Opening of the exhibitions "Horizons"of Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and "Reverb" de Nicolas Comment

Opening of new exhibitions :  “Horizons” of Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and “Reverb” of Nicolas Comment. 

[With the artists in attendance]

A selection of book by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and Nicolas Comment will be presented at the Polka bookshop on the opening night. 


— Signing sessions —

19h00 : Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong
19h30 : Nicolas Comment

Come also to discover several special offers including books, catalogues and Polka magazines. 

The "Horizons" exhibition is presented in the context of the 2017 edition of the Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris. 

Exhibitions opened until May, 6th 2017. 

Polka Galerie is delighted to announce the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Anglo-American artist Sze Tsung Nicolas Leong in France, entitled “Horizons”. Shot with view camera, these landscapes follow the same compositional principle. Men are absent – or barely visible – and the limit of what we can see in front of us, the limit of our experience, where the surface of the Earth meets the sky, is always located on the lower third of the image. The same laws of scale, perspective, escape plan, colors and horizontality rule each composition. The panoramic shots are exhibited in a row for the horizon of each image to merge and create a perfectly synoptic and simultaneous view, a representation system that disrupts the rules of framing as well as our cognitive limits.

The exhibition “Reverb” showcases the first series by photographer and songwiter Nicolas Comment. In the show, his images open a dialogue with literature, poetry and the photography book as an art object. Grainy and half-lit, the images of “Reverb” have all been shot with analog camera, mostly in France, from the forest of the Massif Central to the coasts of Brittany. Along a road, a river or inside some secret hotel enclosing melancholic and peculiar smells, as well as exotic wallpapers. Comment’s “reverberation” is a travel through time and space. Reverie and verb. Luminous reflection and echo chamber. 

Manziat, 1997. © Nicolas Comment.