JEREMY DEMESTER

L’ombre des heures, Le retable du temps, 2021 inaugurated at Maison Hennessy’s new Atelier de Tonnellerie in Cognac

Jeremy Demester, L’ombre des heures, Le retable du temps, 2021, installation view: Atelier de Tonnellerie Hennessy, Cognac, 2022, photo: Gotz Göppert, © Jeremy Demester
Jeremy Demester, L’ombre des heures, Le retable du temps, 2021, installation view: Atelier de Tonnellerie Hennessy, Cognac, 2022, photo: Gotz Göppert, © Jeremy Demester

We are pleased to announce that a magnificent “Altarpiece” by Jeremy Demester, L’ombre des heures, Le retable du temps, 2021, has been inaugurated at the Maison Hennessy’s barrel-making workshop, the Atelier de Tonnelleire, at its historic home in Cognac.

Translating to “The Shadow of the Hours, The Altarpiece of Time”, Demester’s monumental artwork was specially commissioned for the space. The piece is above all the fruit of an encounter between artist and artisans around all that unites them - handmade craftsmanship, the mystery of materials and the changes imparted by time. A video documenting the making of this work can be viewed on Hennessy’s YouTube channel.

Maison Hennesy

Jeremy Demester, L’ombre des heures, Le retable du temps, 2021, installation view: Atelier de Tonnellerie Hennessy, Cognac, 2022, photo: Gotz Göppert, © Jeremy Demester
Jeremy Demester, L’ombre des heures, Le retable du temps, 2021, installation view: Atelier de Tonnellerie Hennessy, Cognac, 2022, photo: Gotz Göppert, © Jeremy Demester

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JEREMY DEMESTER

Jeremy Demester (publication)
Published by Galerie Max Hetzler | Holzwarth Publications, 2023
Text by Jean-Marie Gallais

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A new publication documenting three of Jeremy Demester’s exhibitions at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin and London since 2020, as well as his 2021 exhibition at the Fondation Zinsou in Ouidah, is now available for purchase.

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DARREN ALMOND, GIULIA ANDREANI, JEREMY DEMESTER, ALBERT OEHLEN, TURSIC & MILLE, CHRISTOPHER WOOL et al.

The Inner Island (group show)
Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères
29 April – 5 November 2023

Installation view: The Inner island, Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères, 2023, photo: Nicolas Brasseur
Installation view: The Inner island, Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères, 2023, photo: Nicolas Brasseur

Works by Darren Almond, Giulia Andreani, Jeremy Demester, Tursic & Mille and Christopher Wool will be on view in the exhibition The Inner Island, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais. Inspired by the insular location of the Fondation Carmignac’s villa on Porquerolles, a remote island off the French Mediterranean coast in the region of the Côte d’Azur, the exhibition explores the notion of interiority as a powerful driver of creation. Floating outside of known geographies and temporalities, the artists included in this exhibition populate their images with strange and foreign presences – human, animal, hybrid, or supernatural. The result is a distance from reality which encourages an immersion into inner worlds and recesses, giving rise to fictional, mental, or abstract islands. 

Villa Carmignac

Installation view: The Inner island, Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères, 2023, photo: Nicolas Brasseur
Installation view: The Inner island, Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères, 2023, photo: Nicolas Brasseur