ART PARIS 2026
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ART PARIS 2026
François Malingrëy, Qi Zhuo
APRIL 9th - 12th, 2026
Grand palais, paris
Booth B6
In the work of François Malingrëy, hyperrealism is never an end in itself, but a chosen language through which to explore the presence and vulnerability of the body.
For Art Paris, he presents a new body of work bathed in nocturnal blue, where the figures finally come to rest. In these night scenes, silence becomes palpable: the figures are captured in the abandon of sleep, in waiting, or in contemplation. Conceived as fragments of a puzzle whose context eludes us, these paintings seem to share a single, unified setting. The eye moves from one work to another through a play of scale, alternating between wide views and close-ups that isolate a gesture or a face lost in thought.
Under this new chromatic lens, light, as the heir to chiaroscuro, sculpts the volumes of flesh with surgical precision, while the backgrounds dissolve into a vaporous blur. Although Malingrëy’s work is haunted by the memory of classical painting, it is here anchored in a suspended, almost cinematic temporality. By inviting the viewer to the threshold of this enclosed world, the artist transforms each canvas into an intimate observation of the everyday, where human presence becomes at once the most silent and the most dense.
François Malingrëy’s work takes the human body as its primary stage. In a taut hyperrealism, exposed flesh becomes the arena where ancestral passions are replayed: desire and guilt, gentleness and violence, brotherhood and rivalry. Anchored in an apparently ordinary setting, these scenes are traversed by an intensity that verges on the liturgical. Reality expands into something grand, as if the figures were caught mid- aria, at the very moment when intimate drama takes on an almost mystical dimension.
Zhuo Qi revisits classical sculptural techniques by interrogating materials and the relationships they establish with one another. His work explores the tensions between tradition and transformation, while challenging notions of authenticity and cultural purity. A process of repair also runs through his practice, like a poetic gesture of restoration, in which references to classical sculpture are confronted with contemporary forms and concerns. Often imbued with subtle humor, his approach introduces a critical distance that softens the solemnity of inherited forms. By deconstructing the codes of academic sculpture, Zhuo Qi offers a contemporary interpretation of this heritage, where the artist’s gesture becomes both a reinvention of past forms and a revelation of their hidden fragilities.
Qi Zhuo was born in 1985 in Fuxin (Liaoning province, China). He graduated with honors from the Le Mans Higher School of Fine Arts (the DNSEP Diploma), did the post graduate program KAOLIN of the ENSA Limoges in France and the Geneva University of Art and Design in Switzerland, he has been working and living in France since 2008. He did a residency at the Fondation Martell in Cognac, France at the end of 2020.