OPENING NIGHT I SATURDAY the 6th of APRIL, 6pm till 8pm
SHOWING DATES I Wednesday the 3rd of April till Wednesday the 17th of April, 2024
Wavering between abstraction and relatability, French artist Michel Le Goff’s highly formal and material-oriented work from this century’s first decade is shown here together with a suite of paintings never exhibited in Australia before.
"FUSION II" revisits Le Goff’s seminal 2002 Italian exhibition FUSION at Florence’s leading contemporary gallery, Santo Ficara. Leda Gallery now presents Le Goff’s reflective narrative on Complexity and the medium of painting in pure pigments and sculpting in 23K gold leaf, within his practice.
A true-born Parisian, Le Goff trained at ESAM in rue Jacquemont in the 1960s and was influenced by lyrical abstraction painters of the post-war era, Yves Klein, Georges Mathieu, Arshile Gorky and Hans Hartung. Le Goff chose the title FUSION to reflect “the metamorphosis of a simple structured visual pattern into a complex one” and explains in the 2002 catalogue, “Most often, the meandering course of a musical composition dictates my work.
Naturally the governing uncertainty principle is let loose whilst creativity progresses.” Le Goff worked with classical musicians and orchestras in Italy to create many of the compositions in this exhibition. Also in "FUSION II", are three of the last paintings Le Goff created here in Newcastle, at the home of his Australian wife.