Exhibition

33 36 rue de Seine
24.0313.05.2023
Galerie Vallois
33 - 36 rue de Seine
Paris 75006 France

Tomi Ungerer

Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre

Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Tomi l’Alchimiste – Le Grand Oeuvre - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

An exhibition mingling drawing, collage and sculpture, where, more than ever, one should expect the unexpected.

Alchemists spent their lives searching for the Philosopher’s stone or the Magnum Opus, i.e., a transmutation method meant to change lead into gold, and to imbue impure bodies with life and perfection. Tomi, too, gives life: a life given to the strangest of beings.

Always has he been fascinated by natural science, anatomy, oddities and anomalies. The very principle of metamorphosis guides Tomi’s Magnum Opus – anthropomorphism, transhumanization, until the final transmutation – death –, concealed everywhere, under a clown’s red nose, in a clergyman’s robes, in a piano losing its keys in an avalanche of black and white…


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