LE CONTE DU PETIT PRINCE QUI SOUHAITA DEVENIR PETITE PRINCESSE
24/06/2023 - 15/07/2023
GALERIE DA-END - Paris
A literal black sheep in the gallery landscape of Paris - Saint Germain, Galerie Da-End provided the perfect ambience for the artist's first Paris exhibition and first ever show with a gallery. In line with pride month and men's fashion week did the exhibition shine a light on the themes of sexuality and gender representation as well as emphasise the prominent link between Georgolios' work and contemporary runway fashion. The title that inspired the gallery's pride-themed exhibition originates from the short prose by artist Homo Cruz - Le Conte du Petit Prince qui souhaita devenir Petite Princesse - in english The Tale of the Little Prince who wished to become a Little Princess, a timely queer story borrowing it's prosaic style from 18th century fairy tales and fables.
A total of 10 paintings were shown in the galleries memorable exhibition space, consisting of dark muted brown and rich violet painted walls and dark black ornate decorative stucco work separating walls and door spaces. Accentuated with warm lights, the paintings with their ornate golden frames seemed almost to emerge out of the darkness of the space to illuminate the visitor's path through the gallery.
In addition to the 10 paintings, few original props featured in the artworks were exhibited.
GALERIE DA-END
Galerie Da-End has been present in Paris since 2010 setting itself apart with its distinctive visual identity and repertoire of oftentimes figurative, symbolist and mysterious-looking artworks across a multitude of mediums.
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« This is an antechamber of an opium den or a boudoir, both of delights and pain. It is as if the spirit of the Symbolists and the Decadentistes, with Huysman at their head, had finally found a place to rest in Paris.
A dwelling à rebours, where the spirits of Verlaine, Baudelaire, Nerval, Poe and Mallarmé mingle with the contemporary works. Da-End signifies oval in Japanese, a term which evokes the intrauterine world, fantasies and nightmares, ecstasy and suffering. Artificialia, Curiosa, Naturalia, Erotica: it is beyond the boundaries of art and the starting point of a new quest: that of the search for the rare, the bizarre and the precious. Da-End is a marvellous anachronistic place: both dark and brooding where poisonous flowers grow in a greenhouse from which heady fragrances escape. »
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- David Rosenberg. Paris, September 2010.