With the collaboration of Berlin Art Projects, the Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil presents in its next exhibition representatives of the young german artistic scene. Like their parisian colleagues, presenting this young generation of painters has become obvious to Patrick Favardin and Laurent de Verneuil. Indeed, this exhibition follows the twinning event initiated by Bernard de Montferrand, « Berlin Paris 2010 », that took place in Paris early this year.

The aim of Laurent de Verneuil and Patrick Favardin is to propose to collectors and connoisseurs an artistic appoach in line with the unfinished project of Modernity. Reviving the classic forms of representation and the use of a true savoir-faire, this new avant-garde definitely strays from Duchamp precepts and post-modern disenchantment in favor of an art open to the great majority. This will to be back in a communication community keeps away from any conservatist endeavour by dealing with new mythologies.

The fall of the Berlin Wall allowed in Leipzig and Dresden the boom of this pictorial renewal. Its champions didn’t promote social issues but individual ones. And international collectors and art dealers became promptly idols of their works. Following Charles Saatchi, they jockeyed to be wait-listed for their new works. It needs to be stressed out that the institutionalised avant-garde reigning in what was the West Germany reacted strongly against those newcomers. Indeed, art students in GDR were open to new media (photography, installations, video) but ignored fiercely the opportunity of an intellectual education setting itself up as a metalanguage and advocating the predominance of thought over practice : painters they were, painters they would remain.

The upshot of this german upheaval as a school of liberty was the advent of a critical art which goal was not anymore to proclaim the end of Art but to put back the Human being in his own history.

Each in their own way the artists presented in this exhibition emanate from this same revolution. They form at the same time a consistent and diversified group likely to give an overview of the last trends of this upheaval, from a figurative art borrowing to tradition with Sebastian Schrader, to abstract and expressionist figuration with Christian Awe, through the poetic and ambiguous world of Meike Zopf or the pictorial rendition of photographic visions proposed by Jörg Lohse et Tom Fleischhauer.