Galerie du Lendemain

Galerie du Lendemain presents "Subjective Beauty. Le choix du corps masculin", its second group show of the 2022-2023 season. The exhibition follows on from the one devoted to the male nude in spring 2022. This time, the selected artists answered the question: what defines beauty in art? In gathering their answers, our artists went far beyond the representation of nature and its preserved splendor, which might have been the first thing on their minds, and it was the human figure, and more specifically the "male figure", that caught their eye. Through this human representation of the masculine, each artist can express his thoughts, dreams, vision of reality and intimate desires. So is the male body once again, as it was in ancient Greece, the artistic representation of beauty? This is what these works - paintings, photographs, drawings and collages - suggest. They are also an alternative to the brutality of our times, to conflict and discord. These works could have taken on a disturbing, shocking dimension, as art can also serve this purpose, in order to convey an essential message to the world; on the contrary, here, the works take up the subject of the exhibition with a dimension that is both universal and intimate, simply trying to capture those moments of beauty that only artists know how to perceive: in the abandonment of a body in motion, the tender embrace and impulse towards freedom that show the way, the frank smile that lights up on a face, the discovery of an island where you can live naked for a summer, the sharing and harmony in a group, and many other details that the artists have chosen to reveal here to answer, in a subjective way, our question, thus lifting our spirits and bringing sweetness to our hearts.