Artist Focus
ARTISTS
OUR
REPRESENTED AT THE BOOTH
March 26th - 29th, 2026
Carreau du Temple | Paris, France
Booth 35
On the occasion of the Drawing Now event, we are presenting a focus on the work of Yann Bagot, whose work has been transcribing natural landscapes for several years. During numerous residencies (in Senegal and aboard Agnès b.'s Tara sailing vessel), Yann Bagot confronts natural landscapes using only ink and seawater as his tools, with which he conducts numerous experiments. Water, the subject, medium, and source of inspiration that runs through all his work: tides, currents, spray, and runoff become the vectors of a sensitive exploration of drawing. Through ink and paper, sometimes immersed or subjected to the elements, Yann Bagot captures the impermanence and poetic power of life.
Yann Bagot, Sources, 2015, ink on paper, 56 x 76 cm
Yann Bagot, Myriades, 2023, Ink and Sea salt on paper, 76 x 56 cm
Yann Bagot, ink and sea salt on paper, Eaux vives 2025, 28 x 21,5 cm
Yann Bagot, Lumières fleuve, 2024, arabic gum and sand on paper, 57 x 76 cm
Yann Bagot develops his drawing practice based on in situ experiences in contact with nature. During immersive residencies at sea, on the coast, in forests, and in the mountains, he seeks to become one with the place, to experience the intensity of the moment.
Exploring the possibilities of Indian ink mixed with salt on paper, he traces the forms of the world, watching for the movements of the waters that flow through and unify it. Created outdoors, subject to the constraints of the terrain and weather conditions, his series of drawings attempt to connect with the landscapes he experiences. In the studio, a series of large-format works attempt to recreate the immersive scale and physical intensity of the natural elements.
Yann Bagot, Horizon mer ciel, 2023, ink and sea salt on paper, 56 x 75,8 cm
Pierre Tal Coat, Sans titre, 1977, ink on paper, 92 x 62 cm
"The world is not the succession of landscapes we imagine; it is the perpetual struggle between line and insistence, surprise and weight. Pierre Tal Coat deliberately discards all heaviness in order to better anchor the space that opens up before him. Through washes on all kinds of paper, whether fragile or textured, solid or quivering, the powerful gesture of debating appearance resounds. From almost cursive lines to compact masses, the states of the world are revealed. A vast alphabet of exorbitant and complicit nature unfolds, through all the possibilities of trees, rocks, and animals."
Yves Peyré, author and former director of the Bibliothèque Saint Geneviève, Paris
Pierre Tal Coat, aquarelle on paper, 20 x 20cm
Pierre Tal Coat, graphite mine, 49 x 35 cm
Pierre Tal Coat, Saint Prex, 1979, aquarelle on paper, 9,5 x 36 cm
To quote Pierre Wat, Marie-Claude Bugeaud draws with brushes and paints with scissors. Brushes and scissors play in unison, following the same score, that of the drawing that cuts through the colored space, that of the line that gives birth to form. In fact, the best way to present her drawings is the way Marie-Claude Bugeaud does in her studio, pinned to the wall like shapes that have escaped from a canvas.
Wary of the risks of elegance, she recycles scraps of found paper as a safeguard against the dangers that threaten those who master the art of drawing.
Marie-Claude Bugeaud, Compositions, dessins sur papiers découpés, dimensions variables
Marie-Claude Bugeaud, 09-2005, acrylic on paper, 140 x 112 cm
Marie-Claude Bugeaud, 07-2019, oil and collage on paper, 62 x 48 cm
Marie-Claude Bugeaud, Zigzag etc..., 2018, oil and collage on paper, 100 x 81 cm