This first collaboration between Galerie Chenel, Galerie Dina Vierny and Simon Porte Jacquemus as curator of exhibition orchestrates a dialogue between antique, sculpted and daily.
The installation reveals a common resonance between line, volume and human presence. It's a conversation through time: terracotta and Olympia marbles that inspired Maillol, with its small bronzes, to the structured drapes of Jacquemus clothes. In each are both the allegory and the monument. The continuity is palpable: the ancient feeds Maillol, and Maillol, in turn, feeds the work of Simon Porte Jacquemus.
At the origin of everything lies the ancient sculpture, this point of origin inexhaustible. These marbles offered generations who followed a language of measurement. They are the discipline by which nature has been distilled in myth and, for Simon Porte Jacquemus, they are the geometry that supports the presence of a silhouette.