Plate is Bed Plate is Sun Plate is Circle Plate is Cycle 17 October — 3 December 2022 @kamelmennour , 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6 ——-For his second exhibition at the gallery, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy has drawn his inspiration from the universe of Bernard Leach, a renowned English ceramist known for his friendship with the Japanese potter Shōji Hamada. Lutz-Kinoy has taken the circular form of the plate—the most common, universal, and quotidian of objects,—and combined it with Leach’s abstract and figurative patterns in order to explore the notions of cycle and repetition that give their tempo to all forms of life. As is often the case with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, there are animals and plants but also Roman numerals arranged on the face of a clock, a recurrent motif in the English tradition of slipware, which Leach was a part of. The motifs form circles that run over large, liquid canvases and onto the surfaces of metal tables covered in ceramic tiles whose square shape is explored further on in a group of paintings. The motifs appear in a series of drawings inspired by the tradition of Japanese Otsu-E prints, and continue in a series of eighty plates hanging on the wall. The light in the space filters through two huge velum textiles suspended from the ceiling, enveloping the exhibition in an atmosphere of domesticity, a crucial dimension to the project. Here the home, a place of birth, death, and daily repetition represents the cycle of life. There is no beginning and no end, only life’s eternal return, symbolized by the circular form of the plate. — Anne Pontégnie