Antwan Horfee
Antwan Horfee
Antwan Horfee combines paintings in various formats with a series of drawings. While he refrains from the use of oil paints and aerosols in his paintings and focuses entirely on eco-friendly acrylic paints, his drawings are created by using only black gouache and graphite on paper. Landscapes form the focal point of his paintings, which both the artist and the viewer encounter as if through the lens of a camera. Unlike his drawings, however, which tend to depict the concrete, these landscapes are not formulated or geographically situated, but—as a homage to fantasy films and video games—are taken from a fantastic non-reality. The attribution of colors and forms to concrete objects is always attempted but is never quite fully successful.
Horfee's paintings are densely packed with scenic and symbolic motives. The Paris-based artist creates artworks of high tension by combining dynamic and colorful elements within intricate compositions. While he seeks pure abstraction in some artworks, others have figurative allusions.
Formerly working in the streets, he needed to complete his illicit works quickly. Horfee’s technique today combines his early skills – using a spray can at fast pace – with a classical approach to painting and sculpture.
As a result, his work is marked by dynamic spontaneity and technique of the established.The central design element here is light, which is deftly deployed by Horfee, not only to give his works an impression of three-dimensionality, but also to create an illusionary spectacle that potentially takes place outside the pictorial space—the monster that cannot yet be seen, but whose presence is certainly felt. The effect is not one of surprise, but of Hitchcockian suspense.
Antwan Horfee, Lyon
September 19 - November 16, 2024
Antwan Horfee, Paris
March 30 - May 06, 2023
Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
Scar/face, Paris
June 28 - August 04, 2018
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Cosmogol, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Gallery Weekend Berlin, Ruttkowkski ; 68, Berlin, Germany
2021
SCI-FRIED, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Warlock Killjoy, Ruttkowski ; 68, Paris, France
2020
GOONS !, Ruttkowski ; 68, Paris, France
2019
I’m the glue, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Gigamaku, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Mobile Cropper, Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Piggy Catasrophe, GSB gallery, Stockholm, SE Sorry Bro, Ruttkowski ; 68, Cologne, Germany
Fantasmo1, Naruyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Self x Slalom, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2015
Traditional Occupations, Ruttkowski ; 68, Cologne, Germany
2014
Chaos Pays, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2013
Antwan Horfee’s Imaginarium, London, United Kingdom
Group Exhibitions
2022
Die Brucke, CFFILL, Stockholm, Sweden
2020
Blastover, Ruttkowski ; 68, Paris, France
Echo Chamber, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
Sensible, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
Scar/face, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Biennale de Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Art on Paper, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2018
L’esprit souterrain, Experience POMMERY #14, Reims, France
2017
A quoi sert d’être lion en cage, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
Printer Matter, Salon MAD, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2016
Wertical I, Ruttkowski ; 68, Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne, Germany
Bricks and Clicks #2, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
Jouer les Tours, duo with Lo hishash Saeio, curated by Antwan Horfee, Espace
des arts sans Frontières, Paris, France
2014
Biolensu, with Ken Sortais, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2013
Pataganne, Sunset Residence, Lyon, France
Palingenesis, Klughaus Gallery, New York, USA
Old Boot, Galleries Goldstein, London, United Kingdom
Future/Memory, Hellerau Center of Art, Dresden, Germany
2012
Stuck On The City, National City Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2011
Street Smart, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden