Yves Bélorgey | Cités-jardins | Xippas Paris | January 7 - March 4, 2023

Yves Bélorgey’s latest solo exhibition “Cités-Jardins” [Garden City Estates] presents for the first time in Paris his pigment paintings and embarks on an “investigation” into an architectural utopia that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, but which today has been abandoned. This idea, almost visionary in scope, envisaged a “future town” as an alternative to the cacophony of the industrial age, and set out a model of a housing project that would be “closer to the land” and include a space to be cultivated and shared. By integrating a garden into a housing complex, it would allow its inhabitants an escape from suffocation as well as from alienation…