TEMPUS FUGIT ; Time flies by Frédéric Heurlier Cimolai - Opening night at Amelie, Maison d'art

​Tempus fugit, Times flies ; an expression taken from the book by the Roman poet Virgil: "Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore", meaning: "But in the meantime, it flees: time flees without return, while we wander, prisoners of our love of detail.

​Here he expresses the concern that the little time we have is consumed by something that may have little intrinsic substance or importance at that single moment.

​As historian, art critic, curator and teacher Pierre Wat so aptly puts it, to look at a painting by Frédéric Heurlier Cimolaï is to experience. It's seeing, of course: the interplay of forms that show and forms that hide, like a call to take the time to really see, like a call to consciously lose oneself. And then there's the experience, because from one form to another, from one color to another, the painter never ceases to offer other sensations: something soft, or rough, smooth, rough, or silky. Painting is all the texture of the world, contained within the plane of a single picture.

​The painter's work unfolds in series, so many ways of putting the work to work: of bringing out what it shows and what it hides, what it contains and what it releases, this beauty sometimes held and sometimes emerging, like a vital impulse finally imposing its reign.

​We are delighted to present the work of the painter Frédéric Heurlier Cimolai for the first time in New York from September 12 to 28.

​​We look forward to seeing you on Thursday September 12 for the opening evening!