Paris
Galerie Maria Lund
On now
- The exhibition Le Mur vert bouteille (A Bottle Green Wall), Danish artist Maria Zahle’s first in France, is built around that longing, in a wider sense of absence, grief, and melancholia. Its title echoes a wall that Maria Zahle’s grandmother had painted, as a liberating gesture, in her seaside house. A space for independence and creativity, that house was also the host of loneliness, of heartaches, of absent or dead men, and of languishing women. Today, the colour green is found as thin threads in her series Længsel (Longing) : woven works separated by a horizontal strip in two parts —one dark, the other of a warm light— and held in space by a sculpted bronze suspension which anchors and supports. Her compositions are also a nod to a diagram presented by her mythology professor: at the top, the word “deities,” at the bottom, the word “humans,” and pointing upwards an arrow bearing the word Længsel, longing. Thus, Le Mur vert bouteille connects women’s lived experiences, memories, and tales. But it also serves to highlight the importance of colour for the artist: more than a mere pictorial element, colour is a physicalDescription
A bottle green wall
Until 7 Nov 2026
Recent past exhibitions
- Marlon Wobst does something with the human figure that no one else has ever done before. In his completely original way, he makes every one of his personages amiable, relaxed, and amusing to behold. Oh of course one could mention the work of several of Wobst’s contemporaries where there is a slight resemblance of approach in the deliberate playfulness and informality, in the way of declaring “this is a nearly abstract form that resembles a figure, that reiterates the ideas of head and chest and limbs while it is the opposite of a traditional reproduction of a person, of the sort of facsimile of an actual human being in the manner of academic art going back ad infinitum,” to certain other artists, many quite famous, at work today. Or, more relevantly, one could note parallels to the pictures of certain modern masters: Nicolas De Staël, Jan Müller, and Milton Avery quickly come to mind. But there is something different going on here. It is as if, with every image, the artist is clearly taking delight. He is palpably amused by what he sees, and so are we. Yet there is also a sense of fleeting time, and occasionally of danger; what is cheerful is also, if not exactly sinister, then emotionally complicated.Description
Landunter
Ended 21 Mar 2026