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Christopher Le Brun Moon Rising in Daylight

Oct 18 — Dec 20, 2025 | Paris, Turenne

Opening on Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 6 to 8 pm

Almine Rech Paris, Turenne is pleased to present 'Moon Rising in Daylight,' Christopher Le Brun's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from October 18 to December 20, 2025.

If we say that painting is first and foremost covering a surface, this not only points to the obvious role of paint and gesture—the sequence of actions, rhythms, and energy that flow through the body and that the body transmits—but it also invites us to reverse our process of seeing. All the more so in the work of Christopher Le Brun, when layers of paint accumulate and brushstrokes are placed—we might say deposited like sediment—over a long period of time before the paintings leave the studio.

Viewing these paintings, we no longer look through the surface, seeking a depth that would extend from the foreground to the background, as deeply as possible, but we roam over it, surveying this surface from top to bottom and from one edge to the other, aware of its countless reliefs and variations or color shifts—the same way the painter experienced its expanse by the scope and repetition of his gestures, the way he pushed back its boundaries by juxtaposing a varying number of vertical panels, thus exploring its height as well as its length. Here, the horizon is found in the painting, giving access to what the artist calls its hinterland:[1] what sustains and grounds the painting, its multiple sources and things left unsaid—the space from whose border the painting emerges, to which it is connected psychologically, culturally, or metaphysically.

— Guitemie Maldonado, art historian and critic

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Selected artworks

  • Christopher Le Brun,                                      Moon Rising in Daylight III, 2024

    Christopher Le Brun Moon Rising in Daylight III, 2024

    Oil on canvas
    264.5 x 153.5 cm
    104 x 60 1/2 in