Pierre Soulages x Karen Swami – Collector Square

April 04 to May 05, 2024

When the «black light» of the abstract French master meets the «poetics of enamels» of contemporary ceramics. Soulages’ monumental canvases carve light with sharp touches, where his iconic series Outrenoir builds a luminous architecture between roughness and finesse. In this art exhibition, the viewer is invited to witness this sculpting of darkness into light as a spatial experience.

Meanwhile, Swami’s ceramic works crystallize time in the flux of cobalt blue and celadon enamels. The confrontation of Soulages’ asphalted acrylics with Swami’s cracked enamels reveals two radically different aesthetics of «dark matter»: one capturing light through black, the other reconstructing black through light. This art exhibition becomes a rare moment where oppositional materials converse in silence, revealing shared depth beneath surface contrast.

“Outrenoir”

“The Matter”

“Obscurity”

“The Light”

“The Smoke Fired”

“The Art of Contrast”