engraving on zinc plate, printed in black typographic ink on burnt Sienna-tinted Hahnemühle paper, 105×69.5×5 cm, ed. 5 signed by the artist, framed in cherry wood, in dialogue on the right with Tadrart #4, 2023, Carborundum engraving on aluminium plate. Black typographic ink on burnt Sienna-tinted Fabriano paper, 163×128×5 cm and Les Enjambées #5, 2023, Carborundum engraving on aluminium plate. Printed in grey typographic ink with graphite on burnt Sienna-tinted Fabriano paper. 175×137×5cm. Unique prints signed by the artist. Framed in cherry wood. Photo by Margaux Nieto, Courtesy of the Artist & Spazio Nobile
Exhibition View featuring Latomies #5, 2024, Work on paper, Ultramarine blue gouache, charcoal, pasted Japanese paper, varnish. 105×72.4×5cm and Latomies #4, 2023, 105×69.3×5cm. Unique pieces signed by the artist. Framed in cherry wood in dialogue with Calcaire de Dordogne #17, 2023, Sculpture, Direct carving on Dordogne limestone, Photo by Margaux Nieto, Courtesy of the Artist & Spazio Nobile
At Spazio Nobile Studiolo across the street of the main gallery
On the central wall: Latomies #3, 2024, Work on paper, Typewriter ink, indigo blue coloured pencil, sanding varnish, 175×135×5 cm. Unique piece signed by the artist. Framed in cherry wood with three sculptures in the window display: Calcaire de Paris #6, 2019, Carving, Paris limestone, black oil painting, 44×31×34 cm, Calcaire de Dordogne #8 & #10, 2020, Carving, Dordogne limestone, black oil painting, 34×25×39cm – 43×24×31cm. Unique pieces, signed and at the back: the series Présence #2 #3 #4 #5, 2021, Etching. Aquatint and dry point on zinc, Japanese gouache, 71×55 cm, Artist’s proofs, framed, signed and dated. Photo Margaux Nieto, Courtesy of the Artist & Spazio Nobile
Calcaire de Dordogne #18, 2023, Sculpture, Direct carving on Dordogne limestone, sealed in red wax, 121×84×38cm. Unique piece. Made at the Fondation Fiminco during her residency in 2023. Photo courtesy of the Artist & Fondation Fiminco
