Artist: Josquin Gouilly Frossard
Exhibition title: I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…
Venue: Café des Glaces, Tonnerre, France
Date: March 5 – June 11, 2022
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Wooden transport crates, a shelf full of paint cans positioned according to a real chromatic research, sculptures that impregnate the space, images that are reflected, questioned. Josquin Gouilly Frossard, photographer, has taken possession of the Café des glaces, in Tonnerre, where he will exhibit from March 5th until June 11th. For a month, he has been installing, transforming, undoing, redoing, thinking about the space in the old café that has been closed for more than twenty years.
His installation work adapts to this emblematic place, which is part of the markers of local heritage with its architecture dating from 1886. The Paris-born photographer, who lives and works between Belgium and France, decided to use his shipping crates as a medium for his photos.
“I am in transit,” he says. He has created a real labyrinth on the first floor, between the wooden crates and the mirrors that adorn the walls. He thus proposes a wandering through the space and among his photos.
Josquin Gouilly Frossard has built his work outside the classical art circuits. He poses on his subjects a look full of spontaneity. His images jostle, reveal, and offer snapshots of life that challenge the eye of the viewer.
He uses what is at hand, apparently simple materials, in an attempt to represent a filterless world.
-Thierry Drosson for L’Yonne Républicaine, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard (b.1980, Paris) lives and works between Belgium and France. His recent exhibitions include: Brève rencontre (Idealfrühstück, Paris, 2021), Sourd Muet (duo show with Bastien Cosson, Dalle des Olympiades, Paris, 2020), Physical Strategy Epoxy and Crimes (duo show with Boris Kurdi, Le DOC, Paris, 2020), Le ventre vide (Bagnoler, Bagnolet, 2018).
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, sans-titre (Kölner Kunstmarkt), silver print on baryta paper, 2020. sans-titre (Prick + chimie), silver print on baryta paper, 2020. Et à eux, vous y pensez ?, collage with Digital-chromogenic print, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Samia, silver print on baryta paper, 2021
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Happy feet, Digital-chromogenic print, 2022, Smoked meat, silver print on baryta paper, 2018 sans-titre (croquis des Bourgmestres), photocopy, 2021
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Méditation plus complexe, silver print on baryta paper, 2021, Olympique de Masta, Digital-chromogenic print, 2022, Sans-titre (révélation psychagogique 2), Digital-chromogenic print, 2017
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Déserter, Digital-chromogenic print, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, sans-titre (préparation de « je m’en moque »), Digital-chromogenic print, 2018
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Avatar, Digital-chromogenic print, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Detail of my own activity, Digital – chromogenic print, 2020. Artist framed
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, sans-titre, collage with Digital-chromogenic print, ink, 2012
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Imagination = refuge, acrylic, oil, lacquer, steel, plastic, glass, wood, Digital-chromogenic print, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Imagination = refuge, acrylic, oil, lacquer, steel, plastic, glass, wood, Digital-chromogenic print, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing… I’m Fly-ing Away…, exhibition view, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Les pieds nickelés, lacquer, steel, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Les pieds nickelés, lacquer, steel, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, sans-titre (deux chaises identiques ARCH), silver print on baryta paper, 2022
Josquin Gouilly Frossard, sans-titre (deux chaises identiques ARCH), silver print on baryta paper, 2022