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. 

Nina Childress

DOLLY

30 November 2024 – 18 January 2025

Atrata by Gil Presti
30 galerie de Montpensier
Jardin du Palais Royal
75001 Paris

DOLLY is a monographic exhibition by Nina Childress.

This exhibition highlights two portraits of the legendary American singer Dolly Parton, and a portrait of the iconic Dalida.

By revisiting the iconography of emblematic figures in popular culture, Nina Childress continues her exploration of formal painting through a play of scale, where the larger format of the first painting engages in dialogue with the intimacy of the second, smaller piece. The artist challenges aesthetic codes as well as the relationships between image, perception, and interpretation, using bold and contrasting colours.

Known for her technical mastery and innovative approach to painting materials, Nina Childress here questions the conventions of representation. Although formally similar, the two portraits of Dolly Parton reveal subtleties in their treatment, reflecting the depth and complexity of her artistic approach.

These three paintings invite reflection on the thin boundaries between kitsch and the sublime, between art and popular culture, while celebrating the visual and emotional impact of the two singers’ iconography.

Nina Childress, born in 1961 in Pasadena, USA, is a French-American artist who lives and works in Paris. Emerging from the punk movement, she began painting in 1983 and joined the Frères Ripoulin collective in 1984. In 2024, she was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in the painting section.

Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Lacan, l’exposition — Quand l’art rencontre la psychanalyse at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, 2023; Cils Poils Cheveux at the Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2022; Lobody noves me at the Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, 2020; L’Effet Sissi at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCO), Geneva, 2011; La haute note jaune at the Fondation Van Gogh, Arles, 2024; and Futur, ancien, fugi2f at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019.

Public collections : the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP), Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Paris; the Contemporary Art Museum of Val-de-Marne (MACVAL), Vitry-sur Seine; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCO), Geneva; the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds.

A catalogue raisonné, 1081 Paintings, was published in 2021 on the occasion of her retrospective BODY BODY at the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux.

The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Art : Concept gallery, Paris. 

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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
Elené Shatberashvili, Paintings and Drawings
7 September – 8 October, Atrata Paris
Madeleine Roger-Lacan | Pierre Klossowski
13 October – 23 November, Atrata Paris
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

Train

Direct trains (TGV – 1h25): Paris Montparnasse / Châtelleraut
Taxi : 15 minutes from Châtelleraut train station

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4 Rue d’Enfer
86260 Angles-sur-l’Anglin
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86270 La Roche-Posay
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The exhibitions at the chapel are open to public
Saturday and Sunday from 2PM to 6PM or by appointment

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Jardin du Palais Royal
75001 Paris

Tuesday – Saturday from 12PM to 6:30PM

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Gil Presti

Villa Atrata
86260 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 12PM to 6:30PM

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