From 3 March to 8 May 2023 at the HAB Galerie
Leopold and Till Rabus are two painters who are highly attentive to the world around them. By practicing their generous style of painting — one that is also humorous and ironic — they overturn conventional codes of beauty and art history.
Une ébauche lente à venir (“A sketch that is slow to come”) is the first major show in France to feature them together and show a hundred of their works, most of which are recent and some created exclusively for the exhibition.
Juxtaposed genre scenes, still lifes, and landscapes all dialogue with one another in a layout designed to immerse visitors in their painterly desires.
The snow, manure piles, chicken coops, and fields in Léopold Rabus’s paintings teem with a tribe of sublimated and strange animals: cows, slugs, birds, flies, dogs, deer… They find an echo in Till Rabus’s paintings, which are populated by bodies, trash, and different consumer objects in cleverly orchestrated, baroque, and exuberant compositions.
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Léopold Rabus (born 1977) and Till Rabus (born 1975) come from a family of artists in Neuchâtel, where they live and work. With their artist parents, Alex Rabus and Renate Rabus, the artists were immersed in a world of surrealism and parody from an early age.
HAB Galerie, Quai des Antilles, Nantes
How to get there?
Public transport: Hangar à Bananes, Carrière Misery, Quai des Antilles, Salorges
Self-service bicycles: Hangar À Bananes (n°105), Antilles (n°104), Garennes (n°106), Carrière Misery (n°28)
Closed today.
PRM parking is available on the Boulevard de la Prairie-au-duc.
Cane seats and Flaneuses® (wheeled mobility modules) are available for self-service.