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Vincent Verhaeghe - De La Glace Au Sel
Exhibition from April 12, 2025- May 11, 2025
Vernissage : April 13, 2025 3pm-7pm
Opening Hours : Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 1pm and 3pm to 7pm.
And by appointment
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Galerie Huit Arles is delighted to welcome Vincent Verhaeghe as part of the OFF of the Festival du Dessin d'Arles.
Paris-based artist, architect and traveler, Verhaeghe presents his very first solo exhibition,an exhibition that invites us to experience the journey he made in the summer of 2024. His journey revolves around water, starting from the source of the Rhône in the Swiss glaciers and ending in the arid Camargue delta. For three months, he travelled the length of this great impetuous river in a kayak, confronting its whims and admiring its beauty, but also present condition, severely altered by climate change and human activity.
The works presented are an invitation to immerse oneself in a universe that is as personal as it is universal. The gigantic chiaroscuro landscapes fascinate as much as they question. Do they really exist ? To immerse oneself in this work is to question our own existence, our relationship with others, with nature and with the world.
At a time when the United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glacier Preservation, to highlight the importance and fragility of glaciers, De la glace au sel creates a work that navigates between the documentary and the poetic, between reality and abstraction, a thread stretched between past and future with a relevance to the present.
9:00 pm, July 14, Rhone Glacier, Switzerland.
« I am at the source of what will become the subject of study and inspiration for my future thoughts and drawings:
the Rhône River. To the west, it winds its way down the valley from the great waterfall. Clouds cover the mountains and a strange, evanescent mist over the distant lake seems eternal. Blue, dark green, a few touches of fiery red. Is this water at my feet the same as at its delta in the Mediterranean, where the river empties after a journey of some eight hundred kilometers inland? I lay out my bag, a chair, two notebooks, a few pencils, charcoals and pastels, and begin to draw and write the first pages of a long, solitary journey.
3:00 pm, September 14, Camargue delta, France.
The sea, at last. I return to the studio. »
Born in Grasse in 1995, Vincent Verhaeghe lives in Paris. After studying architecture in Versailles and Rome, he now devotes his time to drawing architectural works for collectors. Each year, he also organizes a long, solitary trip, which becomes the annual inspiration for his other, more personal works.Ink, charcoal, pastel, photography and the written word are the tools of his creative expression.
Following his previous kayak trip down the Danube, in the summer of 2024 he undertook a new journey on water: down the Rhône from its source in the Swiss glaciers to its delta in the Mediterranean, a voyage of eight hundred kilometers.