Atrata is a contemporary art project focusing on international artists developing its activities in two different venues : Villa Atrata, Angles-sur-l’Anglin and 30 galerie de Montpensier, Palais Royal, Paris.
Taking its name from the painting in Francis Picabia’s Transparences series, Atrata becomes a sign of what lies outside the realm of normal expectations.
Gil Presti opened in May 2022 Villa Atrata with an exhibition of Nick Mauss, following 20 years as co-founder of formerly Campoli Presti London & Paris, presenting exhibitions by historical figures such as Martin Barré, Marcel Broodthaers, Sarah Charlesworth, Michael Krebber, Franz West, Pistoletto. With contemporary artists Katherine Bradford, Liz Deschenes, Rochelle Feinstein, Jutta Koether, Nick Mauss, Amy Sillman, Cheyney Thompson, John Miller, Eileen Quinlan, Blake Rayne, Reena Spaulings at the core of its program.
Villa Atrata is a site for exhibitions, production and residencies. It is deeply intertwined with the river Anglin and its middle age chapel, carefully repurposed for viewing and producing art in direct contact with nature.
Atrata Paris – opened in October 2023 – is a single room gallery space providing an intimate and focused environment in the historical Jardin du Palais Royal. The Palais Royal has been over four centuries the cultural heart of Paris, located in the center of the city, a few steps from the Louvre Museum and Pinault Collection Bourse du Commerce. Each artist is invited to show an important work of art or a coherent body of work.
Elené Shatberashvili
Paintings and Drawings
7 September – 8 October
Atrata by Gil Presti
30 galerie de Montpensier
Jardin du Palais Royal
75001 Paris
Following her residency this summer at Villa Atrata, Elené Shatberashvili (b. 1990, Tbilisi, Georgia) presents a selection of recent paintings and drawings in Atrata’s gallery overlooking the gardens of Palais Royal. Her luminous compositions incorporate the deep shadows of the brightest season. Working in oil, the artist’s intimately sized canvases are dynamic studies of light and form. Likewise, her works in charcoal on paper are as much a research of the precious act of paying attention as they are of her recurring motifs: circles, eggs, flowers, ladders and mirrors.
With an intimate concern for fleeting cycles of nature and belief, Shatberashvili plunges into the memory of landscape and place. A vase of cut flowers recalls a walk through a field, as a playfully arranged tabletop is an uncanny trace of a meal with friends. At Atrata, a lingering musicality unites the selection of Shatberashvili’s paintings and drawings. Each work plays with the possibilities of the others.
After Shatberashvili’s studies in architecture, she pursued painting at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. The artist continues to live and work in the French capital. This is her first exhibition at Atrata. Shatberashvili’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at gb agency, Paris (2023). Her recent group exhibitions include Sanctuary at LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2024); Host, curated by Lisa Offermann, at Galerie Frank Elbaz (2024); The Painting Show at Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi (2023); Immortelle at MO.CO, Montpellier (2023); Cache-cache at Perrotin, Paris (2023); Entre tes yeux et les images que j’y vois at Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2022); and Space and Place at EIGEN + ART, Leipzig (2021).
Nick Mauss, Likenessess
21 May – 29 October 2022, Villa Atrata, Angles-sur-l’Anglin
Megan Francis Sullivan, Likenesses
21 May – 29 October 2022, Villa Atrata, La Roche Posay
Dustin Hodges, Pink Shadow
27 May – 1 August 2023, Villa Atrata, Angles-sur-l’Anglin
7 June – 1 July 2023, Atrata Paris
Sophie Reinhold, Prediction of Forecast
23 September – 11 October 2023, Villa Atrata, Angles-sur-l’Anglin
15 October – 11 November 2023, Atrata Paris
Karen Swami, Bas-reliefs
2 December 2023– 13 January 2024, Atrata Paris
Cheyney Thompson, f(torse)
10 February – 16 March 2024, Atrata Paris
Leonor Fini, Erotic Drawings
19 March – 11 May 2024, Atrata Paris
Guillaume Dénervaud, Thulite
18 May – 30 June 2024 Villa Atrata, Angles-sur-l’Anglin
25 May – 13 July 2024, Atrata Paris
30 Galerie de Montpensier
Jardin du Palais Royal
75001 Paris
Tuesday – Saturday from 11AM to 7PM
gilpresti@atrata.com
+33 7 60 30 60 60
86260 Angles-sur-l’Anglin
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Direct trains (TGV – 1h25): Paris Montparnasse / Châtelleraut
Taxi : 15 minutes from Châtelleraut train station
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Villa Atrata
86 260 Angles-sur-l’Anglin
Chapel St. Croix
26 Rue du Pont
86 260 Angles-sur-l’Anglin
The exhibitions at the chapel are open to public
Saturday and Sunday from 2PM to 6PM or by appointment
Atrata Paris
30 Galerie de Montpensier
Jardin du Palais Royal
75001 Paris
Tuesday – Saturday from 11AM to 7PM
Gil Presti
Villa Atrata86 260 Angles-sur-l’Anglin
Chapel St. Croix
26 Rue du Pont
86260 Angles-sur-l’Anglin
The exhibitions at the chapel are open to public
Saturday and Sunday from 2PM to 6PM
or by appointment
Atrata Paris
30 Galerie de Montpensier
Jardin du Palais Royal
75001 Paris
Tuesday – Saturday from 11AM to 7PM