WONDERSCAPE

Marie Jose Gallery is delighted to present Wonderscape, a duo solo exhibition featuring two contemporary artists: Julien Calot, the French painter whose canvases pulse with emotional ecosystems, and Austyn Taylor, the American sculptor whose animal figures radiate humor, tenderness, and hope. The exhibition offers a poetic and immersive exploration of nature, memory, and emotion, creating a shared universe where landscapes and beings coexist: a world and its creatures, a landscape and its myth, a pulse and its voice.

In Calot’s paintings, we enter the landscape of the psyche, where memory, sensation, and nature merge in continuous motion. His densely composed canvases unfold as living, breathing ecosystems — abundant with pattern and form that flow like emotional weather. These are not mere scenes but pulses, recording the passage of emotional time through layered gestures and luminous color. Forests, waters, and dreamlike figures intermingle, mapping the cycles of life, transformation, and inner reflection. Each work becomes a meditation on memory, sensation, and the rhythm of being — blending figuration and abstraction into a radiant, immersive continuum.

Taylor’s sculptures extend these painted worlds, giving form to the archetypes, companions, and witnesses of our inner lives. Her animal figures are tender, humorous, and intimate — embodiments of resilience, vulnerability, and the optimism of shared experience. Through tactility, gesture, and color, each sculpture mirrors the emotional resonance of Calot’s canvases, opening a vivid dialogue across media.

Together, these artists construct a magical Wonderscape: one paints the emotional landscape, the other animates it with presence — animal archetypes as surrogates for human feeling. Calot’s inner worlds pulse with motion and chromatic rhythm; Taylor’s sculptures bring those realms to life, introducing creatures that speak of tenderness and radical optimism. In a world increasingly defined by cynicism, Wonderscape celebrates connection, playfulness, and the enduring joy of observation.