EXHIBITIONS
Maison Bosi Roma
June 10, 2022 - July 4, 2022
The Signs Of Infinity at Maison Bosi ended on 4 July. It was with great emotion that Jane experienced this moment of intimacy and sharing around her art. We can only underline the ephemeral nature of this exhibition, which we hope will have left a trace in the hearts of the Romans.
We were touched by the delicacy and kindness of the people present at the exhibition and of the staff of Maison Bosi.
Dubai Expo 2022
Jane Gemayel will hold her first Dubai-based exhibition in the Monaco Pavilion on 12th and 13th January 2022. The Canadian artist, who lives and works in Monaco will share a selection of her works, inspired by the The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
At the age of 20, Jane discovered and decoded the work of the now world famous poet and visual artist, which has given meaning to the way she approaches life and work ever since, drawing a path through art, literature and today’s mass media news.
EFG Bank.
Jan 1,2017 - Dec 31,2017
Exhibition Details
It is with great pleasure that EFG Bank (Monaco) is hosting Jane Gemayel’s latest exposition in Monaco following the very successful showing at the Galerie Ribolzi in 2015. I hope that those of you who like me have known this artist for many years will appreciate her works which are an ode to the female body, often voluptuous, always as graceful as her ballerinas on display in one of our ground floor meeting rooms, not to mention the collection of original portraits to be found in our third floor library where each face is named after a flower leaving you to contemplate the symbolism. I am sure that you will appreciate the originality and quality of this wonderful collection of works and that you will be touched by the artist’s talent, so original and elegant, where land and the heavens are suspended in a cosmic ballet.
Galerie Ribolzi.
Jul 1,2015 - Jul 31,2015
Jane’s breakout show at Ribolzi showcased a wide variety of her artistic skill.
In Jane’s work the fundamental interest is woman, women. Through this obsession, her approach is the artist’s desire to have us enter a world of sisterhood, female complicity, affection and solidarity.
This focus is even more singular compared with our lives in our societies marked by much loneliness, lack of communication, isolation.
Here the artist presents us a world of woman at the gateway to the essential act – giving life to humanity. Jane shares with us a dream about life-bringing woman, in which these near-saints come together in dialogues of generosity and love of others, while bringing love into them.
In the history of art, in both painting and sculpture an incessant concern of the great classical masters was to portray woman with broad hips and powerful legs, thus revealing their idea of woman.
In Jane’s work we are faced with this classical tradition transmitted using contemporary language, where we can note through her paintings a sculptural vision which makes us feel we are looking at three- dimensional works.
These plump women suggest to us states in contradiction with one another, between our vision of forms and when we see the lightness of staging in space. Overall the work has great starkness with an astonishing economy of colours and an equally surprising richness of tones.
Here, only a woman can understand a woman, and her desire to be a woman. Jane dialogues with heaven and with simplicity lets us see and enter her world, which concerns us all and calls out to us all.
Barclay's Club.
March 15, 2011 - Mar 15,n 2011
A solo exhibition of works by Jane Gemayel in the iconic Metropole of Monaco.
Jane Gemayel is a Canadian artist who lives in Monaco. From the early paintings of Woman to the Prophet and her latest work New as Muse Jane Gemayel has drawn a path through art, literature and today ‘s mass media news. Her work conveys an immediate sense of intimacy, solitude, and the feeling of an invisible caring presence. Fluid lines and complex patterns alternate with vibrating strokes and radiant colors in a unique language that questions the essence of life.
This choice of illustrating the writings of Khalil Gibran is a response to the aesthetic research that Jane Gemayel bases on the depiction of the human, preferably female, body in search of an ideal beauty. Imbued with a classical heritage that she shares with the masters who inspired her, such as Matisse and Klimt, Jane Gemayel records the movement of a body in black ink, with a sure and spontaneous line.
Within the drawing, the sense of movement is rendered through the use of arabesque motifs and dense lines executed with this medium deposited with energy, in the manner of a calligrapher who fills the space before him. Black builds the full and delimits the empty. No ornamentation, no decorative effects. The aim is to achieve a structured composition that clearly defines the position of the bodies in the space. Stylistic emphasis is more important than the rendering of nature. At times color is used in the form of flat areas of acrylic paint in bold tones: red, gold, or deep blue.
But these sacred bodies and this formal beauty convey other symbolic values where it is a question of the fragility of life and of the soul. Le Prophète (The Prophet) by Khalil Gibran is Jane Gemayel’s bedside book. It has always been with her. She shares its ideas. The book becomes a personal thing. Who better than Jane Gemayel to narrate it?