VÉRAI / CONTEMPORARY PAINTING ARCHIVE

Paintings for sustained looking.

VÉRAI brings together vivid contemporary paintings whose surfaces unfold slowly: color fields, imagined rooms, nocturnal cities, and botanical systems.

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Nocturne in Cobalt, an original painting of an invented blue city square glowing at night

Nocturne in Cobalt — Elian Voss, 2026

Oil, wax, and mineral pigment on linen

SELECTED WORKS / 01—05

Five positions on color.

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Rooms Without Walls, an original geometric painting in cobalt, saffron, coral and sea-green

Rooms Without Walls — Theo Armin

2026

Orchard of Small Suns, an original jewel-toned abstract garden crossed by pale paths

Orchard of Small Suns — Mara Saye

2025

Vermilion Field, an original red botanical abstraction crossed by cobalt arcs

Vermilion Field / Iona Vale / 2025

Brass Rain, an original dark blue abstraction with descending gold marks

Brass Rain / Lucen Mire / 2026

Pale Moon Loud Garden, an original indigo botanical painting with a low moon

Pale Moon, Loud Garden / Mara Saye / 2026

Luminous Interval, an original cobalt and coral abstraction divided by a white passage

CURATORIAL POSITION

We look for paintings that remain precise at a distance and become more complicated as the viewer approaches.

Color carries the first encounter. Surface, proportion, and the intelligence of the edge sustain the second.

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ARTISTS

Four distinct practices.

Elian Voss

Invented cities, oblique viewpoints, and light held inside blue.

Brussels / Paris

Mara Saye

Botanical systems where repetition becomes an unstable archive.

London / Tangier

Iona Vale

Chromatic fields structured by one decisive interruption.

Lisbon

Lucen Mire

Intervals, metallic light, and the measured density of a surface.

Berlin

NOTES

On looking, hanging, and material.

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Colour as a Place to Stand — featured original painting from the VÉRAI archive

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Colour as a Place to Stand

Saturated color can hold depth, direction, and silence without borrowing the language of perspective.

The Useful Distance Between Paintings — featured original painting from the VÉRAI archive

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The Useful Distance Between Paintings

Spacing a group exhibition is an act of editing: every interval changes what the neighboring works are allowed to say.

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PRIVATE VIEW

A painting should be seen at the pace it asks for.

Request dimensions, condition notes, availability, or an appointment to spend time with a work in person.

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