Parisian Gallery Brings Together Two Audio-Visual Art Experts For New Exhibition

Last Thursday, Galerie L.J. in Paris opened its space to a electrifying group show by artists and longtime favorites of The Creators Project, Quayola and Joanie Lemercier. Made up of prints, drawings and video projections, the exhibition offerred a cutting-edge overview of digital creativity centered around video mapping practices.

By combining their creative energies, the two audio-visual and multidisciplinary artists took over the gallery with a stunning body of work (including new pieces) that questioned how artists can work with three-dimensional spaces and add value to one another's personal installations.

"Adeline Jeudy, the galerist who invited us to show some work at Galerie L.J. wanted to present artworks that explore geometrical representations,"Lemercier told The Creators Project "She chose us to get an aesthetics coherency between the pieces, and because we have a similar approach to how we use technology and software as a tool.”

Quayola, on his side, immersed viewers in a digital exploration of Renaissance masterpieces by reinterpreting the "codes" of the original piece—golden ratio, color scheme, and light among, for starters—to open a dialog between old and new, while also creating digital canvases that are striking even without context.

Lemercier, on the other hand, chose to showcase graphical and geometrical works of unparalleled precision. By manipulating lights and perspectives along with new technology tools, Lemercier animated 2D drawings to create seemingly-3D images that play with the eye's perception.

This powerful union between the two visual wizards offers a progrssion exploration of complementary creativity. “Imet with Davide [Quayola] at the Mapping Festival in 2007. We both have experience within electronic music and digital art festivals, and it's interesting that we both now work with galleries, and how our work has evolved within this context,"Lemercier told us. “We're both presenting pieces with sound and visuals, and more recently we've been working on prints. I like the idea of extracting things from the digital, and bringing it to the physical world.” The result of this collaboration is a tour de force of formats and practices that blurs the lines between real and artificial, between digital and physical.

For those who will not be in Paris over the next month, you can always find solace by purchasing Sounds from Strata, the new limited edition vinyl encompassing the sounds of the Strata Series by Quayola. In the meantime, here are some images of the show:

For more on Quayola and Lemercier, check out past coverages below:

[Video] Strata IV by Quayola

AntivJ's Joanie Lemercier Maps Light Projections To 3D Origami Walls

Quayola's Strata #4 Abstracts The Flemish Masters

AntiVJ's Joanie Lemercier Discusses Inspiration Vs. Theft Within The Artistic Community