Dedicated to modern art, in particular the pictorial work of Le Corbusier, the Parisian gallery Zlotowski was right to exhume in 2019 the troubled graphic work of Stéphane Mandelbaum, murdered in 1986 at the age of twenty-five. This time, she wants to bring the work of the African-American artist Eugene James Martin, who died in 2005, out of its obscurity in France, continuing the work begun with the exhibition of drawings at the Drawing Now fair in 2022. Referred to by himself as "Satirical Abstraction", his mature work acknowledges his debt to the avant-garde art of Picasso, Kandinsky or Miró, but the rigour of his compositions is thwarted by figurative allusions or biomorphic accents.

Extract from Eugene J. Martin's article published in the N°106 of the magazine Art Absolument. Published on 17 May 2023.

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