VERNISSAGE GALLERY 46 ST PAUL

46 St Paul Gallery presents a retrospective devoted to Jean-Paul
Agosti, a singular figure in contemporary French painting, whose work has explored for more than fifty years the correspondences between nature, science, and spirituality.

Born in Paris in Protected content an Italian-origin family deeply rooted in the art world, and the son of photographer and gallerist Paul Fac-chetti, Jean-Paul Agosti grew up in close contact with the artis-tic and intellectual avant-gardes of his time, including Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Henri Michaux, the psychoana-lyst Jacques Lacan, and the architect Carlo Scarpa.

Trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and nourished by studies in the philosophy of science at the Sorbonne, he devel-oped early on a rigorous and structured visual thinking.
From the Protected content onward, Agosti fully committed himself to painting.

Settling within the grounds of a former abbey in Gif-sur-Yvette, he began painting the surrounding garden—an image that would become the founding motif of his work. For him, the garden be-comes a symbolic territory: a space of living architecture where mastery and profusion, order and chaos, the visible and the invisible intertwine.
Through media such as watercolor in particular, he develops a vision in which several levels of reality coexist, inviting the gaze to wander and penetrate the depth of the world.