With “Ma part d’eux”, the Château La Coste du Puy-Sainte-Réparade offers a collective exhibition bringing together three living painters working in Paris: Arnaud Adami, Dhewadi Hadjab, and Romain Bagouet. Friends and artistic accomplices, they share common references, but each develops a unique pictorial style.
The title of the exhibition evokes this proximity: “Ma part d’eux” suggests as much friendship as the subtle echoes perceptible between the works. All three artists claim great technical mastery and a marked interest in photography, directional light, and bold color. Their realism, far from being descriptive, is charged with emotional intensity that questions the body, identity, and urban environment.
For Arnaud Adami, the human figure occupies the center of the canvas. Long devoted to precarious workers – delivery people or sex workers – his painting at Château La Coste highlights figures absorbed in the composition of bouquets.
Clair-obscur and urban landscape
Dhewadi Hadjab captures the human figure in moments of tension. Contorted bodies, fragile balances, suspended falls: his scenes, bathed in a dramatic lighting close to chiaroscuro, express a marked physical intensity. Romain Bagouet, on the other hand, moves away from the human figure to explore architecture and the urban landscape. From photographic fragments, he isolates geometric structures that he transforms into pure compositions, made of layered surfaces and constructed volumes. Sometimes, an empty chair or a discreet detail suggests a presence.
Through light and color, “Ma part d’eux” weaves a sensitive dialogue between these three practices. The exhibition shows how links of friendship and common references can generate complementary visions of contemporary life, between staging daily life, body tension, and contemplation of urban spaces.
At Château La Coste, Galerie Bastide until April 12th. Open every day 12-5 pm.
