A new exhibition entitled 'Tome 2' by 6 leading French artists will be held at Gallery Artside. 'Tome' means sequence novel so that 'Tome 2' is a second story of series. In general, the first volume needs to focus on structured thinking and tradition so that it cannot explore a challenge and possibility for newness, while the second one can be free from tradition and existing idea. 

Various issues in contemporary art, existence, behavior, composition, color, concept and skill, are covered as well as each artist raises variety of themes at the exhibition. Thus, 'Tome 2' will newly analyze fixed thinking about art and suggest a possibility of visualizing that contents. 

Abstraction is not only genre of art but also means mental activity, understanding and an analyzing an object by the artist. In this meaning, the audiences should focus on how the artists express an object in abstract works. 

Artists: Jean Marc Thommen, Jérôme Boutterin, Fabienne Gaston-Dreyfus,
Olivier Gourvil, Olivier Filippi, Soo Lee

*image (left)
Jean Marc Thommen
Untitled, 2014
deep ochre, mixed media on wood, 60x50cm
courtesy of the artist