Michel Rein now represents the French-Swiss artist Agnès Thurnauer
(Artdaily.org)

Michel Rein gallery Paris/Brussels now represents the French-Swiss artist Agnès Thurnauer along with her first solo exhibition at the gallery in Paris in May 2020. Through her paintings sculptures and installations Agnès Thumauer deals with the issue of language. In her pictorial praxis writing is often incorporated in the picture and even when it is not the allusive power released by the subject places the spectator within art history as in the endlessly renewed emancipation of its own reading. This plastic quality of language is tested in three dimensions with her sculptures made of casts of letters on differing scales permitting the involvement of the gaze and the body. For Agnès Thumauer the relation to the work always introduces a form of reciprocity. If the work reads the world it is up to each one of us to make our own reading thereof. For the artist this shared language lies at the heart of society and gives art a powerfu