Justin Weiler

As part of this Accès Libre residency, Fonderie Darling has teamed up with Galerie Nicolas Robert, where Justin Weiler will present his first solo exhibition across the Atlantic in September.

In a proposal that is neither abstract nor realistic, the glass used by Justin Weiler becomes pictorial visual supports, forms inspired by interior architecture, from different points of view. Through his works, planes develop in strata by superimposing several sheets of glass, like filters that mark out space, delimiting without closing. The glass becomes a diffusion screen, a veritable boundary that creates cuts in image and space, like so many interfaces and walls in dialogue with surroundings and architectures. This is a banal space, transformed and sublimated by light to reveal the threshold that is omnipresent in Justin Weiler's work, a space of transition that materializes the passage between inside and outside. 

Justin Weiler's practice constantly challenges the pictorial plane and its notions of materiality and physicality. Using motifs and figures from the domestic and everyday life, such as awnings, shop windows, iron curtains, greenhouses and screens, his work questions the perception of light through color or black. With the idea of interior and exterior, they become the monochrome intermediaries of a visual surface, both support and window. Through empiricism, superimpositions and covering as a repetitive gesture, glass architectures or paintings in space generate paths that displace the frames of painting.   

Biography

Parisian-born visual artist Justin Weiler lives and works between Nantes and Paris. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors (DNSAP 2017). He was artist-in-residence at the Académie de France in Madrid at Casa de Velazquez 2019/2020. His work has been shown in several exhibitions in France, including ¡Viva Villa! at the Collection Lambert in Avignon, as well as in China, Cyprus, Canada, Dubai and Luxembourg. In 2023, he designed window displays for Maison Saint Laurent in Paris, London, Milan, Seoul, Los Angeles, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong and Tokyo. In 2022, the Mobilier National acquired three of his works to create two carpets and a tapestry, and in 2023 he installed a monumental work in the Palais de l'Elysée as part of the Mobilier National's acquisitions.

Recent exhibitions

2024	Aux petits soins,  group exhibition, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
2023	Dédale, Palais de l’Élysée, order from Mobilier National, Paris, FR YSL x Justin Weiler, Les vitrines Yves Saint Laurent, HK, LA, NY, AE, IT, FR, UK, COR
2022	Dédale, Parvis du Musée d’arts, Nantes, FR Histoires Naturelles, un regard sur la scène Française, Galerie Paris Beijing, Art Paris, FR, curated by Alfred Pacquement Dédale, un espace en perspective, solo exhibition, Le Cellier, Reims, FR
2021	Itinérance, group exhibition, Académie des Beaux-arts, Institut de France, Paris, FR Operire #7, group exhibition, Galerie Mélanie Rio Fluency, Nantes, FR
2020	Operire #5, group exhibition, Galerie Paris Beijing, Paris, FR ¡ Viva Villa !, group exhibition, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR